Management Board

Alberto Agazzi is the Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of Generali Real Estate SGR since 2015.  

GRE SGR is the real estate investment management company of the Generali Group, managing more than 20 real estate funds, with an AUM of  €18 billion, focused on the main Global Markets in equity and debt transactions. Alberto joined the Generali Group in 2005 as an investment manager for the Italian real estate portfolio. 

In 2009 he became Head of Fund Management for Generali Real Estate SGR, before taking over as the Managing Director of Generali Real Estate – Italy four years later. Prior to joining Generali, he had worked in the real estate advisory team of Mediobanca, and as a project manager for an engineering company. Alberto holds a Master in Business Administration from SDA Bocconi and a Degree in Building Engineering from the Politecnico of Milan. 

Amilcar Grot is a Senior Portfolio Manager in the International Real Estate unit at Achmea Investment Management. 

He is responsible for portfolio management, due diligence of new investments, monitoring of existing investments, and market research. Prior to joining Achmea Investment Management, Amilcar worked as a Portfolio Manager at Blue Sky Group where he was responsible for managing the global real estate portfolio of the KLM pension funds. 

Amilcar sat on the AFIRE Board, was previously the Chair of the INREV Due Diligence Committee and is a member of the INREV Investor Advisory Council. 

Amilcar holds an MBA from the London Business School and has earned the CFA designation.

Jenny Buck is Chief Investment Officer at Tesco responsible for all asset classes including equities, fixed income, private markets as well as real estate. Jenny has 31 years investment experience, 20 years of which has been in real estate. Her experience includes working at Grosvenor where she worked on its London estate, working for a bank doing property lending and nearly 10 years at Schroders where she gained global real estate experience. Her last nine years have been with Tesco, where her role has widened from real estate to all private markets and now CIO.  

She is passionate about education and giving young people an opportunity. She is also particularly interested in “practical” responsible investing and thinking about how the investment management industry needs to rapidly evolve with technology. 

Jessica Hardman performs two primary responsibilities at DWS; CEO for the DWS UK, with over 400 staff across Passive, Active and Alternative investing, the UK business is a centre of excellence for DWS's key investment capabilities.

Jessica also undertakes the role of Head of European Portfolio Management at DWS, based in London, focusing on an international client base overseeing European and global real estate portfolios from core to value-add strategies. The suite of products includes European diversified and sector specific strategies via co-mingled funds and separately managed accounts. Previously, she was the Head of UK Real Estate Transactions and has overseen over €10.5 bn of transactions during her career at DWS. She managed the investment team covering all real estate sectors, as well as building major separate account relationships with an Asian client base. Hardman is CEO of DWS Investment UK Limited, board member for DWS Alternatives (Global) Ltd, a member of DWS Global leadership team and Global Investment leadership team, and a voting member of the European Investment Real Estate Committee. She joined DWS in 2004. Jessica will also become President of the British Property Federation (BPF) in 2024.

Keith is a founding Partner and Managing Partner of ATOZ. 
 
A tax professional since 1988, Keith has experience in advising international groups on the design and implementation of global tax strategies. He is actively involved in several key tax international bodies including the OECD’s TRACE BAG. Keith is chairman of the Luxembourg chapter of IFA, chair of the ALFI Tax Commission, vice-chair of Digital Europe's Tax Committee and member of other Luxembourg advisory and industry bodies. Keith is also a Tax and board member. 
 
Keith is a regular author and speaker at professional and academic conferences. He studied law then qualified as a Tax Adviser and a Chartered Accountant in Ireland and Luxembourg, and has completed numerous post-qualification lifelong learning education programmes. 

Lucy Fletcher is the Managing Director and Global Head of Portfolio Management at QuadReal Property Group, based in Vancouver, Canada.  In this role Lucy oversees the portfolio management of QuadReal’s $70 billion global real estate debt and equity portfolio. In this role, Lucy works closely with senior leadership on leading investment strategy and portfolio construction including strategical and tactical asset allocations, investment risk, performance measurement, analytics and investor relations.  

With over 24 years in the real estate industry, Lucy has extensive global investment advisory, portfolio and asset management experience. She was formerly Managing Director of JLL’s Global Capital Group in Chicago, where she was responsible for leading cross border investments and advising institutional clients on international strategies for both debt and equity capital transactions in the Americas.  

Lucy holds an MA (Hons) in Architectural Design from University of Edinburgh and a Postgraduate Diploma in Estate Management from South Bank University, London. She is a member of ULI’s Urban Development Mixed Use Council (Gold) and is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. Lucy also holds several Board positions and is a member of the INREV Investor Advisory Council. 

Minna Merilainen is currently responsible for real estate investments and infrastructure debt investments on behalf of CNP Assurances SA, a major French life insurance company.

Prior to joining CNP in 2012, Minna held various senior-level positions within other large European insurance companies, international asset managers and advisory firms in Paris, London, New York and Chicago. Minna holds a Master of Science in Real Estate Investments degree from New York University, as well as an MBA from the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration.” She is also a member of “Cercle de Femmes d’Immobilier” in Paris and a member of the INREV Investment Advisory Council.

Rainer Komenda is Head of Real Estate Investment Management for Bayerische Versorgungskammer (BVK). Before joining BVK in 2003 he worked for different real estate companies in the environment of development, transactions, project management and general management. 

Rainer has more than thirty years of real estate expertise and holds an MBA from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. 

Bayerische Versorgungskammer is the competence and service center for occupational and communal pension schemes and Germany´s largest pension scheme group under public law. As a public authority of the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior, it is the joint executive body of twelve liberal professions´ and communal pension schemes. Bayerische Versorgungskammer covers about 2.4 million insured persons in total, with contributions of € 5.0 billion and about € 3.6 billion pension payments annually. It currently has € 107 billion assets under management and more than 1,350 employees.

Ray Adderley is Managing Director, Investment Governance & Oversight at Nuveen Real Estate.  With over 20 years’ real estate investment management experience, Ray currently performs an investment management oversight role across Nuveen Real Estate ensuring that the investment process and performance culture is globally consistent.  Ray joined the company in 1998 and works closely with the investment and finance teams to help the business deliver good investment performance outcomes for its clients. He is a member of the European & Asia Pacific Investment and Real Estate Debt Investment Committees, Executive Risk and Compliance Committee, Pricing Committee and Product Committee. 

Ray was previously Chair of the INREV Performance Measurement Committee, and is currently a member of the INREV Guidelines Steering Committee.