GLENN AARONSON
Chief Executive Officer
Multi Corporation, Gouda
Multi is a pan-European shopping centre developer and investor, operating in 17 countries with Europe’s most award-winning team for design and city-centre revitalisation over 20 years. Before joining in May 2007, Mr. Aaronson was MD with Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds in Frankfurt - responsible for investments in Germany, Holland, CEE and Russia – and in Milan. Prior posts included European Real Estate Head for CSFB in London, a principal with Hanford Healy in San Francisco, and with the US Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp, later RTC, in Washington D.C. He began his career in Atlanta, Georgia.

MARYSE AULAGNON
Chief Executive Officer
Affine, Paris
A French SIIC and credit institution, Affine is active in office/warehouse/retail directly and via the units Banimmo (Belgium), AffiParis, and Concerto. Mme. Aulagnon, an honorary Maître des Requetes of the Conseil d’Etat and graduate of École nationale d'administration and Institut d’Etudes Politiques, served in the Washington embassy and on the staff of several French ministers of state before joining CGE-Alcatel. She founded Affine in 1990.

JAMES BAUER
Managing Director, REAG Germany, Frankfurt
Member of the Advisory Board, REAG
The Real Estate Advisory Group is an international real estate service provider in investment advisory, technical services, environmental, research, hospitality, NPLs, and valuation. Mr. Bauer was formerly a director at Calliston Development, and before that worked in the field of real estate extensively in the US. A native of Chicago, he was educated in the US and Germany, and gained international working experience prior to REAG where he is responsible for Germany and central and eastern Europe.

DIANE BECKER
Partner, Head of International Investment
Catella Property France, Paris
Catella Property Group is a leading European real estate transactions advisor with operations in 14 countries which has advised on E50bn of property deals in the past five years. Ms. Becker has headed International Investment since 2007 and been partner at Catella France since 2002. She previously worked as Senior Advisor in International Investment at Catella UK and prior to that at Atis Real Auguste Thouard in Paris. She holds a Master of Economy and Politics from Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany.

CHRIS BENNETT
Director, Head of Acquisitions
Europa Capital, Budapest
Europa Capital is a pan-European independent real estate investment manager that has invested over €6bn in 17 European countries to date. Mr. Bennett is an English Chartered Surveyor and has been based in Hungary since 1991. He set up the DTZ offices in Moscow, Warsaw, Kiev, St Petersburg and Bucharest, then an investment vehicle for a private Austrian investor. In 2008, he joined Europa Capital’s Emerging Europe Fund which specialises in Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria and the Western Balkans.

RICHARD BENTLEY
Head of Real Estate Finance London
Helaba, London
German Landesbank Helaba belongs to the savings bank network and has branches in Paris, London and New York. With new business of €10.2bn in 2009, Helaba now has a real estate lending portfolio of €37bn. Mr. Bentley recently joined Helaba as Head of Real Estate Finance London and is responsible for all aspects of UK RE finance. He has worked on a wide range of financing transactions across both the UK and Europe and has many years of experience in the industry, most recently as Director of International Real Estate for Deutsche Pfandbriefbank.

JEAN-MARC BESSON
Senior Managing Director
Beacon Capital Partners France, Paris
Boston-based Beacon is a real estate investment firm led by Alan Leventhal. Since inception in 1998 it has sponsored seven investment vehicles representing over $11bn equity from endowments, foundations and pension funds. The firm invests via closed-end commingled funds, and management also invests alongside clients. M. Besson was MD of Hammerson France from 2001 to 2006, responsible for a €2.2bn real estate portfolio and operations. He previously held finance positions in France at McDonald’s, Daimler Benz and Ford. M. Besson holds a Master's degree in Corporate Finance and Financial Engineering from Paris-Dauphine University.

THOMAS BEYERLE
Managing Director, Head of CS & Research
IVG Immobilien, Bonn
IVG is Germany’s largest listed commercial property company, managing assets worth €22bn, with 580 employees in 19 major German and European cities. It directly manages assets worth €4.1bn, and other property in funds. IVG also has a large caverns development division. Dr. Beyerle heads corporate social responsibility & research, managing IVG's development and implementation of a sustainability strategy. A widely know expert speaker, he previously worked as head of global research at Aberdeen Property Investors.

JOHANNES BITTER-SUERMANN
European Business Development Head
CrossHarbor Capital Partners
Based in Boston, Cross Harbor Capital Partners, LLC, is a financial investment firm co-founded in 1993 by Samuel Byrne and William Kremer, and a leader in alternative investments in real estate, private equity and distressed assets. Hr. Bitter-Suermann, who has opened its first European office, was previously managing partner of König & Cie, a private fund manager in Germany, and before member of the team that established a branch for Hamburgische/HSH Nordbank in New York. He is a qualified attorney at law.

RICHARD BLOXAM
International Director, EMEA Capital Markets
Jones Lang LaSalle, London
Jones Lang LaSalle is a financial and professional services firm specialising in real estate. Mr. Bloxam is head of the EMEA Capital Markets team and an International Director within the Retail Capital Markets Team. He is currently advising clients on transactions throughout Europe and has in-depth knowledge of the retail sector and particularly the investment markets in Poland, Austria, Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary and Russia. He is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

ALICE BREHENY
Head of Research, Property (Europe)
Henderson Global Investors, London
Henderson is a leading multi-asset investment firm managing €69bn worldwide. In global property it has manages €13bn of assets for segregated direct mandates, pooled funds, property securities and fund of funds. Ms. Breheny has over 13 years experience in property research. She now manages a team of five analysts focused on Europe. She is also a member of the Investment Property Forum, Society of Property Researchers, INREV, and International Council of Shopping Centres. Ms. Breheny gained a BA (Hons) diploma in geography at the University of Southampton, England.

CLAUDIA BUCCINI
Head of Italy Research Team
Cushman & Wakefield LLP
Claudia Buccini joined C&W in 2001 and currently heads the Italy Research Team. Her responsibilities include the publication of regular market updates and the preparation of detailed market analysis for national and international clients. She is an active player within the European Research Group, providing the information on the Italian market for global publications and international projects. She also provides consultancy to developers and investors, assisting them in defining and implementing their strategic plans. She has a degree in Architecture and a Master degree in Urban Planning and Property Market (Italy-UK).

PHILLIP BURNS
Chief Executive Officer
Corestate Capital Advisors, London
Corestate is a specialist real estate private equity investor and asset manager based in Zug, Switzerland with additional offices in Frankfurt, London and Luxembourg. Since 2006, it has invested €1.9bn in European real estate across various asset classes. Mr. Burns is CEO, responsible for strategic and business development. He previously worked as MD at Terra Firma Capital Partners where he focused on infrastructure, credit and German residential real estate transactions. Prior to this, he worked for Goldman Sachs.

COLIN CAMPBELL
Chairman
Pradera Europe, London
Pradera Europe is a specialist manager of retail property funds in continental Europe, holding €2.2bn AUM in eight countries. Named chairman last year, Mr. Campbell also chairs Pradera’s Luxembourg-based fund manager and is a member of all unitholder advisory committees. Before joining Pradera, he was a director of Parkes and Co. responsible for DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners’ property investments. He holds a BSc in Estate Management from Reading University and an MBA from INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France.

RAPHAEL CATONNET
Deputy Managing Director
EPADESA-La Defense Seine Arche, Paris
M. Catonnet has run the EPAD/EPASA operations centre as Deputy Managing Director since 2009, and was named to the same position for EPADESA last November. He previously worked at Hauts-de-Seine General Council where he set up the Territorial Development and Corporate Real Estate Department. An engineer ESGT (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers), he is qualified in DESS urbanism and local development from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris.

PHILIPPE CHAIX
Managing Director
EPADESA-La Defense Seine Arche, Paris
M. Chaix was first appointed to head La Défense and Seine-Arche in October 2008 by the Minister of State for the Environment, Energy, Sustainable Development and Regional Development, renewed at the creation of EPADESA last November. A graduate of ENA, he has worked as an international lawyer with the Cabinet Desfilis, Chaix et associé law firm, and spent most of his career in the prefectural service. He joined the staff of the mayor of Paris in 1986 and was elected a Paris city councillor from 1989 to 2002.

ALAIN CHAUSSARD
Co-CEO & Vice Chairman
Affine, Paris
French REIT/SIIC Affine is a property investor with holdings in Paris, French regions, and Belgium (through Banimmo). With gross assets of €1.1bn, it focuses on high-yield investments. M. Chaussard is a graduate of the most prestigious engineering school École Centrale de Paris, and Institut d’études politiques, among others. He holds a Masters in mathematics and a postgraduate degree in finance. After a career in banking, he joined Affine as deputy CEO in 1998 and has been its vice-chairman since 2000.

SERGIO CHIAMPARINO
Mayor of Torino

Sergio Chiamparino was born in 1948. He holds a degree in Political Science with an econometrics thesis on the labour market. He worked for some years as a university researcher at the Cognetti De Martiis Laboratory of Political Economics at the Political Science Faculty of Torino; co-ordinator of the programme for Regione Piemonte from 1975 to 1979. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Istituto Bancario San Paolo di Torino from 1978 to 1980. He then held numerous political and trade union offices until being elected to Parliament in 1996, and was a member of the Budget Commission of the Chamber of Deputies for five years. He was elected Mayor of Torino in 2001 and re-elected in 2006. He is currently national President of the ANCI (Italian association of municipalities).

ANTONIO CHIARELLO
Chief Executive Officer & Partner
Antirion SGR, Milan
Antirion SGR is a new Italian fund management company which promotes, sets up and manages third-party real estate funds. Believing in opportunities beyond offices in Milan and shops in Rome, the company is currently launching the first mixed seeded real estate/cash value-added fund targeting Sardinian property. Prior to joining Antirion, Sr. Chiarello was general manager of UBS Alternative Investments (Italy) SGR and head of institutional & alternative business at UBS Global Asset Management.

CLAUS-JUERGEN COHAUSZ
Member of the Managing Board
Westdeutsche ImmobilienBank, Mainz
WestImmo is one of the leading real estate finance providers in Germany with a strong presence in western, central and eastern Europe as well as in North America and Asia. Hr. Cohausz is member of the managing board and chief origination officer since 2006. He studied law in Münster after his bank management training, and held posts at German landesbank WestLB before joining WestImmo at creation in 1995 as head of the executive office.

PAOLO CORRADINI
Head of Public Affairs
Lavazza Spa
Paolo Corradini was born in Rome in 1949 and graduated in architecture from the Politecnico di Torino in 1975. His career began at the Piedmont Regional Land Planning Council. Following this experience he became Director of the Social Housing Committee of Turin and was then appointed Director of ITP - Invest in Torino Piemonte, the agency to facilitate foreign investments in the region. Since 2007, he has been Head of Public Affairs for the Lavazza Group, a leading Italian coffee company. In this role he will oversee the planning and construction work of the new Lavazza Headquarters in Turin.

SIMON COX
V-P Project Management & UK Sustainability Officer
ProLogis, Solihull
ProLogis is a leading provider of distribution facilities, with more than 44m sq.m. of space across the globe. Mr. Cox specialises in sustainability and advises on environmental stewardship throughout Europe. He joined ProLogis in 2006 and has managed several flagship sustainable developments including a 624,000 sq.ft. distribution facility for Sainsburys supermarkets, and large centres for Royal Mail and for the Co-operative Group in Glasgow. He has 15 years’ experience as project manager on developments including mixed-use, retail and hotels.

MARK CREAMER
Deputy Managing Director UK
CB Richard Ellis, London
Headquartered in Los Angeles, CBRE is the world’s largest commercial real estate services firm in revenue, with some 29,000 employees. In May 2007, it committed to be carbon neutral by 2010 - the first realtor to announce such a goal. Mr. Creamer leads the Loan and Corporate Recovery initiative and has overall responsibility for the group’s Green Agenda in EMEA. He also heads the European Valuation Practice. A Member of RICS, he served on its Governing Council in 2007-2009 and has an MA in Geography and Land Economy from the University of Cambridge.

ANDREW CREIGHTON
Director of Property (Europe)
Henderson Global Investors, London
Henderson Global Investors is a leading property asset manager with €12.8bn AUM. Mr. Creighton has been at Henderson since 2000, having joined from DTZ where he worked in the International Investment Team. He is Chairman of the weekly Property Investment meeting and sits on the Property Investment Committee. He graduated from Cambridge University in 1990 and qualified as a Chartered Surveyor in 1993.

PETER DAMESICK
Executive Director, EMEA Chief Economist
CB Richard Ellis, London
CB Richard Ellis is one of the world’s largest real estate advisory and investment firms. In Europe it has 5,800 employees working in 133 offices in 41 countries, managing assets of $12.7bn. Dr. Damesick joined CBRE in 1988 as head of UK research, having previously worked in management consultancy and as university lecturer. He is now the firm’s principal analyst and spokesperson with respect to macro-economic and related market issues for EMEA and a visiting professor at Birkbeck, University of London.

JEPPE DE BOER
Managing Director, Head of Investment Banking Real Estate
Renaissance Capital, Moscow
Founded in 1995 Renaissance Capital is part of Renaissance group, and has a majority shareholder in Mikhail Prokhorov’s Onexim. Since joining in 2007, Mr. de Boer has led such transactions as the $99m sale of Giffels, the $575m IPO of Etalon, and restructuring of XXI Century. Formerly he spent over seven years at Goldman Sachs, founding its European Real Estate Advisory Team, and responsible, among others, for the €12bn Rodamco-Unibail merger, and the $1.4bn IPO of AFI. He holds an MSc in Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam.

ROBERT DE JONG
Project Manager
Urban Land Institute Europe, LessEn
The LessEn initiative has been developed by the non-profit Urban Land Institute to encourage better energy efficiency and retrofitting in commercial buildings. Mr. de Jong works with ULI’s leading networks, initiative partners and LessEn community to enable individuals and organisations to achieve substantial energy reductions. Projects include developing building energy efficiency data, UK schools energy league table, energy case studies, the world’s first global energy map and building energy smartphone application. He prevously worked on a low carbon project for a London Borough, and spent over eight years in Australia advising businesses and community groups in their sustainability strategies.

PAUL DELESENNE
Director
EXCS, Brussels
EXCS is owned by the City of Brussels and charged with the organisation of the Heyzel NEO Brussels development project. It prepares legal, operational and financial information on the project. M. Delesenne is the board’s real estate specialist since 2008. A former CEO of Robelco, he is also founding partner of an investment management company focusing on forest and biomass assets, and part-time professor of sustainable management at Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles

THOMAS DEVONSHIRE-GRIFFIN
National Director, Head of Russia & CIS
Jones Lang LaSalle, Moscow
Jones Lang LaSalle is a financial and professional services firm specialising in real estate with more than 40,000 employees in 70 countries. Mr. Devonshire-Griffin joined JLL Moscow as national director and head of Russia & CIS Capital Markets in January 2008, having previously worked in King Sturge’s Prague office as head of investment and London’s investment team where he worked on transactions in excess of US$2bn. He holds a Master’s degree in Property Valuation and Law from CASS Business School.

ETIENNE DUPUY
CEO
BNP Paribas Real Estate Investment Management, Paris
BNP Paribas Real Estate Investment Management has close to €11bn of property assets under management in Europe. M. Dupuy worked for Gestion d'Actifs Haussmann (future Archon Group France) and for AXA REIM. He has joined BNP Paribas REIM in 2008. He has Master degrees in urban geography, real estate, and finance from ESSEC. He is a member of the European Real Estate Society and of the Investment Property Forum and president of the French society of real estate research (AREIM).

DOUGLAS EDWARDS
Managing Director
Corpus Sireo, Luxembourg
Douglas Edwards is Managing Director of Corpus Sireo Investment Management, based in Luxembourg. Corpus Sireo is a European asset manager for commercial and residential real estate, with AUM of €15.4bn. Operating out of Luxembourg and Frankfurt, Mr. Edwards is responsible for Corpus Sireo’s business with international clients wishing to invest in Germany and requiring asset management or advisory solutions for their existing German investments.

MICHAEL EDWARDS
Head of Valuation & Advisory, Central Europe
Cushman & Wakefield
Cushman & Wakefield is a privately-held commercial real estate services firm with 230 offices in 60 countries and more than 15,000 employees. Mr. Edwards, based in the Budapest office, heads valuation Advisory for central Europe where he has worked since 2002. Prior to that he spent over nine years in property in the UK. He became a member of the RICS in 1997 and holds a Bachelor of Science with honours in Estate Management.

SILVIO ESTIENNE
President & CEO
ING Real Estate Investment Management France, Paris
One of the world's leading real estate investment managers, ING REIM manages a portfolio of E71.1bn. Prior to joining ING REIM in July 2008 as MD of the French office, Silvio Estienne was General Secretary of Promogim, a French developer of residential properties. His experience includes positions of CFO and COO with responsibility for strategy and finance in various real estate firms. Engineer of the Ecole Centrale de Lyon, he holds an MBA of the HEC School of Management, Paris and an MBA from the Sloan Fellows Program of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.

BRUNO ETTENAUER
Chief Executive Officer
CA Immo, Vienna
CA Immo is a listed property investment company with focus on Germany, Austria and CEE, holding property assets value at about €5bn. Dr. Ettenauer has overall operative responsibility and oversees real estate investment and asset management, financing (equity and debt funding), project organisation, IT, HR and legal affairs. He has been member of the board since 2006, CEO since 2009. He has over 15 years’ experience in real estate financing and is a sworn real estate appraiser.

JUERGEN FENK
Head of International Real Estate Finance
BAWAG P.S.K., Vienna
BAWAG is a leading Austrian banking group focused on retail, corporate and institutional business. Its international real estate financing group invests in senior secured and junior real estate loans with focus on western Europe. Hr. Fenk has over 18 years’ experience in international commercial real estate. Before joining BAWAG in September, he was Global Head of Real Estate Finance at German landesbank Helaba. Before that, he was Chairman & CEO of Hypo RE Capital Corporation in New York.

ALEXANDRE FERNANDES
Head of Asset Management
Portugal & Spain, Sonae Sierra, Lisbon
Sonae Sierra is an international shopping centre specialist, operating in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Germany, Greece, Romania, Brazil and Colombia. It has over 2.2m sq.m. GLA under management with over 8.900 tenants, attracting in 2009 more than 436m visits. Sr. Fernandes joined in 1997 as Project Manager of NorteShopping, subsequently becoming the centre’s General Manager. In 2000, he was appointed Asset Manager for Portugal. In 2002 he added Greece and Romania to his portfolio. Since 2008, when he took up his present responsibilities, he has overseen all Sonae Sierra’s real estate investments in Portugal and Spain. He holds an MSc in Management from the University of Porto and an MBA from the Instituto Superior de Estudos Empresarias.

ALFRED FINK
Partner
Orrick Rambaud Martel, Paris
Orrick is an international law firm with more than 1,100 lawyers worldwide. Its French office, Orrick Rambaud Martel, is a leading player in financing, M&A, stock exchange law, real estate and litigation. Hr. Fink, a doubly qualified German and French, is a partner in the real estate and corporate groups. His clients consist primarily of German-speaking companies active in both France and Germany, as well as of foreign investors in France. Prior to joining Orrick, he was a partner of Haarmann Hemmelrath and Landwell & associés.

ROLAND FUCHS
General Director, Head of Paris Branch
Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen (Helaba), Paris
With a workforce of 6,000 and total assets of €180bn, Helaba is one of Germany’s leading landesbanks – based in Frankfurt and Erfurt. It maintains a full branch in Paris since 2009 but has been serving French companies, banks and insurers since 1995. Hr. Fuchs has almost 20 years’ experience in pan-European RE finance. He joined from WestImmo where he was head of origination for continental Europe, and global head of international credit. He now heads the Paris branch and its real estate activities.

SYLVIA GANSSER-POTTS
Director Property & Tourism
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, London
Owned by 61 countries, the European Union and the European Investment Bank, EBRD is the largest financial investor in Europe. Ms. Gansser-Potts oversees new investments and loans to real estate projects in eastern Europe, as well as management of its €1.3bn portfolio. She also serves on advisory boards and/or investment committees of a number of real estate funds investing in central Europe and Russia. She previously worked for UBS in Switzerland and Japan, and holds an MBA from INSEAD, France.

ARLINE GAUJAL-KEMPLER
General Director
Fonciere INEA, Paris
French REIT/SIIC Fonciere Inea specialises in office in 24 cities around France, with a strong focus on yield and liquidity. Since foundation in 2005, it has grown its portfolio to €400m, and targets €500m by year-end. Ms. Gaujal-Kempler, a founder of INEA alongside Philippe Rosio and Alain Juliard, was previously MD of DIL France and prior to that worked in valuation and investments for brokers Auguste Thouard and Jones Lang Wooton in Paris. English by birth, she earned a BA in the 1980s from the University of London.

SAUL GOLDSTEIN
Managing Partner
Activum SG Capital Management, St Helier, Jersey
Activum is a fund manager targeting undervalued real estate and special situations in Germany. Advised by a team in Berlin, Activum has broad experience in turning around under-performing real estate and real estate operating companies. The group was founded in 2007 by Mr. Goldstein, the former head of European real estate at Cerberus Capital Management. Prior to joining Cerberus, he was an investor at Cargill Financial Services in Minneapolis and Tokyo.

SIMONE URBANI GRECCHI
Chief Manager London Representative Office
Banca Infrastrutture Innovazione e Sviluppo
Simone Urbani Grecchi is Chief Manager at Banca Infrastrutture Innovazione e Sviluppo (BIIS), London, Intesa Sanpaolo Group. He has been working with BIIS since 2003 for both the Direzione Commerciale Italia and the International Division. He previously worked in consultancy for five years, acting as Marketing and Business Development Director at Black & Veatch and serving as Head of Energy and Utilities Division at both Accenture and Arthur D. Little. Prior to that, he worked at ENI Group for over three years in various capacities.

ANDREW M. GROOM
Internat. Director, Head of Valuation & Transaction Advisory Germany
Jones Lang LaSalle, Frankfurt
Global real estate services group Jones Lang LaSalle employs over 45,000 staff in 60 nations, and is one of the largest realtors in Germany. Mr. Groom, who heads a 70-person valuation/due diligence team, led development of the innovative VICTOR prime office indicator and is also responsible for key clients, business acquisition, portfolio strategy and risk assessment. With over 20 years’ experience, he has been based in Germany since 1992 and previously worked with other major realtors in Europe.

YANN GUEN
Vice-President
Mayland Real Estate, Warsaw
Mayland Real Estate is one of the largest retail real estate developers in central Europe, jointly owned by the French Casino group and Goldman Sachs’ Whitehall funds. In 2006, Mr. Guen became Vice-President of the company. He has overall responsibility for all development matters. With 25 years’ experience in the industry, he previously worked in the field of hypermarket development with Geant Polska and King Cross, and managed the commercial and mixed-use projects of a major French property developer.

SERGEI GUTNIK
Senior Banker, Property & Tourism
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, London
EBRD is an international financial institution owned by 61 countries, the EU and European Investment Bank. Established in 1991 it has become the largest financial investor in 29 countries from central Europe and western Balkans to central Asia. In his 18-year career with EBRD, Mr. Gutnik has led projects in debt and equity financing, property and tourism, banks and equity funds, general industry and infrastructure. He serves on the supervisory boards of a number of banks, equity funds and real estate firms and was based in Moscow in 2005-2009.

BEN HABIB
Chief Executive Officer & Chief Investment Officer
First Property Group, London
First Property Group is a listed commercial property fund manager with ?365m (€418m) AUM in the UK and Central Europe, established by Habib in 2000. In 2005, after the closing of the yield gap in the UK, he successfully repositioned client funds out of the UK and into Poland. He has over 17 years of experience in direct property investment and was an independent property developer and investor and a finance director of PWS Holdings before founding (Fprop).

ANTOINE HABILLAT
Director of Office Development
Unibail-Rodamco, Paris
Created in 1968, Unibail-Rodamco is Europe’s largest listed commercial property group, with presence in 12 EU countries and portfolio valued at €24.8bn. With 1,500 professionals, it is active in large shopping centres of major European cities, and large office and convention & exhibition centres in the Paris region. M. Habillat joined in 2002 as project manager, was named head of Cnit refurbishment project in la Défense (2005) and Phare Tower development (2007). He is a graduate of Ecole Centrale Paris.

WALTER HAMPEL
MD, Head of Real Estate Finance-CEE & Nordics
pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank, Munich
pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank is a leading European specialist bank for public sector and real estate financing. One of the main providers of German Pfandbrief, pbb is active in Germany and in other European markets. Dr. Hampel deals with clients active in CEE, Switzerland, Austria, and Nordic markets. Following the spin-off of Hypo Real Estate from HVB Group in 2003, he continued to head the new property lender’s western European regional and CEE lending operations.

DANIEL HARRIS
Managing Director, Europe and CE
Tristan Capital Partners, London
Tristan Capital Partners is a boutique investment manager specialising in real estate investment strategies across Europe, with €3bn AUM. Mr. Harris joined Tristan as Managing Director for Europe and CE after working with the EPISO Fund investment team at AEW Europe. Previously, he spent five years with MGPA where he was head of CEE, responsible for acquisitions and the management of the Warsaw office which he established in 2008. He was awarded Professional of the Year at the CEE Retail Awards in 2010.

URSULA HARTENBERGER
Head of Sustainability Policy
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Brussels
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is the world's leading professional body for qualifications and standards in land, property and construction. Fr. Hartenberger joined in 2006 as Head of EU Public Affairs, and took on the role of Global Head of Sustainability Policy in 2009. Prior positions included EU Affairs Manager for Bayer, and Head of LANXESS EU Liaison Office. She graduated in History and English from Flensburg University, Germany, and also holds a Master in Arts Market Valuation.

FABIAN HINRICHS
Senior Associate, German Real Estate Practice Group
DLA Piper, Cologne
With 3,500 lawyers in 29 countries and 67 offices throughout Asia, Europe, Middle East and the US, DLA Piper is one of the largest providers of legal services in the world. Hr. Hinrichs has experience in all aspects of real estate, with particular emphasis on transactions and tenancy law. He also focuses on public law matters, including public planning, construction and zoning law - and guides property owners in applying for building permissions and proceeding against municipal zoning activities.

ANTON HöLLER
Head of International Real Estate Finance
UniCredit Bank Austria, Vienna
UniCredit is a major international financial institution with strong roots in 22 European countries and about 162,000 employees. It is the undisputed banking leader in central and eastern Europe, including Turkey, with a market share twice that of its closest competitors. Mr Höller joined predecessor bank Creditanstalt Bankverein in 1996 and has more than 12 years’ experience in commercial real estate financing. Since 2009, he is managing the international real estate department.

NASSAR HUSSAIN
Managing Partner
Brookland Partners, London
Brookland Partners is a real estate investment banking firm which offers specialised advisory and funding services across EMEA. Mr. Hussain established the firm in 2009. He previously worked as MD at Merrill Lynch International where he was responsible for several property product areas in EMEA. He is on the Board of Governors of the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council Europe, Chairman of the CMBS 2.0 Committee and participates in working group consultations with the Bank of England.

IVANO ILARDO
Chief Executive Officer
BNP Paribas Real Estate Investment Management, Milan
BNP Paribas Real Estate Investment Management has close to €11bn of property assets under management in Europe. Sr. Ilardo was named CEO in Italy in April. Before joining the company, he was head of fund management at Generali Group. In 1998, he joined the Corporate Finance and Real Estate department of SDA Bocconi business school and is also involved in research projects and teaching. He is a Fellow of RICS and member of the IPD Global PPFI Consultative Group.

PAUL JAYSON
Real Estate Partner, Green Real Estate Team
DLA Piper, London
With 4,200 lawyers in 29 countries and 67 offices throughout Asia, Europe, Middle East and the US, DLA Piper is one of the largest providers of legal services in the world. Mr. Jayson has experience in all aspects of commercial real estate, with particular emphasis on development and investment. His special interest in sustainability in the built environment places him at the forefront of DLA Piper’s ‘green’ real estate team developing best practice for Green Leases, and advising on sustainability strategies.

SABINA KALYAN
Senior Director & Head of European Research
CBRE Investors, London
CBRE Investors is a global real estate investment management firm with $37.6bn AUM. It sponsors investment programs across the risk/return spectrum for investors worldwide. Ms. Kalyan is responsible for the development of in-house views on the outlook for European economy, financial and national property markets. She joined from IPD where she was chief economist responsible for UK and European forecasting and analysis of the global impact of economic developments. She holds an M.Phil in Economics from Oxford University.

PHILIPP KAUFMANN
Founding President
ÖGNI, Vienna
The Austrian Green Building Council ÖGNI is a non-profit organisation which aims to promote solutions for sustainable planning, building and use of assets in the country. Hr. Kaufmann is the founding president and well-known for sustainability, project development and real estate marketing. He is also chairman of ULI’s Austrian branch, which was inaugurated at the end of 2010. In 2007, he founded the research institute for space and real estate economy (WU), where he is also employed.

JEREMY KELLY
National Director, Global Research
Jones Lang LaSalle, London
Jones Lang LaSalle is a financial and professional services firm specialising in real estate. Mr. Kelly is responsible for several of the company’s flagship global research programs including Global Market Perspective, Real Estate Transparency and World Winning Cities Research. He has over 25 years’ experience in commercial property market analysis, having worked on a wide range of projects in the UK, continental Europe and Australia. His specialty is the analysis of city real estate market trends.

SUSANNE KLAUSSNER
Management Board (Chair)
GRR Real Estate Management, Erlangen
GRR Real Estate is a German retail property specialist, focusing on asset and property management and holding €800m under management. With more than 25 years' experience in real estate, Ms. Klaussner was appointed Chairperson of the Management Board in October. Before joining GRR, where she is responsible for asset and property management, HR and organisation, she headed national and international property management at Sireo Real Estate.

MICHAEL KRöGER
Head of International Real Estate Finance
Helaba, Frankfurt
With a workforce of 6,000 and total assets of €158bn, Helaba is one of Germany’s leading landesbanks – based in Frankfurt and Erfurt. The bank has a real estate lending portfolio of about €37bn. Hr. Kröger, a lawyer by training, has headed the international real estate finance team since 2011, moving over from heading origination for Northern and Central Europe. Prior to that he held a position at another real estate bank building the HQ-based Nordic Markets team. He later took over key account management.

MICHAEL LAGLER
Real Estate Partner
Schoenherr Lawyers, Vienna
Schoenherr is a leading full service law firm in Central Europe. As one of the first international law firms to move into CEE/SEE, it has grown to be one of the largest in the region. With 12 offices and several country desks, it offers comprehensive coverage and solutions that fit the industry, jurisdiction and company. Mr. Lagler is a partner and focuses mainly on corporate real estate and M&A driven property transactions for Austrian and international clients in Austria and CEE.

TIM ANDREAS LASYS
Managing Director
Catella Property Advisors, Frankfurt
Catella is a European finance group with some 420 employees in 24 cities, active in corporate finance and asset management. Hr. Lasys, who joined the board of Catella Germany in August, has some 30 years' experience in real estate, funds and institutional investment. Previously MD at Commerz Real Special Funds, responsible for institutional investors, he holds a Master in economics from the Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany.

ALLAN LAVéN
First Vice-President
ProLogis Nordics, Stockholm
A global provider of distribution facilities, ProLogis entered Europe in 1997 and now owns and operates over 12m sq.m. across 50 markets. Mr. Lavén, a Market and Logistics economist, joined in 2008 and has responsibility for operations in Scandinavia. He has more than 30 years' experience in the logistics industry. Previously, Mr. Lavén led his own logistics consultancy. In the years before, he held various leading roles with DHL Solutions, Schenker and Faxion-Nedlloyd.

MARKUS LEININGER
Head, Central European Property Lending
Eurohypo, Frankfurt
Eurohypo, part of the Commerzbank group, is the largest commercial real estate and public finance lending bank in Germany and Europe. With total assets of €229bn, it is a premier issuer of Jumbo Pfandbrief. Hr. Leininger joined predecessor bank Rheinhyp in 1995 in the international property lending department. He then set up the central European lending division, and operations in north America. Since July 2002, he has been responsible for lending business in central and eastern Europe.

RIC LEWIS
Chief Executive and Chairman
Tristan Capital Partners, London
Tristan Capital Partners is a boutique investment manager specialising in real estate investment strategies across Europe, with €3bn AUM. The company was formed by Mr. Lewis, who also founded and served as CEO for Curzon Global Partners and as CIO and Director of AEW Europe.

CARSTEN LOLL
Partner, Head of Real Estate Munich
DLA Piper, Munich
DLA Piper has 4,200 lawyers in offices throughout Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and the US. Its real estate group has over 550 lawyers and is the world’s largest RE practice. Dr. Loll advises national and international companies, investors and banks on real estate law, transactions and financing, especially of retail, office and health care properties as well as on commercial lease law and project developments. He is the local ULI chair in Munich, and a member of the International Real Estate Society.

FABRICE LOMBARDO
Co-chair Asset Management
Viveris REIM, Marseille/Paris
Viveris REIM manages French real estate investment funds on behalf of institutional and private investors and was among the first OPCI management companies authorised in 2007. M. Lombardo joined Viveris at its creation as executive director and associate, and is in charge of the asset management team with Henri Rémond. He previously worked as senior fund manager and analyst for Dexia Asset. He is an actuary graduated from the Institut de Sciences Financi?res et d’Assurances and a CFA charter holder.

PETER MADL
Head of Real Estate Practice Group
Schoenherr Lawyers, Vienna
Schoenherr is a leading full service law firm in central Europe. As one of the first international law firms to move into CEE/SEE, it has grown to be one of the largest in the region, with 12 offices and several country desks offering comprehensive coverage. Mr. Madl is a partner and head of the real estate practice group, overseeing property deals in Austria, Bulgaria, Poland and Ukraine. He advises Austrian and international investors and investment funds on transactions, mall and condominium developments and litigation.

SIMON MALLINSON
Director of European Research
Invesco Real Estate, London
Invesco Real Estate is the global property investment management arm of Atlanta-based Invesco Ltd., with €27.2bn of real estate AUM worldwide. Mr. Mallinson was head of US services for IPD based in Chicago before joining Invesco in 2009, where he is responsible for a team of researchers based in the UK, France and Germany. On the fund strategy review committee, he ensures that research views are incorporated into strategy for new and existing mandates. He is a member of RICS, IPF, ICSC, RERI and INREV’s Index & Benchmarking committee.

NASSOS MANGINAS
Director
Investment Property Databank Limited, London
Dr. Nassos Manginas joined the international department of IPD in 1997, and helped to develop the German project into a fully-fledged and integrated databank and portfolio analysis service. In March 2002, Nassos became Managing Director of IPD GmbH (previously DID) in Wiesbaden and in 2005 was promoted to an Associate Director with the regional responsibility for Germany, Switzerland and Austria. His current role at IPD is Director for International Clients and also looking after the IPD services in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).

ANTONIO MARANO
Director of Public Sector and Infrastructures
Unicredit
Antonio Marano was born in Villach (Austria) in 1960. He graduated in Law at Bologna University in 1986. He started his career at AWT- International Trade and Finance Corporation (Creditanstalt Group) responsible for USSR and Italy. In 1990, he joined Creditanstalt Finanziaria (Bank Austria Group) in Milan as Managing Director–Country Manager. In 1996 he was appointed Managing Director-Country Manager of Commerzbank AG in Milan. In 2003, he joined Autostrade S.p.A. as Corporate Development Director. He joined UniCredit Group in 2007 as Deputy General Manager, originally in charge of large corporate clients, was appointed head of Financing and Advisory activities in 2009, presently Director of Public Sector and Infrastructures.

SIMON MARTIN
Partner, Research & Strategy
Tristan Capital Partners, London
Tristan Capital Partners is a boutique investment manager specialising in real estate investment strategies across Europe with €2.5bn AUM. Mr. Martin brings more than 15 years’ experience in global real estate investment management to Tristan. Previously, he was MD of Research & Strategy at Curzon Global Partners/AEW Europe. He visits as the CBRE Professor of Real Estate Finance at the Henley Business School, University of Reading and is an Associate of the renowned economic consultancy Lombard Street Research.

ALDO MAZZOCCO
Managing Director
Beni Stabili, Rome
Beni Stabili, Italy’s largest listed property company, owns €4.3bn and manages €5.9bn AUM (including funds), mainly office in northern and central Italy. Sr. Mazzocco has been CEO since 2001 and is also deputy general manager of French REIT Fonciere des Régions, which bought a majority stake in 2007 in a share swap with owner Leonardo Del Vecchio. Sr. Mazzocco is newly appointed president of Italy's main property association Assoimmobiliare. He is also a board member of EPRA, a member of RICS and the scientific committee of EIRE.

SLAVEN MORAVCEVIC
Partner
Schoenherr, Belgrade
Schoenherr is a leading full service law firm in central Europe with 12 offices and several country desks. Opened in 2002, the Belgrade office has established itself as one of the leading international law firms in Serbia. Mr. Moravcevic is a partner with Moravcevic Vojnovic Zdravkovic in cooperation with Schoenherr, specialising in real estate, corporate, M&A, telecommunications and energy. He primarily advises international clients on all aspects of their investments in Serbia and Montenegro.

SILKE NADOLNI
Partner
Lefevre Pelletier & associés, Paris
LPA comprises more than 100 lawyers including 25 partners, with real estate a core practice, accounting for 33% of global turnover. The French real estate team of 10 partners and over 25 associates is one of the largest and most experienced. Mme Nadolni started her career as a French lawyer admitted to the Paris Bar in 1998. She joined Haarmann Hemmelrath, today Marcuss Partners where she became a partner in 2004 in charge of the real estate department. Mme Nadolni joined LPA as a partner in 2011.

LEE NEIBART
Global Chief Executive Officer
AREA Property Partners, New York
AREA is an international real estate fund manager, targeting attractive risk-adjusted returns through its opportunity and value-added funds and its lending business. It has invested $13bn in more than 570 transactions. Mr. Neibart has been a partner since 1993, previously working for the Robert Martin Company. He serves as a director on various boards relating to AREA's portfolio and on Enterprise Foundation’s and NY University Real Estate Institute’s advisory boards.

TONNY NIELSEN
CEO, Head IM, Nordic Eastern Europe
Aberdeen AM Denmark, Copenhagen
Aberdeen is a global independent asset manager with €162bn in AUM. In property, it manages €25.8bn in funds and separate mandates. Mr. Nielsen is also chairman/board member of several Aberdeen management companies and property funds with investments in Nordic countries. He holds a B.A. in Finance and Accounting from Copenhagen Business School as well as a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark. Previously, he was head of property investments at Magistrenes Pensionskasse.

TIM NORMAN
Chairman
Europa Capital Emerging Europe, London
Europa Capital is a pan-European real estate investment management business, which has invested over €5bn in 17 countries across Europe. Mr. Norman has nearly 20 years’ experience investing in central and eastern European property. He is currently CEO of Emerging Europe Fund, a €164m real estate opportunity fund focused on Romania, Bulgaria, western Balkans, Ukraine and Turkey. He previously worked as senior banker at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Prior experience included Bank of America, Bank of Boston and a private property group.

LARS OHNEMUS
Chief Executive Officer
BPT Asset Management, Copenhagen
BPT is a leading real estate asset manager with more than €800m AUM and offices in Copenhagen, Berlin, Warsaw, Gdansk, Tallinn, Vilnius, Riga and Moscow. Mr. Ohnemus, BPT founder and senior partner, previously worked in senior positions at Philip Morris and as an economist for the IKEA group. He holds a Ph.D. and is a frequent guest lecturer at Copenhagen Business School and the Baltic Management Institute. He has been appointed as advisor on international business strategy to the Lithuanian government.

ANDERS PALMGREN
Head of Corporate Finance
Catella, Stockholm
Catella is a leading advisor on the European real estate market with a 2011 transaction volume of €6.8bn. Mr. Palmgren heads its advisory operations established with 200 professionals in 12 European countries. Formerly co-founder and senior partner of Genesta Property Nordic, he has extensive knowledge of the sector, in recent years notably from restructuring distressed real estate and financing. Catella’s real estate advisory operations are part of the Catella Group, engaged in two segments, Corporate Finance and Asset Management.

THOMAS PERSSON

Catella Corporate Finance

ANNA PRAT
Advisor City of Torino
Finpiemonte SpA
Since 2009 Anna has been an advisor to Finpiemonte SpA, the financial services agency of Piedmont Region based in Turin. She has 15 years of experience in consultancy, dealing with all feasibility aspects of urban programmes, major resort developments, culture and heritage projects, residential developments and European funding projects, both in Italy and the UK. Prior to joining Finpiemonte, she was Principal Associate at Locum Consulting/Colliers CRE, project leader at Ecosfera SpA, economic planner at Ove Arup & Partners and a freelance consultant. She graduated in Architecture at the Politecnico di Torino and holds an MSc from the London School of Economics.

STEPHAN RIND
Chief Executive Officer
Colonia Real Estate, Cologne
CRE is one of Germany’s leading listed real estate investment and asset management groups, with more than €2bn under management. Investment focuses on high-yield residential property for own account, and opportunistic co-investments with partners in commercial real estate and housing. Prior to becoming CEO in 2003, Mr. Rind was CIO of the private Fortman Cline Group in Switzerland from 1997 to 2002. He started his career in 1991 at Prudential Securities in New York and Düsseldorf.

MASSIMILIANO ROSSI
General Manager
ING Real Estate Finance, Milan
ING Real Estate Finance is an international commercial real estate lender and part of Dutch ING Group. Sr. Rossi is the GM of the Italian branch, which he set up in 2005. Since then, his team has arranged 40 financings and built an investment loan portfolio of €2bn. He is also responsible for several international key clients and in charge of the company’s special projects department. He previously worked for Swiss Bank Corporation, Salomon Brothers International and the EBRD.

ALLAN SAUNDERSON
Moderator - Managing Editor
Property Investor Europe, Frankfurt
The mission of Property Investor Europe is to create transparency for US and global investors in mainland Europe real estate, which it does via a team of Editors across the continent, and various distribution channels. Mr. Saunderson was a Reuters financial journalist in the 1980s, Head of European Research for Bank Julius Bär in Frankfurt in the early 1990s, and named as advisor to the French Finance Ministry by Prime Minister Pierre Bérégovoy a year later. He moved into real estate advisory in 2002 and founded PFE in 2005.

JUERGEN SCHLEIMER
Senior Acquisition Manager,
Origination RE Finance Northern/Central Europe, Helaba, Frankfurt
German Landesbank Helaba belongs to the savings bank network with branches in Paris, London and New York. With new business in commercial RE lending exceeding €5bn in 2009, Helaba now manages a loan portfolio of €35bn. A business administration graduate, Hr. Schleimer is responsible for client coverage and relationship management in CEE at Helaba. Before this, he had years of experience in origination and execution of debt financing of portfolio transactions, large single asset investments and syndicated credit facilities.

OLAF SCHMIDT
Head EMEA and Asia Real Estate Practice
DLA Piper, Milan
With 4,200 lawyers in 30 countries and 76 offices throughout Asia, Australia, Europe, Middle East and the US, DLA Piper is one of the largest providers of legal services in the world. Hr. Schmidt is head of the EMEA and Asia Pacific Real Estate Practice, representing international investors, funds and asset managers with a focus on structuring and implementation of property transactions. He previously ran DLA Piper’s Italian Real Estate Practice and was elected Italian Real Estate Lawyer of the Year in 2008.

HOLGER SCHMIDTMAYR
Member of the Board
S Immo, Vienna
S Immo AG is Austria’s first real estate investment company with a current portfolio of 249 properties valued at around €2bn. Hr. Schmidtmayr has board responsibility for acquisition and divestments, corporate communications and investor relations. He holds a Master of Law and an MBA from the University of Vienna and is Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS). His prior positions included trade finance at Erste Bank and structured finance at GiroCredit Bank.

MICHAEL E. SHIELDS
Managing Director
ING Real Estate Finance (USA), New York
ING Real Estate Finance is an international commercial real estate lender and part of Dutch ING Group. Mr. Shields is MD and Group Head of ING REF, responsible for a real estate loan portfolio of over $6bn. Over the last two years he and his team restructured over $2.5bn loans. He joined the company in 2004, moving over from real estate lending group PB Capital, the former BHF Capital, where he was vice president responsible for originations and portfolio management of an $850m loan portfolio.

ERIC SIESSE
Head of Greater Paris West Team
Jones Lang LaSalle, Paris
Jones Lang LaSalle is a financial and professional services firm specialising in real estate, with more than 40,000 employees in 70 countries worldwide. Global revenue came to over $2.9bn last year. M. Siesse joined the Paris Leasing Team in 1995 and has been part of the team dedicated to key account management for six years. Since end-2008, he is the Head of Greater Paris West Team. He opened Jones Lang LaSalle’s La Defense office 18 months ago.

TOBIAS SIMON
Director Fund Management
Invesco Real Estate, London
Invesco Real Estate is the property investment management arm of Atlanta-based Invesco Ltd., with €20.6bn AUM worldwide. Mr. Simon joined IRE in 2001, and is now fund manager of the UK III Fund and co-fund manager of one of IRE’s pan-European pooled funds. Prior to that, he was at HypoVereinsbank. He holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Applied Sciences, Frankfurt.

BJOERN SJOEBERG
Partner
DLA Piper, Stockholm
With 4,200 lawyers in offices throughout Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and the US, DLA Piper is one of the largest providers of legal services in the world. Mr. Sjöberg is a finance partner in DLA Nordic’s Stockholm office in one of Sweden’s largest banking and finance groups. He focuses on real estate, leveraged and acquisition finance, recently working for the senior lender in the Kefren IX restructuring. He holds Swedish and US law degrees from Uppsala University and the New York University School of Law.

JACQUELINE STUART
Founder & Director
Slovenia Invest, Ljubljana
Slovenia Invest is a private realtor working in the Slovene real estate market from a base in the capital. Set up in February 2008, the company provides a full range of real estate services including sales, acquisitions, valuations, rentals, tenant rep and research. Its expertise encompasses hospitality, industrial, office and retail. Ms. Stuart has worked in the real estate industry for over 15 years, in Spain, the UK and Slovenia. She previously headed up a boutique development company in central London.

PHILLIPPE TANNENBAUM
Founder & Managing Director
Financiere Lhomond, Paris
Financiere Lhomond is a new, independent research firm for listed French property, and M. Tannenbaum is also sole advisor to independent investment bank ARKEON Finance in initiating European coverage. He acts as consultant for IEIF, the leading French property research institute. M. Tannenbaum was Head of Research for Eurohypo in London for four years, and for 15 years a financial analyst in pan-European property, regularly ranking among top analysts internationally. A lecturer at University Paris-Dauphine, he holds a Diploma from Sciences Po, Paris, and is the author of two books.

FREDDY THIELEMANS
Mayor of Brussels

Mr. Thielemans was born in 1944 and graduated in Germanic languages and commercial sciences. He previously worked as head of the Mayor’s office, was deputy mayor in charge of cultural affairs and public education, a member of European parliament and president of the European Forum for Urban Safety. He became Mayor of Brussels in 2000, a post he also held from 1994-1995, and was re-elected in 2006. He is member of the regional parliament since 2009 and chair of Brussels Exhibition Hall and Bruxelles-Capitale-Ixelles police forces.

RAPHAEL TREGUIER
Managing Director
Cegereal, Paris
Majority owned by Germany's Commerz Real, a unit of Commerzbank, Cegereal is a French core office REIT/SIIC listed on Euronext NYSE with a portfolio worth some E861m and external leverage up to 50%. In charge of general management, M. Treguier's main mission is to develop and expand the portfolio. He has 12 years' experience in real estate and corporate finance, previously working in the acquisition team at GE Real Estate. He holds a master's degree in management from the Paris Dauphine University.

JOS TROMP
Head of CEE Research & Consulting
CBRE, Munich
With 31,000 employees in 438 offices, CBRE is the world’s leading full-service real estate service company. Since 2008, Mr. Tromp is head of research & consulting for the CEE region and member of the CEE board of directors. He heads over 30 researchers in 14 countries and leads restructuring services in the region. He previously worked as head of research and associate director at Jones Lang LaSalle. He holds a degree in economic geography, specialisation in real estate, from the University of Groningen.

LISETTE VAN DOORN
Country Manager
ING Real Estate Investment Management Italy, Milan
One of the world's leading real estate investment managers, ING REIM manages a portfolio of €71.1bn. Ms. van Doorn rejoined ING REIM Europe in December 2009 and has 11 years’ experience in the industry. She is responsible for ING REIM Italy’s €1.2bn fund and asset management business, managing the ING Retail Property Partnership Southern Europe and ING Real Estate Italian Retail Fund. She previously held the position of CEO of INREV for almost five years and prior to that MD research & strategy at ING REIM Europe.

STEVE VATIDIS
Group Managing Director
Manhattan Software Group, London
Steve Vatidis BSc MSc DIC AMIEE founded Raindrop Information Systems in 1983. Bringing considerable engineering and technical experience from academic study and from hands-on management, Mr. Vatidis provides strategic input to the development of the Manhattan Integrated Property Management System, which is at the leading edge of Intranet/Internet technological development for the property sector. It enables Manhattan clients to significantly improve their efficiency and provides key performance information on to achieve considerable strategic improvements in the utilisation of the portfolio.

RICCARDO VENTURA
Vice President and General Counsel Europe
General Motors
Riccardo Ventura - born in Parma in 1964 - is the Vice President and General Counsel of Opel/Vauxhall. In this position, he has responsibility for all legal affairs of the General Motors group in Europe. Riccardo Ventura joined GM in May 2005 as General Counsel for General Motors Powertrain Europe in Torino, a position he held until he was appointed to his current position in November 2008. In this role he led the legal team advising the engines and transmissions division of the group in Europe. Before joining GM, he worked for 12 years as qualified attorney in Torino with national and international law firms.

MARIO VERDYGUER
Head of Investment Retail
Knight Frank, Madrid
Knight Frank is a leading global property consultancy with over 6,343 professionals handling over $886bn worth of commercial, agricultural and residential property each year from 207 offices in 43 countries. Its clients range from individual owners and buyers to major developers, investors and corporate tenants. Sr. Verdyguer became head of investment retail in 2007, with 16 years' prior experience in finance and real estate departments. He previously worked as head of valuations and corporate finance at Knight Frank Spain.

JEAN-ERIC VIMONT
CEO
Eurosic, Paris
Eurosic is a SIIC affiliated with BPCE, France’s second largest banking group, and owns a portfolio valued at €1.35bn. CEO since 2009, M. Vimont previously worked at Nexity, where he was head of finance & treasury, CFO and head of investment. Prior to this he was senior project manager at European Investment Fund, Luxembourg, and deputy head for European affairs at the French Ministry of Finance. He holds a Master of mathematics and physics from École Polytechnique and a Master of civil engineering from École des Ponts & Chaussées.

ALEXANDER VON CRAMM
Chief Financial Officer
Prime Office REIT, Munich
Recently converted to a REIT, Prime Office has a portfolio of €1bn in high-quality German office property. Hr. von Cramm, after studies in the US, began at Deutsche Bank and moved to Morgan Stanley. He subsequently helped establish Loyalty Partner, the operator of the Payback customer loyalty and reward system. He then worked for an SDAX-listed real estate firm and a listed residential property company as CEO before joining Prime Office in 2007.

INGMAR VON FRANQUE
Managing Director
Drees & Sommer
With over 30 years experience and 1,000 employees worldwide, Drees & Sommer is German market leader in project management and real estate consultancy. Hr. von Franqué, an engineer by profession, is responsible for international property consultancy, and since January has focused on central and eastern Europe and Scandinavia. Other experience includes Spain, France, Benelux, Switzerland, Italy, and Turkey. The group plans further expansion in Sweden, Norway, Portugal and the Baltics.

MICHAEL WALTON
Chief Executive Officer
Rynda Property Investors, London
Rynda Property Investors is an independent real estate investment and asset manager, focusing on active property management and recovery and restructuring. With offices in London, Paris, Frankfurt and Rotterdam, Rynda is 100%-owned by its management team and supported by 42 professionals. It was founded by Mr. Walton in 2005. He previously worked as managing director at Citigroup Property Investors where he was responsible for all investment strategies throughout Europe.

ROBERT WATERLAND
Managing Director
Société de la Tour Eiffel, Paris
With a portfolio of €1bn in 60 assets, French SIIC STE focuses on the ownership and the development of office, business, light industrial and warehouse space spread evenly between Paris and the regions.Together with co-MD Mark Inch he created in 1995 the Awon, private equity group, acquiring in 2004, in partnership with a George Soros opportunity fund, Société de la Tour Eiffel and transforming the company originally founded in 1889 to construct and manage the iconic Paris tower into a quoted property company.

JOHN WELHAM
Head of European Retail Investment
CB Richard Ellis, London
CB Richard Ellis is one of the world’s largest real estate advisory and investment firms. In Europe it has 5,800 employees workng in 133 offices in 41 countries, managing assets of $12.7bn - and has provided valuation and advisory on over 54,200 properties. Mr. Welham heads the Shopping Centre Investment Group within the EMEA region, and focuses on strategic and property- specific advice for cross-border investors. With 11 years’ experience of shopping centre investment and development he has carried out investment or advisory in most European countries. Mr. Welham previously spent six years at Jones Lang LaSalle, responsible for pan-European retail investment and before that worked as portfolio manager for Norwich Union France.

FRANK WERNER
Associate
KCAP Architects&Planners, Rotterdam
KCAP Architects&Planners is an office for architecture, urban design and urban planning, founded by Kees Christiaanse in 1989. Mr. Werner worked for the Dutch Ministry of Housing and Construction on research on flexible office accommodations before joining KCAP in 1996, where he now works as urban planner and associate. He specialises in large-scale urban planning projects and the development of flexible planning instruments and is co-responsible for project and resource planning of current projects.

ROBERT M. WHITE
Founder & President
Real Capital Analytics, New York
Real Capital Analytics is an international research firm that provides real time data on capital markets for commercial real estate and the values of commercial properties. It has about 800 clients, including the industry’s leading brokerage firms, institutional advisors, REITs, developers, foreign investors and banks. Mr. White is founder and president. He previously spent 14 years in the real estate investment banking and brokerage industry and was MD and principle at Granite Partners.

MANFRED WILTSCHNIGG
Executive Board Member
Immofinanz Group, Vienna
Immofinanz Group is one of the five largest listed property companies in Europe. The company’s core business covers the acquisition and active management of investment properties, the realisation of development projects and the sale of objects. Immofinanz concentrates its activities in the retail, office, logistics and residential segments in eight core markets. Joining the board in 2009, Hr. Wiltschnigg has a doctorate in business economics and several other real estate qualifications.

NIGEL YOUNG
Head of Retail
NAI Global, Prague
NAI Global is one of the world's leading providers of commercial real estate services, with a network of 5,000 professionals across 375 offices in 55 countries. Mr. Young has 39 years’ experience in retail property and heads central and eastern Europe and Russia/CIS. Prior posts included Cushman and Wakefield`s offices in the UK, France and Czech Republic, head of expansion for McDonalds Corporation Francophone Europe, and at Générale Continentale Investissements. Since 1995 he has owned and managed NAI Mipa, a consultancy which has advised on over 15 shopping centres, including Nove Smichov, Praugue`s No. 1 retail mall.

MARCO ZALAMENA
Partner
Cushman & Wakefield LLP
Marco Zalamena joined Cushman & Wakefield in 2008 and is based in Milan. He provides a comprehensive range of services in the real estate, including strategic advice and consultancy, transaction services and valuation. He graduated in Economics and Business Administration at Bocconi University in Milan and was Professor of Economics at Turin University from 2000 to 2005. Prior to joining Cushman & Wakefield, he lead the Hospitality team at Arthur Andersen and Deloitte in Italy, participating in a number of engagements and advisory work on major hotel transactions. He also supported the development of major mixed-use projects.

EDUARD ZEHETNER
Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer
Immofinanz, Vienna
Immofinanz Group is a listed Austrian property investor with focus on western Europe and CEE. It currently holds 1,800 properties valued at €9.2bn. Dr. Zehetner worked as CFO of listed RHI, world market leader in refractories, and independent management consultant before joining the company in 2008. He received the award as Austria’s ‘CFO of the Year’ in 2006 and 2010. He studied economics and business at the University in Vienna where he received his Master and PhD in social sciences and economics.