Italia GRI is an exclusive and senior Italian & European Real Estate gathering that takes place in Milan annually with the aim to help increase deal flow within the players in the industry.
Logistics, and alternative housing, are these still our gold mines when it comes to asset class investments or are there new pots of gold awaiting for us elsewhere? What new asset classes prove to be resilient in the future and which won't? After a successful comeback post covid, now in its 9th year, participants come together once again looking for new deal flow strategies by welcoming domestic and international Private Equity Investors, Fund Managers, Debt Funds, NPL Buyers, LP’s Developers, Asset Owners, Operators and Lenders invested across all Italian regions and asset classes.
Wednesday, May 25th 2022
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02:00pm - 03:00pm
"Milano Cortina 2026" - Opportunities and challenges of the Olympic games in Italy (Plenary Talk Show)
Milan´s RE - Building a legacy, placemaking, but what are the long term effects for the economy?
Mixed Use Assets - Key demand drivers to consider for the long term assets being built. Concert arena, shopping malls, affordable housing, etc.
Importance of Infrastructure - Roads, metro and city improvements to be aligned with interest of different public authorities
Benchmarking Growth - Bringing the international experience feel in Milan
03:45pm - 04:45pm
Re Building Office - Renewed occupier demands gaining investors' confidence or not enough to seal the deal?
Investment Transactions - Value add repositioning or flight to core?
Rise in Demand - New protocol, new purpose, new rules and new role
Collaborative Spaces & Buildings - New needs, less locations, more product diversification?
ESG - Flexible Leases, green Leases
03:45pm - 04:45pm
Hotel Transactions - Asset resilience strengthening investors’ appetite or lack of growth opportunities?
Recovery- Investments are recovering strongly, driven by demand in the leisure sector?
Italian Hospitality Industry Resilience- Traditional players embracing customer experience or new business models taking leading roles?
New Product Demand - Luxury Vs Budget Properties? Locals, tourists, digital nomads, executives, families, etc. who's the biggest spending profile?
Bank & Alternative Financing - What to expect on capital forbearance, commercial terms and debt restructure?
05:15pm - 06:15pm
Retail & Shopping Rental Growth - Investment volumes to increase promisingly or recovery steady and slow?
Buy, Sell, Turnover - Looking back at pre covid figures of 2019, what are the investment strategies on assets that performed and the ones that didn't perform?
Mixed-use for Fight or Flight- New asset strategies to keep up to human behavioural changes, how to overcome future challenges?
Physical Retail, Marketplace, E-commerce - How to integrate and bring more physical-digital experiences?
Investors Focus - Prime High Street, Retail Parks and Grocery sectors? or Post Covid Restrictions - Trends in Open Air Commercial? More centric, more space?
Luxury Vs Economic Retail - Yield differences?
05:15pm - 06:15pm
Alternative Housing Demand - Resi for rent investments, all on the upswing?
Transactions Growth - Strong investors appetite for resi for rent? Where and what are the risks and opportunities?
Location - Milan major attractor, or are we seeing trends in other cities? What are the social aggregators?
Alternative Living Demand - Co-living, student, senior, which one takes the slice? Why the rise in demand for new use in resi?
BTR - Future money maker, or just a passing fashion?
Thursday, May 26th 2022
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10:00am - 11:00am
International Investments - Italy captivating new capital or deals too slow to tell? (Plenary Talk Show)
Smart Money - How and where are international investors pouring money into Italy?
Market Corrections - How to diversify asset location and risk strategies?
Cross-border Money - Where is it coming from and how can Italy attract more capital?
Current Scenario Inflation - How is it playing a big role in the decision making?
11:45am - 12:45pm
Opportunistic & Value-add - Still going core or ready for riskier business?
Finding Value - Defense, resilience and risk curve strategies
Race for Trophy Assets - True resilience or overpricing?
Transactions & Dealflow Activity - Even spread or rush on Milan?
Liquid Debt Market - Abundance, scarce, or do we depend on the asset type?
11:45am - 12:45pm
Development Deals - Operators, developers and investors looking for new partnerships or opportunities all gone?
Record High Investment Volumes- Which assets are players looking to developing and invest more and more?
Bank Lending - Financing easy for new development deals? or alternative the solution?
Reshaping & Rethinking The City of Milan & Secondary Cities
Future Trends - What to expect from asset operations and investment appetite?
25/05/2022 | 17:15 - 18:15 | Asset Specific Stream
Retail & Shopping Rental Growth - Investment volumes to increase promisingly or recovery steady and slow?
Buy, Sell, Turnover - Looking back at pre covid figures of 2019, what are the investment strategies on assets that performed and the ones that didn't perform?
Mixed-use for Fight or Flight- New asset strategies to keep up to human behavioural changes, how to overcome future challenges?
Physical Retail, Marketplace, E-commerce - How to integrate and bring more physical-digital experiences?
Investors Focus - Prime High Street, Retail Parks and Grocery sectors? or Post Covid Restrictions - Trends in Open Air Commercial? More centric, more space?
Starting from January 2024, he has been appointed CEO of Costim Group, an industrial group focused on real estate development and on general contracting, with real estate developments amounting to around 800 millions and a turnover of 400 millions. From 2009 to December 2023, he was Managing Director of Risanamento S.p.A, a property and development Company listed on the Milan Stock Exchange, with €1 billion of Assets Under Management and CEO of all the subsidiaries of the Group. As CEO of the subsidiaries, he sold assets for € 3.0 billion: Paris properties’portfolio for €1,5 billion, a prestigious building in New York for €0,3 billion and other Italian assets for €1,2 billion.
Country Managing DirectorKROLL Real Estate Advisory Group
Italy
Paola Ricciardi is the country managing director and chairman of the Board at Kroll Real Estate Advisory Group (REAG) based in Italy.
In addition to supervising the primary main service lines (Advisory, REAG4loans, Technical Services, Transaction Advisory and Debt Advisory Services), Paola also coordinates business operations in Italy.
Previously, as European Coordinating Manager, she was responsible for supervising pan-European projects and cross-border projects with the U.S.
Paola regularly takes part as a speaker at real estate events and conferences and collaborates with prestigious Italian universities.
In 2006 she helped to found Real Estate Ladies Italian Association (AREL).
MD & Head of Asset Management for EuropeStarwood Capital Group
United Kingdom
Federico Bianchi is a Managing Director & Head of Asset Management at Starwood Capital Europe, based in London and responsible for the management of the European assets. Prior to joining Starwood, Federico was a Principal, Asset Management at GreenOak Real Estate (London), where he worked for 4 years with a specific focus on Spain and Italy. Previously, Federico was Italian Country Manager and a Member of the European Board of ISG; at that time he also joined the Executive Committee of ULI in Italy. Prior to that, he served as a Director of Asset Management at Condotte Real Estate and a Director at Tishman Speyer Properties, where he was overseeing deals and projects for a combined value of more than € 1.5 Bn.
Marco Plazzotta is the Head of RE Investments at Poste Vita, the life insurance company of Gruppo Poste Italiane leader in the Italian life insurance market. RE Investment is a newly created department, aiming to ensure the development of RE investment activities both direct and indirect, the management and monitoring of investments, in line with corporate strategies. Prior to joining Poste Vita, he worked for ten years at Allianz S.p.A. as Head of RE Asset Management. He was in charge of managing the whole RE portfolio of the Group in Italy and to oversee Southern European market and branches. He was also responsible for investment, portfolio and asset management activities. In addition he was Executive Vice President of CityLife spa.
Giuseppe has extensive experience in evaluation and acquisition of real estate opportunities, as well as in project and construction management of complex real estate developments on behalf of primary Institutional Investors, mainly in residential, offices, retail and hospitality fields. // CA Ventures is an international real estate investment management company headquartered in Chicago, IL (US), with comprehensive expertise on development and operational management, active on 3 continents, with over $13 billion worth of gross asset value (Sep 2020). CA Ventures serves as the holding company for the CA family of companies, including CA Student Living, CA Residential, CA Senior Living, CA Industrial, CA Office / Vanderbilt Partners.
Marco joined Sonae Sierra in 2014 as responsible of the Real Estate Development business in Italy. He developed all his career in the real estate industry with experiences in Project and Construction Management, Property Development, Asset Management, Business Development, Advisory and Transaction.
Before joining Sonae Sierra, he spent ten years within BNP Paribas Real Estate Italian branch, where he held responsibilities in different business areas from Fund&Asset Management, Investment Advisory and Business Development.
Previously he spent four years as Senior Asset Manager in Pirelli Real Estate and before he served as a Real Estate Manager in primary international and national companies like Blockbuster, Decathlon, Edilnord Group.
Antonio Miani
Head of Asset Management, Italy, Real AssetsAXA IM - Real Assets
Graduated with honours in Economics and Business at “La Sapienza” University in Rome, Professional Accountant and Auditor, he has nearly 25 years of experience in Real Estate and Finance, having held high level positions in the Advisory, Property, Asset and Fund Management sectors with some leading national and international real-estate players.
After working abroad for several years, Arbib settled in Italy in 2000 and established the real estate portal casaclick.it that year, later selling it to Pirelli Group with which he had collaborated. In late 2001, Arbib was named CEO of Elitrade, a company established in 1996 in Milan, where he oversaw the valuation, acquisition, disposal and division of many real estate portfolios. In 2005, Elitrade became Colliers Elitrade, now Colliers International Italia, a leading international real estate advisory service provider, which Arbib managed as CEO for eight years. In 2012, Arbib and other partners bought Antirion SGR, and he was named CEO in May 2018. In April 2022 Antirion SGR became Colliers Global Investors Italy SGR and it now manages fifteen real estate funds (considering any active sub-funds) which invest in the main asset classes (office, commercial, residential, hospitality and healthcare properties).
Marco Plazzotta is the Head of RE Investments at Poste Vita, the life insurance company of Gruppo Poste Italiane leader in the Italian life insurance market. RE Investment is a newly created department, aiming to ensure the development of RE investment activities both direct and indirect, the management and monitoring of investments, in line with corporate strategies. Prior to joining Poste Vita, he worked for ten years at Allianz S.p.A. as Head of RE Asset Management. He was in charge of managing the whole RE portfolio of the Group in Italy and to oversee Southern European market and branches. He was also responsible for investment, portfolio and asset management activities. In addition he was Executive Vice President of CityLife spa.
With a solid experience in the TLC and Energy sectors, Giovanna Della Posta has led for the past ten years insurance and Real Estate turnaround projects, supporting companies in rethinking their business model. She graduated in Economics, then earned a master’s degree in Economics and Finance and ultimately achieved a General Management program at Harvard Business School (2016). She won the Marisa Bellisario Prize (2012), within the Young Talents category, granted to women who distinguish themselves in management and economy. In 2019 Finance Community selected her among the 50 most influential people in Italian finance. Since January 2019 she is Invimit SGR’s CEO, a company 100% owned by the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance.
Director - Head of Asset Management ItalyPatrizia Immobilien
Italy
Professional experience in the management of real estate listed funds and reserved real estate funds to qualified investors - Italians and foreigners – dealing with the economic and financial feasibility studies, strategic evaluation and execution of investment transactions and divestiment, real estate sales, search for potential buyers / tenants and value added operations.
Fabrizio began his career in 1998 with General Electric, where he held various leadership positions in Europe in the Finance and Business Development functions until 2006. He subsequently worked for eight years in the investment management sector, first as Head of European Asset Management at D.B. Zwirn & Co., then as CFO and Chief Operating Officer of Spazio Investment NV and, finally, as CEO of Arkos Capital SA, a Swiss hedge fund manager for institutional clients. He joined InvestiRE SGR in 2014 as the Head of Business Development & Fund Raising of the new merged entity. He holds a MSc degree in Economics from the University of Genoa, where he graduated cum laude in 1996.
Valerio Duchini is COO of B&B Hotels Italia S.p.A. He joined the Company in 2009 as CFO, after 10 years of experience in Finance, Administration and Controlling sectors. He has the global responsibility for all international processes, relating to hotel activities, revenue and IT, monitoring sales growth and managing the respect of the product trough customer needs. He coordinates investment and development processes, constantly following and monitoring all new ideas and related updates.
Managing Director / Partner & Presidente del comitato Hospitality di Confindustria-AssoimmobiliareLFPI Italia Reim spa
Italy
Stefano Keller graduated in Economics & Financial Markets (CLEFIN) at Bocconi University, Milan (Italy). He served as an Asset Manager at T&S - Asset Management Company of Merrill Lynch/Colony Capital - and GE Real Estate between 2002 and 2007. At that date, he joined Generali Immobiliare Italia as Chief Investment Officer and then was nominated also Key Clients Manager of the Group. At the end of 2010, he joined LFPI Italia Reim (formerly Foncière LFPI Italia) as Managing Director. As of today he is Partner of the company.
Giampiero Schiavo is CEO and shareholder of Castello SGR SpA. Before joining Castello in 2007, Mr Schiavo spent 7 years at E. Capital Partners, where he was partner and member of the BoD. He started his career in 1997 at Gruppo RE. Mr Schiavo graduated with a business degree from Università L. Bocconi. Castello currently manages 40 RE funds for an overall asset under management of 2,6 Billion Euro. The Funds managed by Castello SGR target a wide range of investments including development projects.
Nearly25 years of experience in hotel development in various senior management positions. From 1995 to 2003 Director Development of ACCOR Hotels in Germany and Austria, from 2003-2011 Director Development of Motel One Group for European development of these Budget Design Hotels. In 2011 I joined TUI Hotels & Resorts, but after strategic change in hotel business I started in 2013 as Managing Director Development for Vienna based Falkensteiner Hotels & Residences, being responsible for the growth of Falkensteiner in CEE. In 2017 I returned to TUI Group to manage the growth of Tui own hotels & resorts worldwide, especially TUI Blue, Club Robinson and Club Magic Life
Guido Polito was born in 1977 into a family of hotelkeepers. His father, Roberto, is the founder of Baglioni Hotels.He was born in Punta Ala and spent his early childhood at the Baglioni Resort Cala del Porto, the first property of the collection. He got his high school diploma at the Grosseto Scientific, and was involved in the hotels’ management alongside his father ever since he was a child. As he matured and understood more about the mechanisms involved, he decided to complete his studies at Bocconi University, in Milan, taking courses in finance and marketing that would reinforce the family company’s management approach.
Jose María Llosa
VP InternationalSmartRental
Spain
Jose is leading the international growth for Smartrental. We are a group of hospitality and living brands leading the spanish market for hospitality (hostel, hotels, serviced apartments) and living (coliving, senior and student housing). Currently, we operate +4.000 beds.
He has also undertaken several business projects in the hospitality area. International MBA and Real Estate program at Instituto de Empresa business school in Madrid.
Marco Mutti is the Managing Director of Foruminvest Italia srl , a property investment and development company since the company’s incorporation in 2004. With over 25 years of development experience in the commercial real estate sector, 4 years in Cushman & Wakefield as advisor of major of international retail groups, 4 years in AIG Lincoln as development director, he is also the president of the team who won the Italian championship of Football.
Executive with close to 20 years of extensive international experience in private equity investments and operations. With a main focus on real estate, I analyzed, executed and managed projects across all property types, capital structures and investment strategies.
Paola is the current Europe Real Estate Director of Valentino. Since 2002 Paola Macchi was the Real Estate Director of Dolce & Gabbana, responsible for the European Region. Previously, she was head of the high street retail department of JLL in Italy. Paola is graduated in Business Economy at Bocconi University in Milan.
Director, Asset Management and Finance, Italy and GreeceSonae Sierra
Italy
Andrea joined Sonae Sierra as Development Manager in 2006 and currently is Director, Asset Management and Finance, Italy and Greece. He worked for Europa Risorse for the development of Bodio and Maciachini business districts in Milan. Andrea has more of 20yrs of real estate investment and development experience. He has a degree in Building Engineering from University of Padua, an MBA and a RICS Postgraduate Diploma both from the College of Estate Management, University of Reading (UK). In 2011 Andrea completed the Executive Program in Real Estate Finance and Real Estate and in 2016 the Corporate Finance Intensive Program both at SDA Bocconi. Andrea is a chartered building engineer and also a chartered commercial property surveyor (MRICS).
Head Product Development & Fund RaisingInvestire SGR
Italy
Michele Beolchini is the Head of Product Development & Fund Raising of InvestiRE SGR. Michele has been present in the Italian real estate market for more than 11 years, and prior to joining InvestiRE, was in the Real Estate Advisory team of Banca IMI – Intesa Sanpaolo Group - where he had the opportunity to take part to the origination, structuring and execution of numerous real estate transactions between 2008 and 2015. Michele holds a M. Sc. cum Laude in General Management and a B. Sc. in Business Administration from Bocconi University (Milan).
Fabio is CEO of Redo Sgr since 2019. A certified BCorp, Redo is an Italian RE fund and investment management company focused on urban regeneration and mixed use development, mainly residential (PRS and affordable housing) and student housing (PBSA).
Fabio has more than 20 years of experience in Real Estate, having served previously as Managing Director GE Real Estate Italy, Project Director Hines, CEO Amplus, CEO Polaris Real Estate, Managing Director and Board Member InvestiRE Sgr.
He has extensive knowledge of the Italian market and real estate transactions and development process, having dealt with the start-up of Real Estate investment businesses and fund management companies and structured numerous deals and fund vehicles.
Head of Logistics, Last Mile & Data Centers Italy | Co-Head EMEA I&L Practice GroupColliers International
Italy
Faustino joined Colliers in 2020 as the head of Logistics, Last Mile & Data Centers at Colliers Italy. He handles investment and leasing activities for key national and international players.
Since February 2023, Faustino has been Co-Head of the Industrial & Logistics Practice Group for EMEA Leasing. He is focused on fostering collaboration and leveraging data-driven strategies to enhance intelligence sharing across countries. His efforts are concentrated on driving growth for key clients and portfolios, with the aim of increasing client value, opportunities, and wins across the EMEA region.
Leo Civelli is Managing Director of KROLL Transaction Services. He has over 20 years’ experience in overall management of real estate operations. He's member of various national and international appraisal organizations and FRics.
Managing Director, Investment and Asset management, ItalyHIG Capital
Italy
Alessio Lucentini joined EQT Partners in September 2019. Prior to joining EQT Partners, Alessio was Country Team Head and Managing Director of AXA Real Estate Investment Managers in Italy. Alessio was responsible for managing the Italian office and investments in the Italian market, increasing the portfolio and covering all asset classes, Prior to that Alessio held asset management and financial analyst positions at AIG/Lincoln and American JV, developing multi-classes real-estate projects. Alessio started his real estate career at Cushman & Wakefield in the valuation team, analysing single assets and portfolios in all Italian territory. Alessio holds a B.Sc in Economics from the University “La Sapienza” of Rome, Italy.
Head of Real Estate Italy & Managing DirectorArdian
Italy
Matteo Minardi joined Ardian in 2016 with nine years of real estate experience. Prior to joining Ardian, Matteo was Fund Manager at Generali Real Estate. Prior to that, he was Senior Investment Manager at Redbrick Investment Group. Matteo studied at SDA Bocconi (MSc) and at Politecnico of Milan (Civil Engineering).
Silvio Sancilio heads the Capital Markets division for Colliers Italia and leads a team of professionals specialised in the Office, Living, Logistics, Hotel and Retail Asset Classes.
As a professional with over 15 years of experience in real estate, Silvio has consolidated experience in both the national and international real estate sector, having held important roles in Unicredit, where he managed a portfolio of over € 10 billion in 19 countries, and JLL Italia, where he headed the Office Capital Markets department. Over the years, he has worked on real estate transactions amounting to over € 8 billion, with particular mention going to the acquisition of Immobilien Holding in Austria and Monte Rosa 91, the sale of Melchiorre Gioia 22 and Torre Velasca in Milan and the “I Tolentini” complex in Rome.
Silvio Sancilio has a Degree in Architectural Engineering, followed by an MBA obtained in Italy and the United States.
Head of Italian Real Estate DepartmentPalladium Group
Italy
Jacopo Palermo
CEO & Managing DirectorCOSTIM
Italy
Jacopo graduated with honors in Civil Engineering from Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, has an Executive MBA from SDA Bocconi in Milan and an Advanced Management Program from INSEAD in Fontainebleau. He started his professional experience in infrastructure projects. From 2001 - 2011 he has pursued a career in big construction companies such as Astaldi and Torno Internazionale. He, then assumed the role of Director in complex infrastructural and civil building projects both national and European. Since 2011 untill 2021 he worked in Immobiliare Percassi as CEO and Managing Director. In the 2020 he became CEO of COSTIM group.
Leopoldo Andreis De Gregorio
PrincipalPineBridge Benson Elliot
United Kingdom
Leopoldo has 21 years experience in the RE industry. After six years at Benson Elliot’s London office working on deals across Europe, Leopoldo relocated to Milan in July 2012 to focus exclusively on the Italian market. Prior to joining Benson Elliot, Leopoldo was a Vice President and senior Italian investment professional at Lehman Brothers, where he was responsible for originating, evaluating, structuring and negotiating transactions in Italy. Between 2002 and 2006 Leopoldo led transactions, representing total acquisition / development costs in excess of €1bn. Prior to joining Lehman in London in 2000, he worked in the asset management and valuation departments of Cushman & Wakefield.
Pierre joined Investcorp in 2016 from Real Estate Private Equity firm Catalyst Capital where he spent four years as an Associate Director in the UK investment team. He started his career at Citi in the Real Estate Private Equity group focusing on European opportunistic real estate investments, followed by two years at AEW Europe. Pierre holds an MSc in Management from HEC Paris.
Marco joined Sonae Sierra in 2014 as responsible of the Real Estate Development business in Italy. He developed all his career in the real estate industry with experiences in Project and Construction Management, Property Development, Asset Management, Business Development, Advisory and Transaction.
Before joining Sonae Sierra, he spent ten years within BNP Paribas Real Estate Italian branch, where he held responsibilities in different business areas from Fund&Asset Management, Investment Advisory and Business Development.
Previously he spent four years as Senior Asset Manager in Pirelli Real Estate and before he served as a Real Estate Manager in primary international and national companies like Blockbuster, Decathlon, Edilnord Group.
Matteo Ghedini
CEOBrera Serviced Apartments
Germany
Matteo Ghedini is the founder and CEO of Brera Serviced Apartments. Matteo started Brera in 2013 by opening the first location in Nuremberg. Since then Brera expanded in many German cities and manages today ca. 700 Apartments. Born in Italy, Matteo started his career as a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group, attended an MBA at INSEAD and thereafter successfully completed the turnaround of a Real Estate Family Office in Germany. Passionate about Interior Design and about unleashing People´s talent, Matteo´s goal is to develop Brera to one of the most important long stay players in Europe.
Jose is leading the international growth for Smartrental. We are a group of hospitality and living brands leading the spanish market for hospitality (hostel, hotels, serviced apartments) and living (coliving, senior and student housing). Currently, we operate +4.000 beds.
He has also undertaken several business projects in the hospitality area. International MBA and Real Estate program at Instituto de Empresa business school in Madrid.
Daniele is an expert on energy and environmental services within smart urban environments, as well as on regulatory frameworks. He has over 16 years of experience managing projects in Europe, Africa and Asia and is a Senior Associate at the Institute for European Energy and Climate Policy Foundation.
Roberto Mangiavacchi is Senior Advisor of the Board of Impresa Percassi and oversees the business development of the company. Mr Mangiavacchi is also owner and CEO of Mangiavacchi ing. R. SpA, the family holding company, which is specialized in construction and real estate,
Mr. Mangiavacchi has been involved in numerous construction projects and real estate developments, with a focus on the residential sector.
Mr. Mangiavacchi received a degree, cum laude, in Structural Engineering, from Politecnico di Milano, and worked as a structural engineer before joining the family business.
Nicolas is the current Country Director at Nexity Italia, where he joined in 2013, in charge of the supervision of the various residential devolpement of the french group in Milan.
Graduated as building engineer from ESTP Paris/ University of Nottingham, he starts his career in large construction projects in Africa, before moving back to Paris to work in the facility management sector participating to international large contracts for Sodexo.
In 2012, after a Master in Real Estate Management in Université Paris Dauphine, he entered in the residentiel real estate world joining Nexity as Project manager for large residential developments in Paris.
Giampiero Schiavo is CEO and shareholder of Castello SGR SpA. Before joining Castello in 2007, Mr Schiavo spent 7 years at E. Capital Partners, where he was partner and member of the BoD. He started his career in 1997 at Gruppo RE. Mr Schiavo graduated with a business degree from Università L. Bocconi. Castello currently manages 40 RE funds for an overall asset under management of 2,6 Billion Euro. The Funds managed by Castello SGR target a wide range of investments including development projects.
Head of Logistics, Last Mile & Data Centers Italy | Co-Head EMEA I&L Practice GroupColliers International
Italy
Faustino joined Colliers in 2020 as the head of Logistics, Last Mile & Data Centers at Colliers Italy. He handles investment and leasing activities for key national and international players.
Since February 2023, Faustino has been Co-Head of the Industrial & Logistics Practice Group for EMEA Leasing. He is focused on fostering collaboration and leveraging data-driven strategies to enhance intelligence sharing across countries. His efforts are concentrated on driving growth for key clients and portfolios, with the aim of increasing client value, opportunities, and wins across the EMEA region.
Managing Director, Investment and Asset management, ItalyHIG Capital
Italy
Alessio Lucentini joined EQT Partners in September 2019. Prior to joining EQT Partners, Alessio was Country Team Head and Managing Director of AXA Real Estate Investment Managers in Italy. Alessio was responsible for managing the Italian office and investments in the Italian market, increasing the portfolio and covering all asset classes, Prior to that Alessio held asset management and financial analyst positions at AIG/Lincoln and American JV, developing multi-classes real-estate projects. Alessio started his real estate career at Cushman & Wakefield in the valuation team, analysing single assets and portfolios in all Italian territory. Alessio holds a B.Sc in Economics from the University “La Sapienza” of Rome, Italy.
Filippo is Managing Partner of GCP leading investment activities in Italy
Managing Director and CEO, head of asset management at BGO, kRYALOS, Lendlease.
experience in investments and asset management
GRI has no speakers, no presentations. Instead, you have a selection of closed-door discussions where everyone can participate.
Much like a conversation in your own living room, the dynamic environment allows you to engage with your peers in an informal and collegial setting.
Kroll Real Estate Advisory Group (REAG) provides real estate advisory services tailored to meet the requirements of specific jurisdictions and aims to develop and increase the value of individual assets or properties. REAG has a network of over 750 professionals across Europe. Kroll provides proprietary data, technology and insights to help our clients stay ahead of complex demands related to risk, governance and growth. Our solutions deliver a powerful competitive advantage, enabling faster, smarter and more sustainable decisions. With 5,000 experts around the world, we create value and impact for our clients and communities.
WeWork is a global network of workspaces where companies and people grow together. We transform buildings into dynamic environments for creativity, focus, and connection. More than just the best place to work, though, this is a movement toward humanizing work. We believe that CEOs can help each other, offices can use the comforts of home, and we can all look forward to Monday if we find real meaning in what we do.
The company serves clients including AEW, Primonial REIM, Generali Real Estate, SwissLife Asset Managers and the French government. In March 2022 Deepki raised €150 million in a Series C round of funding which was jointly led by Highland Europe and One Peak Partners. Other investors include Bpifrance, through their Large Venture fund, and Revaia.
Andrea Ometto
Director, Asset Management and Finance, Italy and GreeceSonae Sierra
Italy
Andrea joined Sonae Sierra as Development Manager in 2006 and currently is Director, Asset Management and Finance, Italy and Greece. He worked for Europa Risorse for the development of Bodio and Maciachini business districts in Milan. Andrea has more of 20yrs of real estate investment and development experience. He has a degree in Building Engineering from University of Padua, an MBA and a RICS Postgraduate Diploma both from the College of Estate Management, University of Reading (UK). In 2011 Andrea completed the Executive Program in Real Estate Finance and Real Estate and in 2016 the Corporate Finance Intensive Program both at SDA Bocconi. Andrea is a chartered building engineer and also a chartered commercial property surveyor (MRICS).
Sonae Sierra is an integrated real estate player with a business model that allow the Company to be present in the entire value chain trough five major pillars; Developments, Asset Management, Property Management, Investment Management and Reify (Architecture, Design, Engineering, Project&Construction, Market intelligence).
MF is a boutique real estate company that provides its Clients with a highly specialized advisory service for the sourcing, management and disposal of their real estate portfolio in Italy.
Claudio Cerabolini
Partner, Head of Real Estate - ItalyClifford Chance
