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ERIK SONDÉN<br />

managing director<br />

SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE<br />

ARNE SORENSON<br />

evp & cfo<br />

MARRIOTT INTERNATIONAL INC.<br />

Erik Sondèn is Head <strong>of</strong> European <strong>Real</strong> <strong>Estate</strong> Client Origination<br />

and Advisory. Erik has more than 20 years experience <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

major European property markets as a lender, principal and<br />

investment banker. Prior to joining Société Générale, Erik has<br />

held senior positions with Deutsche Bank, Jones Lang Lasalle,<br />

Cushman & Wakefield and Nordea. Erik is a graduate from <strong>the</strong><br />

Stockholm School <strong>of</strong> Economics.<br />

Arne M. Sorenson is Executive Vice President, Chief Financial<br />

Officer, and President, Continental European Lodging.<br />

Mr. Sorenson is responsible for lodging operations and<br />

development in <strong>the</strong> continental European region as well as<br />

<strong>the</strong> company’s finance, treasury and financial planning and<br />

analysis functions. Previously, Mr. Sorenson was Senior Vice<br />

President, Business Development for Marriott International,<br />

Inc. He was responsible for pursuing strategic growth<br />

relationships, including partnerships and acquisitions, across<br />

all lodging brands on a worldwide basis. This included an<br />

active leadership role in international strategy and expansion,<br />

joint venture activity and mergers and acquisitions.<br />

CSABA SPOTTLE<br />

cee acquisitions manager<br />

PRAMERICA REAL ESTATE INVESTORS<br />

MICHAEL STANCOMBE<br />

partner, real estate<br />

LOVELLS<br />

Csaba Spottle is <strong>the</strong> acquisition manager Central & Eastern<br />

Europe for Pramerica <strong>Real</strong> <strong>Estate</strong> Investors. He has more<br />

than 25 years <strong>of</strong> <strong>Real</strong> <strong>Estate</strong> Experience in <strong>the</strong> European<br />

and American Markets. He holds an MBA in International<br />

Business/Management from New York University. Graduate<br />

School <strong>of</strong> Business Administration, and a Bachelor <strong>of</strong> Science<br />

degree in Contracting and Construction Management from<br />

Syracuse University.<br />

Michael is <strong>the</strong> client partner for a number <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> firm’s major<br />

real estate clients and specialises in development, financing<br />

and joint venture work acting for both institutions and<br />

developers. Michael is a “Leading Individual” practitioner in<br />

Chambers Directory 2005/6 and in <strong>the</strong> Legal 500 2005.<br />

He is also listed as one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> World’s Leading <strong>Real</strong> <strong>Estate</strong><br />

Lawyers in <strong>the</strong> Euromoney Legal Group Guide and <strong>the</strong><br />

Chambers World Guide 2002.<br />

GAYLE STARR<br />

senior vice president<br />

AMB PROPERTY CORPORATION<br />

FRANK STEFFEN<br />

senior director, europe<br />

HYPO REAL ESTATE BANK AG<br />

Gayle Starr is Senior Vice President <strong>of</strong> Capital Markets at AMB<br />

Property Corporation and its nine co-investment funds. With<br />

21 years <strong>of</strong> experience in all aspects <strong>of</strong> industrial property<br />

ownership including development and construction, property<br />

management, leasing, asset management, finance and<br />

dispositions, she now oversees all secured and unsecured<br />

debt internationally and domestically. Averaging 10<br />

financing deals annually and responsible for over 30 lender<br />

relationships, she designs and structures complex debt<br />

transactions.<br />

Frank started his career at Deutsche Bank AG, Germany. He<br />

has more than 11 years experience in commercial real estate<br />

financing. He is responsible for <strong>the</strong> banks first development<br />

finance in Russia. Before Frank joined <strong>the</strong> CEE team he<br />

was Head <strong>of</strong> Business Development Europe and Senior<br />

Risk Manager for <strong>the</strong> bank’s US, UK and Asian lending<br />

business. Prior to that at Hypo <strong>Real</strong> <strong>Estate</strong> Bank International<br />

predecessor HVB he was involved in <strong>the</strong> bank’s commercial<br />

real estate lending senior risk management and in structuring<br />

closed end real estate funds for HVB’s private clients.<br />

DAVID STEIN<br />

chairman<br />

THE STEIN GROUP<br />

NOAH STEINBERG<br />

chairman & ceo<br />

WALLIS REAL ESTATE<br />

After a distinguished career as a resort developer in <strong>the</strong> U.S.<br />

(building more than 4,000 homes and creating such resorts<br />

as <strong>the</strong> billion-dollar Monarch Beach development in Sou<strong>the</strong>rn<br />

California), Stein moved to Spain where he co-founded <strong>the</strong><br />

Spanish real estate company, MedGroup. In 2001, he created<br />

The Stein Group Hotels specializing in owning and operating<br />

small, luxury hotels. The group has 18 hotels in Europe, is a<br />

partner with Sol Melia in Luxury Lifestyle Hotels & Resorts and<br />

publishes LUX magazine.<br />

Noah Steinberg, 38, is <strong>the</strong> chairman and chief executive <strong>of</strong>ficer<br />

<strong>of</strong> Wallis <strong>Real</strong> <strong>Estate</strong>. An American citizen, he has worked<br />

in Hungary with <strong>the</strong> Wallis Group since 1990. In his current<br />

position since 1999, he was responsible for establishing<br />

Wallis <strong>Real</strong> <strong>Estate</strong> and oversees <strong>the</strong> group’s investment<br />

and development businesses, its <strong>of</strong>fice, retail and industrial<br />

projects and its real estate services portfolio with an annual<br />

turnover in excess <strong>of</strong> 100 million Euros. Mr. Steinberg is<br />

a graduate <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Woodrow Wilson School <strong>of</strong> Public and<br />

International Affairs at Princeton University (BA), and <strong>the</strong><br />

Diplomatic Academy <strong>of</strong> Vienna in Austria (MA).

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