creators of the summit - Global Real Estate Institute

CREATORS OF THE SUMMIT
DAVID RENWICK
director
ALLIED IRISH BANK
CARMEN RESCHKE
managing director
KANAM GRUND KAPITALANLAGEGESELLSCHAFT MBH
David works with Allied Irish Banks plc, holds the position
of Director, AIB Corporate Banking Ireland and has 20 years
experience in the financial services sector. AIB Corporate
Banking Ireland is Allied Irish Bank’s Corporate Relationship
Banking business in Ireland. As Head of a Business Unit he
currently manages four corporate lending teams, one of his key
responsibilities is European property lending.
Carmen Reschke joined the KanAm Grund Kapitalanlagegesel
lschaft mbH in 2001 and was promoted to Managing Director
in 2005. She is responsible for finance, accounting, tax
and US real estate Investments. Since 1983 she has been
involved in the real estate business, German open ended real
estate funds and also responsible for international property
management, investments, tax and accounting.
DR KNUT RIESMEIER
member of the board
MEAG MUNICH ERGO ASSETMANAGEMENT GMBH
JIM RISOLEO
evp & chief investment officer
HOST HOTELS & RESORTS
Member of the Board, MEAG MUNICH ERGO Asset
Management GmbH and MEAG MUNICH ERGO Kapitalanla
gegesellschaft mbH, Germany. Head of Real Estate. MEAG
manages the assets of the Munich Re an ERGO insurance
companies. MEAG manages total assets under management
of more than EUR 180 billion, there of EUR 16 billion Real
Estate. Before joining the Munich Re group in 1995, Knut
was a management consultant and worked in a number of real
estate companies. Age 51. Holds degrees in both engineering
and economics.
Mr. Risoleo joined Host Hotels & Resorts (formerly Host
Marriott Corporation) in 1996. He directs the company’s
merger, acquisition, development and portfolio recycling
activities. At Host, he has been involved in the acquisition
or disposition of approximately $9 billion of hotel properties.
Before joining Host, he served as Vice President of
Development for Interstate Hotels where he was responsible
for hotel and management contract acquisitions. A lawyer by
training, Mr. Risoleo is a member of the Pennsylvania bar.
JORDI ROBINAT CATALÁ
president and ceo
MEDGROUP INVERSIONES, SL
BUDDY ROES
md european industrial
ING REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT
Jordi Robinat started as the assistant of Enrique Masó in The
E. Masó Group and became Managing Director and partner.
Between 1979 and 1993, he started different companies such
as International Hotels Corporation. In 1990, he joined The
Aga Khan Group as Executive Director for Spain. In 1994, he
founded Inlade that in 1997 merged with David Stein to found
MedResorts, real estate company which developed planned
communities. Later, in partnership with Soros Real Estate,
he founded MedGroup. In 2005, Perry Capital took a stake in
MedGroup. In 1993 he founded Alda Foundation whose aim is
to develop educational programmes in Paraguay.
Buddy Roes has over 16 years of experience in the property
and fund management industry in Europe and joined ING in
2002 where he has been responsible for the acquisition and
asset management of the ING Logistics Property Fund Europe.
Prior to this he held several senior positions with Healey
and Baker in Frankfurt, AZL N.V. in Heerlen and Irish Life
Investment Management subsidiary in the Netherlands. He is
member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
HOWARD P RONSON
international chairman
HRO GROUP
MARCO ROSENBAUM
principal
BANK OF AMERICA
Howard P. Ronson is the International Chairman of the
HRO Group, one of the leading privately held international
commercial real estate development firms. Founded in 1969,
the firm has been a major force in both the European and
American commercial real estate markets, having developed
over 1,200,000m 2 of prime office property in 55 separate
projects. Ronson’s insistence on extraordinary effort and
meticulous service has resulted in the firm being held in high
regard by design and construction professionals, tenants,
lenders and investors alike.
Based in London for the last nine years, Marco Rosenbaum
specialises in the Real Estate, Lodging and Gaming sectors.
Marco has advised a wide range of clients, completing
transactions for Blackstone, Colony Capital, Starwood Hotels,
Hilton Hotels Corporation and Starwood Capital, amongst
others. He has particular experience in the lodging sector
and in real estate structuring and finance. Marco has a BA in
History from Yale University and an MBA from the University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor. Prior to joining Bank of America he worked
for Bankers Trust and Deutsche Bank.