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Benjamin Chiche is Deputy Head of Hotels at Schroder Capital. He joined Schroders Capital in 2007 and has been involved in the majority of the hotel investments undertaken by the company, contributing strongly to the rapid development of the business to reach a AUM of c. €3.5bn in 2024. He has significant experience across investment due diligence and underwriting, as well as identifying and executing the strategy for hotel assets. During his tenure at Schroders Capital, Benjamin has worked closely with its investment partners, from large institutional investors to private equity and HNWI. He is based in London. Previously, Benjamin spent three years at Belambra (Hotels & Resorts company) to assist the CEO on a M&A deal and two years at HSBC in M&A. Benjamin Chiche has over 20 years of experience in the hotel investment industry in Europe.

Carine Dassé is Executive Director in the Real Assets Client Coverage team at MSCI. She is responsible of managing the client relationships in France, Belgium and Luxembourg, ensuring MSCI Real Assets solutions and game-changing data support them solving their investment strategy and risk questions, their performance analysis needs and uncover new opportunities. She also supports the development of the index coverage and climate analysis. Carine joined IPD, which later became part of MSCI, in 2002. She has been working in various roles. As Head of France and Southern Europe Portfolio analysis team, she contributed to improve real estate analysis, data management and processes. She also worked as Product Manager to support the modernization of IPD Group’s reporting tools and performance analytics for institutional investors at global level. She is also treasurer of FIDJI association, actively involved in improving real estate data quality and exchanges. Carine Dassé is a graduate from the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Analyse de l’Information.

Gregory joined DTZ Investors in 2016 as a Senior Investment Manager. He started his career in 2002. After working as a solicitor in Allen & Overy’s real estate and fund practices, he joined the Joint Ventures business of Bank of Scotland in 2007, moving to Paris in 2008, where he looked after Lloyds' / HBoS’s larger pan-European real estate joint ventures. Prior to joining DTZ Investors, he worked as COO / head asset manager of pan-European investment structure owned by a family office. In October 2020 he became Managing Director of DTZ Investors REIM, a regulated fund manager wholly owned by DTZ Investors which manages real estate investments on behalf of several OPPCIs (French REITs). Gregory is responsible for new acquisitions for DTZ Investors REIM's clients and for the ongoing management of the existing assets together with the DTZ Investors REIM team. Gregory is a non-practising solicitor registered in England and Wales. Gregory has a MA (Hons) in English Language and Literature from Oxford University.

Benoit Leandri is an Institutional Sales at Schroders, based in Paris. He joined Schroders in London in 2015 as Product Manager for the group’s quantitative equity strategies before joining the distribution team in France in 2018. Previously, Benoit worked at Lyxor Asset Management and BNP Paribas Wealth Management in various roles and locations. Qualifications : Graduated from EDHEC Business School in France with a Master in Management and EDHEC Risk Institute in Singapore with a Msc in Risk & Investment Management.

Benoit Roques Co-Head of Core Strategies, Real Estate, AXA IM Alts Benoît is Co-Head of Core Strategies at AXA IM Alts since 2023. Prior to this, he was Senior Fund Manager for our direct real estate expertise, responsible for the flagship AXA CoRE Eu-rope Fund. Benoît joined AXA IM Real Assets in 2014 as a Finance Manager for two large institutional portfolios. He began his career at PwC as a supervisor in real estate audit. Benoît has over 13 years of experience in the real estate industry. Benoît is a graduate of Rouen Business School in France.