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Some of the Past Participants
Alexandra
Lanni
Head of Investments EMEA Debt Strategies
Arrow Capital Partners
Ali
Imraan
Head - European Real Estate Credit
KKR
Axel
Brinkmann
European Head - RBC Real Estate Capital Partners & Real Estate Corporate Banking
RBC - Real Estate Capital Partners
Ben
Eppley
Partner and Head of Commercial Real Estate Debt in Europe
Apollo Global Management
Daniel
Pottorff
Head of Debt Investment
Tristan Capital Partners
David
Gorleku
MD, Real Estate Debt Strategies
Blackstone
Derek
Rich
Managing Director
Oaktree Capital Management
Dominic
Silman
Head of Research & Strategy, Debt & Value-Add Capital, Europe
LaSalle Investment Management
Emma
Jack
Chief Investment Officer
Niam Capital - Sweden
George
Molesworth
Managing Director
Apollo Global Management
Hal
Shaw
Partner, Head of European Capital Solutions
KSL Capital Partners
Hans
Vrensen
European Head of Research and Strategy
AEW Europe
Jonas
Tintelnot
Deputy CFO at Aroundtown SA
Aroundtown SA
Khadija
Benzit
Head of Europe - Real Estate Investments
Mubadala Investment Company
Laia
Massague
Partner
StepStone Group
Laura
Denenga
VP European Debt Origination
PGIM Real Estate Finance
Lorcain
Egan
Co-Head Europe
Starwood Capital Group
Manja
Stueck
Managing Partner, Europe Debt
BGO
Marco
Rampin
MD & Head of Debt Investments Europe
Cerberus
Michael
Shields
EMEA Head of Real Estate
ING Real Estate Finance
Nicola
Free
Head of CRE, EMEA
Wells Fargo
Nina
Schmidt
Director
Aareal Bank
Paul
Parker
Partner
Ares Management
Peter
Hansell
Senior Director, Real Estate Debt Strategies - Europe
Nuveen Real Estate
Philippe
Deloffre
Head of European Real Estate Debt
ICG Paris
Pierre
Leocadio
Director of Investments
Oreima l InfraVia Capital Partners
Rahul
Sule
Head, EMEA & APAC Real Estate Finance
JP Morgan
Richard
Spencer
Head of RE - Europe
Goldman Sachs
Roman
Kogan
Head of Private CRE Debt Europe
PIMCO
Rupert
Gill
Head of European RE Debt
Barings Real Estate Advisers
Russell
Gould
Co-Head of EMEA Commercial Real Estate Finance
Citi Group
Shaun
Connery
Managing Director | Head of European Debt
Affinius Capital
Simon
Wallace
Global Co-Head of Real Estate Research Investment Strategy Group Real Estate
DWS
Tom
Livelli
Partner and Head of Living Strategies, Europe
EQT Real Estate
Alexandra Lanni
Head of Investments EMEA Debt StrategiesArrow Capital Partners
United Kingdom
Alexandra Lanni is the Head of Investments EMEA of the Credit Strategies business, the CBRE Global Investors debt business in Europe. In this capacity she oversees the investment policy, transactions and strategy for the investments team, as well as capital deployment, and investor relations. She is also involved in strategic management of the Fund portfolio and managing the fund teams. Miss. Lanni joined CBRE Global Investors at the end of 2019 when Laxfield Asset Management was acquired by CBRE Group and was merged with the Investment management business, CBRE Global Investors, in Europe.
Ali Imraan
Head - European Real Estate CreditKKR
United Kingdom
Axel Brinkmann
European Head - RBC Real Estate Capital Partners & Real Estate Corporate BankingRBC - Real Estate Capital Partners
United Kingdom
Axel Brinkmann is the European Head of the Royal Bank of Canada’s Real Estate Capital Partners (RECP) group. This group provides a range of financial services including mortgage, whole-loan, mezzanine, and loan-on-loan facilities to real estate sponsors in the US, Europe, UK, and Australia. Axel is also a member of the RBC Capital Markets' European Executive Committee and manages the bank's European real estate corporate banking activities. Previously, he was part of LaSalle Investment Management's Debt Investment and Special Situations group, contributing to its establishment and growth since 2010. Axel began his career in the real estate structured finance team at Wells Fargo, working in Frankfurt and London.
Ben Eppley
Partner and Head of Commercial Real Estate Debt in EuropeApollo Global Management
United Kingdom
Mr. Ben Eppley joined Apollo in 2013. Prior to that time, Mr. Eppley was a member of the Real Estate Structured Finance group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and prior to that was a member of the Commercial Real Estate Debt Capital Markets group at Barclays Capital. Mr. Eppley graduated from Yale College with a BA in English Language and Literature.
Daniel Pottorff
Head of Debt InvestmentTristan Capital Partners
United Kingdom
Dan is the Head of Debt Investment at Tristan. Prior to joining Tristan in 2021, Dan was Managing Director in the Debt & Special Situations team at LaSalle Investment Management where he was responsible for originating and executing transactions for the LaSalle Real Estate Debt Strategies fund series and several separate account mandates encompassing development finance, whole loan lending and special situations. During his time at LaSalle, Dan was directly responsible for transactions representing over €1.4bn of lending and was fund manager for the Special Situations program.
David Gorleku
MD, Real Estate Debt StrategiesBlackstone
United Kingdom
David Gorleku is a Managing Director and Head of Europe Originations in the Blackstone Real Estate
Debt Strategies group, based in London. Mr. Gorleku is involved in sourcing, underwriting,
negotiating and structuring debt investments across all asset types throughout Europe.
Before joining Blackstone in 2020, Mr. Gorleku was a Principal at London-based Actis Capital in the
real estate private equity group. Prior to that, Mr. Gorleku worked at TPG Real Estate Finance and at
Goldman Sachs in New York where he focused on real estate debt and equity investments across the
United States.
Derek Rich
Managing DirectorOaktree Capital Management
United Kingdom
Prior to joining Oaktree in 2019, Mr. Rich was a senior advisor to Oaktree’s Real Estate group for three years. Before joining Oaktree, he was responsible for European Commercial Real Estate lending at Credit Suisse within the Asset Finance team, and served as a managing director for LNR Partners Europe. Mr. Rich began his career in commercial real estate with Goldman, Sachs & Co., before moving on to Deutsche Bank as a director and founding member of the European Commercial Real Estate Group..
Dominic Silman
Head of Research & Strategy, Debt & Value-Add Capital, EuropeLaSalle Investment Management
United Kingdom
Emma Jack
Chief Investment OfficerNiam Capital - Sweden
Sweden
George Molesworth
Managing DirectorApollo Global Management
United Kingdom
George Molesworth is Managing Director, Credit at Apollo, where he works on the origination, structuring and execution of performing commercial real estate debt. Prior to joining in 2018, George was Executive Director in the Commercial Real Estate Finance Group at Goldman Sachs, and Associate Director in the Structured Real Estate Finance Group at Santander before that.
Hal Shaw
Partner, Head of European Capital SolutionsKSL Capital Partners
United Kingdom
Hal Shaw is a Partner at KSL Capital Partners where he serves as Head of European Capital Solutions and
is based out of London. Hal joined KSL in 2007 as a Summer Associate with the Private Equity Team.
During his time at KSL, Hal has invested across the capital structure ranging from senior and mezzanine
debt originations to acquisitions and has played a lead role in the formation and subsequent growth of
KSL’s Capital Solutions strategies. Hal is a member of KSL’s Equity Investment Committee, Credit
Investment Committee and Tactical Opportunities Investment Committee.
Hans Vrensen
European Head of Research and StrategyAEW Europe
United Kingdom
Hans Vrensen, CRE, CFA, Drs Econ & MRE, is an AEW managing director heading the European Research & Strategy team. He is a seasoned analyst in the international commercial real estate and capital markets with over 25 years of experience. He is a voting member of AEW’s European investment committee and has introduced new innovative big data methodologies and alternative data sources. Prior to AEW, Hans was global head of research at DTZ (now C&W) from 2009 to 2015. Other roles included Barclay’s head of European securitization research and senior credit officer at Moody’s. Before moving to the UK, Hans also worked at LIM and C&L (now PwC) in the US.
Jonas Tintelnot
Deputy CFO at Aroundtown SAAroundtown SA
Germany
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Deputy CFO
Aroundtown SAAroundtown SA
Feb 2015 - Present · 9 yrs 1 moFeb 2015 - Present · 9 yrs 1 mo
- Corporate Finance: Financing of the group, incl bonds, hybrids, real estate loans, margin loans, schuldscheins, credit lines
- M&A / Investments / Divestments
- Treasury: Liquidity Management; FX and Interest rate hedging
- Investor Relations
- Corporate / Compliance / KYC / HR
Khadija Benzit
Head of Europe - Real Estate InvestmentsMubadala Investment Company
United Arab Emirates
Ms Khadija Benzit is Head of Europe at Mubadala Investment Company since 2017. Prior to joining Mubadala, Ms Benzit has held different positions since the beginning of her professional career having worked at ARES Management and AEW
Laia Massague
PartnerStepStone Group
United Kingdom
Ms. Massague is a member of the real estate team.
Prior to StepStone, Ms. Massague worked with the real estate finance fund at GAM International where she was responsible for the conception, structure and execution of real estate investments across the UK and Europe. Before that she was a vice president of real estate debt advisory at the Blackstone Group.
Ms. Massague received a MBA in real estate from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and dual BS degrees in architecture and management from MIT.
Laura Denenga
VP European Debt OriginationPGIM Real Estate Finance
United Kingdom
Laura is VP for European Debt Originations for PGIM based in London. Laura previously worked at Allianz and Maslow Capital on originations and loans
Lorcain Egan
Co-Head EuropeStarwood Capital Group
United Kingdom
Lorcain Egan is a Managing Director and Co-Head of Europe for Starwood. Mr. Egan is responsible for Starwood’s international lending platform covering Europe and Asia. Since joining Starwood in 2013, Mr. Egan has structured and executed financing transactions and secured financing for Starwood’s equity acquisitions across Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Starwood Capital, Mr. Egan was a Vice President at Barclays Bank where he worked in their Structured Property, Debt Finance team based in London. In this team, Mr. Egan focused on originating, structuring and executing real estate debt opportunities for Barclays.
Manja Stueck
Managing Partner, Europe DebtBGO
United Kingdom
Manja Stueck is a Managing Partner at BGO. She co- founded BGO's European debt business which has invested over $6 billion of capital from institutional investors and is an active lender on commercial real estate properties located in the UK and across Western Europe. She is a member of the Investment Committee and responsible for strategic business development, fundraising, fund management, and capital markets. In her prior role Manja was European head of Lehman Brothers Global Real Estate Syndication Group.
Marco Rampin
MD & Head of Debt Investments EuropeCerberus
United Kingdom
Mr. Rampin is a Managing Director on the Real Estate Private Credit team. Based in London, he leads Cerberus’ origination and execution of real estate debt investments across Europe.
Prior to joining Cerberus, Mr. Rampin served as a Managing Director for European Debt Strategies at CBRE Global Investors and separately, as an Executive Director at CBRE Capital Advisors. From 2007 to 2015, he we was Head of European Real Estate Finance within the Fixed Income division of BNP Paribas Corporate and Institutional Banking, where he was responsible for the bank’s commercial mortgage-backed securities program and the fixed income’s legacy commercial real estate loan book.
Michael Shields
EMEA Head of Real EstateING Real Estate Finance
United Kingdom
Michael Shields joined ING in May 2004 and has 25 years experience in real estate lending, asset management & restructuring. Based in London, he is currently responsible for ING REF’s EMEA lending platform – lending assets totalling over €18bn. He is also international head for Real Estate, looking after clients with a global real estate reach. Prior to his current role, he led ING REF’s highly successful U.S. lending platform which he helped grow from $200m to over $7.5bn at its peak in 2008. Before ING, Michael was an originator in BHF Capital’s U.S real estate lending team and was one of the original members of Helaba’s CRE finance team in the U.S. Michael started his banking career in Chemical Bank’s real estate group in Manhattan.
Nicola Free
Head of CRE, EMEAWells Fargo
United Kingdom
Industry leader with over 20 years experience in the European commercial real estate industry with a strong and loyal network of market players. Uniquely diverse background covering loan origination, structuring, underwriting, execution, capital markets and distribution of loans and bonds via CMBS and syndication. An inspirational and dynamic group leader with a history of transforming teams to drive optimum results whilst maintaining a strong risk discipline. Passionate about developing future talent and leading diversity initiatives. A qualified lawyer.
Nina Schmidt
DirectorAareal Bank
Germany
As the leading provider of smart financing, software products and digital solutions for the property sector and related industries we support our clients on three continents with our finance expertise and managing real estate projects. As a top employer with excellent trainee programs we offer various personalities a professional work place.
Paul Parker
PartnerAres Management
United Kingdom
Mr. Parker is a Partner at Ares and serves as a member of the Ares Secondaries Group's Real Estate Investment Committee. Prior to joining Ares in 2021, he was a Partner in the Landmark Partners Real Estate Group, where he focused on the origination and execution of private equity real estate transactions and investor client relations across the United Kingdom, continental Europe and Asia Pacific. Previously, Mr. Parker was a Director of DTZ Investment Management Ltd, an FSA regulated subsidiary of DTZ Plc, now Cushman & Wakefield, where he was responsible for investment in direct and indirect real estate across Europe and Asia.
Peter Hansell
Senior Director, Real Estate Debt Strategies - EuropeNuveen Real Estate
United Kingdom
Philippe Deloffre
Head of European Real Estate DebtICG Paris
France
Philippe joined ICGRE in May 2020 and serves as Managing Director and Head of European Investments. Philippe joined from BNP Paribas Asset Management where he founded and headed the Real Estate Debt activity from 2017. Beforehand he was at Acofi Gestion where he was head of Real Estate Debt funds and was responsible for managing investments in CRE loans in Europe from 2013. In 2008 Philippe joined CBRE, the property consultancy firm, to set up the Debt Advisory business for France. Philippe holds a Master's degree in Corporate Finance from EM Lyon business school and a Master's degree in Business Law from Jean Moulin University.
Pierre Leocadio
Director of InvestmentsOreima l InfraVia Capital Partners
France
Pierre is Investment Director. He joined Oreima in 2025 and brings extensive European investment expertise and experience in forging partnerships with leading financial investors. Pierre has a solid investment experience across several key real estate asset classes, including office, retail, residential and logistics, and in European markets across France, UK and Germany.
Pierre Leocadio was responsible for Oxford Properties’ French platform, including the responsibility of the asset management and leasing strategies for the existing Paris portfolio. Oxford Properties currently owns and manages a portfolio of four offices and one luxury high street retail in Paris, totalling approximately €1.5 billion of assets under management.
Rahul Sule
Head, EMEA & APAC Real Estate FinanceJP Morgan
United Kingdom
Rahul Sule is the Head of EMEA and APAC Real Estate Finance and Special Opportunities. He manages a cross functional team based in London, Milan, and Sydney
The business underwrites and executes large, complex financing solutions and acquires stressed and distressed loans as a principal.
Prior to this role, Rahul was the Co-head of EMEA, APAC Real Estate Finance focusing on origination, capital markets, risk pricing & trading. Previously he was responsible for EMEA CMBS Capital Markets having joined the CMBS business in 2007.
He is based in London having previously been based in Tokyo and Hong Kong where he was part of JPM’s Asia Credit Markets team trading corporate high yield and distressed debt securities and loans.
Richard Spencer
Head of RE - EuropeGoldman Sachs
United Kingdom
Roman Kogan
Head of Private CRE Debt EuropePIMCO
USA
Rupert Gill
Head of European RE DebtBarings Real Estate Advisers
United Kingdom
Russell Gould
Co-Head of EMEA Commercial Real Estate FinanceCiti Group
United Kingdom
Russell is a Managing Director and Co-Head of the EMEA CRE Finance team, business at Citigroup, focusing on origination, underwriting and distribution of senior and mezzanine debt. Over an 12 year career in commercial property finance Russell has expertise in loan underwriting, proprietary / special situation investing, CMBS bond and junior debt trading and underwriting & risk management across Europe and all traditional and operating asset classes
Shaun Connery
Managing Director | Head of European DebtAffinius Capital
USA
Shaun is Managing Director,Head of European Debt at Affinius Capital (Commercial Real Estate Finance). Previously, he was Managing Director at AIG and works out of London.
Simon Wallace
Global Co-Head of Real Estate Research Investment Strategy Group Real EstateDWS
United Kingdom
Managing Director at DWS. Head of UK Real Estate and Global Co-Head of Real Estate Research.
Tom Livelli
Partner and Head of Living Strategies, EuropeEQT Real Estate
Spain
I lead the strategy and growth of a Pan-European multifamily rental platform, driving innovation and value creation in the residential real estate sector.
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