People

Baguley John
Tangible Assets Valuation Director,
RICS

John is the Tangible Assets Valuation Director for RICS, with a remit covering residential and commercial property across UK and Europe. John is a Chartered Surveyor and has worked in the property sector for more than 25 years, from day to day surveying and valuation work to being the Ombudsman at Ombudsman Services: Property where he led the property and professional services sectors. John has written several journal articles and spoken on R4 and other radio stations about property and consumer issues during his tenure as Ombudsman.

John Baguley

Bajgar Radim
Partner,
Mint Investments

Radim has a strong partner and investment relations, which are vital elements of the success of Mint Group. Having worked with Deutsche Bank in London and ING Barings, he thrives on creating, negotiating and structuring the most complex real estate deals. He is prudent in his attitude with a strong awareness of the balance between risk and reward.

Radim Bajgar

Bak Alex
Co-Founder,
Lightfi

Alex’s background is physics, both at Oxford University and then a PhD at Imperial College London, where he also made a short documentary on melting tropical glaciers. Alex has consulted on corporate behavioural innovation projects, and knows first hand how difficult it is to change human nature. Alex is now the co-founder of LightFi, a smart building insight and automation IoT solution that has seen early funding from Climate-KIC and Shell, with a mission to make energy efficiency easily accessible to every building and reduce global emissions by 1%.

Alex Bak

Baker Alex
Founder & CEO,
Retail Tech X

Alex is the Founder and CEO of Retail Tech X, a value-driven tech start-up with the mission of impacting peoples retail experiences and contribute to a better world. He has 13+ years of experience in the digitalisation of retail with positions such as CMO, Disruption Facilitator, Chief Commercial Officer both in the start-up scene but also at Swedish FMCG giant ICA Group as head of concept for digital in-store and innovation. He is a keynote speaker and lecturer in retail, disruption and innovation, in addition to being an investor and partner in tech start-ups focusing on data, machine learning and customer experience for retailers.

Alex Baker

Baláž Martin
VP, Country Manager Czech Republic and Slovakia,
Prologis

Martin Baláž joined Prague team in the role of Senior Leasing & Development Manager Czech Republic & Slovakia in September 2014. In February 2019 he has been promoted to VP, Country Manager Czech Republic & Slovakia. Prior to joining Prologis, Martin had 6 years experience in Real Estate working for Cushman & Wakefield holding recently a position of Associate Partner Head of Industrial and Retail Warehouse department in Slovakia as well as Head of Industrial Department Czech Republic. He graduated Technical University in Zvolen, Slovakia Faculty of Marketing and International Trade as well as MBA in Construction and Real Estate at College of Estate Management in UK.

Martin Baláž

Balázs Bence
Executive Director - Real Estate,
Diófa Asset Management

Balázs Bence

Balcaen Didier
General Manager,
Speedwell

Specialized in project and financial management, Mr. Didier Balcaen has over 20 years of experience in the international construction and real estate market, out of which 11 in Romania. He is a Belgian National, who, after 5 years of contracting experience in Belgium, explored part of the world for the next 5 years as an expat project manager in U.A.E, Singapore, Saudi-Arabia, Indonesia, Qatar and Mauritius. After returning from his exotic travels, he fulfilled the role of Chief Operations Officer in real estate development in Poland, Russia and Romania until founding Speedwell in 2015. He is the founder and CEO of Speedwell SRL, a full service real estate development company with a focus on medium to large scale offices, retail and residential projects in Romania.

Didier Balcaen

Balik Lukas
CEO,
Spaceflow

<div class="gmail_default"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><font color="#444444"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal"><span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal"><span style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Lukas is CEO at </span></span></span></span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://spaceflow.io/en&source=gmail&ust=1564061613134000&usg=AFQjCNFcwaGejh8ve8paYAV0sqktmOZ2Ow" href="https://spaceflow.io/en" rel="noreferrer" style="color:#1155cc; text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal"><span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal"><span style="text-decoration-line:underline"><span style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Spaceflow</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal"><span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal"><span style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">, a plug & play tenant experience platform and community engagement that help landlords to attract and retain top tenants and raise profits. In PropTech, Lukas sees an enormous opportunity not just to make buildings smarter, but also more people-oriented with access to all types of services, amenities and community. Lukas is a regular speaker at major PropTech events worldwide.</span></span></span></span></font></font></div> <div class="yj6qo"> </div> <div class="gmail_default adL"> </div>

Lukas Balik

Bálint Csaba
Macroeconomic Analyst,
OTP Bank Romania

Csaba Bálint joined OTP Bank Romania in the beginning of 2008. Between 2008 and 2014, he worked in the bank's Risk Division in different positions, being responsible for macroeconomic stress testing excises and credit scorecard developments. At the end of 2014, he moved to the Finance and Planning Division as macroeconomic analyst, where he works with OTP Group's Research team, preparing analysis and forecasts about the Romanian economy, financial markets and banking system. He also teaches at universities in Oradea and Cluj-Napoca. Csaba passed the level III CFA exam in 2016 and holds M.Sc. in finance from the Bucharest University of Economic Studies. Currently, he is a PhD student at the same university.

Bálint Csaba

Banică Costin
Head of Industrial Agency,
JLL Romania

Costin Banica is responsible to ensure and support the growth of the Industrial Agency department in JLL Romania. Client relationship management and generating spin-off business for the wider company are the key methods in achieving this role. He is responsible for maintaining a close relationship with existing clients and for establishing new contacts for future business with potential occupiers or developers and investors. He has more than 13 years of experience in sales and over 5 years in real estate. His list of clients includes Honeywell, Daimler, Coca-Cola, Bosch, GSK, Dachser. He has leased more than 300,000 sqm directly. In the Bucharest industrial market, Costin is involved in establishing locations for rapidly growing e-commerce, courier companies and logistic operators​ Costin is leading the largest team in the industrial real estate market in Romania, 7 professionals that work together with the purpose of offering the clients the best full-service experience in the industry. Moreover, he provides consultancy on the industrial logistics and manufacturing projects developed in Romania, establishing in the past 3 years projects totalling more than 200,000 sqm.

Costin Banică

Bannatyne Ben
Managing Director, Regional Head for CEE,
Prologis

Ben leads the team and company operations across Central & Eastern Europe for Prologis, the leading global owner, operator and developer of industrial real estate throughout Europe, Americas and Asia is responsible for all activities of Prologis in the CEE region (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia). He joined Prologis in 2008 from Jones Lang LaSalle where he was the Managing Director for Central Europe. In this role, he was responsible for Poland, Hungary, Romania and the Czech Republic, including the daily management of the Warsaw office and operations in Prague and Budapest. Ben has more than 20 years of experience in the real estate industry, of which 15 years have been spent in Central Europe with Jones Lang LaSalle and Prologis. He graduated from the University of Aberdeen with a degree in Land Economy. He is also a UK-trained chartered surveyor.

Bannatyne Ben MRICS

Bannatyne Harry
Partner, Head of Industrial Agency CEE,
Colliers

Harry Bannatyne is a Partner and Head of the Industrial Agency CEE at Colliers, based in the Czech Republic. Harry has gained vast experience in the CEE industrial and logistics sector, but also the broader commercial real estate industry over the past 13 years. With an excellent understanding of the industrial and logistics sector, ranging from site selection and land acquisition to end-user advisory, including supply chain strategy and development partner selection. Harry has very strong relationships with both developers and end-users alike, and over the past 8 years, Harry has accomplished more than 100,000 sqm of transactions on an annual basis, advising numerous multi-national and leading domestic companies such as Metro/Makro, Mattel and Foxconn, to name just a few. After graduating from Glasgow Academy, Harry furthered his education with an HND in Marketing and Business. Prior to moving to the Czech Republic, he ran his own business in Scotland, acquiring and selling commercial businesses adding to his valuable business knowledge. Harry sits on the EMEA leadership board for industrial and logistics at Colliers and is a member of the Association of Foreign Investment in the Czech Republic.

Harry Bannatyne