Dexus, Blackstone, Brookfield join speaker lineup for Mingtiandi Australia Forum on 15 September
Dexus fund manager Brad Collier will join Blackstone, Brookfield and DWS executives at the Mingtiandi Australia Forum on 15 September at the Four Seasons Hotel in Sydney. More than 200 industry leaders are expected to attend the inaugural event, which covers commercial, industrial, living and hospit
Dexus fund manager Brad Collier has joined the speaker roster for the Mingtiandi Australia Forum, the inaugural event to be held on 15 September at the Four Seasons Hotel in Sydney. Collier, who leads the A$12.6 billion ($9 billion) Dexus Wholesale Property Fund, will take part in a spotlight interview alongside senior executives from Blackstone, Brookfield and DWS.
The addition of Collier focuses the forum’s interviews on three of Australia’s most closely watched landlords, with Investa chief executive Peter Menegazzo and Charter Hall direct property chief Steve Bennett also set for spotlight sessions. More than two dozen speakers are now confirmed, and the programme is expected to draw over 200 industry leaders to Sydney for conversations on commercial, industrial, living and hospitality strategies as well as cross-border investment opportunities.
In the hospitality investment panel, Blackstone managing director Rohit S Jain and Matthew Tripolone, managing director for Australasia and the Pacific at IHG Hotels & Resorts, will speak alongside Maria Ariizumi, vice president of development for Southeast Asia and Australasia at Hilton. For the industrial investment panel, Claire Reading, head of capital transactions at Stockland, Ross Lees, chief executive and managing director of Growthpoint Properties, and Chris Favretto, investment director at Cabot Properties, have joined the line-up alongside Troy Bryant, founder and co-chief executive of LogiSPACE, a developer and fund manager backed by Macquarie Asset Management.
On the build-to-rent panel, Matthias Naumann, head of real estate for Asia Pacific at DWS, the asset management affiliate of Deutsche Bank, and Jessie Zhuang, vice president at Warburg Pincus-backed Kio Investment Management, will appear alongside previously announced speakers Sascha Harms of Arch Capital and Dr Sabine Schaffer of Pro-Invest Group. The panel will be moderated by Paul Adamiak, executive vice president for business development at Citco.
In the commercial markets panel, Rowan Russell, vice president for investments at Brookfield Asset Management, will join previously confirmed speakers Julian Menegazzo, director and head of Australia investments at Link Real Estate Partners, and Ben Schubert, national head of capital transactions and advisory at Savills Australia. The panel will be moderated by Alpha Alternatives partner Paul Petersen.
For the cross-border investment panel, Kate Herfort, partner and head of group capital at AGP Sustainable Real Assets, and Harsh Narang, managing director at Rava Partners, will join previously announced speakers Trent Winduss of Phoenix Property Investors and Stuart McCann of CBRE. The forum will be livestreamed globally on the MTD TV video platform for those unable to attend in person.
