Sabina Kalyan is Global Head of Strategy & Research for CBRE Global Investors with full operational responsibility for the firm’s strategy and research team and a specific role in selecting the economic scenarios and macro risk assessments that power the firm’s real estate forecasts.

Previously, Ms. Kalyan served as Head of Research for the firm’s EMEA region and the global quantitative team.

Ms. Kalyan is a member of the European and Global Leadership Teams and the Global Investment Committee.

Ms. Kalyan joined the industry in 2001 and started working for CBRE Global Investors in 2008. Ms. Kalyan was previously Chief Economist at IPD. Prior to IPD, she worked for Capital Economics, where she developed their UK residential and commercial property market analysis and forecasting service.

Ms. Kalyan studied economics at Lincoln College, Oxford University and is a member of the Society of Business Economists, the Society of Property Researchers and the Investment Property Forum. She is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.

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 EUR2 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, 40, 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.

Charlotte is fund manager of Neptune, a joint venture between U.S. pension fund TIAA and outlet specialist Neinver. The venture is managed by Nuveen Real Estate and holds assets worth EUR1.3 billion across Europe. Neptune holds two outlet centres in Italy, in the regions of Novara and Bologna. Charlotte has been active in the continental European retail investment market for over 15 years and is a member of the RICS.

Joe Azelby joined UBS Asset Management as Head of Real Estate & Private Markets (REPM) in March 2019. In this role he is responsible for the combined real estate, infrastructure and private equity asset management businesses that invest directly into real assets, unlisted funds, listed real estate securities as well as multi-manager solutions globally.

Joe is a member of the UBS Asset Management Executive Committee.

Joe was the CEO of JP Morgan’s Global Real Assets Investment Group from 1998-2017. He led the transformation of their US real estate investment business into a leading, global real assets platform spanning private and public real estate, infrastructure and maritime/transport investments across the US, Europe, Asia and Australia.

Florencio Beccar has over twenty years of real estate investment experience working for ING REIM (then CBRE Global Investors) from 1999 and up until 2018 when he launched AXIS Retail Partners together with Generali. In his time with ING REIM he has served in various key roles. These include setting up ING REIM’s operations in Italy and Brazil and has launched and managed a number of ING REIM funds, most notably the ING Real Estate Retail Property Partnership Southern Europe and the ING Real Estate Italian Retail Fund. In 2010 he launched and successfully closed European Shopping Centre Fund. The Fund which when fully invested had ca. 700 MEUR in 7 assets has started its disposal phase realising strong returns for investors. The second in the series, European Shopping Centre Fund II was launched in 2014 and is now fully invested with ca. 1.6 MEUR in 11 assets across Europe. Both funds have substantially outperformed relevant IPD and INREV benchmarks. 

Florencio has a vast experience in the sector having successfully invested and subsequently managed over EUR 4 billion in shopping centres across different countries in Europe. Florencio holds an undergraduate degree in Architecture from Belgrano University in Buenos Aires, Argentina and a Master of Business Administration from Erasmus University, Rotterdam School of Management in The Netherlands.

Gaudenzio Bonaldo Gregori has more than 20 years’ experience in private equity investment, restructuring, investment banking and corporate finance. He started to work in Pillarstone Europe in January 2015, part of the initial team who started up the platform and structured the initial scheme in Italy. Previously Head of the Global Restructuring Group in Italy and Middle East at RBS, he was responsible for a portfolio of distress assets under management in excess of Euro 20bn in different sectors and geographies managed by two teams one in Milan and one in Dubai. Gaudenzio has lead a number of very complex restructuring across Europe and in the Middle East, in a wide range of sectors and geographies, delivering successful track record of recovery and assets management. Before that, Gaudenzio was Head of the Leveraged Finance team in Milan at RBS, investing and financing a number of LBOs.

He started his career in advisory at Deloitte Corporate Finance in London and Milan and holds an MBA from Warwick University, ACA qualified in Italy, Degree in Business Administration and Economics from Ca’ Foscari University.

Paolo Massimiliano Bottelli is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kryalos, an independent Real Estate AIFMD Regulated Fund Management Firm (SGR) and Asset Management Company based in Milan, with a team of 60 professionals and €6bn of AUM.

Before founding Kryalos, Paolo worked for 18 years in Milan listed Pirelli Real Estate (now Prelios), where he joined in 1994. During his career he mainly focused on advisory and management services in the Italian market and from 2009 he has been responsible for the global investment and asset management business of the group, working from the Hamburg headquarter. Paolo resigned as Chief Executive Officer in 2012.

Prior to Pirelli RE, Paolo worked in Knight Frank, in Deutsche Bank Leasing.

Paolo is Member of the Board of Directors of Assoimmobiliare since 2017. In December 2018 Paolo was honored with the title of Cavaliere dell’Ordine “al Merito della Repubblica Italiana” by the President of the Italian Republic.

Francesco Calia, based in CBRE Hotels Milan office, is a Senior Director and the Head of Hotels in Italy. Francesco has twenty years of experience as a strategic advisor in the hotel industry and he is responsible for transactional and advisory services throughout Italy, working closely with the other country leaders across the EMEA Hotels group at CBRE.

Francesco joins CBRE from Cushman & Wakefield where he was a senior member of the company’s Italian Hospitality team for six years. Prior to which he was at Arthur Andersen and Deloitte for nine years, participating in a number of engagements and advisory work on major hotel transactions. His expertise extend across Italy and the Mediterranean and he brings with him a comprehensive range of services in the real estate and hospitality sectors; including strategic advice and consultancy, transaction services, operator selection and investment valuations. Francesco is also registered as a MRICS and as an Italian Real Estate Broker at the Chamber of Commerce in Milan.

Mirja Cartia d'Asero is co-founder and CEO of Restar S.r.l., a company of the Guber Banca Group, a major player on the Non-Performing Exposure market in Italy, rated by Fitch ABSS2+. She also chairs as independent board member the remuneration committees of Zurich Investments Life and FNM as well as the risk and sustainability committee of Italmobiliare. In the past she worked for Lehman Brothers and held board offices in Damiani and Prelios. Before that she worked for law firms like Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance and Pavia Ansaldo.

Mirja holds a law degree from the University of Catania.

Born in Bassano del Grappa in 1973, he obtained a degree in Economics and Business at the University of Trento and a Master of Business Administration at the University of Kansas.

He has been Chief Executive Officer Italy of Covivio since January 2019. Previously, he was General Manager of Beni Stabili Siiq since July 2016.

Additional offices currently held within the Group: Chairman of Revalo SpA and Director of Central Sicaf. From 2005 to 2016, he covered positions with increasing levels of responsibility in Pirelli Real Estate SGR, then Prelios SGR, for which he was Head of Fund and Asset Management, managing a real estate portfolio of over EUR3.5 billion, spread over 28 real estate funds specialising in the office, retail and residential sectors.

From 2000 to 2005, he was a member of the strategy and finance practice with a focus on the real estate sector of Deloitte Consulting.

He gained over 15 years’ experience in the real estate sector, managing transactions totalling over EUR10 billion, significant real estate developments and M&A operations in the sector.

Fulvio Delaiti is the Head of Asset Management Italy in the Allianz Real Estate Group. He is responsible for overseeing the portfolio owned in Italy by Allianz Investors including all main asset classes (office, retail, logistic and hospitality).

Prior to joining Allianz in 2018, Mr. Delaiti spent 5 year in Kryalos SGR acting as Director heading the Italian Investment and Asset Management team, leading over 3,5 billions of acquisition, sale and refinancing deals.

Prior of that worked for almost 7 years in GE Capital Real Estate as Head of Asset Management overseeing the Italian portfolio and 5 years in Pirelli Real Estate in the Asset Management department manly managing Joint Ventures with Morgan Stanley.

Mr. Delaiti graduated in Engineering from Politecnico University in Milan.

Maria de Rivera has approximately 20 years of real estate experience predominantly in Italy. She is currently Senior Advisor for Alpine Grove Partners where she is responsible for developing operating platforms and originating real estate opportunities in Italy. Mrs. de Rivera has also been the Country Manager of ING REIM, responsible for managing the Italian business (EUR1.25 billion AUM). She was simultaneously Fund Manager of the ING REIM Southern European Retail Fund and Fund Manager of the ING REIM Italian Retail Fund. Previously she launched UBS Global Asset Management Real Estate in Italy and built the platform up to EUR350 milion AuM. She gained significant experience as an Asset Manager for MSREF in Morgan Stanley, responsible for managing commercial office assets valued at over EUR1 billion. She started her real estate career working for the Trust for Public Land in California where she acquired raw land and sold to public entities for inclusion in the US parks.

Mrs. de Rivera holds an MBA from INSEAD Fontainebleau and a BA with Cum Laude Honors from the University of California, Los Angeles.

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.

Elena Di Biase leads the Logistics Capital Markets business at JLL Italy and has over 10 years’ experience in the Real Estate sector between her Italian and UK experience. She is responsible for all disposal and acquisition activities in logistics real estate including urban logistics, last mile, big boxes and developments.

Elena joined JLL in 2011. As a Head of Research, first and as a member of the Retail Capital Markets team since 2015 she has acquired a wealth of experience in advisory and capital markets activity across sectors in Italy, supporting major international investors in the implementation of their investment and divestment strategy.

Elena holds an MSc Urban Regeneration from UCL London and an MSc Economics from Bocconi University, Milan.

Alberto Esguevillas is Country Manager Italy for Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield. Alberto has over 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.

Alessandro Gatto has 19 years of experience in the structured finance market with more than 200 transactions closed in various asset classes such as NPLs, RMBS, CMBS, CBO, leasing, consumer loans, social securities receivables and trade receivables. He is at present co-head of Southern Europe Structured Products. In the last 3 years, Alessandro has been involved in most of the Italian NPLs transactions, using the support of the Italian Government Guarantee (GACS) and he is also involved in other financing NPLs transactions. Before joining J.P. Morgan as responsible for the Italian Structured Finance desk in November 2007, he was Head of Southern Europe Securitisation at SG Corporate & Investment Bank (SG CIB) originating and structuring various asset classes. Before his experience at SG CIB, he was manager at Deloitte Corporate Finance in London where he spent 3 years as analyst for merger and acquisition all around Europe.

Marco Grassidonio is responsible for both asset and investment management of PATRIZIA in Italy. He focuses in particular on office, retail and logistics assets. He is also responsible for numerous real estate development and requalification projects, as well as transactions.

Prior to this, Marco held the position of Portfolio Manager and Fund Management of Allianz Real Estate.

Previously, he was Investment Manager for Schroeder Property Investment Management and BNP Paribas REIM SGRpA.

Marco holds a degree in Building Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Turin and a Master's Degree in Real Estate Management from the same University.

Catherine joined Ruby Hotels as Senior Group Manager Development in December 2017. She is responsible for Ruby’s development activities in Italy, France, Spain and Austria and selected cities in Germany. Before joining the group, Catherine had worked for over seven years in hospitality consulting for PKF hotelexperts, focussing on feasibility studies and valuations. Prior to this, she started her career in the development department of Accor Germany. Catherine studied business administration in Germany and France with a focus on strategic tourism development; she holds a master’s degree from Trier University (Diplom-Kauffrau).

Kristof Verstraeten has 15 years of professional experience of which the last 8 years in the sector of logistics real estate, working on transactions, asset management and development projects.

From 2007 to 2013, he held several senior management positions with Goodman in Europe, including Head of Capital Transactions, Regional Director Germany and Commercial Director Europe. Kristof was leading Goodman's development, asset management and transaction teams located in the 11 country offices in Europe. As member of the senior management, he also helped form and execute the strategy of Goodman's logistics funds in Europe.

Prior to joining Goodman, Kristof was Associate Principal with McKinsey in Brussels where he served clients from a wide range of sectors in strategic and operational topics. Kristof holds a Master of Civil Engineering from the University of Louvain (Belgium) and an MBA from the Vlerick Management School (Belgium). He speaks Dutch, French, English and (some) German.

Kristof formed Logistics Capital Partners in 2014, and is now joint owner with James and Andrea.

Giacomo Liberti is a Managing Director at Lazard. He has been with the firm since 2002, providing strategic and financial advice to corporates, financial institutions and investment managers on M&A, distressed M&A and restructuring assignments. His primary focus is on asset-heavy sectors such as commercial real estate, lodging, retail and shopping malls, asset management and credit deals involving npl portfolios or single name / special situations. He also supports the effort of the firm on generalist M&A assignments, both domestic and cross-border. During his career at Lazard, Giacomo has advised clients on more than 90 M&A or debt transactions, for a combined transaction value in excess of $100 bln. He co-heads the Real Estate, Gaming and Lodging industry group for Continental Europe, and is also part of the Retail, the Infrastructure and the Private Equity/Financial Sponsor industry groups. 

Prior to joining Lazard, Giacomo was at PricewaterhouseCoopers Corporate Finance, where he was involved in business valuations and IPOs within the Generalist Group, and previously at Arthur Andersen. Giacomo has a summa cum laude degree in Business and Administration from the University of Bari and has attended an Advanced Executive Programme in Corporate Finance at SDA Bocconi.

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 350 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.

Aldo Mazzocco has been since May 2017 Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of Generali Real Estate S.p.A. and Chairman of Citylife S.p.A.

In March 2018 he was appointed President of Generali Real Estate SGR S.p.A.

He has been Head of Real Estate at Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, President of CDP Immobiliare and President of CDP Investimenti SGR. From 2011 to May 2017 he has been President of Assoimmobiliare. He has been CEO of Beni Stabili SIIQ from 2001 to 2015 and Directeur Général Délégué of Foncière des Régions from 2011 to 2015; President of Beni Stabili Gestioni SGR; Chairman of the Board of Management of Investire Immobiliare SGR; Member of the Board of Management of Beni Stabili Gestioni SGR; Board member at IM.SER; on the Board of Beni Stabili Development Milano Greenway; Member of the Board of EPRA – European Public Real Estate Association – Brussels; on the Board of Beni Stabili Property Service. Up to 2015 he was a member of the Management Committee of Assonime. He is currently member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. He has also been Member of Directoire di Foncière des Régions S.A. – Paris, Managing Director of C.F.I. and Director General of G. Pivato.

He graduated in Civil Engineering at the University of Padua and obtained a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the Bocconi School of Management, Milan.

Giovanni Maria Paviera has a track record of over 25 years in the real estate market. He was involved in the management of funds and portfolios of major clients institutional investors and took part in the structuring of M&A operations for a value of over 7 billion Euros. He has been partner of Vitale & Co. Real Estate since 2017 and in July 2019 became chairman of the board of Borio Mangiarotti. In the past he sat in the boards of Focus Investments, CDP Immobiliare, Generali Immobiliare, Aedes BPM and Ernst & Young Real Estate.

Giovanni holds an economics degree from the University of Turin. He is a member of the Executive Committee of Urban Land Institute.

François Rispe is Prologis Managing Director, Head of PARS Europe, Global Head of Energy. Until June 30, 2019 he was Regional Head for Southern Europe. François joined the company in 2006. Prior to joining AMB, François was Country Manager France at Eurinpro, a Belgian pan-European logistics real estate developer. He was instrumental in starting and developing the Eurinpro platform in France.

Additionally, François is a Board member of the French chapter of the American Chamber of Commerce, he is also a Board member of AFILOG, the French national Logistics Real Estate Association and the President of the Ambassadors to Apprentils d'Auteuil Foundation, a $500 M charity organization that looks after 35,000 children, teenagers and young adults. He is a member of Le Cercle, a network of French CEOs of non-French Business.

François received a Master's degree in management and economics from the University of Paris Sorbonne and is a graduate of Sciences Po Paris.

Salvatore is, from December 2018, Real Estate & Leasing Director of Intrum Italy. He joined Intesa Sanpaolo in July 2014 as Head of Asset Management of Reoco Intesa Sanpaolo SpA as part of the real estate arm of Capital Light Bank, with the responsibility for the investment and the asset management team and the legal asset management. In 2015 Salvatore started covering also the role of Head of Real Estate Asset Class in Intesa Sanpaolo Provis.

Prior of this experience Salvatore has been partner in Cordea Savills LLP (now Savills Investment) where he joined the team as Head of Investment with the responsibility for the investment and asset management of the Italian platform.

In Cordea Savills LLP Salvatore has been member of the Transaction Advisory Committee overseeing all European Investments.

Before joining Cordea Savills, Salvatore has been part of the team of Pirelli Real Estate were had a number of roles since 2002. In 2008 he became responsible of the Residential Department of Pirelli Real Estate overseeing the residential investment in Italy. From 2002 to 2008 Salvatore was responsible for implementing the business model of Pirelli Real Estate in Central and Eastern Europe in joint venture with Unicredit Group.

This role had a particular focus on Poland, where he was responsible for the acquisition of a local development company, entering into a wider joint venture, setting up an investment, agency and project management departments. Salvatore also has experience of working in Romania and Bulgaria, having set up joint ventures with Unicredit in both countries.

Previously Salvatore was based in Milan and worked on various asset management and investment projects for the partnership with Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds, including the setting up of the start up, Pirelli Real Estate SGR, following the asset management activities.

Salvatore has started his experience in a Construction Company. After his degree in Civil Engineering, Salvatore made a full MBA in Bocconi.

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 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.

Riccardo Serrini joined Prelios in 2011. He's Prelios Group CEO, and CEO of Prelios Credit Servicing.

He was previously General Manager and CIO of Prelios SGR. With 22 years of professional experience, 15 of which in real estate finance, he originated, structured, distributed and managed over EUR12 billion worth of equity, quasi-equity and debt transactions, securitizations (CMBS/RMBS) and NPL acquisitions.

He had previously been CEO and Chairman of ING Real Estate Investment Management SGR and of the main investment vehicles, Fund Director of Italian Retail Fund and Head of Business Development. From 2005 to 2008 he worked as Head of SPG Italy at Morgan Stanley International Bank and, previously, as Global Head of Real Estate Finance at Intesa San Paolo.

He graduated in Business Administration at Università Bocconi of Milan.

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.

Manel Vericat is Logicor’s Managing Director for the Southern Europe region since 2014 and is currently based in Milan. He has responsibility over a portfolio of more than 4 million sqm across Italy, Spain and Portugal and manages a team of 14 people. Previously Mr. Vericat spent nearly six years at Prologis in Paris, most recently as Head of Operations. Prior to this, he spent nearly five years at SENER and ACS Group in Spain where he worked as a project manager on large infrastructure and energy projects. Mr. Vericat holds a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is fluent in English, French, Italian, Spanish and Catalan.

María Zarraluqui is Global Development Managing Director for Meliá Hotels International Group, she is heading the worldwide development for the Group and is responsible for executing together with her team of developers the growth strategy of Meliá worldwide, having signed over the last 3 years more than 100 deals worldwide.

María holds a Law degree from the University of Navarra in Spain, as well as a Master’s degree in Enterprises Legal Consultancy for the Deusto University in, Spain, a Postgraduate degree in Urban Development Law from the UIB University and got a Mention of honour as number 1 of the 2008-2009 Executive Tourist MBA, IE Business School, in Spain. She joined Meliá´s legal Department in 1999, on 2008 she joined the Development team as Development Director and was promoted to Global Development Managing Director in 2011.