David Batchelor

Executive Director, A&T Services Operational Real Estate, CBRE

Rami Badr

Managing Director, Orion Capital Managers

Rami is a Partner and Managing Director of Orion and is primarily located in London. Since joining Orion in 2002, he has been involved in acquisitions, asset management and realisations for the Orion European RE Funds across Europe with a particular focus on larger corporate transactions, pan-European portfolios, debt acquisitions, restructurings and retail investments. This includes active involvement in investments such as Infracity in Stockholm, Puerto Venecia in Spain, the equity participation in Société Foncière Lyonnaise, the debt acquisition and restructuring of the Spanish company Inmobiliara Colonial or the Sotogrande resort relaunch. Before joining Orion he was an associate at Arthur Andersen within the transaction support team, advising large corporations on their RE strategies. Rami is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique.

Laura Brinkmann

Vice President, Brookfield

Erik Jacobs

Founder, HORECA Investment Partners

Current Responsibilities:

HORECA Investment Partners, an investment platform exclusively representing a family conglomerate based in Asia. HORECA targets investments into hospitality ranging from real estate, operating platforms to technology start-ups.

Our current portfolio in Europe includes the 25Hours Hotel Terminus Nord in Paris (real estate) and we have ownership stakes in Cycas Hospitality (leading pan-European hotel management platform) and Arcade Food Theatre (London based food-market concept). Further we have a number of positions in smaller technology related start-ups.

Experience:

Erik has a strong mix of experience in both the principal investment arena as well as in the transaction advisory space. Most recently Erik was responsible for European Capital Markets at JLL Hospitality Group.

Prior to JLL, Erik was responsible for European hotel investments at Invesco Real Estate. At Invesco Erik executed various hotel transactions throughout Europe. This covered a large variety of investment ranging from very institutional leases to operationally geared portfolios, from corporate investments in hotel companies to loan investments with hotels as collateral.
Prior to Invesco Erik was responsible for hotel transactions and asset management at Morgan Stanley for the opportunistic Morgan Stanley Real Estate funds.

Puneet Kanuga

Head of Hospitality Investments, Queensgate Investments LLP

Mr Kanuga is Head of Hospitality Investments at Queensgate Investments LLP, focusing on acquisitions in Europe and the US. Mr Kanuga joined Queensgate from the Rosewood Hotel Group, where he led the growth for Pentahotels, a global lifestyle hospitality platform. Prior to that, Mr Kanuga was Director at HVS Hodges Ward Elliott, a brokerage and investment advisory firm specialising in hotel M&A.

Jo Winchester

Head of the Student Accommodation Valuation and Advisory Team, CBRE

Jo is head of the student accommodation Valuation and Advisory Team at CBRE and is a leading valuer of student accommodation across EMEA with 16 years’ experience in the sector.  The CBRE student accommodation team works with all the leading active investors, developers, owner-operators and lenders looking to deploy capital in student accommodation across EMEA. 

More recently, Jo has also been working with clients active in the emerging Co-living sector.  These organisations are a mixture of specialist and hybrid co-living providers, such as The Student Hotel and The Collective, and student players who are now diversifying into Co-living.

Niamh O'Connor

CEO, Summix Capital Limited

Mai-Lan de Marcilly

Mai-Lan de Marcilly, Director and Head of Hotels Europe, KKR

Mai-Lan de Marcilly joined KKR’s real estate team in 2013 and is in charge of France and hospitality investments. Prior to joining KKR, Ms. de Marcilly was at PGIM in London where she focused on pan-European opportunistic and value added investments across sectors. Ms. de Marcilly also worked at LaSalle IM, Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds, and RBS in Paris and London. Ms. de Marcilly holds an MBA from ESSEC Business School, Paris.

Henri Wilmes

Chief Investment Officer, a&o Hostels

Will Duffey

Executive Vice President, Hotels & Hospitality, JLL

Stéphane Bensimon

CEO, Wojo

Guy Ivesha

CEO & Founder, Maslow’s

Guy Ivesha is the CEO of Maslow’s, the hospitality-led, workspace and lifestyle concept that launched its first property, Mortimer House, in London’s Fitzrovia in late 2017. Previously Guy was Head of Acquisitions and Development for PPHE Hotel Group, the largest owner,

developer and operator of hotels in London. Guy was instrumental in the growth and success of the company, which have enabled it to achieve and exceed its expansion plans and financial objectives. In addition, Guy was responsible for establishing the group’s entire restaurant and bar operation and concept creation with great success.
Prior to joining PPHE Hotel Group Guy was the Director of Hotel Development for El-Ad Properties NY from 2005-2009, a major real estate development firm based in New York, where he oversaw the re-development, re-opening and asset management of the iconic Plaza Hotel. Earlier in his career, Guy was a consultant at TRI Hospitality Consulting Ltd. (acquired by CBRE Hotels). Guy and members of his family are shareholders in PPHE Hotel Group Limited.
With hospitality at his heart Guy has pioneered the creation of Maslow’s whose first project Mortimer House and Kitchen sits within a six-storey Art Deco building in London’s Fitzrovia. Built upon Maslow’s principles and hierarchy of needs - a philosophy of human motivation and happiness that is central to its existence - Mortimer House is a private community with an all-encompassing gamut of work areas, a restaurant and bar, gym, yoga studio, communal lounge, bar and loft space with adedicated meditation room set over eight floors. The community generates a monthly calendar of events for members drawing direction from Maslow’s founding principles.

Roger A. Allen

Group CEO, Resources for Leisure Assets

Roger is the Founder and Group CEO of Resources for Leisure Assets (RLA) a recognized global advisory to investors, owners, developers and management companies in wellbeing hospitality, specializing in hotels, resorts, residential, mixed-use, healthcare, active living communities and health tourism developments.
RLA works closely with project stakeholders across four continents from its offices in Sonoma, Vienna and Dubai to provide conceptual, financial analysis and asset management of complex assets such resorts and destination assets.
For more than 20 years, Roger has been working on multiple levels of project development in the hospitality and leisure industries, developing a singular expertise in wellbeing asset management and the complexity of project planning through to delivery and operations.
Roger has worked with most of the leading hotel operating brands, is a former a partner at Horwath HTL for Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and CIS Countries and was a co-author contributor to the book ‘Hotel & Resorts Valuation – An Investors Guide’ and is a member of the International Society of Hospitality Consultants (ISHC).

Jean-François Garneau

Senior Vice-President of Resort Development, Propriétés & Co

Strategic thinker and creative builder, JF is Senior Vice-President of Resort Development with Propriétés & Co, an integrated resort creation company, where he oversees strategy and development of the French group’s resort properties in Europe.

He is also the founder and Director of INITIAL Real Estate, a Canadian and Swiss-based innovative strategic planning and project management company that bridges the worlds of creativity, research and business.

Working with visionary developer partners around the globe, he has created development strategies and provided creative direction for resort projects on three continents. A keen study of “people places”, he has been involved in the creation of many large-scale luxury resort real estate projects, notably as Vice-President for Master Planning and Envisioning with Intrawest.

JF’s background in architecture, urban design, and his over 35 years of diversified resort development and planning experience have allowed him to develop a unique expertise in finding creative solutions and developing execution strategies for the creation of compelling and memorable places. JF is also co-chair of ULI Europe’s Hospitality Council.

Gregory Gilbert

Principal, Benson Elliot

Gregg is a Principal and Head of Iberia at Benson Elliot, a pan-European real estate private equity fund investing across all asset classes. He dedicates his time to originating and analysing new equity and debt investment opportunities across Europe, with a primary focus on Spain and Portugal. In addition, Gregg manages Benson Elliot’s current investments in Spain.

Gregg joined Benson Elliot in 2011 from Colony Capital, where he worked on debt and equity investments across Europe. Earlier in his career Gregg was a consultant at ERA, advising clients on the market and financial feasibility of large-scale hotel, residential, and leisure developments across the United States, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Gregg received his BA from Dartmouth College, an MA in International Affairs from the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from the Wharton School.

Paul Morgan

Managing Director – Operations, Audley Group

Paul joined Audley Group in 2007 as Operations Director and was promoted to Managing Director – Operations in early 2017. Previously Paul held senior management posts at Hilton UK, Corus and Regal Hotels and was Operations Director for Bespoke Hotels. 

Paul’s key responsibilities are for all of the operating departments within the Audley Group portfolio, including the restaurants, bars, health clubs and Audley Care, the Company’s domiciliary care arm, as well as the HR disciplines across the Audley Group. Providing the strategic management of these businesses, Paul ensures delivery to the highest standards in both the care and hospitality sectors.  

Through a fulfilled and well trained team, Paul is delivering a consistent, profitable service to Audley Group’s internal and external customers.

Robert Alley

Chief Operating Officer, Roomzzz Aparthotels

Robert has been leading Room^zzz Aparthotels as COO through an exciting period of growth. With four stunning new projects opened in the last 2 years Room^zzz have doubled revenues and are set to double again with an ambitious pipeline of expansion beyond the UK.

Room^zzz is well established in the exciting aparthotel sector providing stylish apartments with high guest satisfaction and strong sentiment for business and leisure guests. Robert is an industry veteran with over 30 year’s hospitality experience at some of the world’s largest hotel brands. He drives the business with a successful team focus on customer experience, brand development, commercial strength and leadership to take the group through the next few years of growth as an innovator and market leader.

Alex Ducharme

Round Hill Capital

Anastasia Osipov

Development Manager, Adina Apartments

Philip Bacon

Director, Planning and Development & Valuations, Horwath HTL

Chartered Accountant and member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors with over 35 years’ experience in professional business advisory services and general management in a wide range of independently-managed and publicly-listed international companies
Comprehensive experience over more than 25 years of all aspects of hotel and resort development and operations, with particular expertise in residential business models and mixed use developments, managing projects and cross-functional international teams during development, start up and operational launch
Personally involved in the development of luxury branded residences involving brands such as Mandarin Oriental, Four Seasons, Fairmont, Jumeirah and Armani.
15 years’ international consulting experience of hotel valuations and feasibility studies, operator search, asset management and strategic business planning to owners, lenders and operators across Europe as well as in Africa, the Middle East and the Caribbean
Visiting lecturer at Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne - Online MBA Program (Hotel Budgeting & Forecasting).
Combines the highest standards of objective business analysis with an inspirational level of innovation and creativity