Meka Brunel has been Executive Vice President, Europe, since 2009. As such, she is responsible for all of Ivanhoé Cambridge’s real estate operations in the European market, with assets totalling Cdn $7 billion.
Ms. Brunel has more than 30 years of experience in the real estate industry. Over the course of her career, she has served in a variety of positions, accumulating solid expertise in all facets of the industry. Ms. Brunel held senior management positions at Simco (now Gecina), where she created and developed several new divisions (construction, property management, asset management, strategic development). She also sat on Gecina’s Executive Committee and she is still a member of its Board of directors. In 2006, she was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Eurosic, remaining there until 2009, when she was named Managing Director, Europe, of SITQ.
Ms. Brunel is also active in many professional and social organizations. She led the “Valeur Verte” (Green Value) workshop at France’s Grenelle de l'Environnement conference, served as President of the ORIE (Observatoire régional de l’immobilier d’entreprise en Ile-de-France); a Director at the Université de Cergy Pontoise, a Director at RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) France and a Member of the RICS Governing Council. She now is a Director at Crédit Foncier de France, President of the France Green Building Council, a Director at the Fédération des Sociétés Immobilières et Foncières (FSIF), and a Director at the EPRA (European Platform of Regulatory Authorities). She is also a Director at the European Bahai Business Forum (EBBF). In February 2013, Ms. Brunel was voted “Professional of the Year” at the Pierres d’Or Awards in France.
Ms. Brunel is a Civil Engineer and has an Executive MBA from HEC Paris. She also holds the designation of Chartered Surveyor.

James A. Fetgatter is Chief Executive of the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (AFIRE), a position he has held since 1992. AFIRE is a not-for-profit association formed in 1988 whose members are foreign institutions who have a common interest in international real estate investing. AFIRE members have approximately $1.0 trillion in real estate investments worldwide. He has guided the growth of the association from a small group of Dutch pension funds to an organization of over 190 investors from 21 countries.
Prior to his appointment as Chief Executive, Mr. Fetgatter spent 15 years in various aspects of the real estate industry. His last two positions prior to joining AFIRE were with Dutch and UK investment and development companies.
Mr. Fetgatter served as an officer in the United States Navy and holds a Master in Business Administration from Harvard University and a BS from Oklahoma State University.

Dietrich Heidtmann joined GTIS as a Managing Director in September 2014 and opened the Paris office. He is responsible for the firm’s international capital formation activities. Mr. Heidtmann has 26 years of capital markets experience of which 12 years are in the real estate private capital markets area. Prior to joining GTIS he worked at AXA Real Estate as Global Head of Investor Relations & Capital Markets where he also served on the firm’s Executive Committee. Previously he spent nearly 20 years at Morgan Stanley within the capital markets and real estate investment banking area - most recently as Managing Director, Head of Real Estate Private Capital Markets, EMEA & Asia Pacific.
Mr. Heidtmann is a frequent panelist at international real estate industry events. He graduated from University of Mannheim in 1988 and holds an MBA (Diplomkaufmann).

Frank Jensen is a Danish politician and businessman and has been in his current role as Lord Mayor of Copenhagen since 2010. He entered politics in 1987 as a member of parliament for the Social Democratic Party, a seat he held until 2007. During his career in parliament he held several ministerial positions. From 2007 until 2009 Jensen was the managing director for Telecom Scandinavia and later Danske Advokater, before being elected Lord Mayor of Copenhagen. Jensen has an MSc in Economics from the University of Aalborg. He also holds several honorary posts including member of the board of the National Bank of Denmark and other boardroom posts as well as being the Deputy Leader of the Social Democrats Denmark.

Nils Kok is the CEO and co-founder of GRESB, an industry-driven organization committed to assessing the sustainability performance of real estate portfolios (public, private and direct) around the globe. GRESB has rated more than 1,000 REITs and funds globally on behalf of more than 45 institutional investors that on aggregate represent some USD6 trillion.
He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic conferences, and actively shares his expertise through workshops with investment practitioners and policy makers. Presentations at recent meetings include: United Nations PRI Annual Meetings, MIPIM and ULI meetings; workshops for among others APG Investments; the NBER Summer Institute and AREUEA; and seminars at the Harvard Business School, Yale, Ecole Polytechnique, and Cambridge University.
Nils also holds a position as an associate professor in Finance and Real Estate at Maastricht University in the Netherlands and is an Affiliated Faculty at the Berkeley Program on Housing and Urban Policy at University of California at Berkley. His work has appeared in leading academic journals as well as in financial and economics media, such as the Washington Post, the Australian Financial Review, Das Handelsblatt, Le Monde and Het Financieele Dagblad, and in industry publications, such as Bloomberg and Pensions & Investments.

Lisa Lafave is Senior Portfolio Manager, Real Estate for the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP).  HOOPP is the principal pension provider to healthcare sector employees in Ontario and has approximately 286,000 active members and pensioners and total assets of over $60 billion. She is also Vice-President of HOOPP Realty Inc., the Plan’s principal real estate holding company.
In these capacities, she and her colleagues are responsible for the acquisition, disposition, portfolio management and selected asset management of all direct and indirect real estate investments made by HOOPP. The portfolio comprises office, industrial, retail and multi-residential properties in all major Canadian markets. It also has an active development programme comprising industrial, retail and office properties across Canada. The Fund has also increased its exposure to non-domestic markets through direct and indirect investments in the UK, Europe and the USA.
Lisa has also spearheaded and implemented HOOPP’s Environmental Management Policy and established the portfolio carbon baseline in 2008. As a speaker at many “green” investment conferences, she illustrates how fiduciary responsibility can be compatible with sustainability objectives.

Christopher McCormick, European Investment Director, has over 25 years experience in direct real estate investment and opened the Gaw Capital office (London) in December 2013, following seven years at Aviva Investors as a Fund Manager in Singapore and the UK.
Chris is responsible for the European portfolio, which is now over £1.5 billion, following recent acquisitions, which include Tower Place, Milton Gate and the Lloyd’s building. 

Allan Mikkelsen is a senior director with ATP Real Estate, the real estate investment arm of the Danish pension fund ATP. Allan is involved with both evaluating new investments and monitoring the existing portfolio.
Allan joined ATP Real Estate in 2003. Prior to joining ATP, Allan worked for three years as a CFO within the real estate construction industry and prior to that with international accounting firms for a combined period of ten years.
Allan has a Master of Science in Business Economics and Auditing from Aarhus University, School of Business and Social Sciences and has qualified as a State Authorized Public Accountant.

Raimund Paetzmann, Director Real Estate heads EMEA Real Estate team and leads all expansion projects within Amazon’s Fulfillment, Transportation and Customer Service Network. Raimund is responsible for driving a Pan European approach, to ensure the Development is aligned and integrated with the Amazon.com global Initiatives. He is involved in the strategic network planning and he and his teams coordinates the search for all new EMEA location (Fulfillment Centers, transportation hubs and Customer Service Centers) and oversees all necessary negotiations with developers and Governmental bodies.
Raimund Paetzmann rejoined Amazon EU in 2005 (he was already in charge for Amazon.de between 1999 and 2002) and was a significant contributor to the design of the new generation of EU Fulfillment Centers. So far he has been in charge for searching and securing 28 FC’s totaling in more than 2,000,000 m² Warehouse space in Europe. 1,600,000 m² out of that were built to suit agreements. He and his team were also responsible for 6 Customer Service building projects cross Europe and Morocco.
Prior to his work at Amazon EU, Paetzmann gained 2 ½ years experience as a Regional Manager for South Germany with Difa Deutsche Immobilien Funds AG (Union Investment). Paetzmann also brings an additional 5 years experience as a Managing Director of a middle sized project developer and property manager in Munich.

Hamel is a Partner of Azimuth Global Partners and leads its office and operations in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Azimuth Global Partners is an international real estate private equity advisor to leading institutional investors in Asia and the Middle East, including some of the world’s top 10 real estate investors. Azimuth executes and advises on bespoke real estate investments across the world and has access to off-market opportunities through a strong network of relationships with best-in-class asset managers.  Azimuth’s offices are located in London, New York, Sydney and Kuala Lumpur.
Previously a Partner of Amiri Capital, Hamel has worked for Bain & Co, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Grenfell and NatWest Markets. He has worked throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the United States and has more than 15 years of finance and consulting experience across alternative asset classes and has been directly involved in transactions totalling US$ 3 billion.
Hamel has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University and an MBA from INSEAD.  He studied real estate at Wharton Business School and earned the Islamic Finance Qualification (IFQ) from the Securities and Investment Institute and the Ecole Superieur de Commerce.

Werner Sohier has 32 years of experience in the real estate industry. He started his career his career as a real estate developer and has also worked as a real estate consultant. For three years Mr. Sohier was involved in the acquisition and portfolio management of direct international real estate on behalf of an institutional investor. He moved on to manage the corporate real estate portfolio of a large company. Following this, Mr. Sohier headed the development and brokerage arm of a large Dutch international company.
In 1998 Mr. Sohier joined PGGM, the investment management company for now five Dutch Pension funds with a total of USD 200 billion of assets under management. Within PGGM, Mr. Sohier, among other things, has been responsible for the global real estate allocation and the tactical real estate portfolios (listed real estate securities) in the various regions around the world. He is currently Senior Portfolio Manager Private Real Estate and with his team responsible for the Americas. Mr. Sohier serves on a number of advisory committees and councils and is a past Chairman of AFIRE.
Mr. Sohier has a Doctorandus degree in economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam and a Masters from Georgia State University in Atlanta. He also holds a postgraduate degree in real estate investment (MRE) from the University of Amsterdam. Apart from this, Mr. Sohier is a chartered financial analyst (RBA) and a registered investment manager with the Dutch Securities Institute. He is also a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in the UK (MRICS).

Boris van der Gijp (1971) is Director of Strategy & Research. Together with his team he transforms trends, policies and market developments into effective real estate investment frameworks suitable for institutional investors.
Prior to joining Syntrus Achmea Real Estate & Finance in 2012 Boris van der Gijp was Director at ASR Real Estate Development responsible for renting & sales, strategy & research and marketing & communications. Due to his extensive experience with the various real estate markets, sustainability, risk management and research Boris van der Gijp is able to address institutional investors´ most important developments.
Boris van der Gijp is currently a Fellow at the Amsterdam School of Real Estate and Chairman of the Research & Education Committee at NRW (Dutch retailers association). He also is a member of the Strategy & Research Committee at IVBN (Dutch association of institutional real estate investors) and Assessor at RICS, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
Boris van der Gijp earned a Master degree in Management & Organisation (MMO) from Tias Nimbas Business School in Tilburg in 2010, a Master degree in Real Estate (MRE) from the Amsterdam School of Real Estate in 2004 and a PhD in Economics from the University of Amsterdam in 1995.