Sarah is Professor of Gerontology at the University of Oxford. She is the Co-Director of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing which she founded in 1997 with funding from the NIA. Between 2014 and 2017 Sarah served on the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology, which advises the Prime Minister on the scientific evidence for strategic policies and frameworks. In 2017 she was appointed Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, and as a Director and Trustee of the UK Research Integrity Office. She chaired the UK government’s Foresight Review on Ageing Populations,(2014-2016) and has chaired the European Ageing Index Panel for the UNECE Population Unit since 2015. She is a Governor of the Pensions Policy Institute. Sarah was the first holder of the International Chair in Old Age Financial Security, at the University of Malaya (2009-10) and her research was recognized by the 2011 Royal Society for Public Health: Arts and Health Research Award. She is a Fellow of the Royal Anthropology Institute and of the Royal Society of Arts.

Mario Abbadessa joined Hines in 2010 and in November 2015 he has been appointed Managing Director assuming the responsibility of C.E.O. for all the Italian operations of the Group. Since being appointed Country Head of Hines Italy, he has been responsible for the successful investment of over €1bn volume, with different asset class and risk profile, and has established a team of 20 plus people.

Formerly, Mario was a Fund Manager and prior to that a member of the investment team of Hines Italia SGR. Prior to joining Hines, he worked for two years in the acquisition team of Generali Italia SGR and started his career in Tishman Speyer.

Mario holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Bocconi University and a Master of Science in Finance from the University of Amsterdam.

Orson Alcocer advises Spanish and international clients on all aspects of real estate investments, development, funding, construction, management and commercialisation of different real estate assets, varying from commercial projects to offices, hotels, logistics parks and holiday and residential units.

He has been involved in a wide range of real estate transactions, including real estate financings, sale and purchase of national and international portfolios, structuring and launching of real estate funds and commercial leases. He also focuses on international transactions, M&A, joint ventures and restructurings.

Jerome Anselme is a Managing Director and is responsible for sourcing and executing real estate equity and debt investments in Europe.

Prior to joining Northwood Investors, Mr. Anselme was a Director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in London. He was involved in origination, distribution and asset management of commercial real estate debt as well as trading of secondary commercial real estate loans. Prior to Merrill Lynch, Mr. Anselme worked at Citigroup and JPMorgan. Mr. Anselme helped execute over $10 billion of mortgaged backed loans, CMBS, mezzanine and equity co-investments. Selected transactions include CenterParcs, Groupe du Louvres, and NHP.

Mr. Anselme received a Master in Management from Edhec Business School and a Master in Finance from Sciences Po – Institut d’Etudes Politiques, in France.

Ekaterina is Managing Director of the DCAM team. She was instrumental in establishing the business back in 2012 and growing us into one of Europe’s leading logistics real estate businesses.

Previously, Ekaterina was a Relationship Manager at ING Real Estate Finance in the Netherlands. Prior to ING, Ekaterina was with GVA Sawyer in Moscow focused on the execution of development projects.

Ekaterina graduated with a MSc. in Real Estate from Cass Business School and received a degree in Corporate Finance and Accounting from the Finance Academy under the Russian Government.

William brings over 15 years of investment management, real estate, hospitality, and start-up experience to the firm. His core focus is tied to Alternative Accommodations Themes, Venture Opportunities and Experiential Property Concepts (co-living and co-working).

He started his career in New York City with Moore Capital Management, then spent time with Triangle Capital Partners as a summer associate before moving to Argentina to manage Latin America for Swiss Finance & Property. William also co-founded Oasis Collections, a global, online marketplace for short-term apartment rentals based in Miami, Florida, where he still participates as a board member.

William graduated from the University of North Carolina with a major in Business Administration. He speaks English and Spanish fluently, and Portuguese with moderate proficiency.

Roger Baumann started his professional career in the Private Banking division of Credit Suisse in 2005. He joined Real Estate Investment Management in 2006 and assumed the responsibility for the development and launch of new investment vehicles for Swiss investors.

As of January 1, 2013 he assumed the global responsibility for product development and sustainability in Real Estate.

He assumed his current position as COO & Head Sustainability, Real Estate, in April 2014 and leads all sustainability, platform management and control function efforts in Switzerland and abroad. As of April 1, 2017 Mr. Baumann also became Co-Head Germany of Credit Suisse Real Estate.

Mr. Baumann holds a Master of Science in Civil Engineering from ETH Zurich, a Master of Business Administration Dual Degree from the Lorange Institute of Business in Zurich and the State University in New York. He is also a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) & the Society of Property Researchers Germany (GIF).

Mr. Beltrán is the Head of Europe & CEO of Carlton Group for Iberia and he has more than 22 years of investment banking, real estate and capital markets experience throughout Spain, Portugal and other European jurisdictions. Most recently, he was Head of Spain of UniCredit Spain Investment Banking Division, and he had previously worked for UBS, Morgan Stanley and Barclays Capital. Over his career, Mr. Beltrán has completed more than US$22 billion in European transactions, including a wide spectrum of equity and mezzanine investments, direct lending and investment sale transactions. Between other many real estate and retail transactions, Javier has worked in: the IPOs of Inmobiliaria Colonial, Ferrovial and Inditex, various syndicated loans for large real estate companies, such as Metrovacesa and I. Colonial, FCC’s restructuring of its real estate portfolio and the sale and refinancing of a large number of real estate assets of different types. He holds a PDG degree from IESE Business School and Graduated from CUNEF (Spain) with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration & Finance.

Hugo is a Partner at Europa Capital and has 15 years of experience in real estate. Hugo has been involved in the origination and asset management of €3.6 billion of transactions whilst at Europa Capital and has transacted over 3,900 student beds throughout the UK with a value in excess of €420 million. Hugo has also transacted over 2,900 PRS beds with a total value in excess of €360 million. Hugo has extensive experience in real estate fund management, acquisitions, asset management and disposals. Before joining Europa Capital in 2010, Hugo worked at DTZ Corporate Finance. Hugo is a member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (CISI). Hugo also sits on the Policy Committee of the Country Land and Business Association. Hugo received a BSc (hons) in Zoology from the University of Edinburgh and was a Cass Business School Scholar where he obtained a MSc in Real Estate Finance.

Petra Blazkova joined Real Capital Analytics in October 2015. In her current role, she oversees the strategic development of RCA’s analytic services in Asia Pacific. She provides a comprehensive range of analysis focusing on the investment markets in the region.

Petra Blazkova has 15 years of real estate experience, with a focus in both investment and occupier aspects of the real estate markets. She is an investment strategist, property researcher and spokesperson advising investors and developers. She has expertise across all commercial property sectors mostly in the area of capital markets with a geographical focus on global, Asia Pacific and European markets.

Blazkova recently relocated from Singapore to London after working for five years at CBRE in Singapore. This followed nine years as a researcher covering European markets for JLL, King Sturge (now JLL) and Colliers International.

Petra graduated from the University of Prague, Czech Republic with a Bachelor degree in Business Administration and Corporate finance. She obtained a Master’s Degree in Real Estate Investment and Finance from the Henley Business School Reading University, UK, in 2010.

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Nathalie is currently Head of Development and European Country Teams. Her responsibilities include overseeing all aspects of managing AXA IM - Real Assets’ portfolio in Europe. She is also coordinating development activities across Europe at a strategic level and providing investment opportunities for clients who seek to develop properties either in a high return IRR strategy or for long term investment.

Nathalie joined AXA IM - Real Assets in 2013. Previously, she was Managing Director of Corporate Real Estate at EDF. During her six years at EDF, Nathalie led the asset, property and facility management activities across EDF and its subsidiaries in France, with a portfolio of 4.5 million sqm. Before EDF, Nathalie spent 12 years at the Unibail-Rodamco Group. During her tenure, she held various positions overseeing office, retail and large development projects in the Paris region. Nathalie Charles joined the Compagnie Bancaire in 1987 and held various positions at the company. She also worked as a manager for the Crédit National between 1992 and 1995.

Nathalie has over 30 years of real estate industry experience. She is a member of several professional organization, including being a ULI Europe Executive Committee Member and a ULI Trustee.

She graduated from the French École Polytechnique in 1987. She was awarded the French Distinction Legion d’Honneur in 2011.

Sarah Christie is heading up WeLive across Europe, Israel and Australia.

WeLive is the residential arm of WeWork, which provides living space and services with Community at the heart of it’s offering.

Prior to joining WeLive, Sarah was Development Director at The Collective. The Collective is a London based Co Living developer and operator, which developed the world’s largest Co Living scheme, The Collective Old Oak, which has 546 beds. As well as schemes in Stratford, Borough and most notably Canary Wharf, which includes 706 units in addition to a wealth of shared amenity spaces including: a roof top swimming pool, sauna, steam room, restaurant/bar, private dining rooms, a library, games room, gym and cinema rooms.

Sarah began her career developing Student Accommodation for 6 years at Bouygues Development, where her passion for shared living products began.

Sarah is spearheading the development of shared living schemes in London and across all major cities, working with Government bodies, major developers and investors and looks forward to a future where shared living products will play a part in tackling some of the world’s largest issues.

Rob has over 28 years of real estate and debt markets experience. Prior to DRC Capital LLP, Rob was a Senior Investment Manager at Duet Private Equity Limited (“Duet”). Prior to Duet, Rob was Director of Structured Finance at the Topland Group of Companies and at CIT Group PLC, Glaven Investments Ltd, and the Industrial Bank of Japan Ltd. Rob has a BA Hons Degree in Economic and Social Studies from the University of East Anglia and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment. He has cycled the Ride to MIPIM in each of the last 2 years.

Francesco De Blasio has considerable experience in a vast range of Real Estate transactions, advising major Italian and international clients.

His experience, gained over 15 years of activity in the Real Estate sector, varies from advising clients on the acquisition of complex property portfolios, directly or through investment structures such as real estate investment funds - to corporate joint ventures aimed at real estate developments.

Francesco also focuses on the main commercial Real Estate contracts, with particular regard to specific categories of properties such as hotels, sports facilities and logistic facilities. He is also actively involved in the hospitality and leisure sector, as he advises on a regular basis institutional investors on the acquisition or disposal of hotel businesses and on the negotiation of hotel management contracts and of hotel property and business leases.

Number of years of experience: 34
Number of years with Rockspring: 19                                

Jo De Clercq holds the position of Partner at Rockspring. He has responsibility for Benelux and France within the company. This includes overseeing and directing the asset/property management of the properties owned by the clients of Rockspring, as well as sourcing new investment opportunities. His responsibilities also include the directorship of the Brussels and Amsterdam office of Rockspring. Furthermore he heads up the European Transaction team. Prior to this, he was responsible for asset managing a large retail warehouse portfolio owned by the PanEuropean Property Unit Trust (managed by Pricoa Property Investment Managers ‘PPIM’) in Belgium. Before joining Rockspring, Jo was heading up the suburban office agency team at Jones Lang LaSalle in Brussels. Prior to joining Jones Lang LaSalle, he worked for a large Belgian private investor, were he served in a variety of roles, including three years in the United States.

In 2004 PPIM was subject to a management buy-out, and changed its name to Rockspring. Jo is among the Founder Shareholders.

Jo holds a degree in Real Estate. He is a member in the Belgian Institute of Real Estate Professionals, ULI and the Belgian Branch of the International Council of Shopping Centres. He is fluent in Dutch, English and French.

Bradford H. Dockser is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Green Generation Solutions, LLC, which engineers and implements comprehensive integrated energy efficiency solutions that lower operating costs while improving sustainability on behalf of a diverse set of clients worldwide.

During his more than two decades of real estate investing, Brad was a Principal with national real estate investment firm, MacFarlane Partners, overseeing activities of their mid-Atlantic business; Partner and Chief Operating Officer for Western Development Corporation, a leading retail and mixed-use property development firm in the DC area; and Founder and Managing Director for Starwood Capital Europe overseeing operations, direct investments, and operating joint ventures and financing activities throughout Europe. He earlier founded Starwood Capital Asia and was responsible for the firm’s Asian operations.

Brad received an A.B. cum laude in Economics, as well as a Master of Business Administration, both from Harvard University. He serves as Co-Chair of the Urban Land Institute Washington Sustainability Initiative and Vice Chair of the ULI Redevelopment and Reuse Product Council. He is a member of the US Green Building Council and the International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP). He is Chairman of ULI’s Washington Sustainability Committee. Brad is a mentor for the Cleantech Open, the world's largest cleantech accelerator, as well as for MetaProp (NY) and Bethesda Green (MD). He also was Founding Director of the Greater Washington Exploratory Committee, DC’s bid committee for the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Marco Doglio he is Responsible of UBS REPM (Real Estate & Private Market) Italy within UBS Asset Management (Italia) SGR. Marco is a member of GRE's European ex CH Management Committee. He joined from Fabrica Immobiliare SGR SpA (2008–2015), a leading real estate asset management company, where he was CEO and General Manager. Before that, Marco held multiple roles, including CFO roles at Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (2003–2008) and Beni Stabili (2001–2003); Financial Director positions at municipality utilities company Acea (1999–2001) and Aeroporti di Roma (1997–1999); and Finance Manager at Autostrade (1986–1997).

Jorge is responsible for devising and implementing the investment strategy on behalf of the Barings European Core Property Fund’s investors. Prior to joining Barings Real Estate Advisers, Jorge was a Pan-European Fund Manager with AXA Real Estate where he was responsible for managing several funds and their activities including fund-raising, origination and sales. Jorge also had responsibility for developing and implementing the investment and asset management strategies.

Jorge has over 15 years of experience in the real estate sector across multiple jurisdictions and core property sectors, and has been directly involved in the acquisition, financing, management and sale of assets in fourteen European markets. He is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) and holds the Investment Management Certificate (IMC).

Michael Eisenkolb is currently Director Special Property Finance within Aareal Bank’s Special Property Finance division, based in Wiesbaden, Germany. Since joining Aareal Bank he has been involved in the origination of commercial real estate investment and development loans based in Amsterdam, thereafter in Berlin and currently out of Wiesbaden for various international markets with a special emphasis on logistics and retail property finance. He has extensive experience in single-country single asset loans, portfolio financings as well as cross-border financing structures.

Marley Fabisiewicz is an entrepreneur, technologist, and passionate digital product strategist. He is the Founder of spaceOS, a startup that provides a technology layer for digitally native workspaces.

Marley founded Upnext Technologies, a software and digital product development agency that has been on the forefront of FinTech for over 10 years, designing and engineering successful tailor-made, end-to-end mobile money services in an ever-evolving industry.

Marley has more than 15 years experience in developing and implementing successful digital strategies for technology companies. He's an advisor and strategist for small startups and large global organizations.

Having started out as a music magazine editor and DJ, he founded Lodown Magazine in 1995 and became the European Marketing Manager for Vans Shoes. He later developed and curated the award-winning, Unlike City Guides. These days, Marley is putting his decade's worth of entrepreneurial experience behind an ever-expanding portfolio of digital projects and startups.

Career highlights:

• Founded Lodown Magazine, 1995
• Lead Award Gold, 2004
• Developed the first PCI certified Payment Platform build with Ruby on Rails, 2007
• Developed the first Mpos platform in Europe, 2010
• Designed and curated the award-winning Unlike City Guides, 2008-2012
• Developed first NFC based Mobile Wallet in Europe, 2012
• Keynote Speaker at DLD Cities London, 2012
• Keynote Speaker at DLD Tel Aviv, 2013
• Created an Open Source iBeacon platform, 2015
• Founded spaceOS a Proptech startup, 2017

Mary is the Director of Transactions for WeWork where she negotiates the leasing deals throughout Europe under which WeWork operates its premises. She has vast experience in real estate and has previously worked with and advised major European developers, landowners and retailers, including British Land, The Crown Estate, SuperDry and Marks & Spencer.

Before joining WeWork, Mary set up and ran an Asset Management Team at a large European law firm. She also lectured at Graduate Law School, worked as a real estate lawyer at an American law firm for several years and lived in Marseille for a year where she worked for a large retailer.

Mary earned her Masters Degree in in French and German from the University of Cambridge and her legal qualifications to practise as a lawyer from Chester College of Law.

Mary comes from Liverpool and now lives in North London with her husband and 2 children. She is passionate about gender diversity and equality for women in the workplace and is an active member of the RE Women Group. In her spare time, she enjoys going to the gym to lift weights!

Based in London, David oversees Pradera’s global retail real estate portfolio with assets under management of over €3.3 billion, in ten countries across Europe and Asia. He joined Pradera in 2002 after spending over 10 years working for property consultancy firms focused on all aspects of European retail real estate. He has been instrumental in the company’s growth to its current position as a leading global retail investment and asset manager.

Whilst with Pradera David has lived in Italy and Hong Kong and established the company’s offices and business lines in Italy, CEE, Turkey and more recently oversaw the creation of a joint venture with Macquarie, creating Pradera Retail Asia, with offices in Hong Kong and Shanghai.

David is passionate about retail, in particular globalisation, the evolution of eCommerce and the effects on the shopping centre industry. He has a BSc Hons. in Urban Land Economics and is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

• €2 billion in real estate and infrastructure acquisitions last four years in Sweden and Finland
• Experience from acquisition and fund raising within real estate, shipping and finance
• 2010 CEO at Skuld UK in London, responsible for the establishment of a Lloyd’s syndicate (Skuld 1897)
• 2014 Head of Project finance, Pareto Securities
• 2016 Head of Corporate finance and Project finance, Pareto Securities
• 2018 Board member of Pareto Securities
• Mr. Gattberg holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Maritime Law from Lund University combined with studies in Business administration and Political Science from Uppsala University
• 2003 Lieutenant, Swedish Royal Navy

John German joined Invesco Real Estate (IRE) in April 2013 and is the senior director of residential investment responsible for spearheading the firm’s European residential expertise and investments in Europe for global institutional investors.

Since his arrival at IRE, the firm has concluded a number of European residential acquisitions in the UK, CEE, Spain and Germany with current assets under management of c.£823m. This is building on IRE’s existing expertise in the multi-family sector in the US and Asia where IRE has over 30 years’ experience and c.£13bn invested. IRE is one of few real estate managers able to offer global residential expertise.

John has over 29 years’ residential industry experience covering transactions, developments, valuations as well as asset and property management on behalf of institutional investors. Prior to joining IRE, John spent 12 years at Grosvenor, where he was the head of residential strategy and was previously at Aberdeen Property Investors as director of residential fund management. In these roles, John raised, invested and managed c.£200m in two residential funds on behalf of UK and European institutional investors. He is also skilled in investment in the wider universe of the student and serviced apartment sectors.

John is a Member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, has a BSc (Hons) in Rural Land Management and is a member of the British Property Federation (BPF) and Investment Property Forum (IPF).

Philippa joined Verdextra in 2015 where she heads the Real Estate group. She has over 15 years’ experience in private equity and real estate, as well as first-hand experience across the property life cycle.

Currently, Philippa is leading a number of projects focusing on health and wellbeing within the built environment, and she also has a particular interest in circular economy solutions for property.

Prior to joining Verdextra, she was global co-head of sustainability at Tishman Speyer and has also managed transformation, construction and software projects. She has significant client-side experience, and has worked for some of the largest private equity companies in the world. She has also held positions as Head of Human Resources, Operations Director and Property Systems Manager.

Philippa is a graduate of Clare College, Cambridge and speaks French, Spanish and German in addition to her native English.

Daniel Gorzawski is Managing Director and Head of Europe, based in London. He oversees sourcing and management of investments and relationships with operating and development partners and is Portfolio Manager of Harrison Street Real Estate Capital’s Europe Fund.

Prior to joining Harrison Street, Mr. Gorzawski was Managing Director Investments at AIG Global Real Estate, where he was responsible for the origination and structuring of debt and equity transactions in Europe including development, investment and management of operating companies. Mr. Gorzawski has successfully transacted in over 10 countries and has been actively involved in approximately US$3 billion of closed acquisitions, dispositions, loans and restructurings. Before joining AIG Global Real Estate, Mr. Gorzawski worked at General Electric Capital in Stamford, CT, where he also completed GE Capital’s graduate Financial Management Program.

Mr. Gorzawski received his Master’s Degree in Economics (Diplom-Volkswirt) from the University of Cologne in Germany.

Moses Gottlieb is a serial entrepreneur who began his business career at age 14. Since that time he has successfully launched, operated and sold businesses in various industries on a number of continents.

Moses co-founded Cloudscraper in May 2014 as the world's only commercial real estate exchange and has since attracted hundreds of users representing assets in excess of $200 billion. The company has developed cutting-edge technology and tools to make the entire deal instigation, discovery and management processes substantially more efficient, simpler, and faster.

Unifying all trading participants, Cloudscraper links trading opportunities, stakeholders, their advisors, and equity and debt capital into an integrated network with the realistic ability to realise asset sales in as little as one week. Prior to Cloudscraper, Moses was the founder and of MGFI Holdings LLC, an investment firm with operations in the US, Israel and Germany. .

Nils Holger Henning is the co-founder of the real estate data company Casafari. Casafari brings transparency to the prime real estate market with meta search & competitive intelligence and helps real estate professionals stay ahead of the market by providing access to real-time market data. Casafari empowers companies such as JLL, CBRE, E&V, Fine&Country, RE/MAX and thousands of real estate professionals in Western Europe.

Prior to founding Casafari Nils was involved the growth of 3 startups into market leaders, now valued at $100 - 600 MM, namely: Bigpoint (Video Games - bigpoint.com) as CCO/ CMO & Shareholder; Kreditech (Fintech - kreditech.com) as a Co-Founder; and Adjust (AdTech - adjust.com) as a Board Member. He has also co-founded / invested in several other startups including Whow Games (whow.com, jackpot.de), IDnow (idnow.de), justBook / Secret Escapes (secretescapes.com), EDITION F (EditionF.com), Nebenan (nebenan.de) and MEAJET (meajet.com).

Nils has given over 100 keynote speeches and presentations at major international conferences, such as the DLD Munich, MIT University (Boston), Bundestag Berlin, European Business Awards, MIPTV in Cannes, Monaco Media Forum, GDC San Francisco, G-Star Korea, Frankfurter Buchmesse Beijing, and many more. Nils holds an LL.M. in commercial law and a Diplom-Kaufmann degree in business administration. In addition to his business ventures, Nils has worked for some of the world’s most well-known brands, including Hays, AOL Time Warner, and Whirlpool.

Nils Hübener joined BNP Paribas Real Estate Investment Management in 2016 as Chief Investment Officer.

Before joining BNP Paribas Real Estate Investment Management, Nils served for 10 years as the Head of Real Estate Investments of SEB Asset Management, a subsidiary of one of the biggest Swedish Banks SEB. From 2013 onwards, he was also responsible for Asset Management of the European Portfolio of SEB Asset Management. Prior to joining SEB Asset Management, Nils worked with Deutsche Bank Real Estate, first as Vice President for International Acquisitions covering mainly the UK and US markets and later as Head of Transactions Western and Southern Europe. Nils started his career in Real Estate with the Berlin based company IBI Real Estate as Acquisition Manager. He then moved on to work for IBI in London and later in Paris, heading the small branches of IBI in both cities.

Nils completed studies in Urban and Regional Planning (Dipl.-Ing.) in Berlin and Oxford and holds a Master Degree in European Property Development and Planning (University College London).

Jonathan Hull is the Managing Director of CBRE’s EMEA Capital Markets team. Jonathan is also a member of the Global Management Team for Capital Markets.

In the past year, CBRE has been engaged in the sale and acquisition of some of the most important European assets and portfolios, including most recently the Walkie Talkie in London £1.3 billion, the acquisition of the Sony Center in Berlin €1.1 billion and the sale of the Artemis Office Portfolio €525 million.

During 2017 CBRE traded in excess €60 billion across all sectors and has market leading Capital Markets teams in all major countries across Europe.

Jonathan is responsible for the co-ordination of the group’s Capital Markets activities in Europe, specialising in advising clients on the disposal or acquisition of major asset sales and acquisitions or portfolios across the region.

Trevor Ivory practices in the area of real estate planning, with particular focus on delivering large-scale strategic development projects, planning appeals and judicial review. His clients include some of the largest developers in the UK as well as major landowners and public sector bodies.

Trevor’s focus is always on delivering on his clients’ objectives. He uses his experience to cut through delay and bureaucracy, delivering legally robust and commercially viable planning permissions quickly and efficiently.

Trevor is an effective advocate and has secured planning permissions on appeal for many of his clients. He also advises on the law of compulsory purchase, highways and town and village greens.

Agneta Jacobsson is an Executive Partner at Cushman & Wakefield and Head of Sweden and the Nordics, comprising a team of 150 staff in 7 offices across 4 countries. Her focus is on coordinating the business and driving profitability through Cushman & Wakefields’ operations in the Nordic region. She is a member of the EMEA Leadership Team within Cushman & Wakefield. Agneta has over 30 years of broad based property experience and extensive skill within management and leadership as well as an experience in both company and business integration.

Paul is based in the London office and has experience in all aspects of commercial real estate, with particular emphasis on investment and corporate occupier work. He advises a wide range of clients on their real estate transactions and strategy and often leads multi practice teams of lawyers on complex deals. Paul is heavily involved in cross border work in the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pac.

Paul has a special interest in sustainability in the built environment and disruption in the real estate industry. He leads DLA Piper's Green Real Estate team, innovating and developing suites of documentation and best practice in this dynamic area, including the creation of a UK Green Lease and advising both investors and occupiers on their sustainability strategy.

Paul is the client relationship partner for Unicef UK.

Paul has been at the forefront of developing DLA Piper's work involving business from Israel. He acts for many clients based in Israel as they embark on diverse business opportunities around the world. Paul manages the relationship with several Israeli clients in relation to their global business and also assists clients from outside of Israel looking for partners or advisers in Israel.

Achim worked as architect and project manager in Germany and the UK and completed an MBA at Vlerick Business School before joining Daimler Real Estate where he is responsible for optimizing the digital real estate processes and the digital strategy of the Daimler AG subsidiary. 2016 he initiated the Daimler Blockchain Group and started the Berlin Chapter of the International Blockchain Real Estate Association (IBREA). He also is a founding member of the German Blockchain Association (Bundesverband Blockchain).

Nehla is currently Global Head of Sustainability at AXA Investment Managers - Real Assets. She is responsible for defining and implementing AXA IM – Real Assets’ sustainability strategy and raising the firm’s sustainability profile internationally. Among her responsibilities, Nehla is in charge of the Vision 2030 initiative, which mandates that 75 percent of AXA IM – Real Assets’ direct real estate AUM be certified with a sustainability label by 2030. She is also in charge of measuring and improving the ESG performance of the assets under management to create value for investors, partners and occupiers.

Nehla joined AXA IM – Real Assets in 2014 as Sustainability Manager, contributing to both French and global activities. Prior to this, Nehla held various positions at PwC, most notably as a Manager of Sustainable Business Solutions and as a financial auditor in real estate. Nehla has ten years of experience in the real estate industry.

Nehla holds a Master’s degree from ESTP Paris, a French civil engineering school. She is the Chair of the ULI European Sustainability Council.

Markus Lehnert started his career in hospitality 30 years ago, and he has been with Marriott International for the last 19 years. As Regional Vice President of International Hotel Development, Markus is responsible for the development of all limited-service brands across Europe, as well as all full-service brands in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Before joining Marriott, Markus was a hospitality consultant with PKF in London for three years, and before that held operational positions for 13 years at various world-class hotels, among them the Breidenbacher Hof in Düsseldorf and the London hotels The Berkeley, Claridge’s and the The Lanesborough. Markus lives in Switzerland.

Maureen joined Cromwell in 2017 and is responsible for the group’s European funds management business. Before joining Cromwell, Maureen was the Senior Fund Manager for the European Value Add Fund at AXA IM Real Assets with a volume of over €750m. She has over 15 years’ experience of transactions and fund management across Europe. Prior to joining AXA, Maureen worked as Head of Acquisitions Germany at Catalyst Capital, where she was involved in raising their first opportunistic Fund and building up their AUM in Europe. She started her carrier at KPMG and also worked for Deutsche Bank Investment banking in Frankfurt. Maureen holds an MBA and a Degree in European Business and Finance.

William Naunton has acted for a variety of fund managers and institutional investors for many years in their direct real estate portfolios. He is experienced in all aspects of commercial real estate, including investment, development, joint ventures and structured real estate transactions.

Rainer Nonnengässer (born 1963) is a Managing Director at MPC Micro Living Development GmbH, a subsidiary of MPC Capital, Hamburg based Investment and Asset Manager. Since 2014 MPC Capital is developing Micro Living-Apartments for students, young professionals and commuters under the brand STAYTOO.

He has more than 20 years experience in the real estate and financial industry. After working at the investment company Union Investment, the trained banker held various management positions and board positions within the AXA Group since 1998. From 2010 to 2013 Mr. Nonnengässer was CEO of YOUNIQ AG (one of the market leaders for student housing). He has directed all project development, asset management, sale & purchase activities and was in charge of ongoing improvement of operational processes and operational management of student accommodation sites as well as for investor relation and institutional clients.

Justin O’Connor is Chairman & Global Chief Executive Officer of Savills Investment Management. Under his tenure, the business has grown significantly, expanding into new markets in Europe and Asia, broadening its investment capabilities and significantly increasing the range of investment opportunities offered.

Justin joined the company in January 2004 as Head of Business Development and in 2006 he was appointed Chief Executive Officer. In 2018, he was appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Asia Pacific. Under this remit he is focusing on driving business growth in Asia-Pacific, where Savills IM currently has five offices. Within the Group he is also a director of a number of regulated entities. Justin has over 30 years real estate investment experience and has worked for companies including Lend Lease, Henderson Global.

Giuseppe Oriani joined Savills Investment Management at the end of 2012 as Head of the Italian business.

Previously he was one of the managing partners of Hideal Partners, MBO of some European companies in the infrastructure and real estate industry of Babcock & Brown, where he was Head of M&A Europe.

He has over 20 years of experience in the investment banking industry, having worked at SBC Warburg and ABN Amro where he was Managing Director of the Corporate Finance Team.

Since his arrival in Savills Investment Management the Company has raised the AuM of nearly €1.6 million and the funds managed up to 20.

He was recently appointed as CEO Europe.

Duncan Owen joined Schroders in January 2012 and is the Global Head of Real Estate. The role has responsibility for providing leadership and developing the growth strategy of the business as well as its investment direction. He chairs Real Estate Investment Committee and is a board member of the SREIM board, as well as a member of the Real Estate Global Indirect Investment Committee. He is also the lead manager for Schroder REIT.

Duncan was CEO of Invista from 2006 to 2012, which involved setting the strategy and growth of the listed company. Invista was formed from the Fund Management business of Insight Investment Management Limited.

He joined Insight in 2003 following its acquisition of Gatehouse Investment Management, the real estate investment management boutique which he co-founded. He was a main board director at Insight Investment from 2003 to 2006 and was Head of Alternative Investments, responsible for driving the strategy and growth of the business.

He was a Partner at Jones Lang LaSalle from 1990 to 2000, which involved Pan-European real estate fund management.

Duncan has over 25 years of Real Estate experience, has a degree from Sheffield City University, is a qualified chartered surveyor. He studied at Insead Business School and is an FCA approved person. He is also a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and British Property Federation’s Policy Committee. He is the Non-Executive Chairman of Monument Asset Management. He is also a Non-Executive member of the Church of England Board and Asset Committee.

Raimund is a corporate real estate professional with 25 years’ experience in all sectors of real estate. Starting his career 1991 he has worked for a “medium sized enterprise” with a portfolio across all asset classes, he has worked 3-year for Union Investment and continued with 14 years’ tenure at Amazon Europe. At the cutting-edge ecommerce giant, he has been part of an amazing success story witnessing a growth from US$600 million net sales to around US$130 billion in 2016, building the most advances ecommerce logistic network for Europe.

As Real Estate Director and member of the European Leadership team Raimund has built and headed the Amazon EMEA real estate team being involved in the strategic network planning and design of the European Fulfillment Network. He has been a significant contributor of the new generation of European Fulfilment Centers. He and his team have been in charge for the search, acquisition and implementation of 34 FC’s, and 25 smaller hubs for the transportation and the prime now network totaling 3 million + square meter additional warehouse space in Europe.

In June 2016 Raimund has left Amazon taking a 15month sabbatical including an around the world trip together with selected consultancy mandates. As keynote speaker has given talks about digitalization and the impact of exponential growth. In September 2017, he has started as Vice President Corporate Real Estate for the number one European ecommerce Fashion platform Zalando SE Berlin.

Eric.Pang@eu.jll.com
T:+44 (0)20 7087 5477

Current responsibilities

Eric Pang heads UK China Business Group which is a dedicated team of experienced JLL professionals across the office agency, investment and residential development sectors with the primary responsibilities to provide JLL UK real estate solutions to Chinese clients.

The China Business Group is based in London. The team covers all of the UK markets with full support of JLL UK Board, also extended its scope to the entire EMEA and is a key part of the JLL global C-Desk initiative.

Previous experience

Eric Pang is one of the most experienced real estate investment professionals originally from JLL China with over 18 years of extensive experience across China markets before relocated into the UK, during which he has established and maintained close relationships with major Chinese institutions, investors, occupiers and developers.

Eric is an ambitious team player with previous international experience living and working in Australia and Singapore, and now in the UK since January 2015.

Representative transactions

Eric Pang’s key appointment has strengthened JLL UK China business strategy and further enhanced our capabilities and leading position in the industry. Some notable investment transactions and mandates that Eric has solicited and directly involved with include:

Catherine Pogorzelski advises fund managers and investors on the structuring and formation of and investment into alternative investment funds particularly within the private equity, real estate, debt and hedge funds sectors.

Catherine's practice also includes assisting clients in connection with general regulatory matters, general corporate law, mergers & acquisitions and in particular transactional work relating to investment funds and investment management related financial services.

She also assists on all legal aspects impacting alternative investment fund managers, funds management entities and their service providers, including fund and investment management operator structuring, regulatory compliance and on-going activities.

Marianne Ramel is experienced in a broad range of debt and equity finance transactions, particularly in project finance (including public-private partnership), real estate finance and acquisition finance. Marianne has represented a wide range of finance providers (including sovereigns) and borrowers. Marianne is also active within the firm’s Corporate group.

Marianne is head of the China desk in Sweden, and is experienced in cross-border transactions, with a particular emphasis on the Chinese market. Having worked and studied in various periods in China since 1988, Marianne has given advice on some of the largest foreign investments in China, as well as on outbound Chinese investments. Marianne advises Nordic companies in achieving their strategic and commercial plans in China, as well as Chinese companies investing in the Nordic region.

Cristina joined Arcano Partners as CFO of the real estate Asset Management division. Prior to that, she worked at the German Real Estate lender Aareal Bank for more than 9 years originating, structuring and executing real estate financings in Spain and Portugal.

In the last 30 months she has coordinated as CFO the investment activities of Arcano’s first real estate value added fund totalling over €150 million investment value (credit, residential land for development, hospitality assets, office refurbishment and development, etc.) and is now focused on the investment of a more than €200 million-equity vehicle also pursuing value added. Cristina counts with 15+ years’ experience in diverse fields within the real estate investment and financing industry in an international environment and has been a Professor for the IE Business School during the last 7 years lecturing real estate investment and financial accounting courses in a number of international programs.

Cristina holds an EXMIF (IE), a Master in Real Estate Management (Universidad Europea), a MA in Law (Carlos III) and a M. Sc. in Business (Carlos III).

Lars Reubekeul has a wealth of knowledge and expertise in the German and pan European real estate markets, which helps his clients to create investment opportunities and strategic property portfolios.

Along with his highly experienced, multilingual team, Lars advises on national and cross-border real estate with a special focus on land law as well as commercial tenancy law.

Lars has a pragmatic, solution-oriented approach and sees relationships and trust as the key drivers of his practice. This enables his clients to steer successfully through the challenges of the often complex real estate markets in Europe.

Lars' clients include institutional investors, funds, private equity houses, asset management platforms, corporates and family offices. He has a specialist market knowledge in all real estate asset classes, but focusing on retail and office as well as on data centers. He has been a specialized lawyer in construction and architectural law of the Frankfurt bar association since 2009.

Lars heads jointly with Fabian Mühlen the German Real Estate group of DLA Piper.

• 25+ years of experience of the property market, both from the investor and the transaction advisory perspective
• Louise served as a partner and head of property transactions at Leimdörfer between 2002-2011
• Worked between1991 and 1998 at the first, second and third Swedish national AP funds and thereafter at listed property company Drott
• Over SEK70 billion in executed property transactions since 2002
• She has been responsible for executing many of the largest and most complex transactions on the Nordic property market
• Female role model of the year in the Swedish real estate industry 2012
• Head of Investment Management Debt since 2012, managing EUR 500+ of institutional capital in the first Nordic Real Estate Debt funds

With nearly 20 years' experience in real estate investments and developments, hotel, retail and mixed use sectors, Susheela Rivers has advised on landmark developments throughout Asia (including China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Korea, India and Indonesia) and the UK.

With a focus in real estate acquisitions/disposals, financings, developments, leases, hotels and private funding initiatives, Susheela advises private equity real estate funds, property companies, international hotel groups, investment banks, retailers and hospitals on complex, high value transactions including securitisations and IPOs. She regularly acts for investment/fund managers, advising on establishment of funds and investment structuring, acquisitions/disposals, joint ventures, investment and management agreements, leases and asset management strategies.

Susheela is head of the Real Estate group and the Hospitality and Leisure sector in Asia Pacific.

Vincent Rouget is a Partner at Aermont Capital and a member of its Management Committee.

Vincent is responsible for Continental European activities and led various Aermont’s investments across the years, including the build-up of mfi retail platform in Germany and The Student Hotel platform in Europe, in addition to various property investments in France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Benelux. Prior to joining in 2007, Vincent worked at Morgan Stanley, in Paris in the Investment Banking Division and New York in Global Capital Markets, after graduating from HEC Paris.

Simon Schaefer began his career as an interface designer in 1997, working for German startups with his own interactive agency Kinderfield Inc. He ran his sneaker boutique Nort in Berlin, as well as the 95 Gallery showcasing street artists such as Futura 2000, Stash and KR. Simon has invested in about 50 angel- and seed-stage companies and In 2011 he co-founded Factory, a campus model for Startups, the very fist of Europe´s mega-campuses. After launching the worlds first Policy X Startup conference Startup Europe Summit with the European Commission in 2015 and 2016 he completed the second Berlin Campus "Silicon Allee". Simon has recently relocated to Lisbon, now driving the Portuguese Initiative for Entrepreneurship, Startup Portugal. Him and his partners are launching Factory Lisbon as the first anchor of Lisbon´s new innovation district "Hub Criativo do Beato".

Philipp Schaper is Group Head of Transactions, responsible for the acquisition and disposition efforts across all use types in Europe. He also occupies the position of Managing Director and Head of Transactions in Germany. Before joining PATRIZIA, he worked as Managing Director and Head of Direct Investments, responsible for a EUR 5bn European on balance portfolio for IVG Immobilien AG. Formerly, he was Vice President at Fortress Investment Group, where he was in charge of the commercial transactions in Germany for several years. He started his career at LaSalle Investment Management focusing on European acquisitions and capital raising. Schaper obtained a first-class BSc (Hons) degree in Urban Estate Management and a MSc in Real Estate Economics and Finance from the London School of Economics. He is a member of PATRIZIA’s European Investment Committee.

Union Investment is a leading international property investment company specializing in open-ended real estate funds for private and institutional investors and has assets under management of some € 35 billion in 20 real estate funds. The current portfolio comprises 365 properties and projects throughout Europe, the Americas and Asia/Pacific. Martin Schellein has a background as an architect and a postgraduate degree in real estate. He joined Union Investment in 2009 and was responsible for investments and property sales in France until 2012. From 2013 to the beginning of 2017 he was leading the Investment Management Europe II team covering the Continental European investment markets outside of the DACH region. Since March 2017 he is Head of the Investment Management Europe department covering all European investment markets.

Olaf Schmidt is co-chair of DLA Piper's global real estate sector and join Managing Director for Europe and the Middle East. He advises national and international investors and developers in all aspects of real estate law, including investment and tax law.

Due to his investment and financing background, Olaf assists his clients in identifying and implementing the most suitable structure for the realisation of real estate investments in Italy.

Lucia is the Head of Sustainability and Social Responsibility at Generali Group, since September 2015. Her responsibilities are the definition along with the implementation of the Group Sustainability strategy and policies.

Lucia is also Board Member of Fondazione Generali – The Human Safety Net, the Group initiative whose aim is to unlock the potential of people in need.

Prior to joining Generali, Lucia was head of the Europe-Middle East-Africa Corporate Responsibility (CR) network at KPMG, managing and coordinating around 100 countries on sustainability topics. Concurrently she held direct responsibility for CR in KPMG Italy.

From 2000 to 2008, Lucia was a consultant on Sustainability in KPMG, supporting a large number of clients in defining and developing their Sustainability strategy. During her career tenure, she has worked with high profile clients within the industries of telecommunications, oil and gas, chemical & pharmaceutical and financial.

Lucia holds a Master degree in ‘Governance, Business Ethics and Risk Management’ from Libero Istituto Universitario Carlo Cattaneo University along with a degree in Philosophy from Statale di Milano University.

Tony is Managing Director, Head of European Private Equity. He is a member of the firm's European Investment Committee and Global Management Committee. Tony is responsible for leading Heitman's European Private Equity group and as such, its investment activites across Europe, including acquisitions, asset management, operations, and strategy. Prior to joining Heitman, he served as Head of Continental Europe at an investment management firm, Schroders, where he provided leadership, direction, and management for fund management teams and investment strategies including public markets, debt, and private equity. In the last five years, he has been involved in over €7 billion of transaction activity.

Tony has nearly 30 years of real estate experience and studied in Sheffield and Manchester to qualify as a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in 1993. He is an FCA-approved person and holds an Investment Management Certificate. He has held a variety of Board and Management positions, is a member of Investment Property Forum, and is also fluent in French.

Cristiano joined Invesco Real Estate in January 2017 and has over 16 years’ real estate experience.

At Invesco, he coordinates a team of 7 professionals in Paris, Madrid and Milan to run and develop the transactions activity for this region. In addition, he coordinates the debt investment strategy in Europe for clients.

Prior to joining Invesco, Cristiano has started his career at Deutsch Bank Group at the real estate private equity investment arm (REOG).

He spent 13 years at Generali, where he started the AM and transactions team in Milan before setting up the regulated real estate fund management platform in Luxembourg. From 2008 in Paris, he has been successively lead for Generali Real Estate the international funds, the debt investment program, and international transactions.

Cristiano has obtained a finance degree at Luigi Bocconi University in Milan and completed a Generali Academy MBA. Cristiano is based in the Paris office.

Chris is an International Director of JLL’s EMEA Capital Markets Business, a member of JLL’s Global Capital Markets Advisory Board and head of EMEA Investor Clients.

Chris has worked for JLL since 1998 in the London, Paris and Brussels offices advising clients on transactions throughout Europe with an in depth knowledge of Capital Markets.

Chris has led JLL’s pan-EMEA Office and Industrial sector Capital Markets teams and enjoys relationships with many of Europe’s most active institutional investors.

Nils is CEO of Hemsö Fastighets AB, the largest private owner of real estate for social infrastructure in the Nordics. Nils has held senior positions with Citycon, Areim, Doughty Hanson & Co and started his career with Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank in London.

Matthias is founder and managing partner of mojo.capital, a collaborative investment management firm to capitalise on the digital opportunity in Europe. mojo.capital is advising Mojo Digital One, a Luxembourg based late stage equity fund hat invests in the most promising European-born digital technology high growth companies through and alongside Funds, Business Angels and Family offices. The fund sources investment opportunities through investments in the best European Venture Capital Funds.

Prior to mojo.capital, Matthias has been building and leading European Investment Fund’s Technology Investment business since 2001. He has been invested and was involved with some of the most dynamic and successful technology investors to emerge in Europe in the last 18 years. Under his leadership, EIF’s technology investment business has grown substantially; with over EUR 4.7bn committed in or alongside more than 260 funds, business angels and family offices at the time he left in September 2014. He had a key role in raising and managing major third-party technology investment mandates such as the ERP-EIF Dachfonds, the UK Future Technologies Fund, the Dutch Venture Initiative or co-investment mandates such as the European Angels Fund.

Matthias is constantly engaged in the technology and entrepreneurial ecosystem as an angel investor, mentor, advisor and board member. He is member of the Startup Europe Advisory Board, an initiative of the European Commission, which falls under its priority of the ‘Digital Single Market’.

Highlighted Experience

Ian, currently sitting in Grant Thornton's China Britain Services Group, provides national pan-advisory support, using his skills and expertise to develop all China related opportunities and relations, assist both British and Chinese clients in their cross-border investment and trade activities, help colleagues deliver projects to Chinese clients in the UK and China, and promote diversity and Chinese culture awareness within the firm.He is a Bilingual China-born British citizen, having 18 years client-side work experience in Mainland China, Hong Kong and UK across various sectors and diversified business functions with in-depth knowledge of UK-China business collaborations. Prior to joining the firm, Ian held a number of senior roles in both British companies (British importer and British exporter) and Chinese corporates (Chinese state-owned conglomerate with over 500,000 employees, the 81 largest in the world and Chinese private family office with over 20,000 employees, top 50 richest in Asia).

He is well-connected within C-suites of Chinese corporates community as well as Chinese HNWI’s circle based in the UK.

He technically specializes in Corporate Finance, Strategic Alliance, Global Sourcing and Strategic Procurement, Corporate Governance and Internal Control, China Market Entry and Growth Strategy, English to Chinese Translation.

Sector experience

Ian has extensive experience in the UK retail and consumer sector, having worked as a merchandiser for a British importer supplying over 100 UK retailers or catalogue companies.

He was professionally trained as a technical sales man in the UK industrial printing machinery sector, having helped a British exporter procure used machinery from over 20 European Countries and sell to more than 50 top leading Chinese commercial printers.

He led the Investor Relations team for a HK-listed company in China Gas utilities sector, have promoted the listed stocks (£6 billion Market Cap) to over 500 major global Equity Investment Funds.

Significant projects

At Reignwood Group, parent holding of Red Bull China, Ian

• Controlled the risks of investing 1 billion GBP on eight major projects in the UK, including developing Four Seasons Hotel, acquiring and renovating Wentworth Golf Club, acquiring fast consumable brands, Vitacoco and VOSS Water
• Participated in negotiating and engaging with operators, consultants and suppliers, and also created internal control policies and procedures for Reignwood Group’s overseas investment (11 chapters and over 220 pages)
• Coordinated internal and external audit for overseas subsidiaries

At China Resources group, he

• Co-managed the Treasury team which implements Cash Pooling and Internal Loan System across over 350 subsidiary companies in China and saved cost of funding over HK$200 million. He also proficiently taught Finance and Cash Management courses to over 300 CFOs within the Group

During his PhD studies, he has advised a number of UK and Chinese companies on many cross-border investment activities. Projects of note include:

• Assisted a UK printing roller manufacturer to set up the joint venture and the factory facility in China within 90 days and efficiently controlled a sales team of 20-people selling products across 20 provinces of China within 6 months after trial production
• Supported Effimay Wine Ltd in China to source and procure 150 containers of wines from Bordeaux and established over 10 distribution centres in China
• Helped Seegrid in USA to negotiate a joint venture agreement with Heli Forklift Group in China.
• Assisted Polar PV Ltd (Solar panel manufacturers) to set up a European sales network
• Aided Anhui Lianhua Group in China to negotiate a joint venture agreement manufacturing regional aircrafts with ATR Group in France
• Helped London Olympic Games Committee and Golden Bear Ltd in UK to source and manage the mascot plush toy manufacturing in China

Professional qualifications

In 2001, Ian received BA (First) degree in International Business from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, one of the leading linguistics universities in China, professionally trained as an interpreter for senior Chinese government leaders.

In 2002, he graduated from University of Leeds with MA (Distinction) in Accounting and Finance and published an academic paper at INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT.

Between 2009 and 2015, he completed five years of PhD studies in Corporate Finance at University of Surrey and obtained a Doctor degree in Business Administration.

Ben expertly merges his three passions into his professional career: technology, energy and the automotive sector. Ben joined Town Centre Securities as an Assistant Asset Manager in 2008 and drove his innovation into assessment and improvement of the business. Ben’s vision to prolong and offer further generations of service led to his movement into the car park subsidiary as Managing Director. Ben steamed south through Greater and Central London and north into Edinburgh to secure 5 new car park acquisitions, led the redevelopment of the Merrion Centre car park in Leeds, and steered the hugely successful rebrand of the car park business into the country wide ‘CitiPark’. Ben is now primarily responsible for the operations and investments relating to the CitiPark business, with a dedicated focus on expanding the business, brand and asset base across England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Ben’s knowledge of the energy sector led to the development of TCS Energy in 2012; a company which pursues a green and renewable energy production and delivery agenda with notable first class solar farm examples at Urban Exchange and Leeds Dock. Ben’s curiosity with technology has ensured the company contains cutting edge tech to revolutionise and maximize its operation. CitiPark boasts: Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR); generic Electric Vehicle Charging (EVC); Tesla’s Charging Network; Skidata’s software and hardware; Apple Pay and contactless payment in every branch; and the introduction of the 24/7 ‘Engine Room’ which is a centralised control room for every CitiPark branch in the country. In September 2015, Ben was appointed the youngest ever member on the Board of Directors. In his personal life, Ben enjoys drumming (having performed with the Kaiser Chiefs), is a keen runner (having stormed the London Marathon to raise in excess of £100,000 for Teenage Cancer Trust) and is an avid black-run mountain skier.