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CREATORS OF THE SUMMIT<br />

FRANÇOIS POCHARD<br />

senior managing director<br />

IXIS AEW EUROPE<br />

SUSAN PORTER<br />

tax partner<br />

FRESHFIELDS BRUCKHAUS DERINGER<br />

Mr Pochard is Senior Managing Director <strong>of</strong> IXIS AEW Europe.<br />

Mr Pochard has been working within <strong>the</strong> finance and real<br />

estate fields for over 20 years and held various senior level<br />

positions at Capri Enterprises and SCIC Investissement, both<br />

subsidiaries <strong>of</strong> ICADE Group. Mr Pochard is a graduate <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> Institut D’Etudes Politiques (I.E.P.), Paris and holds a<br />

postgraduate business degree from <strong>the</strong> Dauphine University<br />

in Paris.<br />

Sue Porter is head <strong>of</strong> our London tax group. She specialises<br />

in corporate tax and corporate tax planning, <strong>the</strong> tax aspects<br />

<strong>of</strong> real estate, capital markets, banking and securitisation<br />

transactions, and structured products. Sue is <strong>the</strong> author <strong>of</strong> a<br />

chapter <strong>of</strong> Tolley’s Tax Planning and has contributed numerous<br />

articles to various publications. She is listed in Chambers<br />

UK and The Legal 500. Sue was educated at Trinity College,<br />

Cambridge and has been a partner in <strong>the</strong> firm since 1992.<br />

TONY POTTER<br />

group chief executive<br />

MILLENNIUM & COPTHORNE HOTELS<br />

RICHARD POWERS<br />

managing director<br />

GOLDMAN SACHS<br />

Tony Potter is Group Chief Executive <strong>of</strong> Millennium & Copthorne<br />

Hotels and Executive Director <strong>of</strong> Millennium & Copthorne<br />

Hotels plc. He joined <strong>the</strong> Group in 1999. He previously held<br />

posts in Choice Hotels as CEO, Hilton International as Director<br />

and Senior VP Europe, Senior VP North America & Canada<br />

and MD <strong>of</strong> Hilton UK. In his earlier career, Tony held general<br />

management positions with Thistle and De Vere. Tony is a<br />

Fellow <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Hotel & Catering International Management<br />

Association.<br />

Richard Powers is a Managing Director and Co-Head <strong>of</strong><br />

European <strong>Real</strong> <strong>Estate</strong> at Goldman Sachs International (“GSI”).<br />

In this role, Richard oversees GSI’s European real estate<br />

investment activities. GSI and <strong>the</strong> Whitehall funds control over<br />

$21 billion <strong>of</strong> assets across seven European countries.<br />

RYAN PRINCE<br />

vice chairman<br />

REALSTAR GROUP<br />

OLIVER PUHL<br />

executive director<br />

MORGAN STANLEY BANK AG<br />

Mr. Prince is a main Board Director <strong>of</strong> LRG Holdings Limited,<br />

<strong>the</strong> company which acquired 73 Holiday Inn and Crowne<br />

Plaza Hotels for £1 Bln from IHG Plc in 2005 in partnership<br />

with Lehman Bro<strong>the</strong>rs and GIC <strong>Real</strong> <strong>Estate</strong>. He is also Vice<br />

Chairman <strong>of</strong> <strong>Real</strong>star’s hotel asset management business<br />

which asset manages <strong>the</strong> LRG portfolio. He also serves as<br />

Chairman <strong>of</strong> <strong>Real</strong>star Healthcare, <strong>the</strong> owner <strong>of</strong> a diversified<br />

portfolio <strong>of</strong> government operated primary healthcare facilities<br />

throughout <strong>the</strong> UK. Ryan has a BA in Commercial Studies from<br />

Huron College at <strong>the</strong> University <strong>of</strong> Western Ontario, Canada<br />

(Honours) and a post-graduate degree in business from <strong>the</strong><br />

London School <strong>of</strong> Economics (Merit).<br />

Mr. Puhl is an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley and<br />

responsible for <strong>the</strong> Firm’s German <strong>Real</strong> <strong>Estate</strong> Investment<br />

Banking. Amongst his recent assignments were <strong>the</strong> Euro<br />

244 MM IPO <strong>of</strong> DIC Asset, and <strong>the</strong> Euro 7 bn sale <strong>of</strong> Viterra.<br />

He joined <strong>the</strong> Firm in 2000. Prior to that, he was CFO <strong>of</strong> a<br />

portfolio company <strong>of</strong> private equity firm Permira. Mr. Puhl is a<br />

Graduate <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> University <strong>of</strong> St. Gallen (HSG).<br />

DR FRANK PÖRSCHKE<br />

chairman board managing directors<br />

COMMERZ GRUNDBESITZ<br />

INVESTMENTGESELLSCHAFT MBH<br />

PAUL M RAINGOLD<br />

chairman<br />

GÉNÉRALE CONTINENTALE INVESTISSEMENTS<br />

After having started his business career as Management<br />

Consultant with McKinsey & Company, Inc., he worked<br />

in different management positions with ECE Projektmanagement,<br />

a leading developer <strong>of</strong> shopping centers. As<br />

Managing Director <strong>of</strong> ECE Projektmanagement International<br />

G.m.b.H. & Co. KG he was responsible for <strong>the</strong> international<br />

project development activities <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> group. In July 2004 he<br />

joined Commerz Grundbesitz Group, <strong>the</strong> fund management<br />

company that manages <strong>the</strong> open ended real estate funds<br />

hausInvest europe and hausInvest global. He is Chairman <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> Board <strong>of</strong> Managing Directors <strong>of</strong> Commerz Grundbesitz-<br />

Investmentgesellschaft mbH (CGI) and Head <strong>of</strong> Supervisory<br />

Board <strong>of</strong> Commerz Grundbesitz-Spezialfondsgesellschaft mbH (CGS).<br />

Paul Raingold started his career in <strong>the</strong> USA and held positions<br />

in London before moving in France. Paul is President <strong>of</strong><br />

Générale Continentale Investissements based in Paris, and<br />

formed in 1975 a company which has invested with partners<br />

in over 6,000,000 sq. feet <strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong>fices and o<strong>the</strong>r commercial<br />

properties, in <strong>the</strong> Paris region and in o<strong>the</strong>r major cities in<br />

France. Paul Raingold is a graduate <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> University <strong>of</strong> London<br />

and a fellow <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Royal <strong>Institute</strong> <strong>of</strong> Chartered Surveyors.

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