Patricia Bandeira Vieira (London) joined KKR in 2020 as part of the Client and Partner Group, focused on Real Estate strategies globally. Prior to joining KKR, Ms. Vieira was a Director at Hines in a similar role. She holds an AB in International Relations from Princeton University and an MBA from INSEAD, and is an active member of INREV and the ULI.

Daniel Chang is European Head of ESG at Hines and in his role focuses on the transition to decarbonisation, enhancing meaningful social engagement in the built environment, and bolstering governance frameworks.

Daniel joined Hines in 1999 as Development Manager and from 2009 to 2021 was a Portfolio Asset Manager in investment management. He continues to play a key part in the success of Hines’ European Funds with all 4 funds achieving 5 green stars in 2022 by GRESB and several being awarded as Global Sector Leaders, including the Hines European Core Fund (HECF), achieving this recognition for the last six consecutive years. In addition, HECF won the PREA open-end fund ESG award in 2021 and 2022, with Daniel playing an instrumental part in this accolade.

Daniel sits on the Advisory Board for the ULI Randall Lewis Center for Sustainability in Real Estate, which is dedicated to creating healthy, resilient, and high-performance communities around the world. Daniel is also part of the C Change steering committee and is a member of ULI’s Sustainability Council in Europe.

Prior to Hines, Daniel worked as an architect at Architecture Studio in Paris. Daniel holds a BSc in Architecture from the University of Maryland and an MBA and MS in Urban Planning from Columbia University.

Justin Curlow is Global Head of Research & Strategy at AXA IM - Real Assets. His team is responsible for applying the firm’s 360-degree approach to real asset research with the principle aim of improving the investment decision-making process. Justin is a member of the Strategic Investment Committee and allocation committees for various funds managed by AXA IM - Real Assets.

In his most recent role, as an Investment Strategist, Justin was the dedicated strategist for core direct property, CRE debt and flexible property funds. Justin joined AXA IM - Real Assets in 2011 having spent 6 years working for Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management (RREEF).

Tracy DeBlieck is a Managing Director at Angelo Gordon and is responsible for real estate investment opportunities in Italy and the Nordics.  Prior to joining Angelo Gordon in 2016, Tracy was co-head of acquisitions for Aventicum Capital Management, European Property and Investment Director at Regus, and responsible for international development at IDeA FIMIT.  Previously, Tracy was a Managing Director at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where she focused on the acquisition and management of opportunistic real estate investments in Europe on behalf of the Whitehall Street Real Estate Funds. Tracy began her career as a financial analyst in Goldman Sachs’s real estate investment banking division.  She holds an A.B. degree from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. 

After twenty years of experience in strategic sectors as TLC and Energy, in last ten years Giovanna Della Posta led turnaround projects in the insurance and Real Estate sectors, supporting companies in rethinking their business model to lay the foundation for the future growth. She graduated in Economics from the Parthenope University of Naples and earned a master’s degree in Economics and Finance at the University of Naples Federico II, and she graduated in General Management at Harvard Business School in 2016. From January 2019 she is the CEO of Invimit SGR, company 100% owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance.

She won the 24th edition of Marisa Bellisario Prize (2012), which awards women who have distinguished themselves in management, science, economy and social issues, both nationally and internationally. In 2019, 2020 she was selected among the 50 most influential people in Italian Finance by Finance Community, reaching the top ten in 2021.  Awarded "Woman of the Year" at the Real Estate Awards 2020 and "Fund manager of the Year" at the Women in Finance Italy Awards in 2021.

Having worked at Il Sole 24 Ore since 2004, Paola Dezza is now responsible for the group's Real Estate website and the real estate newsletter. She joined the Finance editorial office two years ago, and she is the leading writer at the newspaper on real estate issues.

She writes about a wide range of real estate market issues; from the residential market to the world of real estate professionals, to news concerning Italian and foreign real estate companies and large projects.

Born in Milan, Paola has lived abroad for a long time: in the US (Arizona), in Iran (Tehran) and in France (Paris). She graduated in Economics and Commerce with an economic-political orientation, and she attended a marketing course, a master in technical analysis and the "Real estate valuation and financing" course at SDA Bocconi School of Management.

Before 2004 she worked in finance for the Stock Exchange and Finance and for Bloomberg Investimenti, in personal finance for Panorama and for Il Corriere della Sera. Between 2001 and 2003 she provided daily updates from the Italian Stock Exchange for Radio Capital.

She is fluent in English and French.

She also writes about lifestyle, luxury tourism and fashion.

Working in Italy and abroad, Clemente has developed more than 30 years of experience in the Real Estate and Finance field.

Since 2015 he has developed Atlantica Real Estate Srl, an Asset Management Company owned 100% by Clemente who did acquire in the last 7 years, for an italian private investor about € 500 Mln of property assets in Italy (core of Rome, Milan, Florence, Bologna, Turin etc) and sold in the same time about EUR350 Mln of the portfolio under management. Since 2010, as Head of the Real Estate Division of Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, he has been supporting CDP Immobiliare in its start-up phase and CDP Investimenti SGR in the development of a Real Estate fund dealing with the sale of Local Authorities and PA real estate assets for an overall value worth of EUR1 billion (FIV Plus). In 2001, with Banca Finnat Euroamerica, he founded Investire Immobiliare SGR, of which he was both shareholder and the General Manager. Under his management the Company has soon become one of the largest Real Estate Fund Management Companies in Italy, with a EUR5 billion portfolio Under Management. Investire Immobiliare SGR has promoted some of the most successful real estate funds in the sector (IR1 and IR2) and was awarded the sale of the Government’s real estate portfolio (FIP Fund). Clemente has also developed additional funds on behalf of institutional Investor.

Previously, he worked for FIAT Group (IPI SpA), dealing with the sale (sale & lease back) of the Group's real estate portfolio, to be replaced by foreign investment funds.

Clemente also managed the Investment Department of Cushman & Wakefield Italia and at the beginning of his career in 1989 he worked 6 years in London for Knight Frank & Rutley (City Office), dealing with Valuations, letting and real estate investments acquisition on behalf of Italian foreign institutional entities.

Anna Duchnowska has been heading European Investment Management team of Invesco Real
Estate , +30 professionals located in 7 offices in Europe. Anna is responsible for driving strategic
initiatives for management of the real estate assets within various investment strategies , with a
particular focus on ESG initiatives. She promotes diversity of thoughts and collaborative
approach with a focus on engagement with various stakeholders. She is a member of the
European Executive Committee and Investment Committee.

Anna has over 20 years of professional experience in the field of real estate investment
management, development management, leasing and finance. Prior to joining IRE, she worked
for Colliers International , AIB Polonia Property Fund and KPMG. Her professional qualifications
include an Executive MBA from the University of Minnesota. Anna is a Fellow of the Association
of Chartered Accountants (FCCA) and a Member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors
(MRICS).

About Invesco Real Estate

Europe and Asia. Invesco Real Estate has been actively investing across the risk-return
spectrum, in direct real estate strategies such as core, debt, value-add and opportunistic as well
as publicly listed real estate securities since 1992. In Europe, Invesco Real Estate has eight
offices in London, Munich, Milan, Madrid, Paris, Prague, Luxembourg and Warsaw, and
186 employees. It manages 178 assets across 14 European countries and with assets under
management of USD 14.7 billion.
Source: Invesco Real Estate as of 31 December 2021.

Valeria Falcone is Managing Director for Barings Real Estate, a member of Mass Mutual Financial Group, based in Milan and covering the role Head of Value Add Investing Europe. She is a voting member of the European Investment Committee.

Since she joined Barings she covered the role of Managing Director and Real Estate Country Head for The Carlyle Group for 11 years, where she had served also as Managing Director of Carlyle Real Estate SGR and board member for several spv vehicles across Europe.

Prior to joining Carlyle, Valeria Falcone was with Pirelli & C. Real Estate (now Prelios), one of the largest Italian Real Estate Company with various roles. Prior to that Valeria Falcone was with CityBank as Project and Operational Manager and in Astrim as a Project Manager.

Valeria Falcone has 25 years of experience in Real Estate industry.

She holds a MS in Architecture from Politecnico di Milano.

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. 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.

Ascan Kókai joined ECE Real Estate Partners in October 2020 to oversee its hotel real estate investment activities. The ECE European Lodging Recovery Fund has a focus on a pan-European hotel strategy looking for assets requiring value-add initiatives, with a targeted investment volume around EUR600 million, once fully invested. Its seed asset is the EUR100m Bonvecchiati ensemble in San Marco, Venice (IT) which is currently being repositioned.

With over 25 years of experience in the hotel real estate investment industry with leading market participants JLL and Invesco Real Estate, Ascan has extensive knowledge in asset, investment, and fund management.

Ascan has held senior positions at Invesco Real Estate as Fund Manager for their first hotel fund (EUR700m GAV, 17 hotels, 9 countries) and heading the hotel asset management team for their pan-European hotel investments. He complemented this investor experience with the operator view with a seat responsible for expansion and asset management on the management committee of NH Hotel Group for the Northern Europe business unit with c. 130 hotels across 13 countries.

Earlier in his career he spent six years with JLL Hotels advising international hotel investors and operating groups as part of the brokerage, valuation and asset management teams. In 1992, Ascan started out in operations with an apprenticeship in the luxury grand hotel Vier Jahreszeiten in Hamburg, today a Fairmont hotel. He graduated from University of Surrey with a 1^st class BSc (Hons) before embarking on his real estate career. Currently, he lives with his Norwegian wife and their two sons in Hamburg.

Since 2011 Head of Capital Markets Europe at Panattoni, responsible for investor management and relationships including capital sourcing and structuring for the Panattoni platform across Europe.

20 year experience in the real estate investment management. Previously, the Fund Manager at AEW Europe, responsible for debt and equity raising, acquisitions and management of a EUR1.3 bn real estate portfolio.

Irene has over 10 years of experience in the real estate investment sector. She joined Temprano Capital in 2021 as Investment Director focusing on the groups new acquisitions within Iberia and Italy.

Prior to that, Irene worked as an Investment Manager at The Student Hotel focused on the expansion of the group in Iberia of a high-volume hybrid hospitality model.

Between 2014 and 2018, Irene was part of Hines Spain concentrated on the sourcing, analysis and execution of investments in offices, retail, logistics, residential and student housing sector throughout Spain managing a variety of capital sources and investment profiles. Prior to that, Irene worked at CBRE and JLL within the hotel and retail investment departments.

Irene graduated in International Business from ICADE – Universidad Pontificia Comillas and European Business School of Stuttgart as well as in the International Real Estate Program from IESE – University of Navarra.

August 2020 – today

Commerz Real AG (Wiesbaden, Germany)

Global Head of Transactions

Juli 2017 – June 2020

Credit Suisse Asset Management Immobilien Kapitalanlagegesellschaft mbH (Frankfurt, Germany)

Head Mandates & Advisory Germany

Mai 2006 – June 2017

Credit Suisse Asset Management Immobilien Kapitalanlagegesellschaft mbH (Frankfurt, Germany)

Deputy Head of Acquisition & Sales Europe

September 2002 – April 2006

DEGI Deutsche Gesellschaft für Immobilienfonds mbH (Frankfurt, Germany)

After receiving her bachelor’s degree in architecture from Turin Polytechnic in 1982, Emanuela Recchi went on to complete graduate courses in Design Management at Pratt Institute in NYC, and in Project Management at both OICE and Milan Polytechnic. Thereafter, she collaborated with several architecture studios, namely Gabetti & Isola, Rafael Vinoly and Gino Valle. In 1984, under Skidmore, Owing & Merrill in NYC, she held the role of project manager for the design and construction of the World Trade Center in Genoa.

From 1985 to 1989, her professional career continued as project manager at Recchi S.p.A. Costruzioni Generali; having been appointed to their board of directors and their technical committee in 1989, she and her teams were tasked with growing the real estate sector. Since 1999, she has served as vice-president of Recchi Ingegneria e Partecipazioni, and, since 2009, as president of Recchiengineering.

She has been an active member of FRICS (Fellows of The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) since 2014, and, furthermore, of the advisory board at the Department of Architecture & Design at Turin Polytechnic, and also of the executive committee at Urban Land Institute Italy, both since 2015. From 2014 to 2017, she served as vice-president at Assoimmobiliare, where, as of 2020, she has been a general board member and president of their innovation committee. Most recently, in July 2021 she was named chair of Urban Land Institute Italy.

University of Turin alumna, Silvia Rovere has over twenty years of expertise both in private equity and real estate finance.

Silvia Rovere is currently Confindustria Assoimmobiliare’s President, and since 2020 founder and CEO of Sensible Capital.

From 2003 to 2005 she had been CFO at Patrimonio dello Stato, an Italian Ministry of the Economy controlled company, managing real estate public funds, and adding value from privatization of State-owned real estate assets.

In 2009, Silvia Rovere served as Head of Quality Business Development of Aedes Group, and from 2009 to 2013 she had been Managing Director of REAM SGR, where she successfully completed the first turnaround phase other than the three-year growth plan.

Silvia Rovere worked at Morgan Stanley SGR Italy from 2014 and served as CEO until 2020.

Along with her professional activity, she has been academically active for the Department of Political Economy and the Department of Commercial Law of the University of Turin - the Luigi Einaudi Center - and the Executive master’s in real estate finance of SDA Bocconi.

She is a Fellow member of RICS, a member of the Executive Committee of ULI Italy, and a member of the Steering Committee of ResPublica Foundation, one of the most important Italian think tank.

Donato Saponara is the Head of Investment and Strategic Development 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 by Allianz Investors including all main asset classes (office, retail, hospitality).

Mr. Saponara is leading several Board and Advisory Committee 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.

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. The current portfolio comprises 468 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 the head of the Investment Management Europe II team covering the continental European investment markets outside the DACH region.

Since March 2017 he is heading the Investment Management Europe team covering the continental European investment market and is responsible for transactions in the European market across all regions and sectors totalling over EUR 2 billion.

Olaf Schmidt 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.

Since 2013, he has been a member of the Board of Assoimmobiliare.

He graduated in Economics and Commerce from La Sapienza University in Rome and has a Master in Business Administration from St. John’s University.

Previously, he was Board member and CEO of Prelios SGR S.p.A. (2013-2016), Deputy Chair with powers for the Business Development and Fund Raising of Harvip Investimenti (2012-2013), Business Development, Fund Raising and Investor Relations Director of DeA Capital Real Estate SGR S.p.A. and FIMIT SGR S.p.A. (2010-2012 and 2004-2007), CEO of Zero SGR S.p.A. (2004-2007), Planning, Strategy, Finance, Control Director, Head of Investor Relations and Foreign Shareholdings of Lottomatica (2000-2004), Corporate Finance Director, Financial Analyst at Sviluppo Italia (1997-2000), Strategic Services Consultant at Ernst & Young Consultants (1996-1997), Assistant Financial Analyst – Equity and Emerging Markets Research Department at Bear Stearns & Co. Inc. (1995-1996).

As chief executive of ULI Europe, 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.

Van Doorn 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, van Doorn was country manager for CBRE Global Investors where she managed a EUR1.6bn portfolio of assets in Italy and fund manager of two shopping centre funds (EUR1.3 billion) with assets in Spain, Portugal and Italy.

Before joining CBRE Global Investors, van Doorn was founding chief executive for INREV, the European association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles for four and a half years. 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.

As Managing Director of Cromwell Property Group in Europe, Pertti Vanhanen has full operational responsibility for running the European business.

Pertti joined Cromwell in 2021 and is a seasoned leader in the real estate industry with over 30 years’ experience. He has held several senior roles at a number of leading European management organisations throughout his career, most recently as Global Co-head of Real Estate at Aberdeen Standard Investments.

While at Aberdeen Standard Investments and Aberdeen Asset Management (AAM), Pertti led several major corporate and real estate transactions, including the merger of AAM and SLI’s real estate divisions, establishing the group’s Asian real estate organisation and the launch of several successful funds and trusts including pan European residential funds, Nordic funds and the first ever open-ended property fund in Finland.

David is an entrepreneur at heart, a hotelier and a real estate developer. 

He founded Omnam 11 years ago, driven by his passion for hotels and his vision to create new holistic hospitality experiences that put the hotel guests front and centre.

Design-led and food & beverage orientated, David is in a constant journey to both craft and curate a stellar experience in each of Omnam's hotel locations, driven by a strong connection borne out of a respect for local heritage as well as a deep understanding of hotel guest needs.

Among the many projects David has been involved in, most notable are the W Rome Hotel, the Four Seasons Puglia, the Baccarat Florence, and the EDITION Lake Como