Simon is Global Head of Real Estate Research and Strategy for Equity Private Markets at BlackRock, and has over 25 years’ experience in real estate strategy and research. At BlackRock Simon works alongside investment teams, portfolio management and clients, advising on investment strategy, authoring thought leadership, and articulating house views. Simon also sits on the Global and European Real Estate Investment Committee’s.

At BlackRock Simon is closely aligned with the BlackRock Investment Institute leveraging the firm's vast expertise and knowledge, generating proprietary research to provide insights on the global economy, markets, geopolitics and long-term asset allocation.

Previously he was Head of Research for BNP Paribas Real Estate and Head of Real Asset Research & Strategy at DWS.

Simon studied real estate investment and finance at City University London and was awarded an MBA at Warwick Business School.

Andrea Agrusow has more than 25 years of experience in real estate management and corporate governance.

She previously held management positions at leading real estate fund companies (such as CBRE Investment Management and Deka) and hotel owners (AccorInvest), with a focus on asset and portfolio management, finance and transformation.

Her current responsibilities are Real Estate Management, Finance, IT & Digitalisation.

Mario Costa has 19 years’ experience in real estate covering roles across the logistics sector: from agency to investment, and from development to asset management.

Prior to Mileway, Mario was responsible for the set-up and day-to-day management of the Italian businesses of Logicor and Goodman. Since joining Mileway in 2019 as Country Director for Italy, he has led on building the Italian business including managing investment, development, asset management for Italy.

Previously, Mario also served as Commercial Director for Celtic Italy and Head of Foreign Investment for Pirelli Real Estate.

Alexis Dubois is the Managing Director of Westfield Italy Operations Ltd, the company under which Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield operates in Italy. He has been responsible for URW’s activities in Italy since September 2022 and is leading the development of the Westfield Milan project, one of URW’s largest development projects. He has previously completed high-value real estate development projects of over 1 Bn € in France, focusing on a long-term vision by managing urban regeneration and real estate projects across the retail, office, hotel, and residential sectors. Alexis holds Engineering degrees from Polytechnique, and Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and an MBA from Collège des Ingénieurs.

Ben Eppley is a Partner at Apollo where he leads its commercial real estate debt activities in Europe. He is primarily responsible for originating, structuring, and asset managing performing commercial real estate debt investments in whole loans, mezzanine loans, structured credit, and preferred equity. Ben also oversees sourcing and arranging financings for Apollo’s European Principal Finance Funds and core-plus strategy. Prior to joining Apollo in 2013, he worked in the Real Estate Structured Finance Group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and the Commercial Real Estate Debt Capital Markets Group at Barclays Capital. Previously, he was with Eastdil Secured. Ben graduated from Yale University with a BA in English.

After gaining a Master’s degree in Law, majoring in judicial studies, and a Notary’s Diploma (Université de Lyon 3), Laurent Fléchet began his career as a notary, holding several real estate management-related positions, and then joined the Archon Group (Goldman Sachs Group).

In 2002, he became Head of Portfolio Management (more than €8 billion of assets) at Ixis Aew Europe (Caisse des Dépôts Group).

In 2006, he was named Chairman of the Management Board of Ciloger, a subsidiary of the Caisse d’Epargne Group and La Banque Postale, and contributed to the launching of the company’s first OPCIs (real estate investment schemes) and its strong development.

He joined the Primonial Group in 2011 as Deputy Chief Executive Officer responsible for real estate, then became Chairman of the Management Board of Primonial REIM (which has become Primonial REIM France) in October 2013.

In 2018, he was appointed Chairman of Primonial REIM’s Supervisory Board and led the pan-European real estate platform created in Luxembourg.

Dino began his career at Mediobanca in 1999 at Structured Finance Division with focus on ABS and leveraged finance trades, from 2005 has moved to the M&A division joining the Real Estate Team which leads since 2013. He is also responsible in Mediobanca for certain Large Corp. to coordinate and cross sell the full product spectrum . Dino is considered among the most experienced and trusted banker in the Italian real estate market with a long track-record of successful transactions arranged over 20+ year of career (sole buyside advisor on largest RE Italian take over ever on “Compagnia Reale Italiana”). Recently under his guidance, Mediobanca has promoted, arranged and executed- first in Italy - several club deals for its Private Banking Division giving an exclusive access to UHNWI to income-producing Trophy Asset such as “Cordusio Palazzo Broggi” with a long term horizon and capital preservation approach. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Bocconi University.

Mr. Golubev joined Bain Capital in 2014. He is a Partner in the Distresed Loan and Real Estate team at Bain Capital Special Situations and is based in Bain Capital’s London office. Previously, Mr. Golubev worked in the European Principal Finance Fund at Apollo in London and was an Associate at Peakside Capital. He began his investment career at Merrill Lynch in Frankfurt.

Adam holds a Diploma in International Business from the International Business School in Berlin, Germany and a Bachelor of Arts in International Business Administration from the University of Lincoln, UK.

He joined Union Investment in 2005 and was responsible for property investments and sales in Spain and the UK until 2012.

From 2012 until 2016 he focussed on transactions in the UK. Adam has also worked in Union Investment’s Singapore and New York City office in 2015.

Between 2017 and 2023 Adam was Head of the Investment Management Europe Office team, which covers the European investment markets (acquisitions and sales) outside the DACH region.

Since August 2023 Adam is Head of the Investment Management Global department which covers the overseas regions in the Americas, UK/ Ireland and Asia-Pacific, where Union Investment has local offices in New York, London and Singapore.

Nunzio Laurenziello is Head of Commercial Real Estate (CRE) Debt Funds at Generali Real Estate SGR. Mr. Laurenziello is responsible for the strategy, investment and portfolio management of real estate debt investments in Europe.

Prior to joining Generali in 2018, he was a Director of Leonardo & Co., a joint venture with Houlihan Lokey in Italy, where he was involved in structuring and closing European real estate M&A and debt transactions secured by properties located in Italy, France and  Germany.

Mr. Laurenziello earned an MSc in Economics and Business cum laude and a Bachelors degree in Economics from LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome.

Steen is Head of Capital Raising and Partnerships and member of group management at Heimstaden. He has been with the company since September 1, 2023. Prior to that Steen held a similar role at Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), the world's leading and largest investor in greenfield renewable energy projects.

Heimstaden is a residential real estate specialist with more than 30 years of experience. It is the manager of Heimstaden Bostad, an evergreen investment platform co-owned with institutional investors. With EUR ~30 bn AUM and more than 160,000 homes across nine countries, the company is the second largest residential real estate company in Europe and the only pan-European platform providing scale and operational excellence across multiple countries. Heimstaden Bostad focuses on mid-rental multi-family housing. It has a fully integrated business model with inhouse operations-, asset management-, investment-, financing, and ESG functions.

Managing Director and currently Global Lead Construction Sector at ING, in charge of the steering and management of all exposures across construction value chain. Previously he held various management positions within ING Group across different countries among which Germany, Italy, Austria and Czech Republic and covering both Real Estate Finance (origination, execution and portfolio management) and Real Estate & Other divisions (runoff of financial lease portfolios and equity positions held by ING). Michele holds a degree in Business Administration and Corporate Finance at Bocconi University and has 20 years of experience in the Banking and Real Estate finance areas with total transactions successfully completed in excess of EUR10 Bln, covering all asset classes.

Alberto Nin Garaizabal is a Managing Director in Brookfield’s Real Estate Group. In this role, he is responsible for sourcing and executing investments across Southern Europe.

Prior to joining Brookfield in 2016, Mr. Nin had worked at H.I.G. Capital as part of its distressed and real estate investment team in Madrid. Previously he worked for UBS Investment Bank, where he focused on M&A, equity and debt transactions across several sectors, asset classes and jurisdictions.

Mr. Nin holds a business degree from Universidad Francisco de Vitoria and has been a professor at the Instituto de Empresa Business School since 2016.

Luca Pellegrino has 23 years of experience in banking and structured finance. He joined Banco BPM in 2019 and currently he is Head of the Real Estate Finance desk within the Structured Finance division, a part of Corporate Investment Banking.

Before that, he was Director at Intesa Sanpaolo, where he coordinated structured finance activities within the BDT Division. His banking career began in 2000 at Interbanca in Milan.

Michael Ramm, a German national, is co-heading the investment and asset management activities for J.P. Morgan Asset Management - Real Estate Europe. He is also a member of the European management board and the European investment committee. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan Asset Management in 2005, Michael was a Senior Investment Manager at AIG Global Real Estate. Prior to that, he held various positions at Jones Lang LaSalle in Warsaw, Moscow and London. Michael holds a Master's degree in Economics and Finance from the European Business School International.

Graduated with honors at the Faculty of Economics of Turin University, she has gained twenty-five years of experience in private equity, real estate finance and asset management.

She is founder and CEO of Sensible Capital, an advisory firm for investments in illiquid assets, with a specific ESG focus.

From 2017 to June 2023, she has been President of Assoimmobiliare and in this capacity she founded, at SDA Bocconi, the RE Innovation Lab and the RE Innovation Academy.

At SDA Bocconi she is responsible for the Real Estate Asset Management track and for the Executive Master of Finance.

From 2003 to 2005 she was CFO of Patrimonio dello Stato S.p.A., with responsibility for the program of public real estate funds and financial instruments for the enhancement and privatization of the State's real estate assets, in close collaboration with the Directorate General of the Treasury (Ministry of Economy and Finance). Subsequently, she was in London as Head of Business Development of the Aedes Group and from 2009 to 2013 she held the role of General Manager of REAM SGR S.p.A., an asset management company controlled by the CRT Foundation and other banking foundations belonging to the Piedmont region.

She has also gained significant experience in socially responsible finance having set up and managed two of the first social housing funds launched in Italy.

Alongside her professional activity, she has constantly carried out academic and research activities for, among others, the Department of Economics and the Department of Commercial Law of the Faculty of Economics of Turin, the L. Einaudi Research and Documentation Center of Turin, the Master of Real Estate Finance of SDA Bocconi and the Res Publica Foundation.

She has been a member of the board of directors of numerous companies in the financial sector.

She is a fellow of the Urban Land Institute and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a board member of the Institute for International Political Studies.

She is the Chairwoman of the Board of Poste Italiane S.p.A. since May 8, 2023.

Mr. Saponara is the Head of South & West Europe and Co-Head of Investments Europe for PIMCO Prime Real Estate. He joined the company in 2014, leads several Board and Advisory Committees and sits on the European Senior Leadership Committee. Mr. Saponara is co-responsible for the investment activity in Europe while also leading the European office and logistics expert teams. Prior to joining the company, he worked for 14 years at Morgan Stanley as a Director, co-heading the Italian Investing team and leading acquisitions, sales and refinancing deals. Mr. Saponara graduated magna cum laude from Bocconi University in Milan.

Olaf Schmidt is the Partner who heads DLA Piper’s Real Estate Practice group in Italy and he is the Managing Director of Practice Groups. He contributed to the development of the Italian practice and the International Real Estate department.

He assists 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.

David is a pioneering investor in the hotel industry; he is well regarded as a preeminent thought leader in the luxury and lifestyle space having mastermind transformative projects such as the W, Rome, which became Marriott’s flagship European property for the W brand.

He founded Omnam in 2012 and through keen personnel management and diligent selection of acquisitions, has scaled the company to become a multi-national organization with a real estate portfolio of c.€2bn development value, returning 20%+ IRRs to investors.

Prior to Omnam, advised the hotel department of a large Israeli real estate developer on major projects. He holds a BA in economics & national affairs and an MRE in real estate from The Technion, Israel.