Ana Dumitrache is a real estate professional with over 25 years of track record on the Romanian market, a high-level real estate management consultant across all industry segments, Member of the Advisory Board of RICS. She has started her career as a real estate banker, and since the beginning of the year 2000 up until 2016, for 18 years she has been involved in financing the local and CEE regional real estate players, with an on-site, hands-on investment banking approach. In 2016 she has joined CTP Romania, initially as a co-country head, and then, after a short break, taking over the local CEO position and developing the company into an engaged market leader in its light industrial and logistic sector, with the support of the group CEO and shareholder, bringing it to next level real estate practice. While breaking from CTP, Ana has led CBRE's investment division, getting involved in local and regional transactions. Now she continues her real estate career as a professional real estate and management advisor of some of the most influential real estate players on the Romanian market, with a focus on different areas, including residential and retail, and concentrating on urban regeneration and sustainable retrofit. Contributing to the professionalism and maturity of the real estate market in Romania is the red line of her career, which is also manifest in her joining the Advisory Board of RICS for Romania with the sole purpose of spreading best practices and sharing knowledge.