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Speakers 
 Stuart Beevor,
Group Fund Management Director,
Grosvenor
Stuart Beevor is Managing Director of Grosvenor Fund Management and a Director of Grosvenor Group Limited, the international property group, which he joined in 2002. Prior to joining Grosvenor he was Managing Director at Legal and General Property Limited having previously held a number of roles dealing with development, investment, property management and unitised funds at Norwich Union. Mr Beevor is a non executive Director of The UNITE Group Plc and is a Trustee of the Investment Property Forum Educational Trust.
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 Simon Berrill,
Chief Executive,
DTZ Corporate Finance
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 Alessandro Bronda,
Head of European Research,
Aberdeen Property Investors
Alessandro Bronda was recruited in April 2005 by Aberdeen Property Investors as Head of European Research and is based in Brussels. He is responsible for various European research activities including forecasting property returns across various sectors and city regions. Prior to joining Aberdeen, Alessandro was Head of European Research for the Catella Property Group. Before joining Catella he worked for Security Capital, a major American REIT, where he assisted in the investment decision-making process through research. Prior to taking up the position with Security Capital in 1998 he worked for Eurostat in Luxembourg and for the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich. Alessandro holds a Masters Degree in Economics from the University of Munich and speaks four languages fluently.
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 Robert Ciemniak,
Head of Property Markets,
Reuters
Robert is Global Head of Property Markets at Reuters and is based in London. In 2006, Robert started www.reutersrealestate.com – a new initiative at Reuters to create a global information hub for real estate investment community. Robert joined Reuters in 1998 and worked in variety of roles including four years as Head of Corporate Foresight in Reuters Group Strategy. He holds a dual MBA degree from Columbia Business School in New York and London Business School. Robert is also an international master in chess.
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 Geoffrey Cox,
Astera Group
After a career of more than thirty years as an officer in the British Army, Geoffrey retired in Paris in 1983 where he became a lecturer at the Institute for the Study of Political Science (SciencePo) and the editor of the English edition of Defence and Armament International.
In January 1993 he moved to Moscow and soon became involved in the newly emerging property market there, joining Weatherall International. In 2001 when Weatherall became part of Atis Real, he co-founded Astera, a full service real estate company with offices in Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Kiev. An ONCOR International partner, Astera specialises in retail property and is leasing agent for many shopping centres throughout the Russian Federation. Recently Astera has teamed with NorthStar Corporate Finance, an associate company of HSH Nordbank Hamburg, and is now also involved with the development of industrial warehousing and more general investment in property in Russia and the Ukraine.
A founding member of the Association of European Businesses in the Russian Federation, Geoffrey has recently been appointed Chairman of its Honorary Council of International Advisors after serving on the executive board for 11 years, where he was the Deputy Chairman for the last seven years.
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 Marc de Chassey,
Vice President, Acquisitions and Management,
JER Partners
Marc joined JER in 1999 and is involved in acquisition and asset management activities. Marc’s main areas of focus are the UK, France and Italy. Prior to joining JER’s London office in 2000, he was involved in acquisitions and asset management in the United States.
Marc received a Master in International Affairs from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and a Master in Foreign Service with a major in Business and Finance from Georgetown University. Marc is a French national and also speaks English, German and Portuguese.
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 Rupert Dickinson,
Chief Executive,
Grainger Trust
Rupert Dickinson joined Grainger Trust in 1992 from Richard Ellis (now CBRE) where he had worked for 5 years in commercial development. Rupert was appointed a Director of Grainger in 1994 and following a short secondment to BPT Ltd in 2001 he was appointed Chief Executive in October 2002, based in the London office.
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 Laure Duhot,
Senior Vice President for International Capital Markets,
Sunrise Senior Living
Laure joined Sunrise in September 2005 to head-up expansion in new markets and strengthen and diversify the firm’s relationships with major institutional investors.
Prior to joining Sunrise, Laure was founding partner and principal for Macquarie Capital Partners, an investment banking firm raising capital for real estate firms world-wide. Laure has also worked for Lehman Brothers, the European Investment Bank and the International Finance Corporation, spending 17 years of her career in banking and venture capital, in the US, Latin America, and several European countries. Laure speaks five languages and is a graduate from CESA (University of Tours), IEP-Paris and SAIS-Johns Hopkins (Washington DC).
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Levent Eyüboglu,
Managing Director,
MDC Turkmall
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 Mr Jakes Ferguson,
Investment Manager Property, property,
Sarasin Investment Management
Jakes Ferguson has worked in commercial property in UK, USA, Europe and Far East for over 25 years. A chartered surveyor with an MBA in Real Estate, he worked for Jones Lang Wootton in London and Hong Kong becoming a director, before joining Arlington becoming development director responsible for a 30 million sq ft development programme in UK and Europe. Increasingly involved advising Arlington's parent, British Aerospace divesting its UK property portfolio he moved into corporate real estate for 10 years advising companies like Aviva, Norwich Union, Bookham Technology, Fuji Electronics and Mitel resolve property issues across the UK; before joining Sarasin Investment Management, part of private Swiss Bank Sarasin, to manage the UK's first global REIT fund. Today he is responsible for managing over £200m in three global REIT funds.
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Richard Gale,
Director, Fund Management,
Arlington Property Investors
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William Gloyn,
Chairman, European RE Practice Group,
Aon Limited
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 Bill Hancock,
Director,
JER Partners
Bill joined JER in 2004. He is responsible for acquisitions in France, Southern Europe, Benelux, the Nordic countries (ex-Sweden) and Switzerland. Bill is a member of the European Investment Committee.
Before joining JER, Bill was a Director in the Real Estate Investment Banking team at Credit Suisse First Boston with primary responsibility for Continental Europe. He was involved in corporate finance and capital raising activities for CSFB’s clients in most of the major European markets.
Bill worked with the Credit Suisse Group in Switzerland, Italy and the UK for 11 years, prior to which he worked for the State Bank of South Australia Group as a distressed debt specialist.
Bill has a Bachelor of Economics from Adelaide and an MBA from Bocconi Universtiy (Milan). He is an Australian national and is fluent in Italian.
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 Thomas Hoeller,
Executive Board Member,
Pramerica Real Estate Investors (Europe) AG
Mr. Hoeller joined TMW Immobilien AG (now Pramerica Real Estate Investors (Deutschland)
GmbH) in 1993 as a Director for private individual investments and was instrumental in developing
the company’s public syndication activities. In 1998, he became a member of the Executive Board
and together with Dr. Trescher spearheaded the expansion into the European markets. Mr. Hoeller
spent 11 years until 1991 as president of Metro International, Inc. in New York and Toronto mainly
acquiring net-leased properties for syndication to German individuals. Mr. Hoeller returned to
Europe in 1991 to head up the international division of Bourdais, Paris, the largest real estate
broker in France before joining Pramerica.
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Alexander Hoff,
Managing Director,
Halverton Real Estate Investment Management
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 Joseph Houlihan,
Portfolio Manager,
Houlihan Rovers SA
Joseph Houlihan is the CEO Europe of Cohen & Steers. Mr. Houlihan is responsible for European activities and client relationships. He was Managing Director at Security Capital Europe before founding Houlihan Rovers in 2000 (subsequently acquired by Cohen & Steers) and provided European real estate securities management services to institutional investors and a mutual fund. Prior to joining Security Capital Group in 1997, Mr. Houlihan spent 18 years at GIM, a Dutch investment management company as Director where he developed the internal real estate securities investment process for both listed and non-listed real estate investments globally. He was awarded his M.B.A. at Leuven University, Belgium, and received his B.S. from New York University. Mr. Houlihan is based in Brussels, Belgium.
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 Peter Howard Sceats,
Director,
Tradition Financial Services
Peter Sceats is Director of Business Development at TFS, a major global OTC intermediary. In his career he has focused on founding new businesses and marketplaces. He is probably best known as the person responsible for starting the coal derivative market. To this day the Atlantic Basin coal industry uses the TFS API indices he launched as its basis and the derivative market he started is now five times the size of the underlying physical market on which it is based. In 2006 Peter took on the role of building TFS’s UK & European property business and is responsible for carving out TFS’s leadership role in the property derivative markets.
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 Mr Andrew Jackson,
Investment Director,
Standard Life Investments
Andrew is responsible for the management of Standard Life Investments’ Segregated Property Funds and its Property Research team. The 6 property funds each have dedicated fund managers and have combined assets under management in excess of £1 billion. The highly regarded Research team’s activities include forecasting UK & Eurozone property markets, portfolio analysis, market research and analysis, performance measurement, and monitoring of indirect property vehicles, including property derivatives. In addition, Andrew is instrumental in the development and implementation of new commercial property funds for Standard Life Investments and its clients.
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 James Jacobs,
Associate Director,
DTZ Corporate Finance
James is an associate director for DTZ Corporate Finance working within the Indirect team, advising clients on all aspects of real estate fund;, including capital raising, sales of secondary units, ‘white label’ fund structuring, Islamic finance and investment fund selection. Prior to joining DTZ, James worked at Goldman Sachs within their Investment Banking Division working on merger and acquisition assignments and the raising of both debt and equity capital.
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 Franz Jurkowitsch,
CEO,
Warimpex Finanz Und Beteiligungs AG
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 Robert Kingsmill,
Vice President,
JER Partners
Robert joined JER in December 2005, initially on secondment as legal counsel and joined the permanent staff as Vice President in July 2006. Initially Robert was involved as legal counsel and played a major role in structuring and closing JER Europe Fund III in March 2006 and Marbleton Property Fund in June 2006. Robert has also provided transaction advice on acquisitions made on behalf of JER’s European fund in the UK, France, Italy and Finland. Robert is now a member of the acquisitions team with a primary focus on the structuring and execution of transactions for the Marbleton Property Fund.
Prior to joining JER, Robert worked for over seven years in the UK as a senior real estate lawyer at Clifford Chance LLP and Allen & Overy LLP, acting for UK listed property companies, leading financial institutions and private equity houses in property development, structured real estate transactions and sale and leaseback transactions. Prior to that, Robert also practised law and worked as an accountant in Australia.
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Wolfgang Kubatzki,
Partner,
Feri Rating & Research
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 Mr Lloyd Lee,
Former Partner, Acquisitions,
Starwood Capital Europe
Lloyd was formerly a partner at Starwood Capital and ran Starwood's office in London for four years since he opened it in 2003. During that period of time, Lloyd was involved in the development and execution of Starwood's overall European investment strategy, and worked on over US $4 billion of transactions in Europe, including a number of complex European corporate pursuits which include Meridien Hotels, Taittinger and Societe du Louvre. This also includes $700 million of hotel, office, retail and industrial transactions that he has led throughout France, Germany and the UK. He also sat on the Management Board of Starwood's UK, French and German joint venture partnerships.
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 Mr Jon Lekander,
Head of Investment Strategy,
Aberdeen Property Investors
Jon joined the group in January 1998, with a responsibility to develop quantitative methods for the real estate market. In this function, Jon has had responsibility for the strategic analysis in several direct assignment, as well as the responsibility of implementing a consistent investment process for real estate portfolio management, including asset return forecasting, market return forecasting and portfolio analysis. Jon is also responsible for setting up the international investment strategies for a number of clients. Having published a paper on the role of real estate in a multi asset portfolio context in the Journal of Alternative Investment, Jon also has an expertise in the strategic role of real estate. Jon has a Master of Science in Economics and a Bachelors Degree in Finance from the University of Stockholm, which included course work at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster, Germany.
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Hamish McKenzie,
Director Infrastructure Team,
RREEF Infrastructure
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Mark Meiklejon,
Investment Director,
Standard Life Investments
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 Giles Membrey,
Bergerac Estates
Worked with Colliers Erdman Lewis as Head of Out of Town Retail Development. Completed an MBA in 1995. He set up Rioja Developments in 1999 specifically to work closely with key retailers in the retail development market. Giles has had considerable involvement in the Outlet industry, firstly in acquiring sites in the early 90's for Richardson Tarmac and more recently through his development company, Bergerac Estates, developing the Budapest Outlet Centre and schemes in France, Italy and Portugal.
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 Ms. Gintare Mikucionyte,
Deputy Director,
ŽIA valda real estate, JSC
Gintare Mikucionyte is a deputy director of one of the largest real estate agencies in Lithuania - ZIA valda real estate, which is a part of ZIA VALDA group that is ranked as the second of 100 most rapidly developing companies in Lithuania.
Gintare Mikucionyte's primary responsibility is the development the real estate agency and its subsidiary companies in Lithuania, other Baltic states, Balkan countries, Kazakstan.
Ms. Mikucionyte holds the master’s degree in Business management and administration (Vilnius University), which included a semester of International business studies at Aalborg University, Denmark.
She has been working in real estate business since 2002 and is a board member of Lithuanian Real Estate Agencies Association.
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 Rory Morrison,
Fund Manager,
INVESCO Real Estate
Rory joined INVESCO Real Estate in 2000 and has over 12 years’ experience of working
with different types of properties in the British, French and Irish markets, as well
as working with and reporting to large institutional clients, trustees and listed Companies.
Before joining INVESCO, Rory worked as an Asset Manager for Trillium and as a Fund Manager for CB Hillier Parker. Rory has a BSc from Reading University and is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
Rory is a senior vice president of Pan-European Funds Management, and is the lead fund manager for two listed Investment Companies - INVESCO UK Property Income Trust and Real Estate Opportunities.
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 Mr Alex Moss,
Chairman,
AME Capital
Alex Moss gained an MA in the Economics of Finance and Investment from Exeter University in 1981, and has spent 25 years in investment banking, specialising in the property sector.
He was one of the Extel rated property research team at BZW (later CSFB) before moving to the Equity Capital Markets department where he was responsible for fund raising and corporate advisory services to quoted property companies, and finally Head of Property in the Investment Banking Division. He moved to Apax Partners &Co Capital in 1998, to specialise in private equity transactions in the property sector, before forming AME Capital in May 2002.
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Mark O'Hare,
Managing Director,
Private Equity Intelligence Ltd
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 Robert Oosterkamp,
REIT Portfolio Manager,
AEW Capital Management
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 Mr Kiran Patel,
Global Head of Research & Strategy,
AXA Real Estate Investment Managers
Kiran Patel has over 17 years property research experience. He is currently Global Head of Research & Strategy having joined AXA Real Estate Investment Managers (“AXA REIM”) in 2000. His responsibilities include the creation and influencing of real estate investment strategies through the provision of detailed analytical analysis of markets and portfolios. He is also responsible for the innovation and development of indirect real estate investment vehicles. Kiran advises a multitude of clients from first-time investors looking to access global real estate through to the more sophisticated experienced players.
Kiran has held previous posts with Legal & General and with Hillier Parker, having graduated from Brighton University in 1988 with honours in “Mathematics for Decision Making”.
AXA REIM is an integrated pan-European investment management company with over EUR 30 billion of asset under management. Over the last 3 years, it has executed more than EUR 12 billion of real estate transactions through its local infrastructure in 10 European territories. As such, AXA REIM is one of Europe’s largest and most diversified investment management businesses.
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 Liz Peace,
Chief Executive,
British Property Federation
Liz Peace has become a well known figure in the property industry in a little of over two years, since her appointment at the British Property Federation. With a remit to raise the profile of the industry in the eyes of Government she has set about that task tenaciously. She has used her experiences as a former civil servant and communications specialist to drive forward a number of key property industry campaigns, for example on REITs, which exemplifies her approach to lobbying – that the way to a Government’s heart is to say what you can do for it rather than what it can do for you.
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 Jonathan Price,
Business Centre Capital Co. Ltd
Jonathan Price is Managing Director of Business Centre Capital Co (B3C), the world’s leading specialist investment house in the field of business centres and serviced offices.
Jonathan has been an investment banker since 1982 and has a wide experience of various types of financial work including privatisation, project finance, corporate finance and real estate finance. His involvement in the service office industry dates from 1999. He is President of the UK chapter of FIABCI, The International Real Estate Federation.
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Simon Redman,
Head of Business Development,
INVESCO Real Estate
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 Mr Iain Reid,
Chief Executive,
Protego Real Estate Investors
Iain is Chairman of the Property Derivatives Interest Group and CEO and CIO of Protego Real Estate Investors. Protego was founded in May 2004 and specialises in the creation and management of funds, direct and indirect property portfolios and synthetic instruments for all investor types. Iain is Chairman of the Investment Property Forum’s Property Investment Performance Committee and represents the IPF on the All Asset Class UK Investment Performance Committee.
In 2005, Protego won two Property Week awards – “Up and Coming Property Company of the Year” and “Innovation of the Year”, for its work in property derivatives.
During the 1990s, Iain devised the first exchange-traded property derivative in the UK, known as Property Index Certificates (PICs). Several issues have since taken place in collaboration with BZW / Barclays Capital with whom he also created and ran a market for two years in Property Index Forwards, an O.T.C. derivative.
In conjunction with Barclays Capital, Iain Reid and his team have executed in excess of £1 billion of property derivative transactions since the formation of Protego. Iain and his team continue to work with Barclays capital in arranging additional property derivative transactions, primarily in the form of Property Index Certificates
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 Paul Richards,
National Director Indirect Investment,
LaSalle IM
Paul Richards joined LaSalle Investment Management from Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) on the 1 October 2006. He is responsible for UK/Continental European indirect investment strategies, UK fund selection, and global “hybrid” investment portfolios. He is a member of the European Research & Strategy Team based in London. His areas of expertise include indirect investment property vehicles and all forms of financial structuring for investment in real estate.
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Marco Rosenbaum,
Principal,
Bank of America
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 Mr Matthew Ryall,
Director, Real Estate,
Blackrock
Matthew Ryall, Director and portfolio manager, is a member of the Real Estate team. He is responsible for European Strategy and is the Fund Manager of the European Property Fund of Funds.
Mr. Ryall joined BlackRock following the merger with Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM) in 2006. At MLIM, he was the fund manager of the European Property Fund of Funds. Prior to joining MLIM in 2006, he was a Director of European Research and Strategy at LaSalle Investment Management, where he worked for 9 years. Prior to this he had been the Chief Economist of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
Mr. Ryall earned a Post Graduate Diploma in econometrics from Birkbeck College, University of London in 1997, he studied for his BSc in economics at the University of Southampton and the University of Milan in 1991, and his MA in the Economics of the European Community from the University of Exeter and University of Messina in 1992. Mr Ryall is also a holder of the IIMR and an Associate of the UK Society of Investment Professionals.
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 Allan Saunderson,
Managing Editor,
Property Finance Europe
Allan Saunderson is founder and Managing Editor of Property Finance Europe, a twice-monthly specialist report on mainland Europe investment real estate finance launched in April 2005. A Reuters financial journalist in London, Frankfurt and Paris during the 1980s, he was appointed by the late French Prime Minister Pierre Bérégovoy as adviser to the French finance ministry in 1991. Allan moved to Bank Julius Bär (Frankfurt) in the early 1990s as head of European research before founding an economic and monetary asset management consultancy, Eurozone Advisors, and becoming a well-known Bundesbank and then European Central Bank ‘watcher’. He moved into real estate finance in 2002 with easetec, a Frankfurt-based consultancy.
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 Otis Spencer,
Sr. Vice President, Portfolio Management,
Heitman
Otis Spencer is the Director of Portfolio Management for Heitman’s European Private Equity group and Portfolio Manager for Heitman European Property Partners III (HEPP III), the firm’s third in a series of European value-added real estate funds. Prior to joining Heitman, Mr. Spencer worked for ABP Investments in the Netherlands, where he was a Senior Portfolio Manager, responsible for sourcing, structuring and managing non-listed real estate investments on behalf of ABP’s European and Asia Pacific Strategic Funds. Previous to ABP, Mr. Spencer was the Managing Director of Five Mounts Properties Europe, a real estate private equity firm targeting opportunistic returns. He has also worked for ING Real Estate Asset Management in the Netherlands and The RREEF Funds in the United States.
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Skarphéðinn Berg Steinarsson,
Managing Director,
Baugur Group
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INREV
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 Lisette van Doorn,
Chief Executive,
INREV
Lisette van Doorn has been Chief Executive of INREV, the European Association for Investors in Non-listed Real Estate Vehicles, since 1 July 2005. INREV acts for investors and other participants in the growing European market for non-listed real estate vehicles. It provides an exclusive platform for its members to address common issues related to non-listed real estate vehicles. INREV is based in Amsterdam.
Prior to joining INREV, Lisette was responsible for all research and strategy activities of the ING Real Estate European Investment Management Organisation, based in The Hague. Her responsibilities covered corporate strategy, acquisitions & disposals and portfolio analysis for existing real estate funds, feasibility studies and investment strategies for new fund products, institutional investor advice on real estate investment issues, and presentations and publications. She joined ING REIM in 2000.
Previously, Lisette worked for ING Investment Management in as an assistant controller and account manager in the mutual funds team.
Lisette received a doctoral degree in Business Economics from the University of Maastricht in 1996 and a post-graduate Financial Analyst degree.
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 John Verpeleti,
Head of Central Europe,
AXA REIM Central Europe
John Verpeleti is one of the region's longest-serving property practitioners having arrived in Budapest in 1991 following a 13 year career in property in his native Australia. He has been Head of Central Europe for AXA REIM since November 2005, with responsibility for the Group's activities in the region. Prior to this appointment, John was Managing Director of DTZ Central and Eastern Europe for 9 years. He is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a Fellow of the Australian Property Institute.
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 Jan Wejdmark,
Managing Director,
Newsec Investment AB
Jan has 30 years of experience in the Nordic and European real estate markets as strategic advisor to owners and investors.
In the 1980s - Partner and Market Director of Ljungqvist, the biggest real estate consulting firm in Sweden at the time.
In 1994 - JW started Newsec and for 9 years was Head of the research and valuation team.
Since 2003 - JW is Managing Director of Newsec Investment, the leading sales advisor in the Nordic countries for real estate.
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 Nick Westbrook,
Chief Surveyor,
REAG
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 Ralph Winter,
CEO,
CORESTATE CAPITAL AG
Ralph Winter, aged 43, founded CORESTATE CAPITAL AG in 2006 and initiated the privately placed property fund CORESTATE German Residential Ltd. which is going to invest in German residential real estate assets worth approximately 2,5 billion EUR in total. Beforehand, he was Managing Director of Cerberus Deutschland Beteiligungsberatung GmbH in Frankfurt, Germany, responsible for real estate investments worth 5 billion EUR. Ralph Winter has been involved in the German real estate market since 1985 when he founded and managed KVV GmbH a real estate corporation investing in German properties. In addition, he was the Managing Partner of SAB GmbH for five years, responsible for the selection of real estate investments and the raising of equity capital for investments worth €600 million. Mr Winter is chairman of the Asset Manager.
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