CREATORSRAFAEL AVILÉS URUÑUELAmanaging director spainGROSVENORrafael.aviles@grosvenor.comCRISTINA BADENESexecutive directorMERIDIA CAPITALcbadenes@meridiacapital.comtel +34.93 484 <strong>15</strong> 00private equity, <strong>15</strong>0 million euros fund,hotels, global focus, top tier brands,existing and development urban andresortHe joined Grosvenor in 2002, having formed part of the ManagementBoard of the JV that Grosvenor had in Spain with Spanish developerGrupo Lar until he became Managing Director of Grosvenor Spain in2006. Before joining Grosvenor, Avilés spent his professional career inthe <strong>Real</strong> <strong>Estate</strong> business as General Manager of Hammerson Spain andProcisa amongst other companies.Ms. Badenes is responsible for the Research Department withinMeridia Capital, a real estate private equity firm dedicated to brandedhospitality. Prior to that she was a ranked equities analyst coveringthe hotels sector at UBS Investment Bank in London. Ms. Badenes wasselected as one of the top-ten UK’s best stock pickers amongst 1,100financial analysts. She holds a degree in Economics and BusinessAdministration and an MBA from IESE Business School.MARK BAILLIEhead of re - europe & north americaMACQUARIE REAL ESTATEmark.baillie@macquarie.comtel +44.20 7065 2000ROBERT BALICKmanaging directorCARVAL INVESTORSrobert.balick@carval.comtel +44.1932 861 000REIT MANAGERmacquarie real estate’s strategic focusis on the creation and management ofreits in the world’s major capital marketsFUND MANAGEMENTa global leader in real estatedevelopments and value addedstrategies, managing investments inoffice, retail, residential and industrialExecutive Director of Macquarie Bank Limited, based in London, UK asMacquarie’s Head of <strong>Real</strong> <strong>Estate</strong> - Europe and North America. Mark hasover 25 years experience in chartered accounting, investment bankingand global real estate funds management. He has a BComm (UNSW)and is Member of the Australian <strong>Institute</strong> of Chartered Accountants.Mr. Balick is a Managing Director for CarVal Investors. Based in London,Mr. Balick is responsible for advising the Fund managed by CarValInvestors on real estate investments in Western Europe including theUnited Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy and Belgium. Prior to joining CVIin 1997, Mr. Balick was a Vice President in the <strong>Real</strong> <strong>Estate</strong> InvestmentBanking unit of Salomon Brothers covering France, Belgium, Spain andPortugal. Mr. Balick received an MBA with specialization in Finance fromthe Stern School of Business at New York University in 1989.FABIO BANDIRALImanaging directorEUROHYPOfabio.bandirali@eurohypo.comtel +39.02 8695991MAXIME BARKATZceo iberiaCONCERTO EUROPEAN DEVELOPERm.barkatz@concerto.frtel +34 91 78 <strong>15</strong> 599BANKoffice buildings, shopping centres, retailproperties, warehouses and distributioncentres,hotels - europe, usadeveloper & investor, industrial &warehouses, fr, iberian peninsula, belgium,switzeland, >10.000sqm, 2.000.000 sqmdeveloped, 300.000 sqm in dvlpmt.Fabio Bandirali received a bachelor in Business Administration fromBocconi University of Milan. In 1983 he began his career as creditanalyst at Interbanca S.p.A. where he became Director of the TurinBranch and then responsible of a credit department in the Head Office.In 1997 he joined RHEINHYP, later merged into EUROHYPO, and set upthe Italian Milan Branch, which is considered one of the most importantbranches among banking industry.Maxime is the Chief Executive of Concerto European Developer branchin Madrid. He heads all the activities of the company in the IberianPeninsula, and its possible expansion in other Southern Europeancountries and Morocco. Prior to joining the company, Mr Barkatzworked in Argentina, Brazil and France, in corporate finance andproject management (mainly infrastructure projects). He holds an MScin Management from both HEC School of Management in <strong>Paris</strong> andFundação Getulio Vargas in São Paulo, and an MoA in ContemporaryHistory from the Sorbonne University in <strong>Paris</strong>.
GRI EUROPE SUMMITTRISH BARRIGANsenior partnerBENSON ELLIOT CAPITAL MANAGEMENTtrish.barrigan@bensonelliot.comtel +44.20 7808 8900EDWARD BATESsenior principalDOUGHTY HANSONedward.bates@doughtyhanson.comPRIVATE EQUITYcommercial/residential, hotel/leisure,eu-turkey-croatia, 50 million to 500million, existing or development, 100%acquisition or jvsTrish brings a global perspective to Benson Elliot, having worked inEurope, US and the Middle East during her real estate career. Beforejoining Benson Elliot, Trish spent two years at Dubai Investment Groupas Head of <strong>Global</strong> <strong>Real</strong> <strong>Estate</strong> Investments. Previously, Trish spent 10years at Goldman Sachs.Mr. Bates is an Investment Director with Orion Capital Mangersbased in <strong>Paris</strong>. Since joining Orion in 1999, he has been involvedin fund raising, acquisitions, asset management and dispositionsacross Europe for the two Orion European <strong>Real</strong> <strong>Estate</strong> funds. He hasbeen involved in over €1.5 billion of transactions in Europe includingLocafinancière in France, office buildings in <strong>Paris</strong>, Lyon and Rome, the47 Park Street hotel in London as well as shopping centers in Spain.Before joining Orion, Mr. Bates was a Vice President at the ClarksonGroup, a private real estate investment company, based in Florida.THIERRY BEAUDEMOULINdirecteur généralFONCIERE DEVELOPPEMENT LOGEMENTSthierry.beaudemoulin@gfr.frtel +33.1 5897 5<strong>16</strong>0RICHARD BENTLEYdirector europe, middle east & indiaHYPO REAL ESTATErichard.bentley@hypointernational.comtel +44.20 7743 7743LENDERinternational commercial real estatefinancing; public finance; infrastructurefinance; capital markets and assetmanagementA graduate of the IEP in <strong>Paris</strong>, Thierry Beaudemoulin, 37 years old,started his career in the Batigère Group as a Management Attaché,before joining the Foncia group with the same function. In 2000, hejoined ING <strong>Real</strong> <strong>Estate</strong> as an asset-manager, then General Manager.He returned to the Batigère group in <strong>September</strong> 2004 as the GeneralManager for the Ile de France (<strong>Paris</strong>) area. At the start of 2006, he joinedthe Executive Board of Foncière des Régions, becoming the GeneralManager of Foncière Développement Logements (FDL) SCA. In 2007, heis appointed Chairman of the Executive Board of Immeo Wohnen.Richard Bentley is a Director for Hypo <strong>Real</strong> <strong>Estate</strong>’s Europe, MiddleEast and India platform and has worked for the group since 2005.He has worked on a wide range of financing transactions across theregion and has over <strong>15</strong> years experience in the <strong>Real</strong> <strong>Estate</strong> Business.In additional to his European role, Richard is also responsible forestablishing the Group’s Middle East business. Prior to joining Hypo<strong>Real</strong> <strong>Estate</strong>, Richard worked in the <strong>Global</strong> <strong>Real</strong> <strong>Estate</strong> Group at LehmanBrothers.DR FRANK BILLANDboard memberUNION INVESTMENT REAL ESTATEfrank.billand@union-investment.detel +49.40 349-19-0LIONEL BOTBOLmanaging directorUBS INVESTMENT BANKlionel.botbol@ubs.comleading international investmentmanagement company specialising inopen-ended real estate funds for private& institutional investorsAfter training as a bank employee Dr. Frank Billand studied politicaleconomy. In 1984 he started his professional career at Hochtief AGand left this company in 2003 as spokesman for the managementarea of Hochtief development.Since 2003 Dr. Frank Billand has beena member of the board of management of Union Investment <strong>Real</strong><strong>Estate</strong> AG (formerly DIFA), a part of the Union Investment Group of theVolks- und Raiffeisenbanken Association. His main responsibilities arecurrently the acquisition and sale of properties and shopping centersin Germany, Austria, Italy, Scandinavia, the Netherlands and CentralEurope as well as project development, building activities, real estatemarketing and communication.Managing Director, Co-head of European <strong>Real</strong> <strong>Estate</strong>, Lodging anLeisure Lionel is responsible for the coverage of UBS Investmentbanking activities in the real estate, lodging and leisure sectors sectorin Europe, CEE, CIS and the Middle East. His team is composed ofapproximately 25 individuals (ex financing), originating and executingM&A, Debt and Equity transactions. It is part of a <strong>Global</strong> franchise, withmore than 100 individuals based in New York, Sydney, Hong Kong andSingapore. Lionel joined UBS in 2005 after 7 years at JPMorgan. Overall,Lionel has more than <strong>15</strong> years of experience in the sector, having ledmore than Euro 80 billion of transactions across the Region.