Robert Guest
Deputy Editor of The Economist
Robert Guest is Deputy Editor of The Economist, arguably the most influential news magazine in the world. He travels constantly around the world and speaks regularly to CEOs and entrepreneurs in all industries. He is a witty and entertaining speaker, who simplifies complex subjects and spices up his presentations with jokes and first-hand anecdotes.
He is regularly asked to chair conferences or give keynote speeches. Few other speakers can give such a vivid, up-to-date or global perspective on business and politics. Mr Guest has reported from more than 90 countries and lived in six. He has won numerous awards.
As The Economist’s Deputy Editor, Robert helps oversee all the magazine’s coverage of current affairs, from geopolitics to global economics. His previous roles include Foreign Editor, United States Editor and Business Editor.
Sally Bruer
Head of EMEA Logistics & Industrial Research & Insight, Cushman & Wakefield
Sally has over 20 years’ experience as an analyst specialising in industrial and logistics commercial property research and analysis. Sally leads Cushman & Wakefield’s EMEA insight for logistics & industrial property and has extensive experience in quantitative and qualitative analysis of property market dynamics along with broader economic and sectoral trends and drivers affecting occupiers, developers and investors. She is highly experienced in market data management, analysis and reporting and regularly presents at industry events and to clients.
From 2017 to 2019, Sally was Head of Research at fund manager Tritax Management, where she was responsible for research and analysis and assisting with implementing fund management investment strategy and key reporting. From 2005 to 2017, Sally was Partner & Head of Industrial Research at Gerald Eve, responsible for extensive research and analysis including detailed research on market dynamics and performance indicators. From 2002 to 2005, Sally was a research analyst at DTZ where she specialised in occupier research, with specific focus on logistics and industrial property. Prior to that, she was a research analyst at investment bank Goldman Sachs, working in corporate and sectoral research.
Sally is a member of the Investment Property Forum, Industrial Agents Society and Society of Property Researchers.
Kevin Mofid
Director in the Savills Research
Kevin is a Director in the Savills Research covering all aspects of commercial occupational and investment markets but with a specific focus on industrial and logistics markets. Kevin co-ordinates market data collection across the UK ands the periodical Big Shed Briefing reports.
He specialises in topic and trend based research by applying “real life” issues to logistics and industrial property. Key examples being a landmark study into the real estate implications of the growing waste management and recycling industry and the landmark Warehouse of the Future Report.
Kevin regularly presents at industry events and has appeared at The Estates Gazette European Distribution Summit, the Retail Week Supply Chain Summit, Warehousing Futures and other events for the IPF, IPD and the CPD Foundation
Kevin is a member of Industrial Agents Society, CILT, IPF and Past Chair of the Society of Property Researchers.
Ben Segelman
Global Capital Markets Head, Real Estate Solutions, DHL Supply Chain
Ben is an experienced property professional having worked on both the principal and advisory side of the commercial property markets leading teams in the UK, Europe and globally. He has a deep knowledge of fund & asset management and investment & development management. Ben has managed equity and debt funds and sought to develop and attract new business opportunities globally through mergers and acquisitions.
Ben has managed real estate assets full circle from acquisition to disposal, having executed business plans from asset origination, development and midway through their investment cycle in distressed and special situations. Ben is experienced across all asset sectors, with a specialisation in Logistics & Light Industrial and has been involved in capital transactions at the property level in excess of a billion euros and managed sizeable real estate funds and teams.
Charles Pease
GXO Logistics, Head Of Real Estate Europe
With 30 years’ international experience in the real estate logistics and industrial sector, Charles Pease has substantial occupational and business experience.
Prior to joining GXO, formerly part of XPO Logistics, which is now the world’s largest pure play contract logistics provider, Charles worked at several Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 corporates including SEGRO PLC, General Electric and Walt Disney. He now oversees all of GXO’s real estate matters in Europe which comprises 578 locations in 15 countries and a portfolio totalling 10 million square metres supported by a team of ten real estate professionals.
Simon Rønnov Jensen
Global Head of Industrial Real Estate at A.P. Moller-Maersk
Several years with Maersk in various positions within the Corporate Real Estate team and bringing the experience from a client perspective.
Maersk has since the announcement of our Integrator Strategy in 2018, been going through a huge transformation from a conglomerate to become an integrated transport and logistics company which has triggered a significant focus on growing the industrial and logistics portfolio across the globe.
Kevin Marriott
Head of Marketing and Communications - Europe at GLP Europe
Business to business marketing professional – recently supported the development of the first UK Real Estate Stock Exchange in the world, IPSX. Delighted to be working with GLP Europe in building a unique brand in real estate investment and development serving the logistics and distribution markets.
Specialties: Branding, identity, event management, media relations, presentation training, communications strategies, thought leadership, writing and content creation.
