With Generali since 2005, Alberto Agazzi currently serves as Head of Generali Real Estate International, overseeing the real estate investment and portfolio management activities in the USA, UK and APAC markets.

Prior to this role, he served for nine years as CEO and General Manager at Generali Real Estate SGR, managing the Pan European fund management

activities with an AUM in excess of 15 bln euro. Alberto joined Generali from Mediobanca, where he worked in Real Estate Advisory team. He began his career in Milan with an engineering company as Project Manager. A profound expert in the international real estate markets, over the years he served on the Board of Directors of several real estate private companies.

He received an undergraduate degree in Building Engineering from Politecnico di Milano and an

MBA from SDA Bocconi. Alberto is deputy Chairman of Assoimmobiliare, the Italian real estate association, and he is serving as member of the Management Board at INREV.

Paul brings 26 years of industry experience to the Firm and is a member of the Firm’s Executive and Investment Committees. As Chief Executive Officer of Europe, based in London, he leads the expansion of Harrison Street’s European strategies and is responsible for overseeing and growing the Firm’s team of professionals across the UK and Europe.

Prior to joining Harrison Street, Paul was most recently President and Chief Operating Officer at Round Hill Capital, a real estate investment and asset management firm with a global footprint. While at Round Hill Capital, he managed a business with a $8+ billion portfolio as well as a team of 260 people across 15 offices in 14 countries. He has overseen investment and development projects, regulatory approvals, complex refinancings and capital raises in multiple European locations across a wide array of real estate asset sectors including retail, commercial, residential and student housing. Prior to joining Round Hill, Paul served as a Partner at Aggmore Group, where he was responsible for raising and deploying over €500 million of new capital and developed JV partnerships with European operators in the residential and commercial real estate space. Earlier he served as Chief Operating Officer at North Bridge Capital Partners Ltd. he began his career at KPMG LLP as a senior manager in the transaction services department.

Paul earned a BA in Accounting and Financial Analysis from Newcastle University. he is ACA qualified and is a member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Marc-Antoine Bouyer is Head of Carlyle Europe Realty and is based in London.

Prior to joining Carlyle in 2016, Mr. Bouyer was a Managing Director at Blackstone, where he spent 10 years as a member of the European Real Estate group and contributed to a variety of acquisitions, disposals, financings, restructurings and asset management transactions with a total investment value of more than €4 billion. Prior to joining Blackstone, Mr. Bouyer worked at Lehman Brothers.

Mr. Bouyer received an MSc in management from HEC business school in Paris, where he majored in finance. Mr. Bouyer also holds a master’s in international management from the Community of European Management Schools (CEMS).

Alice has been at JLL since January 2019 and previously led the Middle East desk at Cushman & Wakefield.
As Head of Distribution for Capital Markets, Alice oversees JLL’s global distribution capability across all direct and indirect product worldwide. Prior to her role as Head of Distribution, Alice was a Director in the International Capital Coverage team, working across all sectors and geographies to connect JLL’s European market and sector teams with the most active capital from outside of Europe.

Anthony co-founded Mirastar in 2019. He is responsible for
overseeing investment and development transactions and
building client relationships. He is a recognised leader within the
global real estate industry with strong connections to the
institutional world.

Previously, Anthony was CIO of Delin Properties where he
managed transactions and developed their third-party fund
management business. Before that, he was Global Head of
Transactions and Indirect Business at Generali (AUM €25bn).
Before that, he created and led TIAA’s European business and
grew its AUM to €3.5bn, after which it merged with TIAA’s
Nuveen (TH Real Estate).

Dr Alexis Crow is Partner and Chief Economist of PwC US. A global economist who focuses on geopolitics and long-term investing, she works with the world’s leading companies and private investors to understand and navigate key macroeconomic dynamics impacting their business, strategy, and capital allocation decisions. In her remit, she covers Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and North America. Dr Crow is a public speaker and frequent contributor to leading global financial publications and media outlets, including the Financial Times, the New York Times, Bloomberg, BBC, BBC Arabic, France 24, CNN, and the Washington Post.

In addition to her role with PwC, Dr Crow is a Senior Fellow at Columbia Business School, and also with the Observer Research Foundation in India. She serves as a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Futures Council on Geopolitics, and she is a Young Global Leader in the World Economic Forum. Dr. Crow is a reader at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York. She also serves on the advisory board for Faith in Action in the World Economic Forum.

Prior to joining PwC, she taught at the London School of Economics; led a major policy research project at London UK-based think-tank Chatham House; and served as Managing Director at New York-based G2 Investment Group. Dr Crow holds a MA Hons First Class from the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and an MSc and a PhD from the London School of Economics.

Heather Day is a managing director at PGIM Real Estate, based in London. She serves on PGIM Real Estate’s European Executive Council and sits on several company boards across Europe.

Heather joined PGIM Real Estate in May 2008 as part of the portfolio management team, in Global Merchant Banking, responsible for fund finance, operations, risk management and investor relations and latterly heading up Operations for London and Luxembourg, responsible for 10 staff across the two offices. In January 2015, Heather's role expanded into investor services, before being made European Chief Operating Officer in 2016. In 2023/4, Heather took on additional Chief Operating Officer responsibilities for the international business and global digital infrastructure.

Prior to joining PGIM Real Estate, Heather was a senior fund accountant at Citi Property Investors, working on a range of pan-European opportunistic and core funds, and a fund accountant at ING Real Estate UK, focusing on UK funds and UK institutional investors.

Heather's career in real estate began in 2004 and over the last 16 years she has gained  experience in fund operations, finance and accounting, investor services and portfolio management.

Heather qualified as a chartered accountant in 2000, training with KPMG for five years in audit and forensic accounting. She graduated from the University of Manchester in 1997 with a bachelor's degree (with honours) including a year spent at Penn State University in the United States.

Mai-Lan de Marcilly (London) joined KKR in 2013 and is a member of the Real Estate team, in charge of France and hospitality. Prior to joining KKR, Ms. de Marcilly was at PGIM in London where she focused on pan-European opportunistic and value added investments across sectors. Ms. de Marcilly also spent time at LaSalle IM, Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds, and RBS in Paris and London. Ms. de Marcilly holds an M.B.A. from ESSEC Business School, Paris.

Sebastian is the Senior Fund Manager covering the European Data Centre sector at Principal and is based in London having joined February 2017. Previously he was responsible for managing a pan-European logistics separate account and was the Assistant Fund Manager for the Principal European Core Strategy.
Prior to joining Principal, Sebastian worked in the Corporate Finance department of Telereal Trillium where he analysed M&A and current portfolio opportunities. Sebastian holds a Masters in Natural Sciences - Physics and Economics from Durham University and is a CFA® charterholder.

Justin Hildebrandt serves as Senior Managing Director, Head of Europe, for Affinius Capital where he is responsible for overseeing European operations and investments, including fund management and joint venture relationships. Justin is actively involved in Affinius Capital’s pan-European logistics joint venture, Mountpark Logistics EU Sarl, and its majority ownership of the Mountpark Logistics development company, where he previously served as its CEO and continues to be on the Board of Directors. In addition to the logistics businesses, Justin leads Affinius Capital’s growing investment activities in European purpose-built rental housing, data centers, and credit.

Prior to moving to Europe in 2016, Justin oversaw equity and credit investment activity for Affinius Capital in the Pacific Northwest of the US based in San Francisco. Prior to joining Affinius Capital in 2011, Justin was Vice President at Bentall Kennedy. Justin received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley.

Justin is a member of the European Logistics Forum, Young President’s Organization, and is a past Director of The Guardsmen, an all-volunteer organization that provides access to high-quality educational and outdoor activities for inner-city youth in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Wilson Lamont is a Partner and Co-Head of European Real Estate in Ares Real Estate. Additionally, Mr. Lamont is a member of the Ares Real Estate Global Investment Committee. Prior to joining Ares in 2013, Mr. Lamont was a Partner at AREA Property Partners, where he focused on European investments. Previously, Mr. Lamont was an Analyst at Morgan Stanley, where he focused on real estate investment banking. Mr. Lamont holds an M.A. from the University of Cambridge in Land Economy.

Joanne McNamara is Executive Vice President – Europe of Oxford Properties, a leading global real estate investor, asset manager and business builder. In this role, Jo is responsible for all aspects of Oxford’s business across Europe. Jo is a member of Oxford’s Leadership team, Investment and Executive Committees, and most recently took up a non-executive role at ESR, a Pan-Asian fund management business. Jo was one of Oxford’s first team members in London, joining the European investment team in 2010, and over the past decade has contributed to and led many of the organization’s most significant investment and development transactions. Jo was most recently responsible for the operating performance of Oxford’s European business and leadership of the 40+ person European team.

Prior to joining Oxford, Jo worked in investments and development at leading real estate companies. Jo has a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics (Honours) from Cardiff University and a Master of Science in International Real Estate from the Oxford Brookes University and currently lives in London. She previously received recognition as a PERE Woman of Influence and received a 2021 PERE Award for European Industry figure of the year.

Paul Mortlock is Head of European Data Centre Capital Markets at CBRE.
He is an investment specialist with more than 17 years of experience, the last 7 being in data centres. Paul exclusively advises investors and operators on data centre M&A, sale and leaseback and investment transactions. Paul specialises in coordinating large M&A advisory projects, together with investment acquisitions and disposals, and preparing complex commercial due diligence reports.
Prior to joining CBRE, Paul worked in Shopping Centre Investment at Cushman & Wakefield, where he had in excess of 10 years' experience in real estate investment and valuation and has executed in excess of €3bn of real estate transactions.
Paul is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) and has a Master’s degree in Real Estate.

Francois Trausch is the global Chief Executive Officer & Chief Investment Officer of PIMCO Prime Real Estate and also serves as a Managing Director at PIMCO. With over 25 years of experience in the finance and real estate sector, he joined the company in 2016, previously known as Allianz Real Estate. He was CEO of Asia Pacific at GE Capital Real Estate International and President & CEO of GE Capital Real Estate Japan.

Francois Trausch’s earlier roles included Development Manager at Tishman Speyer Properties in New York and Berlin and Associate Fixed Income at Goldman Sachs in London. Trausch is a thought leader in the industry and a ULI Global Governing Trustee. He holds a degree from ESCP Paris and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Tim Walton is a Senior Vice President of International Hotel Development for Marriott International.  Based in London, he currently oversees a team of 13 executives responsible for the development of all Marriott’s brands across the northern, western and southern regions of Europe (primarily through means of management and franchising contracts).  He also has EMEA-wide responsibility for the development of the Design Hotels brand (through means of affiliation contracts).

Before re-joining Marriott in 2005, Tim spent four years as Vice President of Hotel Development, Europe, with Le Méridien Hotels & Resorts.  Prior to that (between 1997 and 2001), he worked with Marriott’s Development Planning and Feasibility group and was responsible for a wide variety of market and feasibility studies across the EMEA region. 

Tim has also held positions within the fields of consultancy (with industry experts Horwath and BDO) and on-property sales and marketing.  He is a graduate of the University of Surrey where he is a regular guest lecturer.  He is also a member of the University’s Surrey Business School advisory board and a frequent speaker on the hotel industry conference circuit.