Ali Ergun Ergen comes with a vast experience of more than 15 years in real estate, acquired both on the local market and internationally. Ali Ergun Ergen was also Chairman of ICSC Romanian National Committee (2008-2011) and part of ICSC European Advisory Board, time spent to bring substance to the retail industry. In 1998, he decisively contributes to the launch of the first modern shopping center in Romania, Bucuresti Mall as Technical Manager of Bayindir – Fiba Bucharest. Later on, he dedicates his efforts to building the second mall of Anchor Grup, implementing the project Plaza Romania and its own Movieplex cinema. Due to his management abilities and know-how of the real estate and retail market, he is offered the position of General Manager of Anchor Grup. In 2005 Ali Ergun Ergen initiates, as Chief Executive Officer, a new move on the mall chess table: head of strategy of Băneasa Developments, company that operates Băneasa Shopping City.

Roxana Dudau heads the Real Estate & Energy Department of the Noerr Bucharest office. She is specialized in advising major foreign investors active in the field of retail and construction, as well as banks and major investors predominantly in the automotive sector in their Greenfield investments in Romania. Mrs. Dudau has a large experience in construction and real estate, especially in retail transactions, advising the firm’s clients on their market entry and expansion in Romania.

Razvan Gaita is the Country Manager of Portico Investments. Razvan is an expercienced real estate professional, with strong expertise in the retail segment. Previoussly he was general manager of Anchor Grup. Gaita previously worked in the real estate arm of Volksbank, Rosegur Cash Services and also served as managing director of the German company ECE Projektmanagement Romania. Between 2004 and 2006, he was Director of Development at Kaufland Romania and previously held the same position at Billa Romania.

Christopher has 15 years of experience in a number of environmental consulting fields including mergers and acquisitions related due diligence (both buy-side and sell-side), environmental social safety and health compliance audits and impact assessments, environment, health and safety management systems, contaminated land investigations and remediation, as well as corporate strategic support. Christopher has provided environmental consulting support to national and multinational investors, developers, and manufacturers, across all industrial sectors. His projects have ranged from large multi-site, multi-jurisdictional transactions to developing corporate strategy around sustainability, corporate governance and EHS management system development and implementation through to providing specific EHS-compliance and contaminated land related solutions.

Mirel is an experienced Business Development Manager with strong expertise in Connected Lighting solutions for the Retail industry. A creative and inventive thinker, who craves a challenge and who is not afraid to work outside his comfort zone, he is eager to enhance customer experiences through inspiring light. Always ready to leverage market knowledge and expertise to facilitate customers in maximizing their return on innovative lighting solutions investment. With more than 10 years of experience in large Shopping Centers, DYI, Hyper / Super Markets and Cinemas, he delivered on projects demonstrating a wide array of benefits Retail customers, gain from choosing energy efficient LED lighting but also the new generation of indoor positioning technology, allowing the next level in modern shoppers user experience.

Florin Popa is the General manager and owner of Vitalis Consulting, a compnay he established in 2006. Previoussly he was construction project manager at Gleeds Romania between 2004 and 2006.  His experience includes planningand coordination for a wide variety of construction projects, including the building of all types of residential, commercial, and industrial structures, roads, bridges, wastewater treatment plants, and schools and hospitals.

Tudor Popp is Managing Partner of REC immpuls, having 20 years of experience in real estate. Tudor is active for 10 years in the Romanian market and has been involved in consulting and project management for commercial development and refurbishment projects.

Cornelia Nicolae holds the position of Country Manager for Stefanel Romania since September 2011. Her previous professional experience includes the position of Country Manager for BSB Fashion. She holds a bachelor degree in accounting and finance as well as banking, finance and securities law from Artifex University in Bucharest.

Radu Savopol is the founder of 5 to go chain of coffee shops. An interior designer and architect, who 15 years ago left the capital for Sinaia, where he decided to open his first business - Old Nick Pub. His business is estimated to reach 5 million euro in turnover in 2016 and 23 locations. The business model of "5 to go" brought for the first time in Romania the concept of fixed price of coffee and other products sold.

Raluca Crisan is the marketing manager of Immochan, since June 2013. She holds a master degree in marketing from Skema Buciness School and a bachelor degree from Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg.

Cristian Vasiliu coordinates ROFMA – the Romanian Association of Facility Management as Managing Director, being actively involved in many development projects of this sector in Romania. Cristian is also managing the sole officially approved training course in facility management, being a lecturer and one of the first Romanian PhD student in facility management as well. Additionally, he is the initiator and the manager of the ROFMA educational platform, in due course to become operational.

Adrian Urdă is part of the ALTEX Romania team since the company’s first years of experience, over 20 years ago, when he started his activity as a Store Manager in the city of Craiova. Along time, he has held key roles in the development of ALTEX and managed to maintain a steady business growth rate, higher than the market average. This has led to strengthening the company's leadership position in the local electro-IT market. As ALTEX Romania Vicepresident, he presently coordinates the whole retailer network activity, formed of over 120 national shops as well as the online shops of the company, www.altex.ro and www.mediagalaxy.ro.