Real Estate professional & RICS member with a background in Coworking, Coliving, and Hospitality. Leading Bob W’s expansion across Europe, one of the fastest-growing, tech-enabled serviced apartment operators for 1–90 day stays. Bob W operates in 16 countries across Europe, with more than 4,500 apartments either in operation or development. We are the only carbon-neutral hospitality operator. We sign Master Leases and Management Agreements and work with investors and developers to secure funding and develop assets ranging from 25 to 200 apartments in core European markets. Backed by some of Europe’s top VC firms and UHNW family offices. Through our joint venture with OCIM, we have multiple capital partners to acquire, invest in, and develop hotel real estate across Europe.

Luis has over 12 years of experience in real estate investments across multiple geographies. He currently serves as Vice President of Acquisitions at Arcano Partners, covering Spain and Portugal. Previously, he worked at H.I.G. Capital and Hines (Madrid), Hillwood (London), and Blinderman (Chicago). His real estate experience spans sourcing, investment, execution, development, asset management, and disposition, across various asset classes and jurisdictions—including the US, UK, Spain, Portugal, Poland, and Germany, among others. While his primary focus is real estate, his background also includes exposure to private equity, venture capital, infrastructure, and other financial services

Javier is the Director, Development Spain & Portugal at BWH Hotel Group. He specializes in maximizing hotel, sports and entertainment assets´ performance and profitability through data, analytics, and benchmarking. Prior to founding and leading SIR, he helped lead significant data and technology driven transformations in the Lodging industry. He is the former Country Manager for the Iberian Markets at STR (CoStar Group), Vice President of Revenue Solutions at SHR Group, and Director, Development & Investor Relations at Andersen Consulting (Parent brand of Braintrust Consulting Services and Braintrust Hospitality). Additionally, Javier is a speaker and an invited master’s degree lecturer at universities and industry organisations.

Nicolás Jover Clar is the Director of Corporate Development for the EMEA region at Barceló Hotel Group since October 2023. He is responsible for the group’s M&A activity, with a focus on hotel expansion across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Alfonso Agullo oversees real estate credit origination and investment at Santander Alternative Investments and works under across real estate credit functions in Deva-SAI, with a Southern European focus. He has over 20 years of experience in real estate. Before joining SAI in 2023, he spent 16 years in Banco Santander Corporate Investment Banking where Alfonso was Head of Commercial Real Estate and Head of Collaboration Revenues Structured Finance In his previous role, he was in charge of the origination, analysis and negotiation of Real Estate financing originating and structuring deals totaling more than €8bn in Commercial Real Estate. Prior to joining Grupo Santander, Alfonso held various positions, he was relationship banker of construction companies and worked in the project finance team at Bankia.

Benjamin Richard is the General Manager of Aareal Paris Branch. Since joining Aareal in 2006, Benjamin has held various positions within the bank and has worked on a wide range of financings secured against all class of assets: office, logistics, retail, residential and hotel.