GRI Summit - Global Real Estate Institute

Creators
of the
Summit
SÉBASTIEN BAZIN
managing director
COLONY CAPITAL
sbazin@colonyinc.com
tel +33.1 5357 4610
GORDON BLACK
managing director
HEITMAN
gordon.black@heitman.com
tel +44.20 7203 8233
Sébastien Bazin, Principal and Managing Director Europe of
Colony Capital Inc. is directly responsible for the identifi cation,
evaluation, and consummation of all new investments in the
European region, with a particular concentration in France,
Spain, and Italy. Prior to joining Colony in 1997, Mr. Bazin was
the Group Managing Director of Immobiliere Hoteliere (“IH”),
a French public company. Prior to joining IH, Mr. Bazin was
an M&A specialist in Investment Banks both in the US and
in France.
Gordon Black is the Managing Director of Heitman International
and has primary responsibility for the day-to-day operations of
the group’s business activities. Mr. Black has participated in
European real estate transactions totalling over Euro 1 billion.
Mr. Black received his Bachelor of Science degree in Finance
from Michigan State University. He is a member of the Urban
Land Institute and of the Commercial Investment Real Estate
Institute.
JAMES BLAKEMORE
managing director
LEHMAN BROTHERS
jblakemo@lehman.com
tel +44.20 7102 1513
SIMON BLAXLAND
managing director
EXMOOR GROUP
sblaxland@exmoorgroup.com
tel +34.91 411 1061
Jim Blakemore is a Managing Director at Lehman Brothers
and heads its European Commercial Mortgage Lending and
Securitisation business. Jim oversees Lehman Brothers’
“Windermere” Commercial Mortgage Lending Conduit which
has become one of the most active pan-European lenders
over the past 18 months. Lehman Brothers’ CMBS team has
completed the fi rst CMBS transactions in Italy, Switzerland and
Sweden as well as having lead the Canary Wharf Group’s two
most recent securitisations.
After 10 years in property companies and commercial banks
in Spain and France, Simon joined the Whitehall team at
Goldman Sachs in 1996 working in France, Spain and the UK.
He later worked in corporate fi nance on mergers, acquisitions
and structured fi nancings in the real estate sector across
Europe. From 2002 Simon was head of GE Real Estate in
Spain/Portugal before leaving in 2004 to create the Exmoor
Group with partner Ian Sandford. Exmoor is an independent
property development and investment company working with
projects across Spain and Portugal. Exmoor Group works
with both international and domestic investors in structuring
transactions.
ROGER BOOTLE
chief economist
CAPITAL ECONOMICS
roger.bootle@capitaleconomics.com
tel +44.20 7808 4999
JEAN-CLAUDE BOURDAIS
chairman
S.P.F.P
jc.bourdais@spf-paris.com
tel +33.1 40 76 70 64
One of the City of London’s best-known economists, Roger
Bootle is Managing Director of Capital Economics. He is also
Economic Adviser to Deloitte, a Specialist Adviser to the House
of Commons Treasury Committee and a Visiting Professor at
Manchester Business School. Roger is a regular columnist
in The Sunday Telegraph and has also written several books
including Money for Nothing - Real Wealth, Financial Fantasies
and the Economy of the Future which was published recently.
Jean-Claude Bourdais was the chairman of a family company
founded in 1954 by his father, the Bourdais group, number 2
in France in real estate consultancy sold in 2001 to Insignia,
a NYSE quote company. He remained Chairman and CEO
of all the companies of Insignia Bourdais group until July
2003, when the group was taken over by CB Richard Ellis.
The professionalism and the consultancy quality of the group
were the basis of the constant and lasting development of
a privileged relationship with faithful clients. In 2002, the
turnover of Insignia Bourdais was of Euro 45 million with a
global staff of 330 employees.
LÉON BRESSLER
chairman & ceo
UNIBAIL
leon.bressler@unibail.fr
tel +33.1 53 437 305
FRANÇOIS BRISSET
directeur général
DTZ ASSET MANAGEMENT
francois.brisset@dtzfr.com
tel +33.1 49 64 4913
Léon Bressler has been Chariman and Chief Executive Offi cer
of Unibail since 1992. He is a graduate of Institut d’Etudes
Politiques de Paris and has a degree in Law. He began his
career with Chase Manhattan Bank. Before joining Unibail,
Léon Bressler was a Managing Partner of Worms & Cie. Unibail
is the largest French listed property company with a Euro 4
billion market capitalisation.
François Brisset, is a Director of DTZ Asset Management, a
leading player in French real estate (offices, warehousing,
retail, residential) with a fast-developing Pan-European network.
Prior to setting-up DTZ Asset Management, he built his career
through successive management roles in both finance and real
estate at Bourdais, Crédit Foncier de France, Ernst & Young
and The Archon Group. François Brisset is a ESCP graduate
and post graduate in Real Estate Law, at Panthéon-Sorbonne
University.