Dennis Lopez joined QuadReal as Chief Executive Officer in June 2017. He is responsible for the leadership of the company and its global investment strategy. His mandate is to grow and globally diversify QuadReal’s assets under management while delivering strong performance and responsible management to its stakeholders. A seasoned real estate professional, Dennis has an extensive track record of global investments and brings deep relationships with real estate industry leaders and major institutional investors to QuadReal. Dennis has been actively involved in the real estate industry for over 32 years and has worked in the Americas, Asia and Europe. His experience includes real estate acquisitions, developments, M&A and equity and debt fundraising in both the public and private markets. Prior to joining QuadReal, Dennis served as the CIO of AXA IM – Real Assets, the fifth largest global real estate investment manager. Based in London, Paris and New York, he worked with his team to approve over $60 billion in acquisitions, sales and loans during his tenure. Previously, he served as the CEO of SUN Group, a private equity firm that invests in emerging markets and was the Managing Director and European Head of Real Estate Investment Banking at JP Morgan. Dennis holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business Administration from California State University Long Beach and a Master of Business Administration in Finance from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). He is currently a board member of Welltower (NYSE: WELL), CA Student Living, Ranger Global Real Estate Advisors and T5 Data Centers. Dennis is also a Board Director of the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA) and Co-Chair of the Capital Markets Committee at The Real Estate Roundtable. Dennis is based in Vancouver, Canada, at QuadReal’s head office.

Gareth has over 20 years multi-disciplined experience across the UK, European and global real estate sector. He leads PwC’s real estate thought leadership and research on behalf of the European firm, including PwC/ULI Emerging Trends in Real Estate European and Global reports. Having worked originally as a real estate advisor for EY in London and New York, he spent a number of years as an industry representative for the British Property Federation (BPF), European Public Real Association (EPRA) and the Urban Land Institute (ULI). During his 5 years at EPRA, he represented the European REIT sector in their engagements with governments, regulators and global investors. At PwC, Gareth helps real estate businesses in the development and execution of their real estate strategy/operations and drives PwC’s knowledge and insight relevant to real estate businesses.

Mark Gabbay is Global CEO of LaSalle, a position he assumed in January 2021. He is responsible for strategic leadership of LaSalle’s 900+ employees and oversight of the firm’s $75 billion of assets, including investment strategy and operational activities across North America, Asia Pacific, and Europe. Mark joined LaSalle in 2010 as Chief Investment Officer for Asia Pacific. In 2015, he became CEO of the region, in addition to his CIO oversight, and maintained overall responsibility for formulating and implementing LaSalle’s investment strategy across Asia Pacific, sourcing opportunities and overseeing the investment process. Prior to joining LaSalle, Mark served as Managing Director and Head of the Asia Asset Finance Division at Nomura, and was Co-Head of the Asia Pacific Global Real Estate Group at Lehman Brothers, where he was in charge of the firm’s expansion into new markets for both debt and equity real estate investments. Mark also worked at GMAC Commercial Mortgage Corporation as the Head of Real Estate Lending for Japan in the late 1990s. Mark has been in the commercial real estate and investment industries for 29 years, working in the Asia Pacific region for the past 23 years and the United States for six previously. Mark has a BA from the University of California, Berkeley.

As chief executive of ULI Europe, Lisette van Doorn is responsible for the development of the Institute’s activities across the region, including its renowned pan-European conferences and over 250 local meetings and events across 14 countries. She is responsible for working with ULI’s staff both locally and globally to deliver more high-profile content and reports; coordinating Advisory Services panels and Urban Plan; and expanding the Institute’s thought leadership across Europe. Van Doorn joined ULI in January 2015 from LIRE, her own consultancy business, which advises international institutional real estate investors and fund managers on strategy, organisational optimisation and portfolio structuring. Prior to this, van Doorn was country manager for CBRE Global Investors where she managed a €1.6bn portfolio of assets in Italy and fund manager of two shopping centre funds (€ 1.3 billion) with assets in Spain, Portugal, and Italy. Before joining CBRE Global Investors, van Doorn was founding chief executive for INREV, the European association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles for four and a half years. Van Doorn started her career at ING Investment Management, where she held account manager and assistant controller positions before being made managing director of research & strategy for ING Real Estate Investment Management Europe.