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Shreya Sheth

Shreya Sheth

Head of Smart Lab & Director Investment Management

Patrizia

Karen Martinus

Karen Martinus

SVP, Research & Investments

Affinius Capital

Will Robson

Will Robson

Executive Director, MSCI Research & Development

MSCI

Lynn Peters

Lynn Peters

Director of Global Operations

Apex Group

Karl Salemangi
Moderator

Karl Salemangi

Global Head of Sales

Apex Group

Karen Martinus

SVP, Research & Investments

Affinius Capital

Karen Martinus leads Affinius Capital’s research strategy across Europe, supporting the development of real estate investment strategies and producing research that informs and enhances the investment process. She plays a central role in shaping in-house views and has been instrumental in advancing in-depth, locally focused research to support Affinius Capital’s European investment activities. Karen joined Affinius Capital in 2017 and is based in Amsterdam. Prior to this, she was a Director at JLL in London.

Will Robson

Executive Director, MSCI Research & Development

MSCI

Will Robson co-heads the real-assets research team, with responsibility for EMEA and APAC. He also leads the direction and delivery of MSCI’s applied research agenda. Previously, Will was a founding member of the real-estate research team at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, where he spent close to five years. Will holds a master’s degree in economics from the University of York and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Newcastle University.

Lynn Peters

Director of Global Operations

Apex Group

Lynn is the Director of Global Operations at Apex Group, specializing in Commercial Real Estate (CRE) and offshore team management. With over two decades of experience across asset management and financial services, she drives operational excellence by implementing tech-enabled solutions that deliver high-quality, scalable support for diverse real estate portfolios. Prior to Apex Group, Lynn spent 14 years at Retransform, most recently serving as Vice President of Global Operations, where she scaled cross-border operational frameworks.

Karl Salemangi

Moderator

Apex Group

Karl leads global sales at Apex Group. He joined Apex in 2018, bringing over 20 years' experience working with alternative asset managers across prior roles at AKO Capital, Deutsche Bank, and UBS.

Why Attend this Modernising Operations, Data and AI for Real Estate Fund Managers Webinar

What Panellists Will Discuss on the Webinar

Join the discussion: Commercial real estate has long run on fragmented data, manual processes, and back-office infrastructure that was never built for the demands of today's market. With capital harder to raise, margins under pressure, and LP expectations at an all-time high, fund managers can no longer afford to operate with blind spots at the fund level.

Join Bisnow and Apex Group for a candid panel discussion with senior leaders across fund management, finance, and operations, exploring what it means to modernise the way real estate funds are run. We will look at how the industry's most forward-thinking managers are tackling data fragmentation, meeting evolving investor reporting demands, and making practical use of technology and AI, not as a future ambition, but as a competitive advantage right now.

This is a practical session, not a theoretical one. Panellists will share real experiences, including what has worked, what has not, and what they wish they had addressed sooner.

Don't miss the opportunity to hear candid views from market leaders and ask your questions live during the interactive Q&A!

What You'll Learn:

  • How leading fund managers are addressing the data fragmentation problem and what a best-in-class operational infrastructure actually looks like in 2026

  • Why LP expectations around reporting frequency, granularity and digital access have shifted dramatically, and what managers need to do to keep pace

  • How AI and automation are being deployed in real estate fund operations today, beyond the hype and in practice

  • What the real cost of poor data quality is, from investor reporting failures through to ESG compliance risk, and how to start fixing it

  • Where the biggest barriers to operational change sit, whether cultural, structural or technological, and how others in the industry have worked through them

Agenda

Time Activity
1:00 PM
1:05 PM
Meet The Panelists
1:05 PM
1:50 PM
Panel Discussion
1:50 PM
2:00 PM
Live Q&A

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