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EXPO REAL 2008
EXPO REAL FORUM in Hall A1

The EXPO REAL FORUM offers extended insights into the latest trends and themes of the Real Estate industry. Renowned industry experts talk about investment and financial strategies, but also about corporate governance and politics. Since the first EXPO REAL, this forum is considered to be the most important information exchange in the commercial Real Estate industry.

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Lucy Scott, Editor, PropertyWeek Global, London
Dr. Thomas Beyerle, Director Research & Strategy, DEGI Deutsche Gesellschaft für Immobilienfonds, Frankfurt am Main

Dr. Thomas Beyerle is Head of Research & Strategy at DEGI Deutsche Gesellschaft für Immobilienfonds mbH, part of Aberdeen Property Investors. The graduated geographer (Universities of Mannheim and Stuttgart) and Real Estate Portfolio Manager (ebs) started his career 1994 as Head of Research at Dr. Lübke Immobilien GmbH in Stuttgart. 1999 he became Head of Research & Consulting at Dresdner Bank Immobiliengruppe, Frankfurt, 2002 of DEGI Deutsche Gesellschaft für Immobilienfonds mbH, at this time part of the Allianz Dresdner Immobiliengruppe/Allianz Global Investors. Since 2008 DEGI Deutsche Gesellschaft für Immobilienfonds mbH is part of Aberdeen Property Investors. Dr. Thomas Beyerle is Lecturer at BA Stuttgart/Leipzig, ADI Stuttgart/Hamburg, ebs, irebs, FH Biberach and FH Kaiserslautern
 
James Darkins, Managing Director, Henderson Global Investors Limited, London
 
James A. Fetgatter, Chief Executive, AFIRE Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate, Washington D.C.
Kevin W. Lynch, Principal, The Townsend Group, Cleveland

The Townsend Group is an Institutional Real Estate Consulting and Advisory firm founded in 1983. Today, Townsend is the largest provider of real estate consulting and advisory services to institutional investors globally. Townsend currently has more than 85 clients on four continents whose dedicated real estate allocations are in excess of $130 billion. Some of those clients include California State Teachers (CALSTRS), the United Nations, ATP (Denmark) and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA).

Townsend specializes in developing strategic plans for global real estate portfolios tailored specifically to each client and implementing those portfolios by selecting “Best in Class” managers and funds. Townsend’s internal resources include a dedicated Research group, due diligence and underwriting, proprietary databases of manager and fund performance. Townsend has assigned global teams for North America, Asia, Europe and Latin America. Townsend annually reviews in excess of 600 global fund offerings within the core, enhanced value and high return (opportunistic) sectors. Strategies for these funds include real estate debt, equity, and structured finance, infrastructure, timber and agriculture. Townsend is the largest conduit of real estate equity capital globally committing $19.8 billion in 2007 (estimated to be 28% of global market, PERE Magazine data February 2008).

Mr. Lynch is a Principal and co-founder of The Townsend Group. He has 25 years of institutional real estate consulting experience and 34 years of direct real estate experience. Mr. Lynch is currently responsible for new product development primarily in the area of initiating strategic relationships for creating manager of manager solutions for individual separate account clients and new fund of fund offerings. New or follow on fund-of -funds created specifically for financial service firms are currently offered in Israel, Germany, France and the US. Prior to forming Townsend, Mr. Lynch participated in structuring private placement real estate transactions for Stonehenge Capital Corporation, a New York based investment-banking firm.

Mr. Lynch is a member of the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA), the National Counsel for Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF) and the European Association for Investors in Non-listed Real Estate Vehicles (INREV). He is also a Director of the Board for First Industrial Realty Trust (NYSE:FR) and Lexington Realty Trust (NYSE:LXP). He is frequent speaker at industry conferences and has presented in Amsterdam and Frankfurt for the benefit of the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (AFIRE) and as guest lecturer at Columbia University and Tel Aviv University. Mr. Lynch is currently on the Advisory Board for the European Institutional Real Estate Letter.