CREATORSPETER DENTONmanaging director, head of financial sponsors coverageWESTDEUTSCHE IMMOBILIENBANKpeter@117abbeville.comBERTRAND DESCOURSglobal head of re and lodging financeSOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALEbertrand.descours@sgcib.comINVESTMENT BANKstructured finance - leasing - advisory - redevelopment.Peter Denton is a Managing Director in the <strong>Real</strong> <strong>Estate</strong> Finance Groupat Barclays Capital. Based in London, he is tasked with expandingthe bank’s client coverage and business opportunities in theContinental European, Middle Eastern and South African real estatemarket. Until May 2007 Peter was co-head of European Debt CapitalMarkets Origination at Eurohypo where he managed the origination,structuring and execution of many of Eurohypo’s complex real estaterelated financings throughout Western Europe.Bertrand DESCOURS joined SG in 1971. After 8 years in French branches,he joined the international network with executive positions inFrankfurt and London and was then appointed in the CorporateFinance Division as Deputy Head of the Agro-Food and RetailDepartment. He joined SGCIB <strong>Real</strong> <strong>Estate</strong> in 1996 as Head of BusinessDevelopment and Structured Finance. He is <strong>Global</strong> Head of <strong>Real</strong> <strong>Estate</strong>and Lodging Finance since 2001.LAURENT DIOTchief financial officerNEXITYldiot@nexity.frtel +33.1 71 12 12 12ERIC DONNETmd & cooAEW EUROPEeric.donnet@aeweurope.comtel +33.1 78 40 92 00Laurent Diot is Vice President in charge of international operations forNexity. Before joining the CGIS (Compagnie Générale d’Immobilier et deServices) in the Vivendi group as Director of Audit and Strategy in 1996,he served as project manager at the Compagnie des Eaux et de l’Ozone.He has served as Vice President, Business Development of Nexity andis CEO of Nexity International since 2002. He holds a degree from theEcole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (H.E.C.).Eric Donnet, has been promoted to Deputy Managing Director andChief Operating Officer at AEW Europe, of whom he was Head of AssetManagement since 2005. Prior to joining AEW Europe, Eric Donnet wassince 2002 a Director of Bail Investissement, one of the major Frenchreal estate listed companies, managing 1,6 billion euros of assets.He was also Managing Director of Addvim (asset management) andDeltis (property management), two subsidiaries of General Electric<strong>Real</strong> <strong>Estate</strong>. Within this role, he managed a team of 60 dedicatedprofessionals based in <strong>Paris</strong>.PASCAL DUHAMELdirecteur exécutif immobilierCARREFOURpascal_duhamel@carrefour.comtel +33.1 55 63 41 49LAURENT DUMASprésident-directeur généralTRANSIMMEUBLESldumas@transimmeubles.frtel +33.1 47 03 48 63carrefour property’s aim is to create trueproperty management expertise withinthe group.DEVELOPERoffices and residential development- from light renovations to full-scaleredevelopments - project management.Pascal Duhamel is the Group Executive Director Property and isresponsible for the general management of Carrefour Property. Beforejoining Carrefour Property, Pascal was Managing Director withinMorgan Stanley’s real estate division when he was head of the MorganStanley European Core real estate fund. Pascal, 45, is a graduate of HECbusiness school.From the very outset in 1989, TRANSIMMEUBLES, founded and chairedby LAURENT DUMAS secured a place amongst the leading players inthe <strong>Paris</strong>ien real estate market. From our initial expertise in propertyconversions, we have progressively widened our scope of interventionto include development, asset management, project managementand investment. (In 1994, the group decided to form an investmentcompany, Compagnie Foncière du Palais Royal, company held with50% by NATIXIS IMMO DEVELOPPEMENYT since 2006). Since October2006, two new shareholders joined TRANSIMMEUBLES: EDRIP, aninvestment fund of Compagnie Financière Edmond de Rotschild andNAXICAP, a subsidiary of NATIXIS.
GRI EUROPE SUMMITJAN P ECKERTmanaging directorSAL OPPENHEIM REAL ESTATEjan.eckert@oppenheim.chJACQUES EHRMANNchief real estate and development officerGROUPE CASINOjehrmann@mercialys.comtel +33.1 53 70 23 17Jan Eckert is Managing Director of Sal. Oppenheim <strong>Real</strong> <strong>Estate</strong> the realestate corporate finance arm of Bank Sal. Oppenheim. He is a foundingpartner and shareholder of Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie. Corporate Finance(Switzerland) Ltd. based in Zurich, Switzerland. Before transferring withhis entire Team to Sal. Oppenheim, he set up the real estate corporatefinance practice of Arthur Andersen in Switzerland and later movedto Ernst & Young. He worked as a Partner for both organisationsin Switzerland and internationally. Jan holds a degree in businessadministration as well as in real estate economics; he is a Swiss CPAand MRICS.A graduate of the HEC business school, Jacques began his careeras Regional Development Manager at Méridien SA, before beingappointed Director of Business Development. In 1989, he becameCompany Secretary for Société des Hôtels Méridiens, in charge ofAcquisitions, Development and Legal Affairs. He joined EuroDisney in1995 as General Manager of Disneyland <strong>Paris</strong> Imagineering. In 1997he was hired by Club Méditerranée as Vice President, Development,Property and Construction, and in 2000, he was named GeneralManager of the company’s “New Business” division. He has been incharge of <strong>Real</strong> <strong>Estate</strong> and Expansion at Casino since 2003 and has nowbeen appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Mercialys.STEPHEN EIGHTEENglobal head real estateROYAL BANK OF SCOTLANDstephen.eighteen@rbos.comtel +44.20 7085 5000MICHAEL EISENKOLBvp re structured financeAAREAL BANKmichael.eisenkolb@aareal-bank.comtel +49.611 348 0BANKinternational property finance expertise. across three continents . europe, northamerica, asia/pacific . tailor-madefinancing solutionsSteve was born in Reading and educated at Forest Grammar School inBerkshire. He spent the early part of his career with Barclays and then ABN,initially as a credit analyst and subsequently as a corporate relationshipmanager before specialising in real estate financing with FennoScandia Bankwhere he built a successful real estate finance and advisory business. In 1995Steve joined international property advisers DTZ as Managing Director of theirFinancial advisory business, and worked with investors on structuring andarranging debt and equity limited partnerships, advised corporate occupierson their real estate holdings and financial institutions on the strategicpositioning of their real estate finance businesses. Steve joined NatWestin 1998 to build a UK structured property finance team and following thetakeover in 2000 performed a similar role for RBS. In 2003 Steve was asked tolead the wider GBM REF business across UK, USA, Europe and Asia.Michael Eisenkolb is currently Vice President within Aareal Bank’s <strong>Real</strong><strong>Estate</strong> Structured Finance division, based in Wiesbaden, Germany.Since joining Aareal Bank he has been involved in the origination ofcommercial real estate investment and development loans based inAmsterdam, thereafter in Berlin and more recently out of Wiesbadenfor various international markets in Western and Eastern Europeand increasingly now in the new emerging markets with a specialemphasis on logistics and retail property finance. He has extensiveexperience in single-country single asset loans, portfolio financings aswell as cross-border financing structures. He has also participated inthe structuring of Islamic debt facilities.OLIVIER ELAMINEceoALSTRIAoelamine@alstria.detel +49.40 226 341 330AHSAN ELLAHIhead of european structured financeEUROHYPOahsan.ellahi@eurohypo.comtel +44.20 7759 7600office properties in germany existing ordevelopmentsoffice buildings, shopping centres, retailproperties, warehouses and distributioncentres,hotels - europe, usaOlivier Elamine is CEO of Alstria a 100% subsidiary of a fund managedby IXIS Capital Partners. Prior to Alstria’s foundation in 2006, OlivierElamine was a founding partner at IXIS Capital Partners (ICP). Whileworking for ICP, Olivier Elamine was responsible for acquisitions,management and disinvestment processes in European Countrieswhere he contributed in the last three years to the acquisition anddisposal of more than 5 BEuro of commercial real estate assets. InGermany, he leads the acquisition by Alstria of the portfolio sold by theCity of Hamburg early 2006.Ahsan Ellahi Managing Director Head of European Finance has rejoinedEurohypo in <strong>September</strong> 2007. Previously he was Head of <strong>Real</strong> <strong>Estate</strong>Finance Europe for HSBC’s Corporate & Institutional Banking Division.Ahsan has 21 years of real estate experience including assisting withthe setting up of HSBC’s CMBS Securitisation team and completing hisfirst ever synthetic real estate securitisation. Ahsan is a member ofthe APB, ACIB & IPF.