Andrew is Chief Financial Officer at Dominus, the real estate investor, developer, owner and operator specialising in the hotel and student living sectors, with an asset portfolio and pipeline of £3 billion. A member of the Board, Investment Committee and ESG Committee, he leads the finance function, responsible for debt and equity financing, risk management and investor relationships. He has 20 years’

experience in financing and investment strategy, previously in senior roles at Schroders and Sellar. He is a Chartered Surveyor with an MA from Cambridge.

Francesco Orofino is an Investment Director at DFI and Head of Hospitality at DFI. He has over 8 years of industry experience as a real estate investor and management consultant. Francesco has been involved in over €1 billion of real estate transactions and has extensive cross border expertise.

Prior to joining DFI, Francesco spent one year at London and Regional Properties, one of Europe’s largest privately-held real estate investors, from 2017 to 2018. As an Investment Associate, he was responsible for the sourcing, underwriting, and execution of real estate, lodging, and leisure assets and asset-backed operating companies in Europe, UK, and the US. From 2016 to 2017, Francesco spent 2 years at CBRE Global Investors, as part of the Europe Value Partners fund series team, where he was focused on pan-European value-add investments. He previously worked within Deutsche Bank RREEF and EY as a management consultant.

He holds a Master’s degree in Real Estate Finance from Cornell University School of Hotel Administration and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.

Ina is a Senior Vice President in Cain’s European investment team focusing on Living & Hospitality. She leads Cain’s European hospitality investment origination, underwriting and execution. Ina has specialised in the hospitality sector throughout her career and was awarded the prestigious Young Leader of the Year at the International Hospitality Investment Forum 2026.

Previously, Ina spent seven years at Cedar Capital Partners, a specialist real estate investor focused on the luxury and lifestyle hospitality sectors in Europe and the United States, having acquired more than $4 billion of assets. Prior to that, she worked at Eastdil Secured in its hospitality team executing more than $2 billion of transactions, as well as at Ernst & Young in its hospitality real estate advisory team.

Ina graduated from Hotelschool The Hague with a BBA in Hotel Management. She speaks fluent German and French as well as conversational Dutch, Italian and Luxembourgish.

Keith founded LHC and leads its global investment, asset and fund management platform. LHC is a private equity firm and creative studio based in London, focused on real estate platforms and corporate investments across hospitality and operational real estate sectors.

In 2026, LHC acquired The Other House platform in London, consisting of three centrally located flagship hotels to be redeveloped into a new luxury lifestyle hotel and social wellness club platform and brand architecture. The first two hotels will be opened in summer 2027, with expansion across Europe and US to follow.

Prior to founding LHC, Keith was Chief Investment & Development Officer at Ennismore. He led the company’s global investment, real estate, and development activities, where he was also instrumental in completing the transformational global merger of Ennismore and Accor’s global lifestyle hospitality brand and management companies in 2021.

Previously, Keith was SVP of European Hotel Acquisitions at Starwood Capital Group (SCG) in London. At SCG, he led the hotel investment team and completed several successful transactions, including equity, debt, strategic JVs and NPLs.

Sean Arnold is a Founding Partner of Crosstree Real Estate Partners. Crosstree is a private real estate investment firm with a focus on the UK market. Crosstree combines a private equity mindset with local market operating expertise to identify and unlock value from each transaction. It invests opportunistically across all real estate sectors with a strong bias towards value‐oriented investments. Crosstree has raised capital commitments of over £1.5 billion since inception, with a current portfolio GAV in excess of £2.8 billion. Prior to Crosstree, Sean was with Starwood Capital Group, most recently as Head of European Acquisitions based in London. Prior to joining Starwood, Sean worked in mortgage and asset backed finance. Sean received an AB in Economics from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Stanford University. He is a member of the Stanford Real Estate Council, International Hotel Investment Council and AHEAD Europe Judging Panel for Hospitality Design.