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Mr Guido Wolf,
Director,
Zabolis Partners
Guido Wolf is a Director at Zabolis Partners, an investment banking and private equity group in Central and Eastern Europe. The group specialises in retail trade and real estate solutions for the retail industry. Headquartered in Vilnius, the team is responsible for half a billion Euro worth of assets and supports retailers’ developments in three countries.
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Since 2003, Zabolis Partners has continuously won EUROMONEY Real Estate Awards, most recently the Liquid Real Estate Awards for Investment Banking and for Property Management in Lithuania. Guido is a founding member of the Baltic committee of the International Council of Shopping Centers. Before joining the Zabolis Group, he worked as a management consultant in Germany.
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Dr Thomas Beyerle,
Head of Research and Strategy
DEGI
Dr. Thomas Beyerle, born in 1967, is the director of the Research & Strategy department of DEGI Deutsche Gesellschaft für Immobilienfonds mbH, Frankfurt/Main. DEGI is a property investment company.
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With property assets under management totalling some EUR 6.4 billion today, DEGI has counted among Europe’s leading property portfolio managers for more than 35 years. The company is specialized in managing open end real estate funds for retail and institutional clients.
Dr. Beyerle has more than 10 years of business experience in international research in the real estate sector and is also a well-known speaker at real estate conferences and author of numerous publications.
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Mr Johnnny Dunford
Managing Director
DTZ Europe
Johnny Dunford has taken over the position of the managing director with overall responsibility for the day-to-day management of the company in DTZ Prague office from the beginning of March 2008.
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Johnny has spent more than two years during 2005-2007 at the DTZ CEE regional office in Budapest where he was the Regional Business Director, before relocating to London last summer. Johnny successfully supported DTZ’s regional valuation and investment teams, creating opportunities for our clients in various CEE countries.
Johnny graduated from 3 universities in Great Britain with specialisation on Urban Estate Management and Property Investment. He has extensive experience with strategic management gained during the time as an Army Officer before joining DTZ. Apart his membership in Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in 2006 where he plays active role as APC supervisor, he has also been a member of The American Chamber of Commerce and British Chamber of Commerce.
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Mr Martin Holler
Partner
Giese & Partner
Martin Holler studied at the University of Hamburg School of Law. From 1994 through 1998 he worked as a research assistant for the law school of the University of Hamburg. He was admitted to the German Bar in 1998 and began working for an international law firm in Frankfurt a.M.. He is a member of the Czech Bar and Partner in our law firm since 1999.
He is author of several legal essays dealing with different topics of Czech commercial law.
Mr. Holler speaks German (native language), Czech and English.
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Mr Martin Züchner
Country Manager, Germany
Bancaja Habitat
Martin Züchner is Country Manager Germany of Bancaja Habitat since 2007. The company is a subsidiary completely owned by Bancaja, the third biggest saving bank in Spain. Formerly he worked for different agencies and consultancy firms in Spain, related to residential market issues, like senior housing or land acquisi-tion. Martin Züchner was born in 1972, is married, has one daughter and lives in Mu-nich, Germany.
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Mr Guy Perry
Founder & President
IN-VI
Guy Perry, founder of IN-VI, is a French American architect and urban planner with development and design experience on five continents. Prior to IN-VI, Guy was Senior Vice President with TrizecHahn overseeing the design and development of projects throughout Europe. Guy was also Vice-President of HOK Intercontinental and worked 7 years with Kajima Corporation in Tokyo, Paris and Brussels as Project Manager on a range of developments.
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Early in his career Guy worked for Ricardo Bofill on the design of projects like the Barcelona Olympics. Over the past few years Guy has led research efforts for design and development strategies at MIT and Harvard University including analysis of the heart of Sao Paulo in collaboration with MIT, The University of Sao Paulo and McKenzie University. He has presented at United Nations in New York and Geneva, as well as, MIPIM, Barcelona Meeting Point, Cityscape and ULI conferences worldwide regarding strategies for sustainable urban development.
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Mr Hugo Barker
Chief Operating Officer
MAI Central Eastern Europe
Hugo Barker was a Lloyds Broker 1986-1994 before moving to Riga in 1995, where he established a new start-up Insurance Broker in Riga, Latvia.
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This Insurance Broking Company called MAI CEE, has grown during the period 1995-2008 to its current size of 19 Country Offices across all CEE region, and it is generally regarded as the third largest Insurance Broker in the region. Hugo Barker is COO of the MAI CEE Group and is particularly responsible for large pan-CEE accounts, especially Commercial Property accounts.
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Mr Bent Walde-Jensen
Head of CEE Real Estate
KPMG
Bent Walde-Jensen has been working for KPMG in the Czech Republic since 1992 and is in charge of KPMG in Central and Eastern Europe Real Estate Practice and the Accounting and Payroll department in KPMG in the Czech Republic.
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He has the following qualifications: Degree in Economics (University of Arhus School of Economics and Business Administration); B.Sc. in Economics and Business Administration; M. Sc. in Economics and Business Administration; M. Sc. Business Administration and Auditing) He is also a Member of Institute of State Authorized Public Accountans, Denmark. His Main fields of experience are Real Estate and Audit, Czech GAAP, IFRS and US GAAP. Mr Walde-Jensen speaks Danish, English and German
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Mr Wedigo von Woedtke
Managing Director
AAACon Gmbh
Wedigo von Woedtke is managing director of AAAcon GmbH. He holds a degree in business engineering from the University of Stuttgart, Germany. Following his apprenticeship he worked in the building renovation business and as a construction manager.
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From 1992 onwards he was technical manager and from 1994 onwards he was managing director of a stock listed property developer. In 1997 he became member of the board of directors of a cooperative building association in Berlin. As managing director of 3Acon GmbH (Treureal Groupe) and later of AAAcon GmbH he has specialized in strategic and operational consulting of international investors and banks in the areas of portfolio valuation and controlling. His special interest and area of expertise lies in the management and technical as well as economic development of existing building stocks.
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Dr. David Lorenz
Managing Director
AAAcon GmbH
Dr. David Lorenz MRICS is managing director of AAAcon Asset Management GmbH. He holds a degree in real estate economics from the University of Applied Sciences in Stuttgart, a Master of Science in Construction Management from the Nottingham Trent University and the Waterford Institute of Technology, and has a doctorate in economics from the University of Karlsruhe.
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David has several years of experience in valuation, estates management and property development and is actively engaged in research and education at the Chair of Sustainable Management of Housing and Real Estate at the University of Karlsruhe. He has published on issues relating to sustainability in property investment, valuation and risk assessment in refereed journals such as the Journal of Property Investment & Finance, Property Management and Building Research & Information. David is Chairman of the RICS EU Advisory Group on Sustainable Property Investment & Management.
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Mr Sotiris Tsolacos
Director of European Research
Property and Portfolio Research (PPR)
Dr. Sotiris Tsolacos is the Head of Europe in Property & Portfolio Research, the leading independent provider of real estate research, portfolio strategy, and risk management advisory services globally. His team is working closely with investment managers, lenders and developers on assessing risk and opportunities across Europe and identifying mispriced assets.
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Dr Tsolacos is a regular commentator on topical themes and he has written extensively in the area of real estate forecasting. He is a past president of the European Real Estate Society and a Fellow of the European Area Business Cycle Network.
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Ms Julia Unser
Business Development
SAP Deutschland
Julia Unser joined SAP in 2000 into presales for Real Estate Management with a strong academic and professional background in this business area. In 2007 she moved into her new role of EMEA Business Development where she took over the Real Estate Program Management. Julia is now responsible for the deployment of an integrated go-to-market strategy, with targeted programs throughout EMEA, supported by marketing and operations.
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Mr George Lewis
National Director
Jones Lang LaSalle
George Lewis is a Director at Jones Laing LaSalle based in Prague and head of Capital Markets in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. He has over 16 years real estate experience having worked in the UK, Germany and since 2004 in Central Europe. Apart from specialising in Investment he has a broad base of experience covering occupational agency, valuation and real estate finance. George has transacted over 1 billion Euros of deals in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. In 2008 JLL was voted best real estate agency of the year in the Czech Republic at the CIJ awards.
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Mr Jaime Fuster
Partner
Garrigues
Mr Jaime Fuster is a business Lawyer and expert in International Corporate transactions, Project Finance, Cross Border Mergers & Acquisition, Real Estate and Construction Law/ PPP/PFI and Energy. He has advised more than 100 Spanish investors in Poland and CEE amongst which is up to €2 billion euro investment in the last three years. He is currently the partner of Garrigues Central and Eastern Europe division and a prominent member of several international committees
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Ms Aneta Wiak
Senior Analyst
IPD (Investment Property Databank)
Aneta Wiak has been at the Investment Property Databank for 3 years working initially on the UK and the CEE projects where she was instrumental in the development of the Central & Eastern European Service and the establishment of the Polish Property Index.
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Recently Aneta joined the IPD Research Team where she will take responsibility for the production of core products, the Central European market indices and digests.
Aneta graduated from the Poznan University of Economics, specializing in Real Estate Investment and Management. She also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in European Real Estate from Kingston University and is a member of the Society of Property Researchers.
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Mr Ian Rowbotham
Counsel
BPV Legal-BH
Ian Rowbotham studied at the Oxford University and at the University of Nottingham (School of Law).
Prior to becoming the Head of International Taxes at bpv consulting s. r. o., our tax consultancy company,
he worked for major international auditing companies. His practice also extends to European law.
Consultancy domains: Taxation systems in Central Europe, EU law
Languages: English, Czech
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Mr Petr Kuhn
Counsel
White & Case
Petr Kuhn is a Counsel at White & Case LLP and a senior lecturer at Macro-economics Faculty VSE and Law Faculty ZCU in Prague.
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He is a member of a Czech Ministry of Justice Committee on Insolvency Regulation and Committee on Corporate Law Reform. He specializes in Restructuring, Finance and Mergers & Acquisitions. He holds Law Degree from Law Faculty UK in Prague and MBA degree from ESCEM, Tours-Poitiers. He is a Leading Lawyer in Restructuring and Insolvency under IFLR 1000.
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Mr. Geza Toth-Feher
Partner
CB Equity Partners GmbH
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