People

Arambašić Nikola
Workplace Solutions and Project Management Associate,
Colliers International Croatia

Nikola joined Colliers in 2016 a Workplace Solutions and Project Management Associate focused on providing support in the field of office and retail development projects. In 2016 he was awarded the title and trademark of an authorized architect, and at the age of 27 he was entered into the Chamber of Architects as the youngest architect in the history of the Chamber. During his studies, he participated in several projects and in 2013 due to the project to build a private hospital in Baku, Azerbaijan, he found the architectural bureau which he leads today. Today, the office of OCD Architects has 5 architects and many professional associates. Since its inception, the office has made over 60 projects, different typologies and uses. Apart from developing projects in the last two years, the office specializes in co-operating with clients of high status, and apart from architectural and interior projects, they develop comprehensive project management and project management from the first draft to the occupation. In the past two years, the list of clients and associates includes many renowned companies such as Electrolux, KPMG, Colliers International, Medikol Grupa, Q-Software, Qarachay Holding (Azerbaijan) and numerous private clients.

Nikola Arambašić

Arnold Markus
CEO & Owner,
Arnold Investments

Markus Arnold is CEO and owner of Arnold Investments which is operating in Austria as Arnold Immobilien. The company is a multinational brokerage house specializing in real estate investments in Europe. Markus already had considerable experience with a long proven track record in the real estate industry when he initially started in Vienna his own business with a focus on residential buildings in 2009. He then expanded into CEE, opening offices in Prague, Bratislava and Budapest. After that expansion phase, he turned North, to the biggest real estate market in Europe and opened the German office in Berlin. In 2017, the commercial department was set up to support investors in the allocation of real estates in all Arnold Investments target markets. Almost two years ago the Arnold Group started moving into Southern Europe with offices in Madrid and Milan. Arnold Investments is now one of the leading real estate broker companies across Europe with further locations for new offices already in the pipeline.

Markus Arnold

Assimakopoulos Eric
Managing Partner,
Revetas Capital

Mr Assimakopoulos founded Revetas in 2012 and serves as Founding Partner. Mr Assimakopoulos has over 30 years of experience in real estate and has spent his career working principally as a builder and investor. Mr Assimakopoulos is a US national and retains US citizenship. He has however spent the majority of the last 19 years in Europe, initially investing in Belgium, Germany and Central Europe. Throughout that period his investment and management activities have been mainly in Europe. During the 1990s Mr Assimakopoulos founded and built the Gnome Group Inc as a design and build business specialising in technology data centres. In the late 1990s, he partnered with Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds and served as chairman and CEO of Metronexus, a real estate platform investing $300 million in 300,000 sqm of real estate in the US and Europe.

Eric Assimakopoulos

Atanasiu Alexandru
Associate Director,
Colliers International

Alexandru Atanasiu

Attard Montalto Peter
Executive Director and Senior Emerging Markets Economist and Strategist,
Nomura

Attard Montalto Peter

Atwell Mike
Head of Capital Markets Czech Republic and Lead Director CEE,
JLL

As Head of Capital Markets for the Czech Republic and Lead Director for Central and Eastern Europe, Mike oversees a team of more than 30 capital markets experts across CEE. His responsibilities include setting overall business development strategy for JLL's capital markets activities in CEE and the Czech Republic specifically, working closely with local and regional teams. Mike brings to JLL more than 30 years of experience in international real estate consulting, including 13 years in Central Europe during which he was involved in some of the highest profile transactions across the region.

Mike Atwell

Augustin Christoph
Managing Director International - Austria, Hungary,
ECE Projektmanagement

<p>Christoph Augustin has been Managing Director of ECE Projektmanagement Budapest Kft. since 2006 and of ECE Projektmanagement Austria GmbH in Vienna since 2010. He is in charge in both countries, in particular for the Development Division. Previously, he had been active in the field of project development in Germany since 1993, working at ECE in Hamburg since 2002. Moreover Christoph Augustin was responsible as Managing Director of RGC Management A/S, the Danish subsidiary of ECE in Odense, from 2013 until the beginning of 2018 for inter alia the development of the national organization and the restructuring of the Rosengårdcentret. As Project Director, he realized together with his team the Shopping Center Adigeo in Verona, which was opened in 2017 and is the first own development of ECE in Italy. Since 2013 he has been committee member of the Austrian Council of Shopping Centers, where he served as a member of the Advisory Board from 2013 and 2015. Since 2015 he is member of the Executive Board.</p>

Christoph Augustin

Avram Nikola
Owner & CEO,
Alpha Hotel Management

With 20+ years of hotel and resort industry experience including renowned international and regional groups in SE Europe such as Valamar Hotels & Resorts, Vienna International, Adriatic Luxury Hotels and MK Group hospitality, he brings know-how to all phases of hotel property management from concept and development to operational execution and long term planning.  Nikola Avram is from 2019 a founder of Alpha Hotel Management and currently serves as CEO. He is responsible for the company vision, business development and operational execution.

Nikola Avram

Azoitei Lucian
CEO,
Forty Management

Licensed in Law and having earned an MBA degree, with an extensive experience of more than 20 years in real estate developing. Starting with the year 2000, he has chosen entrepreneurship, founding companies that are part of the Pazo Group, representative as a model of successful and visionary business. Often quoted as an authority on the market, with numerous listings in the press (Ziarul Financiar, Luxury, Wall-street.ro, Business Construct, Money.ro). His professional background positions him as an expert in the Romanian real estate market evolution, as he participated both personally and as a consultant to developing thousands of real estate properties. Lucian Azoitei coordinates the long time strategic development of Forty Management.

Lucian Azoitei

Babiak Jan
Project Manager Project Engineering,
Uponor

Jan Babiak

Baciu Laura
Managing Partner,
The Estate

Laura Baciu co-founded The Estate in 2012, after 6 previous years of experience in the residential real estate market. She was a Sales Broker in Colliers International Romania and then part of the Asmita Gardens project sales team. The need for the property management service was highlighted by some clients who left the country around 2011 and this is how The Estate began. Laura is now in charge with the business development, while also advising clients who want to diversify their portfolio.

Laura Baciu

Badea Silviana Petre
Managing Director,
JLL Romania

Silviana Badea has over 12 years of experience on the real estate market. Throughout her career she has been involved in all aspects of property asset management on one side and advisory on the other side. Her specialties are disposal and acquisitions, office and industrial leasing negotiation, property and asset management, financing, property reporting and development. Her most significant assignments since joining JLL are the completion of the sale of Victoria Center to GLL, Buy Side Advisory for GLL on Floreasca Park, Due Diligence for Logicor on the acquisition of the Immofinanz CEE Portfolio, Financing of Sibiu Retail Park.

Silviana Petre Badea