Who’s Who

Laurentiu has over 11 years of experience in real estate services including valuation, advisory and investment. He joined Colliers in 2007 as a real estate valuer and in 2009 he started to head the Valuation and Advisory Services, with the responsibility to expand the valuation team in Romania. Over the last five years, the valuation team has appraised over 500,000 properties. In 2015 Laurentiu extended his area of expertise and became Head of Investment, having the main responsibility of developing the Capital Markets services. Since then, the investment team managed to originate, structure and successfully close transactions exceeding EUR 500mn. He was later appointed as Senior Partner within Colliers International Romania in 2016 and now is the managing partner of Colliers on the Romanian market.

Ruxandra Grinzeanu is Managing Director of Raiffeisen Property Romania, a real estate developer operating in CEE, a 100% subsidiary of Raiffeisen Property International. In Romania, the company owns two landmark properties, Sky Tower and FCC Building. The two outstanding office buildings are located in Bucharest’s most dynamic office area – Barbu Vacarescu-Floreasca, being occupied by tenants such as Raiffeisen Bank, Peli Filip law firm or Oracle and Nor Restaurant, one of Bucharest’s most exclusive restaurants, located at the 36th floor of Sky Tower. Ruxandra has a bachelor’s degree in Financial Management & Banks from Constanta University, she is a member of The Charted Institute of Management Accountants and she also holds an MBA. Before joining RPR in 2010, Ruxandra has previously worked for companies such as Rompetrol, Mega Image and River Invest.

Remon established CTP together with two other investors in 1998 to develop full-service business parks for investors doing business in Central Europe. Since the start, he has been CTP’s managing director and takes a hands-on approach to running the business. Remon’s focus is to grow the company’s portfolio and platform of services, and to develop and strengthen relationships with long-term business partners.

Fulga Dinu is Operations Country Manager at Immofinanz Romania and coordinates the company’s development on the office space and retail centre markets. Before joining Immofinanz, she occupied top management positions such as CFO of Iulius Group and Country Manager of Eurohypo (part of the Commerzbank group), the German bank which financed the real estate projects of Anchor Group in Romania.

22 years of real estate, turn-around and finance industry experience

2007-2015: Co-Founder and CEO, New Europe Property Investments plc; 2005-2006: Partner, Deloitte Central Europe (Corporate Finance); Prior to 2005: CFO Premier Foods on secondment from Nedbank; General Manager in the capital management cluster of the Nedbank Group; Senior Vice-President for shareholders’ funds, member of the Executive Committee at Nedcor Investment Bank; HSBC Investment Services (Africa) (Pty); Arthur Andersen.

Marian Roman is one of the most respected real estate professionals on the Romanian market, with a career spanning over 15 years. Between 2003 and 2007 he was the Managing Partner of BSS, transforming the company in the leader of the property management sector. Beginning with 2007 he was the Regional Managing Director of Europolis in Romania up to 2011, when the company was acquired by CA Immo and Marian was appointed Managing Director for the Romanian office of CA Immo.

Alexandru Morar was appointed as joint chief executive officer of NEPI Rockcastle on 15 May 2017. Alexandru graduated with a dual degree in finance and information systems from Stern School of Business, New York University. He began his career as an analyst at Julius Baer Investment Bank. He later joined the financial advisory practice of Deloitte Romania where he spent two years working on large projects and M&A transactions. He joined NEPI upon its founding in 2007 and has contributed to all aspects of the business since then. Before August 2015 (up to his appointment as NEPI’s CEO), Mr. Morar focused primarily on NEPI’s investments and acquisitions programme throughout Central and Eastern Europe. As NEPI’s CEO, he contributed to the significant increase in the company’s portfolio as well as further growing its team and asset management platform.

Founder of Globalworth, Ioannis Papalekas has nearly 20 years of real estate investment and development experience, predominantly in Romania, having created one of the most successful real estate development and investment groups in the Romanian real estate market. He has significant experience in the acquisition, master planning, development, reconstruction, refurbishment, operation and asset management of land and buildings across all major asset classes in Romania. Before founding Globalworth, Ioannis was responsible for the acquisition, development and successful disposal of more than 400,000sqm of commercial (office, retail and logistics) space and 1,000 residential units in Romania.