creators of the summit - Global Real Estate Institute

CHRISTOPHE MONTCERISIER
managing director
ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND
ERIK MORESCO
principal
BLACKSTONE GROUP
Christophe Montcerisier is Managing Director of French
Real Estate Finance team for The Royal Bank of Scotland.
Christophe started his career in 1986 with Banque Paribas
he then moved on to The Industrial Bank of Japan where he
was responsible for the work-out of a Euro 3bln real estate
loan portfolio. In 1997 Christophe joined the Global and
Principal Investment Group of Merrill Lynch where he set up the
European real estate franchise. Prior to joining RBS Christophe
was part of the real estate advisory group of Citigroup where
he advised several large corporates in the monetisation of their
real estate portfolio.
Erik Moresco is a Principal of Blackstone, responsible for
sourcing and executing transactions throughout Europe, with
particular concentration on France, Spain, Portugal and the
Benelux region. He joined Blackstone after spending several
years with Morgan Stanley’s investment banking division in
New York, London, and Paris, becoming a key member of
MSREF’s French team. He received a Bachelor of Science
degree from Cornell University. Mr. Moresco is Dutch and is
fluent in English, French and Spanish.
MASSIMILIANO (“MAX”) MORRONE
business development director
GE REAL ESTATE
ALFONSO MUNK
vice president
MORGAN STANLEY
Started career in the investment banking department of
Credit Agricole Indosuez, he held various roles in the M&A
department and was involved in cross border France-Italian
M&A transactions in the banking and insurance sectors. In
2002 he moved to Aedes Spa as director for Real Estate
Finance and Investments, where he was responsible for the
execution of retail and office deals, being instrumental to the
growth of the company portfolio and market cap. In 2004 Max
joined GE Real Estate in Milan where he formed and led the
Risk/Underwriting team and in 2006 he moved to Business
Development where he is responsible for increasing existing
market and customer reach, driving growth into new products
and supporting the growth strategy for Italy.
Alfonso Munk is a Vice President of Morgan Stanley based
in Madrid and responsible for Morgan Stanley’s real estate
investing activities in Spain and Portugal. Alfonso, who joined
Morgan Stanley in 2002, has considerable experience in
both principal investing and investment banking areas in real
estate including acquisitions of single assets and portfolios,
establishing several investment joint-ventures in residential
and retail sectors with Grupo Lar as well as minority share
acquisitions through the Morgan Stanley Special Situations
Fund. Alfonso received an MBA from Wharton Business
School.
JOHN NACOS
managing director, commercial real estate
DEUTSCHE BANK
DANIEL (“DAN”) NEIDICH
co ceo & chairman
DUNE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LP
John Nacos runs Deutsche Bank’s Commercial Real Estate
Group in Europe, which is active in real estate lending, CMBS
and distressed mortgages. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank in
2001, John was the co-founder and CFO of Creditweb, one of
Europe’s leading on-line/off-line mortgage intermediaries with
annual loan originations in excess of €1 billion. John worked
at Merrill Lynch for eleven years and established and managed
Merrill Lynch’s mortgage financing, opportunistic real estate
and MBS/ABS trading activities in Europe. John is a 1989
graduate of Harvard College.
Dune runs two funds, a hedge fund and a real estate
opportunity fund, through which they control over $2.2 billion of
equity. In real estate, the Funds invest throughout the capital
structure. The Funds primarily invest in the U.S. and Western
Europe. Prior to forming Dune in 2004, Dan was at Goldman
Sachs where he was a member of the Firm’s Management
Committee, co-head of the Merchant Banking Division, and
Chairman of the Whitehall Investment Committee. He founded
the Whitehall Funds in 1991 and had run the Funds through
the time he left Goldman, during which time the Funds raised
over $12 billion of equity and purchased over $50 billion of
real estate interests throughout the world.
JULIAN NEWISS
chairman
CATALYST CAPITAL LLP
ROGER NEWMAN
senior vice president
PARAMOUNT GROUP, INC
Julian Newiss began his real estate career with Jones Lang
Wootton in London and New York. He became a director of
a number of London and Edinburgh Trust PLC’s international
development companies during the 1980s. Subsequently Mr
Newiss was Chairman of the Board of Colliers Europe and a
director of Colliers itself. In 1993, he joined Kennedy-Wilson
as European Managing Director. In 1995, this became
Greenwich Group International (GGI), a global real estate
investment group. In 2001 Mr Newiss and his management
team acquired the European business of GGI to form Catalyst
Capital, of which Mr Newiss is Chairman.
Roger Newman is Senior Vice President of Property
Management of Paramount Group, Inc., one of the largest
privately owned real estate, acquisition, redevelopment and
management firms in New York City. Previously, Mr. Newman
was Vice President of Acquisitions for Equitec Financial Group
and Vice President of Operations, Investments and Marketing
for Triad Utah. Roger graduated from Brigham Young University
with a B.S. Degree in Business with a concentration in Finance.