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Thomas McDonald
Chief Strategy Officer
Equity International (USA)
Hector Sosa
Principal
O’ Connor Capital Partners (Mexico)
Eduardo Machado
Managing Director
The Carlyle Group (Brazil)
Francisco Covarrubias
Director of Investment, Mexico & Latin America
Kimco Realty Corporation (Mexico)
Roberto Ordorica
Managing Director & CEO
PREI Latin America (USA)
Mario Alvarado
CEO
Graña y Montero (Peru)
Alejandro Elsztain
Executive Director
IRSA (Argentina)
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Meet our speakers
Portfolio Manager,
Vision Brazil
Rodrigo’s experience has included 11 years at CB Richard Ellis as Director of the Commercial Department where he was responsible for real estate development, leasing and management. At CB Richard Ellis he managed a team of 25 brokers and executed over 100 real estate transactions (approximately U.S.$ 1 billion and 500,000 m2) for clients such as Cyrela, Tishman Speyer, Hines, IBM, Itausa and Birmann. Rodrigo is responsible for transaction sourcing, property acquisition, and portfolio management. He holds an MBA in Real Estate - Reading University and MRICS (Membership of Royal International Chartered Surveyor).
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Director, International Hotel Development,
Marriott International
Mr. Acevedo is currently a Director of the Caribbean and Latin America Region of International Lodging Development of Marriott International. Prior to being named Director, Mr. Acevedo was Manager in the Development Finance Department, Global Finance of Marriott International. He was also an associate at Crown Capital Latin America, a Private Equity Investment Fund based in New York. Previously he was a Project Leader at Promotora Cancun sunset Clubs in Mexico. Prior to this he worked as a consultant with GTT Proyectos in their Mexico City office. Mr. Acevedo holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and an MBA from Georgetown University in Washington D.C.
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Director, Real Estate Finance & Securitizations Group,
Credit Suisse
Adrian is the head for the Real Estate Finance and Securitizations Group for Latin America. Based in Mexico City, his primary responsibility is client coverage for the region. In addition he works closely with the Investment Banking group to assist in the equity capital markets, debt capital markets and M&A advisory deals for clients involved in the Commercial Real Estate sector.
Before to joining Credit Suisse, Adrian worked with GE Real Estate Mexico as a Senior Director, responsible for originating debt deals in the Hotel, Office, Industrial and Retail sectors. Adrian’s experience in the Financial Sector dates back to 1989.
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Founder & Managing Partner,
Terrasur
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Mario Alvarado Pflucker is a Civil Engineer with Bachelor´s degree from the Ricardo Palma University, Peru and a Master’s degree in Engineering Administration, specializing in Construction Management from George Washington University, USA. In 1980 he began working in GyM, the construction company of Graña and Montero Corporation, as a Resident Engineer. During 10 years, he managed the Real State Area of Graña y Montero. Since 1997, he is the Chief Executive Officer of Graña and Montero Corporation. Currently, he is Director of Graña and Montero S.A.A. and its Subsidiaries GyM S.A., GMP S.A., GMD S.A., GMI S.A., Norvial S.A., Concar S.A., Survial S.A., and Fashion Center S.A. He is also Director of America Leasing S.A. He has been also Director of CAPECO Camara Peruana de Construcción and of the Club Empresarial. He also was a professor in the Master in Construction and Real Estate Business Management of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
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Principal & CIO,
PREI - Latin America
Francisco Andragnes is Chief Investment Officer for PREI-Latin America. PREI-Latin America is a business unit of Prudential Real Estate Investors (PREI®), the real estate investment and advisory business of Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE:PRU), based in Newark, NJ., USA.
Mr. Andragnes is responsible for establishing all new joint ventures and identifying and closing on all acquisitions of PREI-Latin America. In his capacity he was responsible of structuring and negotiating a joint venture with Corporacion GEO S.A. de C.V. to acquire and develop housing throughout Mexico; negotiating joint ventures with Grupo O’Donnell de Mexico, Brasa Desarollos S.A. de C.V., Bermudez Internacional S.A. de C.V., and Amistad Global Development, S.A. de C.V. to develop industrial properties throughout Mexico. Over the balance of his seven-year career with Prudential, Mr. Andragnes has held a variety of other positions in finance and transactions. Mr. Andragnes is a member of PREI’s Latin America’s Investment and Management Committees.
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Director General, Fidelity National Title Mexico,
Fidelity National Financial
Juan Pablo is the Director General for Fidelity National Title de Mexico. Prior to joining Fidelity, he was the Executive Director of Stewart Title Guaranty de Mexico for 6 years, starting its Mexican branch in 2001. He has been credited with helping to bring title insurance into the commercial mainstream in Mexico during his tenure in the real estate industry over the last 10 years. Juan Pablo has participated in the due diligence and assurance of more than $5 billion dollars across Mexico with a deep knowledge and understanding of every market sector (resort & residential, industrial, commercial and office). His clients include Fortune 500 companies and many of the worlds largest lenders, developers and law firms.
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CFO,
PREI - Latin America
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Executive Director,
Itacare Capital Partners
Ms. M. Edith Bertoletti is the Executive Director of Itacare Capital Partners, a private equity group that manages Itacare Capital Investments, the first listed real estate private equity fund focused on Brazil. Itacare Capital Investments is listed in the London Stock Exchange and focus on high-end residential real estate projects in the Brazilian coast.
Ms. Bertoletti holds an LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School (1999), an International Tax Certificate from Harvard University (1999), and an LL.M. in Business Law from PUC – RJ (1996). Ms. Bertoletti received a J.D. degree summa cum laude from Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (1995), where she was elected to deliver the commencement speech.
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Carlos J. Betancourt is the Chief Executive Officer of Bracor Investimentos Imobiliarios, a leading Brazilian real estate investment company focused on the commercial property sector. Prior to co-founding Bracor with Equity International, Mr. Betancourt was a managing partner at Banco Patria, where he created and managed its real estate division. Mr. Betancourt has more than 20 years of experience in the Brazilian real estate market and has played a key role in some of the country’s most significant transactions. Mr. Betancourt received a B.B.A. from Fundação Getúlio Vargas in São Paulo and an M.B.A. from Pace University, New York.
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CEO,
Cortez Development Group
Matthew Bishop has been working in México in real estate for the last three years in a capacity of developing the largest master planned community in Baja California Sur, launching Prudential’s real estate operations in México, and creating a mortgage industry for US buyers in Mexico.
Mr. Bishop is an investor in and held the position of CFO/COO in US México Realty, S. de R.L. de C.V., a Mexico limited liability corporation.
The entity has the rights from Prudential Real Estate Affiliates to open Prudential Real Estate offices throughout the Baja peninsula and the West Coast of México. The company’s operations include Cabo San Lucas, La Paz, Puerto Vallarta, and Isla Navidad. Additionally, Mr. Bishop is involved in the development of 4,300 acres of land in La Paz, Mexico. The property is completely entitled and he is actively engaged in establishing a development relationship with hotel and golf course operating companies.
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With 13 years of experience in Latin America, Mr. Bruneau has responsibility for sourcing, underwriting, negotiating and closing investments for the JER LAM Fund. Mr. Bruneau joined JER Partners in 2006 from East-West Financial Services, Ltd., a financial advisory boutique that arranges financing for hospitality and real estate projects in Latin America. Prior to joining East-West, Mr. Bruneau was an attorney at Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker LLP and previously at Wilmer Cutler & Pickering LLP. In both firms, he was a member of the Latin American Practice Group and provided legal advice to private equity investments, mezzanine investments, lenders and foreign investors in the region. Mr. Bruneau holds a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center, an M.A. in International Economics and International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a B.A. in Comparative Government from Georgetown University. Mr. Bruneau lived in Brazil for six years. He is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.
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Managing Director, Real Estate Group,
Credit Suisse
Wenceslao Bunge is a Managing Director and Head of the Real Estate Group, in the Investment Banking division, based in London. He has responsibility for the group’s activities in Europe as well as Emerging Markets including CEE, Russia and Latin America.
Mr. Bunge joined Credit Suisse in 1994 where he worked in the Latin American group. In 1995 he moved to Brazil to open Credit Suisse Investment Banking office and in 2000 he moved to London where he worked in the M&A group. In 2002 he joined the Real Estate group. Prior to joining Credit Suisse Mr. Bunge worked at Bunge & Born Group for 5 years where he was part of the team that restructured the Group.
Mr. Bunge, holds a degree in business and economics from the University of Buenos Aires.
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Chief Investment Officer of the Global Real Estate Multi-Manager Group,
Aviva Capital Management
Edward M. Casal is Co-Managing Partner of Madison Harbor Capital, LLC and is
President and Chief Executive Officer of Madison Harbor Balanced Strategies, Inc. a
1940 Act-Registered Real Estate multi-manager fund.
Mr. Casal has over 26 years of experience in real estate capital markets and international
corporate finance. Mr. Casal co-founded Madison Harbor and has advised public and
private real estate clients and their boards with regard to transactions with an aggregate
value in excess of $20 billion. Mr. Casal has originated and transacted both entity-level
and real estate property-level transactions including equity and debt financings,
secondary real estate transfers, acquisitions, dispositions and mergers, review of
corporate strategic alternatives, unsolicited tender offers, spin-offs, split-offs,
restructurings, valuations, lease negotiations and fairness opinions.
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SVP,
Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels
Christian Charre is Senior Vice President of Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels in Miami. His primary responsibilities include maintaining active contacts with investors throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe and the Caribbean and marketing hotel properties on behalf of owners throughout the region. As a hotel specialist, Mr. Charre has sold and been involved with the operations of numerous hotels and resorts worldwide.
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Head of the Real Estate Practice Group,
Ritch Mueller
Rodrigo Conesa actively participates in transactions involving real estate financings and acquisitions working for lenders and developers. Rodrigo also advises real estate investment trusts in respect of their investments in Mexico (including, property acquisition, financing, development and management of the assets). Some of Rodrigo's clients in the real estate practice include Deutsche Bank, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, JPMorgan, GE Real Estate, Kimco Realty Corporation, ProLogis, GIC Real Estate and Ridge Property Trust. He has been actively involved in forums with authorities and regulators related to the drafting of the real estate investment trust legislative reforms in Mexico. He has been recognized as leading practitioner by various international publications such as Latin Lawyer, Euromoney and Chambers.
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Director - Investment Promotion, Ministry of Tourism,
Brazil
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Director of Investments, Mexico & Latin America,
Kimco Realty Corporation
Francisco Covarrubias is Director of Investments for Kimco Realty Corporation, being responsible for business development and origination of new investment opportunities in Mexico and Latin America. Prior to joining Kimco in 2006, Mr. Covarrubias spent three years working at Dell, Inc., where he held several business development and financial and strategic planning positions. Also, he worked during 7 years at the law offices of Ritch, Heather & Mueller, S.C. in Mexico City, where he specialized in M&A, private equity and real estate law. Mr. Covarrubias holds a Juris Doctor degree from the Universidad Iberoamericana, has conducted graduate studies in Finance and Accounting at the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, and holds an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. He is a member of the ICSC Committee for Mexico and Central America.
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SVP, Business Development,
Stewart Title
Mitch Creekmore is a licensed Texas real estate broker with over twenty (20) years of commercial and residential real estate experience. He joined Stewart Title Guaranty Company in 1994 and has been responsible for the development of the company’s marketing strategy with implementation of the business plan for Stewart Mexico. Mitch’s primary effort has been to enlighten the legal and real estate community on both sides of the border about the availability and benefit of title insurance on Mexico land, how the land conveyance system in Mexico functions, coupled with other Mexico legal and business aspects. As part of his marketing program, Mitch gained approval from the State Bar of Texas and the Texas Real Estate Commission, as well as the Arizona Department of Real Estate and the California DRE, to provide a mandatory continuing education course for attorneys and real estate agents entitled “Acquiring Property South of the Border”.
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Director of Research,
Real Capital Analytics
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Managing Partner,
Explorador Capital Management
Andrew Cummins is founder and Managing Partner for Explorador Capital.
Prior to starting Explorador, he worked at Emerging Markets Investment Corp., in Washington , DC . Andrew also previously worked in the acquisitions group of JMB Realty Corporation in Chicago , where his transaction experience included corporate and real estate acquisitions and financings.
Andrew sits on the board of directors of PazCorp, a publicly traded, low-income homebuilder, based in Chile . He is also on the board of Farmacias Remedios, a chain of pharmacy stores in the US focused on serving the needs of Hispanic immigrants. He sits on the investment committee of Paladin Latin America Realty Partners.
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CEO,
Itacare Capital Partners
Pedro was a director at Dolphin Capital Partners Limited, the investment manager of Dolphin Capital Investors Limited, a real estate private equity fund with over $500 million under management and quoted on AIM, and the strategic adviser to a private commercial real estate fund with over $60 million focused on Eastern Europe.
Mr. Miranda holds a B.S. degree in Computer Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Miami and an MBA in Finance from the Sloan School at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Managing Director,
Standard & Poor's, Latin America/Emerging Markets Structured Finance
Juan P. De Mollein is Managing Director and Head of the Latin American/Emerging
Markets Group of the Structured Finance Department at Standard & Poor’s. Juan is
based in New York and supervises a team of credit and financial analysts based in
New York, Mexico City, Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo. He is the regional responsible
for analytical management for Latin American markets. Juan is a product specialist for
housing finance, asset-backed securities and securitizations, and in addition, he
manages client’s relationship in the EEMEA region (Eastern Europe, Middle East and
Africa). Juan’s responsibilities also include publishing rating methodologies and
research articles, and speak at industry conferences and seminars.
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Federico Martin del Campo, Head of Acquisitions ,
Walton Street Capital Mexico
Federico Martin del Campo is Principal and Director of Acquisitions of Walton Street Capital Mexico. Prior to joining Walton Street, Mr. Martin del Campo was a Senior Director of GE Real Estate in Mexico City where he managed GE Real Estate´s retail joint venture with Kimco in Mexico where he was responsible for all stages of investments including originating, structuring, due diligence, closing, asset management and dispositions. Prior to GE Real Estate, Mr. Martin del Campo was an Associate in JP Morgan Securities Inc. in New York, working within the Distressed Asset/Workouts and the Mergers and Acquisitions areas. Prior thereto, he was a manager for Rabobank Nederland in Mexico City. Mr. Martin del Campo has a BS in Economics from the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico and MBA from Harvard Business School
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Mr. Elsztain obtained an Agriculture Degree from the University of Buenos Aires. He
completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in June 1999.
Mr. Elsztain has served as Chief Executive Officer and Director of Cresud since 1994. Cresud is one of the largest agriculture companies in Argentina that is listed on the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange and on the Nasdaq Stock Market.
Additionally, he acts as Chairman of Tarjeta Shopping, a consumers’ credit card, BrasilAgro, an agricultural company similar to Cresud in Brazil, and as Executive Vice President of Cactus Argentina, an enterprise with a vertical integration system in the beef sector.
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SVP, International Lodging, Caribbean & Latin America Region,
Marriott International
Carlton Ervin is the Senior Vice President of Latin American Development for Marriott, Renaissance, Ritz-Carlton, Bulgary, Courtyard and Residence Inn. Prior to his current position, Mr. Ervin worked as a corporate counsel for Marriott's Legal Department, from 2000 to 2002. From 1996 to 2000, Mr. Ervin was an associate with the New York based law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and from 1995 to 1996, Mr. Ervin worked as an international associate for law firms in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Mr. Ervin received a JD (cum laude) from Harvard Law School in 1995 and a BA in Economics (magna cum laude) from Duke University in 1992.
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Head of Real Estate Investment Trusts' Division,
Rio Bravo Investiments
Martim Fass is head of the Real Estate Investment Trusts' division at Rio Bravo Investimentos, based in Sao Paulo. He is responsible for approximately 1 billion dollars of assets under management in various types of operations with real estate assets. Mr. Fass has a degree in business administration and has prior experience in audit and financial advisory in Brazil and Europe.
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Managing Director- Emerging Markets,
Paladin Realty
Philip T. Fitzgerald is a Managing Director and a Management Committee member of Paladin Realty Partners, LLC. He is responsible for the firm’s emerging markets investment funds and activities, which are primarily focused in Latin America.
Prior to joining Paladin Realty in 1998, Mr. Fitzgerald was a founding partner of Griffin Capital, a boutique investment banking firm specializing in originating, structuring and distributing debt and equity securities for real estate and related transactions. Previously, he was an Associate in the real estate finance group of Jefferies & Company, Inc. He began his financial career in the real estate finance group at Salomon Brothers, following eight years of decorated service in the U.S. Navy. He has been a member of various industry organizations including the Pension Real Estate Association and the Urban Land Institute, where he serves on the International Council.
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Partner,
Baker & McKenzie
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CEO,
Vitrium Capital S.A.
Mr. Gagliardo founded Vitrium Capital. He has 19 years of experience in international business, corporate governance and real estate development.
» For more than 12 years, he held various executive positions in Microsoft, Apple and NCR subsidiaries. He has also been an active partner and venture capital investor in software development and internet companies focused on agribusiness initiatives in Argentina.
» His path into the real estate market began 7 years ago as an active member of an investment team. Since then, he has been involved in all aspects of real estate, including strategic, taxes and financial planning, site searches, approvals, field office management, leasing, and land dispositions. He currently manages a diversified investment portfolio with assets in Argentina and USA.
» Federico Gagliardo has a graduate degree in Operations Research from Universidad Católica Argentina, and postgraduate studies in Marketing, Management and Finance from IAE (Buenos Aires, Argentina), INALDE (Bogotá, Colombia) and Columbia Business School (NY, USA).
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Associate,
Townsend Group
Mr. Golubic joined The Townsend Group in 2003. His current responsibilities include evaluating and selecting investment managers, working with fee models and contracts, and reviewing and selecting pooled funds. Mr. Golubic participates in the underwriting of open-end commingled funds and also maintains primary responsibility for the firm’s expertise with regard to Latin America real estate and global infrastructure opportunities.
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Joseph Harper joined Explorador in 2006 as an analyst focused on real estate
market opportunities in Latin America . Prior to joining Explorador, he worked for BT Commercial, a real estate firm based in San Francisco . From 2002-2004 Joseph worked in political advisory and democracy promotion throughout Latin America for the Washington , D.C. based International Republican Institute. Joseph currently serves on the Board of Directors for The Plaza Companies, an Arizona based real estate development firm focused on development of medical office buildings and senior living communities.
Joseph graduated from Southern Methodist University in 2001 majoring in History and Political Science. He has worked and traveled throughout Latin America and the Caribbean since 2002, and is a fluent Spanish speaker.
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Managing Director,
Harcourt Alternative Investments LLC
Marcel Herbst is an Executive Director of the Harcourt Group and Managing Director / CCO of Harcourt Alternative Investments (US) LLC. He joined Harcourt in March, 2002. He relocated to New York in 2007 to head US business development activities. His past experience includes Corporate Finance and M&A for Enron Broadband Investments in London (an independent USD200m venture capital subsidiary of Enron).
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Portfolio Manager,
The Herzfeld Caribbean Basin Fund
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Global Portfolio Manager,
Alesco Global Advisors
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Partner, Real Estate Practice Group,
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Andrew Lance is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Real Estate Practice Group. Mr. Lance's clients include real estate private equity funds, hedge funds, corporate and individual developers and owners of office, retail, hotel, industrial, recreational, professional sports and entertainment real estate, mortgage and mezzanine lenders, REITs and other public and privately-held companies investing in or using real estate.
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Partner,
Baker & McKenzie
José M. Larroque de la Cruz, Partner - Practice Areas: Real Estate and Infrastructure
His area of practice includes Real Estate and Development Law; Construction Law; Infrastructure & Major Projects. Including general corporate law, real estate transactions and foreign investment regulation. He also has relevant experience in banking and finance. Coordinator of the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group in Mexico, and acts as counsel to Mexican and Multinational companies doing business in Mexico, with a primary focus in the Baja California area member of the Mexican Real Estate and Infrastructure Group.
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CEO,
Cyrela Commercial Properties
Bruno Laskowsky has over 21 years of experience in the financial, retail and consulting industries at both Brazilian and international companies.
Mr. Laskowsky has served as CEO of Cyrela Commercial Properties (CCP) since December 2007. CCP is a leading Brazilian company focused on the development, acquisition and management of commercial properties (i.e. shopping malls and commercial and industrial buildings). CCP has assets of US$1 billion and annual revenue of approximately US$55 million. The Company is listed on the São Paulo Stock Exchange (Bovespa) and its shares also trade on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) through ADRs.
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Managing Director,
Peninsula Investments Group
Mauricio Levitin is Managing Director of Peninsula Investments Group. Peninsula is a fund focused on developing real estate projects in selected markets of Latin America. Peninsula currently has operations in Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay and is expanding into Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica and Panama.
Mauricio earned his MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and his BBA from the The Goizueta Business School of Emory University.
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Managing Director,
Carlyle de Brazil
Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Machado was M/D of Fibra Realty S.A., the Real Estate company of the Vicunha Group. He has worked with Real Estate finance and investment banking in organizations such as Banco Pactual, Rio Bravo and Banco Ourinvest.
Mr. Machado has been a pioneer in the Brazilian Real Estate market having been the founder and president of one of the first securitization companies in Brazil as well as structured one of the first REITs distributed in the country.
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Chief Operating Officer,
Brascan Shopping Centers
Prior to joining Brascan Brasil Real Estate Partners, Mr. Malzoni served for six years as vice chairman of the Board of Directors and Executive VP of Malzoni Group. He also served as Managing Director of Plaza Paulista Administrador de Shopping Centers, Senior Consultant at Andersen Consulting and as the Commercial Development Manager at Sears & Roebuck in Brazil. Additionally, he was president of ABRASCE (2003-2007). He is currently a member of the South America Advisory Committee for ICSC. Mr. Malzoni holds an MBA Degree from SDA BOCCONI University in Italy.
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International Strategist,
Ecocity Brasil
Donald T. Marr is the International Marketing Strategist for Ecocity Brazil. He is an entrepreneur with over 25 years experience in international real-estate development & marketing. In addition to Ecocity Brazil, he is a principal & shareholder in several significant golf and leisure developments comprising of 2000+ residential units, hotels and conference facilities. His activities have led to the establishment of sales & marketing operations in North America, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Czech Republic, The Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, Spain and a network of sub agencies covering other countries. Donald’s activities also include brokering larger commercial and HTL transactions world wide.
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Chief Strategy Officer,
Equity International
Thomas McDonald is chief strategic officer of Equity International. Mr. McDonald has been associated with the Company since its inception in 1999 and is primarily responsible for building and optimizing the Company’s partner relationships. He is a director of various portfolio companies, including Gafisa (BZ:GFSA3, NYSE:GFA), BR Malls (BZ:BRML3) and Parque Arauco (CI:PARAUCO).
Mr. McDonald is fluent in Spanish, and speaks Portuguese and French. He has lived and worked in Latin America for the majority of his professional career.
Mr. McDonald graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a B.A. in international relations and Spanish.
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Paul Meyer is a partner in Mayer Brown’s real estate group and is the head of the Chicago real estate practice and one of the co-chairs of the real estate group’s Latin America practice. In his more than 20 years of practice, Paul has obtained substantial experience in virtually every aspect of the real estate industry. Paul’s widely diversified practice includes the representation of real estate investors and developers in all types of domestic and international real estate transactions, including joint ventures, acquisitions, dispositions and financing involving shopping centers, industrial parks, office buildings, apartment complexes, condominiums, medical office buildings and assisted living facilities. In recent years his practice has focused on the representation of clients providing equity capital for US and Latin American real estate transactions as well as equity for US healthcare related transactions.
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Vice President of Development,
Cabi Developers
Miroslav “Misha" Mladenovic is vice president of development for Cabi Developers, the U.S. subsidiary of GICSA, Mexico’s largest development company. He is in operational charge of all real estate development activities for the company and participates in the acquisition, direct supervision over the construction, sales and close-out of all projects in the country.
In addition to his position at Cabi Developers, Mladenovic is president of M2E Consulting Engineers, a firm that provides the construction and real estate industry with plan reviews, construction observations, due diligence inspections and reporting services. He is in charge of litigation mitigation and quality control for multimillion dollar residential and commercial projects.
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Managing Director & CEO,
PREI - Latin America
Roberto Ordorica is a Managing Director of Prudential Real Estate Investors (PREI®) and CEO of PREI-Latin America. PREI-Latin America is a business unit of PREI, the real estate investment and advisory business of Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE:PRU), based in Newark, NJ., USA. He is responsible for managing PREI's investment management business in Latin America and integrating PREI's regional offices throughout Latin America with PREI’s headquarters, in Parsippany, New Jersey.
Mr. Ordorica’s duties include developing and implementing PREI-Latin America’s strategy, as well as overseeing PREI-Latin America’s operations, including but not limited to property acquisitions, asset management, property sales, portfolio accounting and research
Mr. Ordorica is a member of PREI’s Management Committee and Chairman of PREI’s Latin America Investment and Management Committees. He is a director of Atlântica Residencial S.A., a Brazilian homebuilder of low and middle income housing throughout Brazil and a director of Corporacion Geo S.A. de C.V., the largest builder of affordable housing in the Americas, based on homes sold. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute and the Mexican Society for Geography and Statistics. Mr. Ordorica is the 1987-1988 recipient of the Legion of Valor Bronze Cross for Achievement.
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President,
World Wide Title
President and owner of World-Wide Title, Inc., a Florida Corporation which is engaged in advising international entrepreneurs interested in exploring real estate investment and financing abroad in matters related to Registral (land title) and Notarial Law, and in pursuing, when advisable, title insurance underwritten by American companies.
His familiarity with both civil and common law environments and with the land title registration laws (Derecho Registral) of different countries opened the door to his present association with the title insurance industry. For the past twenty years he has investigated titles to land in several countries, participating also in the structuring of complex real estate investments by foreign entities in those countries.
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Managing Director,
GoldenTree InSite Partners, LP
Josh Pristaw is a Managing Director at GTIS and a member of the General Partner’s Investment Committee. Mr. Pristaw is a co-founder of GTIS and has more than 10 years of real estate experience. His primary responsibilities include acquisitions and dispositions. Prior to joining GTIS, Mr. Pristaw was a Principal and Co-Head of Acquisitions for Coventry Real Estate Advisors. After joining Coventry in 1999, Mr. Pristaw was responsible for identifying investment opportunities, conducting due diligence, structuring transactions, negotiating with sellers and managing dispositions. Mr. Pristaw was also a member of Coventry’s Investment Committee and participated in $600 million of real estate transactions across 17 different markets.
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Vice President, International Operations,
Fidelity National Financial
Rudy Rivera has the responsibility for developing global markets for FNTG. He has lectured throughout the world on the role of title insurance in the modern global Economy. Prior to joining Global Solutions he was in private practice in St. Louis, Missouri with emphasis on Latin America. Mr. Rivera is a 1977 graduate of Ohio Northern University with a dual major in Spanish and Political Science and a 1980 Graduate of St. Louis University School of Law. At St. Louis University, Mr. Rivera was Assistant Managing Editor of the St. Louis University Law Review, and founder and president of the International Law Society. Mr. Rivera also studied international law at The Hague during the summer of 1979
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Managing Partner,
Estrategias Inmobiliarias EC S.A
In July of 2003, Mr. Robledo returned to Estrategias Corporativas S.A. as a partner to develop a Real Estate Platform through a new subsidiary, Estrategias Inmobiliarias EC S.A. Estrategias Corporativas is one of the leading investment banking boutiques in Colombia with over $3.5 billion in transactions.
The Real Estate Platform that Mr. Robledo heads is comprised of three business units: Asset Management, Development and Corporate Real Estate Services.
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SVP Business Development, Mexico/CA & Caribbean,
Group RCI
Juan Ignacio Rodriguez has held key positions for the company in Mexico, Latin America, North America and Europe.
In 2005, Juan Ignacio Rodriguez was named Vice President for Business Development for Latin America and the Caribbean. During his tenure he has driven growth for the leisure-oriented real estate market, mainly in the luxury segment. Juan Ignacio created and currently heads the Tourism Oriented Real Estate area, which has been instrumental in the development of several new products focused on fractional interests and whole ownerships in the main tourist destinations in the region.
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Executive Vice President,
Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels
Gregory Rumpel is executive vice president of Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels, the first and leading global hotel investment services firm. Mr. Rumpel leads the firm’s Miami office, where he focuses on hospitality investment sales, advisory projects and asset management in the South Florida, the Caribbean and Latin America. He has over 18 years of hospitality real estate experience with a strong consulting background.
Since joining Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels in 1996, Mr. Rumpel has completed several high profile transactions, including The Fairmont Acapulco Princess, The Fairmont Pierre Marques and The Fairmont Hamilton Princess in Mexico and Bermuda; The Sawgrass Marriott Resort & Spa in Ponte Vedra, Florida; Cheeca Lodge and Spa in Islamorada, Florida; Caneel Bay in St. John USVI; Mexico City Airport Marriott; the Bora Bora Lagoon Resort, Tahiti; and the Sheraton Auckland, New Zealand.
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President & CEO,
Cuasar Capital
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Vice President, Mexico Office,
O'Connor Capital Partners
Hector Sosa is a Vice President with O’Connor Capital Partners. He is involved in acquisition and asset management of O’Connor’s office in Mexico. Since 2003, he has been focusing on the retail investments where he manages a portfolio in of 3-million sf. He was also involved in the acquisition of part of the industrial portfolio O’Connor had in Mexico and some residential programs in Mexico. Prior to joining O’Connor, Mr. Sosa worked for Procter&Gamble for 3 years and also worked 7 years as a general contractor and construction manager in Mexico. Most of his construction work was with Hardin Construction Group, a U.S. contractor with operations in Mexico. Hector Sosa holds a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Universidad Iberoamericana and an MBA from The University of Texas at Austin.
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Head of Investments,
Cadillac Fairview
As Executive Vice President, Investments, Ms. Stephen is responsible for developing and executing the investment strategy for The Cadillac Fairview Corporation that includes all acquisitions and dispositions for the company. Since joining Cadillac in May 2000, Andrea has been responsible for the execution of over $6 billion of acquisitions and dispositions.
She holds an undergraduate degree in business from St. Francis Xavier University and is a Chartered Accountant.
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Mr. Stern is a Managing Partner of Perry Capital and co-founded Perry Real Estate Partners in June, 2002. Perry Real Estate Partners is the real estate investment arm of NYC-based, Perry Capital, a private investment management firm with approximately $15 billion under management. Perry Real Estate Partners’ charter is to make equity investments in real estate assets, portfolios and operating companies, purchase discounted notes and sub/non-performing debt and securities, and provide mezzanine and bridge financing. The venture has an opportunistic and flexible investment approach, capitalizing on inefficiencies in the real estate market.
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Partner,
Real Estate Options LLC
Michael Teich currently is responsible for identifying and overseeing fund investments for Real Estate Options LLC’s (REOP) Latin American real estate fund, Latin American Development Fund, LP, founded in 2006. The fund invests in Latin American real estate, including commercial, residential, hotel, tourist, land and mixed use development projects. REOP employs a disciplined portfolio and risk management approach in selecting investments across different countries and asset types to optimize diversification opportunities for our investors.
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Regional Director, Corporate Secretarial Team, Americas,
TMF Services
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Global Real Estate,
Dow Portfolio Investments
Ruifen Xu, Global Real Estate Investment, works in the Private & Alternative Investments group of Dow Portfolio Investments. In this role, she manages investments on behalf of the Dow Employees’ Pension Plan and the Union Carbide Employees’ Pension Plan. Ruifen’s responsibilities include managing the existing real estate portfolio and building the international and emerging markets real estate investments. Ruifen has 10 years real estate and finance experience in the markets of Asia, United States, Germany and now more in Global Markets. She started her career at China Shanghai Real Estate Management Bureau in the real estate joint project with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH. She has a Master’s in Real Estate from Columbia University, an MBA from Hongkong University and Fudan University Joint Program, and a Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering from Shanghai Tongji University.
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Managing Director,
Caribbean Property Group
Al Young is the Managing Director – Hospitality Acquisitions for Caribbean Property Group (“CPG”). CPG is a diversified real estate company with a focus on investing in hotels, commercial office, and retail properties throughout Central America and the Caribbean. CPG and Goldman Sachs’ Whitehall Street Real Estate Fund (“Whitehall”) run the Caribbean Real Estate Opportunity Fund, a $475 million pool of discretionary equity capital with in excess of $2 billion of buying power formed to invest in the greater Caribbean region and Central America.
Al Young has spent the past 18 years in the real estate business with a focus on hospitality.
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Chief Investment Strategist,
LaSalle Investment Management
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Pre-conference workshop:
September 18th 8am - 5:30pm
Conference:
Day 1
September 17th 8am - 5:30pm
Day 2
September 18th8am - 5:30pm
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