Bernreuther Angelus
Head of Investor Relationship Management,
Kaufland
Angelus Bernreuther
Betts Paul
Managing Director,
M7 Real Estate
Paul Betts is Managing Director of M7 in Central Europe, based in Prague but responsible for operations across the Central European region. Paul has been working in real estate for 26 years and has been based overseas for over 22 years in Central Europe and France. Prior to joining M7 in May 2015, Paul was Head of EMEA Logistics at Jones Lang LaSalle. He was a Director responsible for the coordination of all business services offered within the Logistics sector across the EMEA region. He was also a member of the Global Logistics Board. Prior to this Paul was a Partner of King Sturge and Managing Director of the French operations.
Previously, Paul was located in Prague for King Sturge becoming Managing Director in 1995. He oversaw the team expansion from eight to 25 and was involved in the formation of new offices in Poland, Hungary and Croatia. Paul advised on a number of the earliest institutional investment transactions in the region for clients including GE Capital and HypoVereinsbank as well as providing development advice including site assembly for Skanska. Paul significantly diversified the range of property services available for investor, developers and occupiers in the emerging Czech market.
Paul Betts
Biriş Gabriel
Founding Partner,
Biriş Goran
Gabriel Biriș is a Founding Partner of Biriș Goran and is widely regarded as one of the leading tax experts in the country. He has over 25 years’ worth of experience in tax advice, having advised clients on compliance, tax litigation and tax audits. Gabriel is the author of two books about tax. In 2016 he worked as State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, tasked with the legal reform of the fiscal area. On the real estate side, Gabriel has coordinated the Biriș Goran team in some of the most significant transactions on the Romanian market, including the first transaction with a value above €100 million (the sale of City Mall) and the biggest real estate transaction in Romania (Upground, the sale of offices and apartments, amounting to approximately €400 million).
Gabriel Biriş
Bisnel Claudiu
Managing Partner,
Brisk Group
With over 20 years of experience in the real estate and construction industry, Claudiu Bisnel is the founder and Managing Partner of Brisk Group. Brisk Group is the leading Romanian construction consulting company offering project, cost and construction management services, with offices in London, Bucharest and Chisinau. A member of the Association for Project Management - UK (APM UK), with an international background in project & cost management, Claudiu Bisnel has coordinated projects with a high degree of complexity in strategic sectors in the UK, Europe and the Middle East, such as industrial, nuclear, pharmaceutical, energy, logistics. Brisk Group has exceeded 1,000,000 sqm built and delivered in residential, retail, office and industrial projects.
Claudiu Bisnel
Blaha Marek
CEO,
Dostupné bydlení České Spořitelny
Marek Blaha became CEO of the new subsidiary of Česká spořitelna - Affordable Housing ČS in January 2022. The aim of the new company is to create a housing stock of thousands of units with rent-stable and affordable housing, following the example of the Vienna-based Erste concept. Marek has held a top management position at Česká spořitelna since 2016, when he became head of retail distribution. He was responsible for the areas of private banking, retail, mortgage centers, call centres, small corporate clients, and external partner relationships. He was responsible for five thousand people and CZK 26bn in revenue.
Marek Blaha
Blake Neil
Head of Research EMEA and UK,
CBRE
Prior to joining CBRE in mid-2012, Dr Blake was Director of Economic Analysis at Oxford Economics having previously worked for Experian Business Strategies, Wharton Econometrics (Global Insight) and the University of East Anglia. He holds degrees from the Universities of York and Warwick. Neil has extensive knowledge of economic and property market modelling and forecasting (with over 25 years’ experience) having developed the Oxford Economics European Cities and Global Cities models. At CBRE, Neil heads the EMEA research leads on forecasting investment performance and on strategic investment advice within the EMEA research team. He is an extensive experience of media and public speaking and gave the opening address at this year’s CEDEM Real Estate Investment Summit in Prague.
Blake Neil Dr. MRICS
Blanchard Darren
Senior Director of Business Development,
the Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group
A graduate in Hotel, Catering & Institutional Management from Brighton University, and a Fellow of the Institute of Hospitality (FIH). With almost 35 years of hotel & catering experience in operations, consulting and business development, Darren joined the Carlson Rezidor development team in Moscow in March 2006. Previously engaged with Starwood, De Vere, Forte, Renaissance, and IHG in the UK, USA, Bermuda and Hong Kong he initially worked in Eastern Europe in May 1992. Since then he has resided the past 25 years in Russia, Azerbaijan and Ukraine. The Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group has 1,400 hotels in operation and under development, with a global footprint covering 115 countries and territories. Within Eastern Europe Carlson Rezidor manage 100 hotels with over 23,000 guestrooms open and in operation, including the Radisson Blu Hotel Bucharest and the Park Inn by Radisson Bucharest.
Blanchard Darren (FIH)
Blaschke Georg
Vice President - International Real Estate Finance Continental Europe,
Helaba
Georg Blaschke is an educated banker and holds a university degree in business administration. He has almost 20 years of experience in real estate finance in USA, UK, France, Benelux and CEE. At professional posts in London, New York and Frankfurt he has been responsible for loan origination, credit management and business development. Now based in Frankfurt he is responsible for Poland in the loan origination team for "Continental Europe" at Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen (Helaba). Since the start of activities in these markets in 2006 the team has originated and underwritten financings of about EUR 4.0 billion.
Blaschke Georg
Blideanu Costin
Head of Leasing Department,
AFI Europe Romania
Costin has more than 10 years experience in commercial real estate in Romania. Before joining AFI Europe Romania 7 years ago, he had been working as a senior retail consultant in Jones Lang Lasalle, one of the leading global real estate agencies. Costin holds a degree in International business and a masters degree in Strategic Marketing from The Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies and is fluent in English and French.
Costin Blideanu
Błaszczyk Anna
Member of the Management Board,
PFR Nieruchomości
Anna Błaszczyk has over 12 years of professional experience in providing legal services to investment funds, corporations, construction (residential) projects and the PRS market (institutional rental). She has been associated with PFR Nieruchomości since 2016, where she is in charge of the coordination of the company’s legal services, investment funds, over 60 special purpose vehicles, including the investment (construction) and corporate areas, and coordination of legal services for institutional rental arrangements involving portfolio companies. Moreover, within the organizational division headed by her, Ms Błaszczyk looks after the company’s proper operation in compliance with the applicable laws and internal regulations (Compliance Area). She is also responsible for ensuring the consistency of PFR Nieruchomości’s communication policy, conducting an effective HR policy, overseeing the provision of administrative services and managing safety and security at various levels, including occupational safety and health aspects and information security. She is a graduate of the University of Warsaw, the University of Sheffield and the Center for European Legal Studies at the University of Cambridge.
Anna Błaszczyk
Boeris Ermanno
Commercial Director,
Lucron
Ermanno is an Italian with over 25 years of international experience. Having graduated at the University of Brighton, in March 1998 he moved to Slovakia where he occupied several position in international companies like Embraco, Enel-Slovenske Elektrarne. Since late 2009, he started his career in the real estate business, becoming the Managing Director and subsequently Managing Partner of Colliers International in Slovakia where he focused his activities in restructuring and expanding the business. In late 2019, Ermanno joined Lucron Group as Commercial Director responsible for all commercial activities with a specific focus in building the division dedicated to development, management and the operation of commercial real estate Since November 2020, Ermanno is also Member of the Board of Directors.
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