Fabiano Alberti is married with three children. After multidisciplinary experiences in Unilever, BIC, and Gualapack, he joined BCG where he has been working since 2008 as IGT Business Management Senior Director. He is responsible for all the staff and the Operations department for Italy, Greece and Turkey.

He has been in charge of managing the new office refurbishments across the three countries, starting from the election of a new location to the implementation of new technologies, from the evaluation of space allocation to the development of cutting.-edge smart working solutions.

Today BCG Italy is located in Via Foscolo 1, a 6.200 sqm new fascinating building, owned by Generali, which hosts intercultural people working on 6 floors, and includes multifunctional terraces and a beautiful plenary room for events and meetings.

Giuseppe Amitrano is the CEO of GVA Redilco and he is responsible for overseeing the management of the business. His main operating task is coordinating the relationship with key investors, corporate clients and partners for the whole group. Particularly, within GVA Redilco, he is responsible for overseeing the firm’s priority strategic initiatives and ongoing expansion of operations as well as acting as the country manager for the GVA Worldwide alliance.

In his role, Giuseppe assists the teams in originating, structuring, and closing investment and leasing transactions in all property types. In recent years, he has personally executed more than € 2 billion in transactions, providing consultancy in the real estate sector at an international level and collaborating as an advisor in major sales transactions and acquisitions. As a part of his job, Giuseppe coordinated some important GVA Worldwide accounts for their instructions and requirements in Italy. The advisory activity is directed to the active lease management, relocations and consolidations of offices on the national territory, disposition/acquisitions of properties, market researches and valuation.

Giuseppe, 39, holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Bocconi University in Milan and his background, prior to joining GVA Redilco, includes working experience in investment banking in London and audit services in Milan.

Trish has over 20 years industry experience and co-founded Benson Elliot with Marc Mogull in 2006. Prior to Benson Elliot, Trish spent two years within the Dubai Holding Group as Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Real Estate Investments for Dubai Investment Group, with responsibility for defining and implementing the Group’s global real estate strategy. Under Trish's tenure, the Group’s portfolio of direct investments increased from $500m to $3.0bn. Previously, she spent ten years at Goldman Sachs, primarily in real estate principal investing and portfolio management for the Whitehall Funds in New York, Paris and London. Trish earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude, from Boston College.

Carolina Bocchini is Head of Business Development for the Real Estate International team within Credit Suisse Asset Management. Prior to that, she was part of the Solution Specialists team within International Wealth Management - Latin America from 2010 til October 2017, focusing on Family Offices and UHNWI.

Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Carolina Bocchini worked for over 6 years for JPMorgan's Latin American M&A team, both in New York and Buenos Aires and also worked for 4 years as a Relationship Manager for UBS Private Banking in Zurich, covering clients from Southern Latin America.

Carolina Bocchini holds an Economics Degree from Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires (Argentina) and an MBA from EADA, Barcelona (Spain). She speaks Spanish, English, Portuguese, French, Italian and German.

Jean-Christophe Bretxa is CEO of Metro Properties since 2012. Prior to that he held international leadership positions at Redevco, AXA Real Estate and Carrefour where he created Carrefour Property back in 2003.

In collaboration with Metro Properties´ CFO, Jürgen Schwarze, he repositioned the portfolio and focused the company on three pillars: Asset Management, Project Development and Transactions.

Metro Properties supports METRO / MAKRO Cash & Carry in 24 countries and Real in Germany. Metro Properties operates 50 shopping centers in Germany, Poland and Turkey, directly or via its joint venture with ECE known as MEC METRO-ECE Centermanagement GmbH & Co. KG. In the last three years a pipeline of 30 re-development projects has been activated in Germany, Turkey, China and India, often in partnership with local entrepreneurs.

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.

Francesco De Gennaro focuses on restructuring and special opportunities investments, ranging from transactional assistance to lenders and investors, such as special opportunities funds and hedge funds on financial and corporate restructurings, to distressed M&A and assets acquisitions, distressed real estate projects and debt trading.

Francesco is also experienced in bankruptcy-related litigation and protection of creditors' rights. In recent years, Francesco has significantly developed his market position in the field of financial restructurings.

Cyrille Deslandes is currently the Chief Investment Officer of Klépierre, Member of the Group Management Team. Cyrille joined Klépierre in 2014 as Group Head of M&A. He has contributed to improving the group’s asset portfolio and has successfully arranged several significant acquisition and disposal deals. Cyrille Deslandes’ career began in 2002 with Deloitte, where he became a manager specialising in due diligence and valuation in France and the USA before moving to HSBC in 2007, where he was an M&A Director in real estate, hotels and leisure. Cyrille Deslandes is a graduate of EM Lyon Business School / Ludwig Maximilians Universität Programm.

Paola Dezza has been at Il Sole24 Ore since 2004, dealing with the real estate market at 360°, from the residential market to the world of real estate professionals, from all news on Italian and foreign real estate companies to large projects. She also writes about lifestyle, tourism and luxury hotels.

Paola was born in Milan, but lived abroad for a long time: in the United States (Phoenix), Iran (Teheran) and France (Paris). She holds a degree in Economics and attended a marketing course, a master in technical analysis and the course "Real estate valuation and financing" at Sda Bocconi.

Before 2004 she dealt with finance (covering the bank and telecommunications industries) for Borsa e Finanza and for Bloomberg Investment, with personal finance for Panorama and for Il Corriere della Sera. For Radio Capital she was responsible for all news on the Italian Stock Exchange from 2001 until 2003. She is often guests in TV programs and moderators in industry conferences.

Alberto Esguevillas is Country Manager Italy for Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield. Alberto has 20 years’ experience in the Real Estate industry in Development, Asset and Investment Management. Alberto joined Westfield in 2014 and has since worked in delivering Westfield London’s extension, Westfield Stratford City (London) development projects and has also been looking after new business opportunities in Europe. Alberto has a Masters in Industrial Engineering, ICAI (Madrid) and an MBA by London Business School.

Valeria Falcone is a member of Barings Alternative Investments, a global real estate, private equity and real assets platform. Valeria is Managing Director, Real Estate Fund Management & Country Head – Italy and is responsible for sourcing both new real estate investment opportunities in Italy as well as capital from institutions wishing to invest in debt and equity products in the United States and Europe. Valeria is also the Portfolio Manager of Barings European Value Add Fund I. Prior to joining the firm in 2015, Valeria was with The Carlyle Group for 11 years having been appointed Managing Director and Real Estate Country Head for Italy in 2011 responsible for the acquisition of commercial and residential properties in Italy and the ongoing management of their Italian portfolio. She also held positions at Pirelli & C. Real Estate (now Prelios) and Citibank. Valeria holds a B.A. and an MSc in Architecture from Polytechnic of Milan.

Francesca is the co-founder and Managing Partner of First Growth Real Estate, a specialist boutique advisory firm with offices in London, Paris and Milan focused on real estate structured debt arranging, restructuring and special servicing throughout Europe. Previously, she worked at UBS, Soros Real Estate Partners and Merrill Lynch. With 20 years of real estate investment and advisory experience in both Europe and North America, Francesca has extensive experience in real estate transactions in office, hotel, residential and industrial asset classes, and was involved in €12bn of real estate transactions.

Francesca also serves as an independent non-executive director of Hong Kong based and Nasdaq listed Melco Resorts & Entertainment Ltd, a leading developer, owner and operator of casino gaming and entertainment casino resort facilities in Asia.

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 & 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.

She is a member of the WELL Faculty; a Fitwel Ambassador; and a RESET Fellow and RESET Auditor.

Since July 2014, Sandro Innocenti has served as senior vice president, country manager Italy. Before joining Prologis, he was development manager with Vailog.

Prior to transitioning to real estate, Innocenti worked for 3M and Imation Europe, where he was the European purchasing manager at the Rotterdam and Schiphol-Rjik head offices in Holland. Innocenti was also chief executive officer for Eurinpro and Parkridge Italy, as well as general manager of Panattoni Italy. For all three companies, he oversaw the opening of the businesses in Italy. From 2005 to 2006, he was commercial director of GSE Italia.

Tinka Kleine is Senior Director at PGGM and heads the European private real estate team. She is responsible for a portfolio of investments, for sourcing and executing new investments and for the implementation of the business plan of the European portfolio. Investments range from open- and closed-ended funds to partnerships and joint ventures. She has a seat in the PGGM Investment Committee Private Real Estate, which governs the global private real estate portfolio of approx. 13 billion euro.

Prior to joining PGGM in 2006, Tinka worked as an investment manager at a Dutch residential company, as a sell-side real estate analyst at a brokerage firm and as a real estate consultant in the Netherlands and Berlin. Tinka studied Economics and Urban Planning at the University of Amsterdam and became Master of Financial Analysis at the Free University of Amsterdam.

Barbara A. Knoflach (born 1965) has been appointed Deputy Chief Executive & Global Head of Investment Management of BNP Paribas Real Estate (BNPP RE) on 1st August 2015. In her role she is responsible for defining the strategy for the Investment Management business line and leading its effective execution through almost 300 employees in eight countries: France, Italy, Germany, United-Kingdom, Spain, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands.

From 2005 to 2015, Barbara A. Knoflach was CEO of SEB Asset Management AG. Before that, she was appointed Managing Director of the investment company SEB Investment GmbH in June 1999. Under her leadership, total Assets under Management grew from EUR 2 billion to over EUR 12 billion as of the end of 2013.

Ms Knoflach has over 20 years of experience in the real estate industry, covering all aspects of the business including transactions, re-development, leasing, capital markets and financing. She joined SEB Bank 1994, where she played a key role in establishing the closed-end Real Estate Fund and Real Estate Leasing areas in the first few years. In 1997, she was appointed as Managing Director of the fund management companies.

After finishing her business administration studies in 1986, she began her career in Deutsche Bank AG’s International Project Financing unit in Frankfurt am Main. In 1991, she switched within Deutsche Bank Group to the Consulting and Research department of the bank’s real estate subsidiary.

Barbara Knoflach is involved in numerous associations and organizations in the real estate industry. She was a Board Member of AFIRE. Furthermore, she is a Member of the Executive Committee of ZIA (Zentraler Immobilien Ausschuss e.V) and a Trustee Member of ULI. She is also Chairman of the Advisory Board for CREA® (Certified Real Estate Investment Analyst) which she initiated together with IREBS Immobilienakademie and DVFA.

Roberto Lauritano started working Head of Letting Department at Generali Real Estate SpA SGR in 2009. In this position, his duties are: ensure the achievement of the defined objectives in terms of gross financial vacant reduction, direct portfolio rents, debt collection rate, monitor and improve the quality of the incoming tenants, manage the relationship and the renegotiation with the main tenants through the Key Account Managers and manage the team of Letting Managers and Debt Collection Managers and monitor overall and individual performance. Before Generali, he was at Toro Assicurazioni – FIAT Group, working in private pension, financial & banking product business development.

Roberto holds a Business & Management Evening Master at SDA Bocconi, Milan, and attended several courses in Financial planning of real estate operations, Evaluation of real estate operations and Real Estate Asset management.

Nicolas Maciocia is Director of Real Estate at WeWork, where he started in 2017. His previous experiences include Standard Life Investments, where he was Responsible for the AM and Investments in Italy and in Northern Germany, and AEW Europe, where as asset manager he coordinated regional AM projects & reporting to investors in Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Romania, as well as Ernst & Young and Deloitte France.

Nicolas holds an MBA - IMHI for Real Estate Finance at ESSEC Business School.

Graham Mackie is responsible for managing UBS Asset Management's Real Estate Asia Pacific team and executing the regional strategy, investing and managing real estate and engaging with clients across the region. He also provides an APAC perspective into the overall global strategy of UBS Asset Management, Real Estate & Private Markets. Graham is a member of the UBS Asset Management, Real Estate & Private Markets Management Committee.

Prior to this, Graham was the Regional Head of UBS Asset Management, Real Estate Multi-Manager (MM-RE) team in APAC, (based in Singapore) where he was responsible for investment in multiple real estate funds across the Asia Pacific region. In addition, Graham was involved in the marketing of MM-RE products and services to the client base in the APAC region.

Prior to joining UBS in 2008, Graham was a Financial Analyst at AXA REIM Japan (2006–2008), where he helped establish AXA REIM’s operation in Japan and was responsible for investing in both direct and indirect Japanese real estate and developing client relationships. Before that, Graham was an Analyst at AXA REIM London (2003–2006), where he was part of a team which launched, invested and managed the first London listed pan-European real estate company. Graham also worked at AXA IM Paris (2002–2003) where he was involved in capital raising for a variety of asset classes.

Graham sits on the Management Board of ANREV. In addition, Graham is a CFA Charterholder.

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.

Martina Malone is managing director, head of Global Capital Raising. She and her team are responsible for client relations and capital raising with Prologis’ global investor base. Her focus is to develop and deepen relationships with institutional investors and consultants across the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Prior to heading up the team, Ms. Malone was responsible for institutional investors in Europe and the Middle East. During her tenure at Prologis, the team has raised over $15 billion of capital for Prologis’ funds globally.

Prior to joining Prologis in 2010, Ms. Malone was head of European client relations and capital raising for JER Partners for eight years. Previously, she was at Deutsche Bank AG as vice president in the European Securitization group. Ms. Malone also served as vice president, asset finance, at Credit Suisse First Boston, and served in various real-estate-related roles at Hypo-Bank in Munich and London.

Ms. Malone is an active member of INREV and the Talent Committee of Real Estate Balance, an initiative that encourages greater gender balance in the Real Estate industry. She also serves on Prologis’ European Management Executive Committee. She holds an MBA and a Bachelor of Arts from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, and spent one year at Ecole de Management in Strasbourg, France. She is a German national and is fluent in German, English, French and Spanish.

Alessandro Mazzanti is CEO of CBRE Italy. He was formerly Head of the Investment team at Insignia in 1999 but became CEO of CBRE Italy after Insignia was acquired by the CBRE Group. In 2008, the Group announced the acquisition of Espansione Commerciale (today known as CBRE S.r.l.), an Italian market leader in providing leasing and property management services for shopping centres, retail and entertainment parks. This acquisition expanded the range of retail services provided by CBRE at international level and enabled the Group to achieve a position of leadership in providing retail services in Italy, which is now considered the fourth largest European market in the sector. Alessandro currently oversees a team of over 600 professionals across Italy (Milan, Rome, Modena and Turin) and since 2010 has been part of the EMEA Board, which coordinates all activities of the Group in the EMEA region. He personally has executed transactions for over 10 billion Euro, providing consultancy services in the real estate sector at international level and acting as advisor to major CBRE sale and purchase transactions involving Italian and international organizations.

Andrew McCaffery is the Global Head of Strategic Client Investments for Aberdeen Standard Investments, and a member of the Investment Management Committee and Client Committee. Andrew is Chairman of the Aberdeen Pan Alternatives Investment Committee and a member of all investment committees within his division. Andrew joined Aberdeen in 2011 from BlueCrest Capital Management, where he was a founder member of the Alignment Investors division. Before joining BlueCrest in 2008, he was Head of Absolute Return Strategies at Aberdeen. Prior to that, Andrew was CEO of Attica Alternative Investments Limited in London, a fund of hedge funds business. Earlier, he had been a Managing Director at UBS overseeing global coverage of hedge fund investors, having been an architect of the investment bank's hedge fund business planning and also a member of its proprietary risk committee. Joining the industry in 1983, Andrew held senior roles in fixed income and capital markets prior to joining UBS.

John is currently European Head of Transactions at AXA IM – Real Assets. His responsibilities include overseeing the sourcing, selection and execution of the acquisitions undertaken each year on behalf of clients. As part of his role, John will contribute to the investment strategies and will be a member of the Investment Committee.

John joined AXA IM – Real Assets from global real estate advisory services firm JLL, where he has been CEO of Corporate Finance and Head of Mergers & Acquisitions for the EMEA region since 2014. Prior to JLL, John spent eight years at Deutsche Bank where, having joined as an Associate in 2006, he was promoted through to EMEA Head of Real Estate, Gaming and Lodging M&A. John joined Deutsche after four years in the EMEA Real Estate Investment Banking team at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.

John has over 15 years of experience in the international real estate investment banking and advisory.

Sandra Oertel, 39 year old, is currently Regional Director International III (Italy, Austria, Hungary) for ECE Projektmanagement GmbH & Co. KG. She joined ECE in 2002 as CM Trainee in different ECE shopping centers and was promoted to Center Manager in Germany & Italy in 2003. She started on her current role in 2015.

Sandra holds a Degree as Business Economist & Maîtrise en Sciences de Gestion and started her career as Event-Manager at Event-Agency German Arts and Assistant Marketing/ Corporate Communications at Venture Capitalist PEPPERMINT Financial Partners in Berlin.

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 600 million USD net sales to around 130 billion USD 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.

Emilio is Head of Quantitative & Risk Management for Southern Europe at JLL. He leads JLL practice in the area of portfolio advisory with a team of 25 professionals. On account of his duties he has been involved in transactions totalling over €70 bn over the last 2 years for international investors and banks. His expertise includes comprehensive assessment and optimisation of real estate exposures for financial institutions as well as the design and execution of investment and divestment strategies for real estate assets and debt.

Prior to join JLL Emilio gathered extensive experience in financial markets in fixed income trading area including RE covered bonds. Emilio holds a bachelor in Business Administration by Pablo de Olavide University and MBA by Instituto de Empresa in Madrid.

Joachim Sandberg, member of the firm’s EMEA Board, is Head of Cushman & Wakefield Italy and Southern Europe Region with a background in investment transactions and office leasing. His role with the Firm has developed over the last 20 years: from Head of Healey & Baker Office team in Rome in 1998, he was promoted Equity Partner of Cushman & Wakefield Healey & Baker in 2002, in 2011 he became Head of C&W Italy and in 2013 Member of C&W EMEA Board and Head of SE Region. From 2015 up to now he is Head of C&W Southern Europe Region and France.

Joachim is a Fellow of Register of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS) and holds a degree in Business Administration from University of Lund, Sweden.

Donato Saponara is the Head of Transaction for West Europe Region and Country Head of Italy in the Allianz Real Estate Group. He is responsible of pursuing a multibillion acquisition strategy in the West Europe Region (France, Benelux, Iberia and Italy) and overseeing of the portfolio owned in Italy owned by Allianz Investors including all main asset classes (office, retail, hospitality).

Mr. Saponara is leading several Board and Advisory Committees for Allianz and is sitting in Senior Management Committees in the Western Europe Region.

Prior to joining Allianz in 2014, Mr Saponara spent 14 year in Morgan Stanley acting as Director Co-heading the Italian Investing team, leading billions of acquisition, sale and refinancing deals.

Mr Saponara graduated magna cum laude from Bocconi University in Milan.

Tim Schuy is a Business Development Director within the Banking & Credit Management unit of Link Asset Services part of Link Group.

His clients are typically lenders or investors, including a range of financial service organisations, from banks, pension funds and insurers to private equity firms and hedge funds. The team assists them by providing a range of administrative services relating to the monitoring and repayment of asset-backed debt, allowing them to manage their debt and underlying assets effectively.

Tim has 15 years of relevant sector and 13 years of specific industry experience in both Primary Servicing and Workout of commercial Real Estate loans. Before joining Link, Tim was a Managing Director at Solutus focusing on BD and a VP at DB, overseeing a portfolio of €20bn of commercial real estate loans in both Primary and Special Servicing as a member of the Servicing Committee. He was also DB’s Deputy Pfandbrief Cover Pool Manager. Before that, he was a Vice President managing Wachovia’s (now: Wells Fargo) German Real Estate loan portfolio worth €2bn. Previously, Tim was a CMBS Associate with Blackheath Financial, an American Real Estate consulting firm and a Joint Venture with Wachovia. In his first job he was a Key Account Manager for Société Générale, managing the bank's core client accounts with European Corporates and Financial Institutions.

Tim holds a Diplôme de Grande Ecole from ESCP-EAP Paris and an MSc in Management from City University London. He acquired the German debt collector's license in 2008. Tim speaks English, Spanish and French alongside his native German.

Tony is a 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 activities 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.

Fabio Tedeschi is in charge of the Leasing department of Ikea for Italy and Switzerland and thus responsible for the selection, coordination and implementation of new projects, development of existing assets.

Fabio has over 15 years experience in the Retail Real Estate Business, through the commercialization of several shopping centres, for both domestic and international Landlords, attending each phase of the development process. More than ten years consultancy background working for the biggest international agencies, Cushman&Wakefield and Savills, made him develop skills in the portfolio valuation, business planning, and Retail Real Estate market knowledge.

Fabio holds an Economics Degree from Bocconi.

Mario is a leading in EALA Market the Energy & Carbon Management team within Accenture’s Energy Demand & Carbon Management practice area.

At Accenture, Mario is responsible for delivering a comprehensive set of outsourced services and expert strategy support, customized to client needs, enabling them to better manage their operating costs, improve profitability, and meet their sustainability goals, also by integrating Facility Management and Energy Demand Management.

Mario is also leading the Milano Delivery Center - for Energy & Facility monitoring.

Mario has more than 10 years of experience in the area of energy and facility management. Before Accenture, he worked six years as Business Development Director for private markets in one of the leading Italian Facility Management Company with more than 2B€ of revenues and + 15K employees In this role Mario has started developing the integration between energy efficiency program and facility management fully manage transformation program. The main project was a multiyear contract (more than 120M€) with a primary Italian Retail Group. The achived saving in the first year was more than 15%.

As Chief Executive of ULI Europe, Lisette van Doorn is responsible for the development of the Institute’s activities across the region, including its renowned pan-European conferences and over 250 local meetings and events across 14 countries. She is also responsible for the ULI Charitable Trust, which raises money to advance ULI’s mission and philanthropic activities across Europe.

Lisette joined ULI from LIRE, her own consultancy business, which advises international institutional real estate investors and fund managers on strategy, organisational optimisation, and portfolio structuring.

Prior to this, she was country manager for CBRE Global Investors where she managed a €1.6bn portfolio of assets in Italy. Before joining CBRE Global Investors, Lisette was founding chief executive for INREV, the European association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles. She started her career at ING Investment Management, where she held account manager and assistant controller positions before being made managing director of research & strategy for ING Real Estate Investment Management Europe.

Sophie van Oosterom is CEO and CIO for CBRE Global Investors EMEA. In this capacity, she oversees business operations, investment strategy and performance, underwriting and program development in the region. She is a member of the Global Executive Committee and Global Investment Committee and chairs the European Executive Committee and European Investment Committee.

Ms. van Oosterom joined CBRE Global Investors in 2013 as Head of Special Programs with leadership of investor strategy, repositioning and redefining strategies to optimize value for the investors for the various special program funds.

Ms. van Oosterom began her real estate and finance career in 1996. Before joining CBRE Global Investors she was a managing director and European Head of Asset Management of the Lehman Brothers Real Estate Partners private equity funds (now Silverpeak Real Estate Partners) with around $20 billion of assets under management at its peak. In this capacity, she was a member of the boards of several real estate companies throughout Europe, where she helped define strategy, financial structuring and value creation across all real estate asset classes. Ms van Oosterom started her career in investment banking M&A advisory with Barings and JP Morgan.

Ms. van Oosterom earned a Master’s degree in Economics (cum laude) from the University of Amsterdam.

Eric Veron is the general manager and founder of Vailog (www.vailog.com), Italy’s leading developer and investor in logistics real estate. Vailog has been active in the Italian market since 2013 and developed over 1.5 million sqm. Its customers include Amazon, Jaguar Land Rover, Ikea, Leroy Merlin, Aldi, etc. Since 2015, Vailog is part of the SEGRO Group, the UK’s largest listed industrial real estate fund (www.segro.com).

Martin Vest joined Aareal Bank in 2001 after having worked several years in the field of international finance. Within Aareal he held positions in credit, international business development, sales management, syndication and origination. Today, based in Paris, he is in charge of Aareal Bank’s origination activities in the Euro zone countries. Martin Vest holds a master degree in economics from Gutenberg University Mainz.