Sandra is Chief Strategy Officer, ESG at Catalyst and brings +10 years of experience in the energy and sustainability sector.

Kristina is the Head of ESG for Barings European Real Estate, a global real estate platform with extensive capabilities across both debt and equity strategies. She is responsible for the evolution of firm level real estate ESG strategy, and alignment to the Barings Global sustainability policy. Kristina leads net zero carbon, climate resilience and social value policies development and implementation, which aid the delivery of Barings ESG ambition and support Barings tenants and the value chain. She works alongside the Global Sustainability team and serves on the European Investment Committee and the Barings Real Estate Global ESG Committee.

Laura Jockers is the Global Head of ESG for M&G Real Estate. In her role, Laura works with M&G Real Estate’s global teams to drive the implementation of its ESG strategy, enhance the existing work being done by M&G’s funds on net zero pathways, and ensure the business continuously improves its GRESB targets. With 15 years’ experience working within sustainability teams for property companies, Laura joins from The Howard de Walden Estate where as Head of Sustainability she set ESG strategy for its 92-acre portfolio. Prior to this she was a sustainability consultant at JLL where she supported a wide range of real estate clients with their sustainability agendas.

Rob Martin is Global Head of Investment Strategy & Research. He leads the formation of market and thematic views, with an emphasis on long-term drivers including ESG, and supporting their integration into portfolio strategy. He is also responsible for performance assessment and analysis for real assets managed portfolios, driving the selection of objective reference points against which to assess investment performance and extracting value from performance data. To further drive the integration of market themes into client portfolios and commercial strategy, Rob sits on the Property, Private Credit and Infrastructure Equity investment committees, chairs the Real Assets Performance Oversight Group and is a member of the Real Assets Management Committee. Rob joined LGIM in October 2006 from Hammerson plc, where he held the role of Head of Research. Prior to that he was an economist with the CBI, and previously spent 3 years in a consultancy role in the oil & gas industry. Rob was the Chair of the Investment Property Forum (IPF) Research Steering Group from 2015-18. Rob graduated from the University of Warwick with a degree in Economics & Economic History and is a CFA charter holder.

Mr. Benzi joined Patron in November 2016 and responsibilities include origination, due diligence, execution, asset management and business plan implementation, and is a member of the Innovation Unit. Mr. Benzi previously worked in Bluebell Partners (London), where he was an analyst working together with the Founding Partners, and in Morgan Stanley SGR (Milan) focusing on Italian real estate investments. Mr. Benzi graduated from Bocconi with an MSc in Management, with the highest grade. Originally from Italy and currently residing in England, Mr. Benzi is fluent in English and Italian.

Mike is UK editor of Bisnow. Before this, alongside three friends he bought pan-European property mag EuroProperty out of non-existence and re established it before selling the business to PropertyEU. Prior to that he was editor of Property Week, and has also worked for Estates Gazette.