Laura Denenga

Laura Denenga Vice-President, Quadrant Real Estate Advisors Laura Denenga is a Vice President of Quadrant Real Estate Advisors (“Quadrant”). Quadrant is a real estate investment manager with approximately $9.0 billion of assets under management.  Quadrant primarily focuses on debt investments with capabilities in the United States, Ireland & the United Kingdom, via its offices in Atlanta…

Amanda Clack

Amanda Clack President, RICS Partner, EY As the 135th President for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), Amanda Clack held office from 2016-17 for a period of 17 months where her themes as President focused on: Infrastructure, Cities and the War for Talent (skills, diversity and inclusion). In addition, Amanda is a Partner at…

Natalia Silvestrova

Natalia Silvestrova Director of Real Estate Europe, WeWork Natalia is the Director of Real Estate Europe at WeWork, which is a platform for creators, providing more than 100,000 members around the world with space, community and services through both physical and virtual offerings. WeWork is an international office tenant with over 130 locations in 40+…

Kath Fontana

Kath Fontana Managing Director, ISS Technical Services Chair RICS Professional Group for Facilities Management Non Exec Director, RICS Global Management Board   Kath is a Chartered Surveyor with over 25 years’ experience of delivering Facilities and Asset Management solutions working for blue chip companies such as Serco, Aspire Defence Services, Interserve, BAM Construct UK and…

Katy Withers

Katy Withers EMEA Real Estate Portfolio Manager, ARM Katy Withers is the Corporate Real Estate Manager for ARM, British multinational semiconductor and software design company headquartered in Cambridge, England. Katy’s main focus is to manage the strategic growth of the company’s real estate portfolio in EMEA, making sure that  it adds value to the company’s bottom line financial results. Before…

Karen Mason

Karen Mason Head of Commercial, Boodle Hatfield Karen is experienced in commercial property, focusing on landlord and tenant work and developments. In particular, Karen has substantial expertise in the retail sector acting for clients on retail developments and shopping centre sites. Karen is also well known for her work in the roadside retail sector. Karen’s…

Marianne Kwong

Procurement Manager, Associate Director at BNP Paribas Real Estate Marianne is a professional and conscientious individual with ten year’s experience in Facilities Management procurement. She shares her knowledge, advises Facilities Managers, and is responsible for the implementation and development of the procurement strategy at BNP Paribas Real Estate where services procured is in excess of…

Ainslie McLennan

Head of UK Balanced Funds at TH Real Estate Ainslie McLennan has more than 20 years of property industry expertise. She joined Henderson in 2002 and has gained extensive experience running commercial property fund mandates investing both directly and indirectly in UK and European markets. Ainslie transferred to TIAA Henderson Real Estate in April 2014 as…

Clare Eriksson

Director of Global Research & Policy at RICS As Director of Global Research Clare is responsible for the delivery of the RICS global research programme, Insights programme, and Sustainability.  The aim of the RICS research programme is twofold; to keep members informed on issues across the land, property and construction sectors which enhance the development…

Tavneet Bakshi

Partner at First Avenue Tavneet has over 17 years of investing, diligence and fundraising experience in alternative investments. She joined First Avenue in 2007 and is currently Partner and Global Head of Project Management and Due Diligence. During her tenure, Tavneet has led fundraises across the real estate spectrum including opportunistic RE and RE debt…