Bruno Ettenauer, Chief Executive Officer & Board Member, CA Immobilien, Vienna

CA Immo, founded in 1987, develops and invests in commer- cial real estate in Austria, Germany and the CEE/SEE/CIS re- gions. The group has total property assets of €3.7bn, of which 60% in Germany after its takeover of railway property group Vivico two years ago. A lawyer and real estate financing expert, Dr. Ettenauer has served since 2006 on group management boards. He has over 15 years’ experi- ence, including a long spell as divisional director at Bank Austria Creditanstalt.

Michael Kröger, Head of Real Estate Finance, Northern/Central Europe, Helaba, Frankfurt

Landesbank Hesse Thüringia belongs to the German savings bank network and has branches in Paris, London and New York. With new business of €10.4bn in 2008, Helaba now has a real estate lending portfolio of €37bn. Hr. Kröger, a lawyer by training, has headed the origination team for Northern and Central Europe at Helaba since 2007. Prior to that he held a position at another real estate bank building the HQ-based Nordic Markets team. He later took over key account management.

Michael Lagler, Real Estate Partner, Schoenherr Lawyers, Vienna

Schoenherr is a leading legal practice in Austria and CEE with more than 50 years’ experience and an outstanding reputa- tion as a transactional advisor involving corporate, competi- tion, securities, banking and finance. It has over 300 lawyers in 11 jurisdictions through CEE, and in 2008 was named the IFLR Austrian Law Firm of the Year. Dr. Lagler is a partner and specialises in CEE real estate transactions. He graduated from the University of Salzburg and holds a Master in European Business Law.

Holger Schmidtmayr, Board Member, Sparkassen Immobilien, Vienna

Sparkassen Immo is Austria’s longest-standing listed property company, now with a portfolio of 263 residential, office, business and hotel properties, valued at €1.83bn. Hr. Schmidtmayr has board responsibility for acquisition/divestments and was previ-
ously head of CEE expansion. Holding a Master of Law and an MBA from the Univer- sity of Vienna, his prior positions included trade finance at Erste Bank, structured fi- nance and infrastructure at GiroCredit, and in the Austrian Interior Ministry.

Tomasz Trzoslo, Head of Capital Markets-Central Europe, Jones Lang LaSalle, Warsaw

Jones Lang LaSalle, one of the biggest international realtors with 2008 global revenue of $2.7bn, serves clients in 60 coun- tries from 750 locations worldwide. From Warsaw, Mr. Trzoslo heads the 18-person CEE capital markets team covering Czech
Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and the Balkans. With 12 years’ ex- perience in CEE capital markets, he has a substantial track record in corporate fi- nance, and numerous completed debt and structured equity financing mandates.

Moderator: Allan Saunderson, Managing Editor, Property Investor Europe

The mission of Property Investor Europe is to create transpar- ency for US and global investors in mainland Europe real es- tate, which it does via a team of Editors across the continent, and various distribution channels. Mr. Saunderson was a Reu- ters financial journalist in the 1980s, Head of European Re-
search for Bank Julius Bär in Frankfurt in the early 1990s, and named as advisor to the French Finance Ministry by Prime Minister Pierre Bérégovoy a year later. He moved into real estate advisory in 2002 and founded PFE in 2005.

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