The Propcast

The Propcast Season 2, Episode 8   Title: Sustainability Challenges and PropTech Resolutions of 21st Century Real Estate with Mikkel Bülow-Lehnsby Summary: In this episode we speak to Mikkel Bülow-Lehnsby from NREP about the sustainability challenges and PropTech resolutions of 21st Century Real Estate   The Propcast by Louisa Dickins, Co-Founder of LMRE the leading Global PropTech recruiter brought to you in partnership with UK PropTech Association, The UK PropTech Association is a membership organisation to drive the digital transformation of the property industry. This show will focus on connecting the PropTechs, real estate funds and VC’s globally…and get everyone talking about innovation of the built environment.   About Our Host Louisa Dickins https://www.linkedin.com/in/louisa-dickins-ab065392/?originalSubdomain=uk Louisa started her career in property working at a well-known estate agency in London. Realising her people skills, she moved over to Lloyd May to pursue a career in recruitment. She now is a Director at LMRE, who are a specialist recruitment firm driven by PropTech and recruitment professionals, and Louisa oversees their 5 core areas. Louisa co-founded LMRE and provides a constructive recruitment platform to the new disruptors in real estate. Louisa is also on the board of Directors at UK PropTech Association (UKPA). About LMRE LMRE believe there is a better way to recruit. LMRE focus on a more comprehensive, client led focus delivering exceptional talent to the right place at the right time. They are passionate about the industry and passionate about people's careers. LMRE spend time with each client to become and an extension of the business, and their transparency and core values help them grow with the sector. LMRE simplify recruitment and innovate with our clients and evolve the people driven, PropTech community.   About Our Guest https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikkel-bulow-lehnsby-63365/?originalSubdomain=dk  Mikkel is the Chairman and Co-founder of NREP, a leading Northern European real estate investment house driven by a mission of making real estate better. The NREP approach and mission has lead NREP to not only be one of world’s most consistently outperforming managers, but also a founder and developer of several leading Nordic real estate platforms, such as Pelican, Logicentres, UMEUS, Plus Husene as well as an important counterparty for municipalities on large scale city development projects and cutting-edge sustainability innovations such as UN 17 Village and Upcycle Studios some of the world’s first “upcycled” development projects.   Resources LMRE website www.lmre.co.uk  UKPA www.ukpa.com  NREP website www.nrep.com    Insights from this Episode

• Personally, I think that finding ways to fundamentally make existing stock more sustainable is something that's super interesting – Mikkel

• We realised that technology clearly holds a lot of potential for enabling the making of a real estate better – Mikkel

• Wouldn't it be nice if one could build an organisation where people come, and then they really feel free. And they really feel like they are allowed to express themselves as you are? – Mikkel

• How you build cities really defines how we get to interact as humans - Mikkel

• We realised what we really cared most about using those years to do, was to fundamentally try to make better products and try to nudge the industry in a direction that we subjectively felt was a good one – Mikkel

• We are just the results of our habits. So the biggest obstacle to changing something in the world is that you need to change people's habits - Mikkel

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The Propcast Season 2, Episode 6   Title: AI & Portfolio Management with Richard Belgrave and Kevin Mofid Summary: In this episode we talk to Richard Belgrave of MRI Leverton AI and Kevin Mofid, of Savills about how artificial intelligence is transforming portfolio management and delivering great insights for corporate occupiers   The Propcast by Louisa Dickins, Co-Founder of LMRE the leading Global PropTech recruiter brought to you in partnership with UK PropTech Association, The UK PropTech Association is a membership organisation to drive the digital transformation of the property industry. This show will focus on connecting the PropTechs, real estate funds and VC’s globally…and get everyone talking about innovation of the build to rent environment.   About Our Host Louisa Dickins https://www.linkedin.com/in/louisa-dickins-ab065392/?originalSubdomain=uk Louisa started her career in property working at a well-known estate agency in London. Realising her people skills, she moved over to Lloyd May to pursue a career in recruitment. She now is a Director at LMRE, who are a specialist recruitment firm driven by PropTech and recruitment professionals, and Louisa oversees their 5 core areas. Louisa co-founded LMRE and provides a constructive recruitment platform to the new disruptors in real estate. Louisa is also on the board of Directors at UK PropTech Association (UKPA). About LMRE LMRE believe there is a better way to recruit. LMRE focus on a more comprehensive, client led focus delivering exceptional talent to the right place at the right time. They are passionate about the industry and passionate about people's careers. LMRE spend time with each client to become and an extension of the business, and their transparency and core values help them grow with the sector. LMRE simplify recruitment and innovate with our clients and evolve the people driven, PropTech community.   About Our Guests Richard Belgrave https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardbelgrave/?originalSubdomain=uk  Rich is a Vice President at Leverton, an MRI Software Company. He helped the global expansion of Leverton prior to acquisition and served in various capacities (the latest being Chief Revenue Officer) since joining the company in May, 2016. Richard started his career in corporate finance, where he worked on a wide range of strategic projects and performed analysis for FTSE350 clients. His strong interest in technology later drove him to join Leverton, now MRI software. MRI Software is the leading provider of innovative real estate software applications and hosted solutions. MRI’s comprehensive and flexible technology platform, coupled with an open and connected ecosystem meets a unique need for real estate businesses, from property level management and accounting. to investment modelling and analytics of the global commercial and residential markets.    Kevin Mofid https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-mofid?originalSubdomain=uk Kevin is a Director in the Savills Research team and heads up research capability into Industrial & Logistics markets co-ordinating market data collection across the UK and producing Research reports covering the sector. Previously, at BNP Paribas Real Estate, Kevin headed up research into Central London Office markets and Industrial & Logistics markets producing a number of landmark reports including The Real Estate Implications of waste management and recycling, The Warehouse of the Future and the Real Estate implications of the proposed IAS 17 lease accounting changes.   Kevin is a key market commentator and regularly presents at industry events appearing at The ICE Energy From Waste Conference, The Estates Gazette European Distribution Summit, the Retail Week Supply Chain Summit and other events for the IPF, IPD and the CPD Foundation. Kevin is a member of the Society of Property Researchers, the Industrial Agents Society, the IPF and in 2013 was the youngest ever Chairman of the Society of Property Researchers.   Resources LMRE website www.lmre.co.uk  UKPA www.ukpa.com  Savills website www.savills.co.uk    Insights from this Episode  

• Our technology is geared towards helping our clients find, analyse, interrogate data buried within both complicated contracts – Richard Belgrave

• It's really about helping people make decisions quicker to adapt as a result of the pandemic – Richard Belgrave

• The data that was unstructured before is now structured. And that as I said before creates efficiencies just in terms of the way we work internally – Kevin Mofid

• So, the more data we have in a structured fashion that will allow us to answer those big questions that are troubling everyone at the moment – Kevin Mofid

• I think for decision making, I think for running your business or staying ahead of the competition, and just doing what's right by your investors, by your senior stakeholders, you need data. You need to be able to access it, you need to be able to trust it. And thematically I think the real estate industry is making a lot of progress – Richard Belgrave

• Data will give you some answers, but are you asking the right questions – Kevin Mofid

• The models that we deploy to process these contracts and turn unstructured content into structured data, they can also be used to help drive really meaningful analysis– Richard Belgrave

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The Propcast Season 2, Episode 6   Title: Talent and the Real Estate Company of the Future Summary: In this episode we talk to Antony Slumbers PropTech influencer, about talent and the real estate company of the future.    The Propcast by Louisa Dickins, Co-Founder of LMRE the leading Global PropTech recruiter brought to you in partnership with UK PropTech Association, The UK PropTech Association is a membership organisation to drive the digital transformation of the property industry. This show will focus on connecting the PropTechs, real estate funds and VC’s globally…and get everyone talking about innovation of the built environment.   About Our Host Louisa Dickins https://www.linkedin.com/in/louisa-dickins-ab065392/?originalSubdomain=uk Louisa started her career in property working at a well-known estate agency in London. Realising her people skills, she moved over to Lloyd May to pursue a career in recruitment. She now is a Director at LMRE, who are a specialist recruitment firm driven by PropTech and recruitment professionals, and Louisa oversees their 5 core areas. Louisa co-founded LMRE and provides a constructive recruitment platform to the new disruptors in real estate. Louisa is also on the board of Directors at UK PropTech Association (UKPA). About LMRE LMRE believe there is a better way to recruit. LMRE focus on a more comprehensive, client led focus delivering exceptional talent to the right place at the right time. They are passionate about the industry and passionate about people's careers. LMRE spend time with each client to become and an extension of the business, and their transparency and core values help them grow with the sector. LMRE simplify recruitment and innovate with our clients and evolve the people driven, PropTech community.   About Our Guest Antony Slumbers https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonyslumbers/?originalSubdomain=uk Antony has been a software development and technology strategist in commercial real estate since 1995, and now consults and works with corporate real estate boards on Transformation, Technology and Innovation. Antony speakz internationally on ‘‘Space As a Service’, AI, Innovation, and the future of work and the workplace’. Some of the companies he has worked with are CBRE Global Investors, EPRA, INREV, CoreNet India, CREDAI (in Tel Aviv), MSCI, MRI, NSI, SEGRO, RICS, Nepi Rockcastle, Fifth Wall Ventures, IREI, iwfm. He sits on themAdvisory Board of Tenant Engagement leader Equiem, is a member of the Leadership Board of CRETech, a mentor at MetaProp RE200 and also on the ULI Europe Technology and Real Estate Council. Along with consulting and speaking he writes regular blogs and features about the industry.   Resources LMRE website www.lmre.co.uk   UKPA www.ukpa.com   Antony’s website www.antonyslumbers.com  Antony’s blog https://www.antonyslumbers.com/theblog  The Real Innovation course: Future Proof Office www.realinnovationacademy.com    Insights from this Episode  

• People don't realise actually how fast technology has developed, the progress within artificial learning and the speed of processes and the amount of data we have, and the scale of computational power that’s now at our disposal, is absolutely extraordinary – Antony Slumbers

• The user experience of your space is going to represent your brand, and the brand is going to represent your value – Antony Slumbers

• People are going to use your space if it enables them to be as productive as possible. And the only way you're going to do that is by really understanding the jobs to be done with people, and their wants, needs and desires, and then providing them with space that offers them the services they need as and when they use them – Antony Slumbers

• Clearly we are at a time of huge change, I’d just like to say it's going to happen anyway. So really embrace it as an opportunity and think hard about how can you rework your value proposition, your business models, your offering to your customers, to take account of the change – Antony Slumbers

• They create an ecosystem of partners that they work with, provides all these skills. So we have real estate skills, networking skills, data skills, workplace skills, HR skills, hospitality skills and we combine them all and we get them all working together. And that's the way we're going to create great spaces – Antony Slumbers

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The Propcast Season 2, Episode 5   Title: Tech Enabled Build to Rent with Rajesh Shah Summary: In this episode we speak to Rajesh Shah on Quintain and Tipi to talk about tech enabled Build to Rent.    The Propcast by Louisa Dickins, Co-Founder of LMRE the leading Global PropTech recruiter brought to you in partnership with UK PropTech Association, The UK PropTech Association is a membership organisation to drive the digital transformation of the property industry. This show will focus on connecting the PropTechs, real estate funds and VC’s globally…and get everyone talking about innovation of the build to rent environment.   About Our Host Louisa Dickins https://www.linkedin.com/in/louisa-dickins-ab065392/?originalSubdomain=uk Louisa started her career in property working at a well-known estate agency in London. Realising her people skills, she moved over to Lloyd May to pursue a career in recruitment. She now is a Director at LMRE, who are a specialist recruitment firm driven by PropTech and recruitment professionals, and Louisa oversees their 5 core areas. Louisa co-founded LMRE and provides a constructive recruitment platform to the new disruptors in real estate. Louisa is also on the board of Directors at UK PropTech Association (UKPA). About LMRE LMRE believe there is a better way to recruit. LMRE focus on a more comprehensive, client led focus delivering exceptional talent to the right place at the right time. They are passionate about the industry and passionate about people's careers. LMRE spend time with each client to become and an extension of the business, and their transparency and core values help them grow with the sector. LMRE simplify recruitment and innovate with our clients and evolve the people driven, PropTech community.   About Our Guests Rajesh Shah https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajesh-shah/?originalSubdomain=uk Rajesh is Quintain's Executive Commercial Director, working in our Build to Rent (BtR) business,   Tipi, having set it up in 2015. Rajesh is responsible for all commercial and financial aspects of the   Tipi business to position it to become the UK’s largest BtR platform. He works closely with the wider Quintain team on the design and pricing for future plots at Wembley Park and new business. Rajesh joined Quintain in 2008 as the Transactions Director responsible for refinancings, acquisitions, disposals and joint ventures.   Rajesh has worked in real estate for over 20 years across a range of sectors including commercial, residential and retail. He has led transactions ranging from raising capital for new funds through to acquisitions and disposals of property portfolios and businesses. Prior to Quintain, Rajesh spent 10 years at Land Securities, where he was Investment Strategy Director at its Trillium subsidiary. He led the pricing of Trillium’s new business transactions as well as portfolio management of existing assets. Prior to this he worked at PwC as a management consultant in sectors including real estate, retail and media.   Resources LMRE website www.lmre.co.uk   UKPA www.ukpa.com   Quintain www.quintain.co.uk  Tipi www.tipi.london    Insights from this Episode

• One of the things we learned early days is a very strong focus on customers, be it the landlord's at that point when we slowly sold the apartments or ultimately the customers who lived with us - Rajesh

• They're really bringing neighbourhoods to life and creating communities, which I think that's what a lot of us are all seeking, this new concept of living – Louisa

• I spent probably 12 months heavily researching and taking the foundation we had within Quintain, but looking very, very hard at what the customers really want as renters at large in London and beyond what our pain points were – Rajesh

• we want to make sure we stand uniquely for, is the whole strength and depth in customer service – Rajesh

• Rather than sector specific, what we've been testing very heavily in our recruitment is mindset. People really willing to go the extra mile are people really willing to put themselves into the customer shoes, willing to take every problem to its resolution – Rajesh 

• But ultimately, the success with the data is really are we improving enhancing the customer enjoyment and benefits – Rajesh

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The Propcast Season 2, Episode 4   Title: The Effects of Coronavirus with Nikolas Samios Summary: In this episode we talk to Nikolas Samios from Proptech1 Ventures about the effects of coronavirus on the industry.    The Propcast by Louisa Dickins, Co-Founder of LMRE the leading Global PropTech recruiter brought to you in partnership with UK PropTech Association, The UK PropTech Association is a membership organisation to drive the digital transformation of the property industry. This show will focus on connecting the PropTechs, real estate funds and VC’s globally…and get everyone talking about innovation of the built environment.   About Our Host Louisa Dickins https://www.linkedin.com/in/louisa-dickins-ab065392/?originalSubdomain=uk Louisa started her career in property working at a well-known estate agency in London. Realising her people skills, she moved over to Lloyd May to pursue a career in recruitment. She now is a Director at LMRE, who are a specialist recruitment firm driven by PropTech and recruitment professionals, and Louisa oversees their 5 core areas. Louisa co-founded LMRE and provides a constructive recruitment platform to the new disruptors in real estate. Louisa is also on the board of Directors at UK PropTech Association (UKPA). About LMRE LMRE believe there is a better way to recruit. LMRE focus on a more comprehensive, client led focus delivering exceptional talent to the right place at the right time. They are passionate about the industry and passionate about people's careers. LMRE spend time with each client to become and an extension of the business, and their transparency and core values help them grow with the sector. LMRE simplify recruitment and innovate with our clients and evolve the people driven, PropTech community.   About Our Guest Nikolas Samios https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikolassamios/?originalSubdomain=de Nikolas Samios is Managing Partner of PropTech1 Ventures, the first venture capital fund focused on PropTech startups in Germany. For decades, the real estate industry has shied away from true innovation, but now faces drastic change because of the advancing digitalization. This creates enormous opportunities for PropTech startups that focus on the optimization, digitalization, and disruption of the real estate industry. PropTech1 Ventures is a joint project of the real estate entrepreneur Marius Marschall and the COOPERATIVA Venture Group, which Nikolas heads as Managing Partner. COOPERATIVA is a platform which, based on the experience of its partner as founders, business angels, venture capital managers, and limited partners, covers 360° of the venture capital life cycle: Direct, indirect and LP investments in startups, support in their fundraising and exit efforts, venture-centric family office services and the inception and operation of VC funds in cooperation with leading sector experts.    Resources LMRE website www.lmre.co.uk    UKPA www.ukpa.com     PropTech1 Ventures www.proptech1.ventures  Download free white paper “Proptech and the Corona effect”: https://proptech1.ventures/download-deep-dive-2-en    Insights from this Episode

• If you have a digital file, if you have a digital process, if that's even cloud based, you are a productivity wise in a good position – Nikolas

• It's not a tectonic shift. So all the standards are still there, you see normal deals happening but it's maybe a little bit more investor friendly climate right now than last year - Nikolas

• We are very bullish on  green technology because we believe that's the super major trend in a way for the next 10/20 years – Nikolas

• I’ve been doing venture capital for 20 years now, so this is not the first situation that the market changed away, and it was always a good idea to be careful with your valuation – Nikolas

• So if you just look at 20, 30 years of data… more or less the best venture deals have been done after the financial crisis – Nikolas

• As a professional investor, if you're correctly investing, if you pick the right targets, if you've optimized terms - it's a good time to invest - Nikolas

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The Propcast Season 2, Episode 3   Title: The Importance of Real Estate Data with L.D. Salmanson and Thomas Walle Summary: In this episode we talk to L.D. Salmanson from Cherre, and Thomas Walle from Unacast about the importance of real estate data.   The Propcast by Louisa Dickins, Co-Founder of LMRE the leading Global PropTech recruiter brought to you in partnership with UK PropTech Association, The UK PropTech Association is a membership organisation to drive the digital transformation of the property industry. This show will focus on connecting the PropTechs, real estate funds and VC’s globally…and get everyone talking about innovation of the built environment.   About Our Host Louisa Dickins https://www.linkedin.com/in/louisa-dickins-ab065392/?originalSubdomain=uk Louisa started her career in property working at a well-known estate agency in London. Realising her people skills, she moved over to Lloyd May to pursue a career in recruitment. She now is a Director at LMRE, who are a specialist recruitment firm driven by PropTech and recruitment professionals, and Louisa oversees their 5 core areas. Louisa co-founded LMRE and provides a constructive recruitment platform to the new disruptors in real estate. Louisa is also on the board of Directors at UK PropTech Association (UKPA). About LMRE LMRE believe there is a better way to recruit. LMRE focus on a more comprehensive, client led focus delivering exceptional talent to the right place at the right time. They are passionate about the industry and passionate about people's careers. LMRE spend time with each client to become and an extension of the business, and their transparency and core values help them grow with the sector. LMRE simplify recruitment and innovate with our clients and evolve the people driven, PropTech community.   About Our Guests L.D. Salmanson https://www.linkedin.com/in/ldsalmanson/ L.D. has extensive experience founding, advising and investing and leading private technology companies. L.D’s latest venture is Cherre, which is the leader in real estate data and insight. Cherre connects decision makers to accurate property and market information, and helps them make faster, smarter decisions. By providing a unique single source of truth, Cherre empowers customers to evaluate opportunities and trends faster and more accurately, by saving millions of dollars in manual data collection and analytics costs. Prior to founding Cherre, L.D. served as an executive director of Oppenheimer’s private shares group, and after Openheimmer acquired GreenCrest Capital, a firm he co-founded to enable pre IPO transactions and some of the largest private technology companies in the world, including Facebook, Twitter and Uber. Prior to that, L.D. served as the principal of Knight Capital's group private equity fund and previously as a captain in the Israeli army, which I'd love to hear a little bit more about as well later on in the show. L.D. holds an MBA in finance and is a Joseph Wharton Merit Scholar. He also holds a BA, LLB and LLM in finance and international law.   Thomas Walle https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomaswalle/  Thomas is the CEO and Co-Founder of Unacast, the leading human mobility data company who empower companies globally to make smarter decisions and build better products by understanding how people move around on our planet. Unacast serves data-hungry clients in multiple verticals such as retail, martech, research, real estate, and city planning. Unacast has been awarded multiple awards for its tech platform, products, and it’s Nordic-based culture. Prior to Unacast, he was a part of the early team at the music streaming service TIDAL, which was acquired by Jay Z in 2014, where he led business development and partnerships globally.Thomas shares his opinion on tech and startups regularly as a member of Forbes Technology Council and has been profiled by Inc. Magazine, Business Insider, The New York Times and Wired. He is also an LP in Nordic Web, a seed-stage fund investing in the growing Nordic Startup scene.   Resources LMRE website www.lmre.co.uk    UKPA www.ukpa.com       Insights from this Episode - What we’ve seen over last few years is the emergence of a lot of really interesting data sets that just didn't exist a few years ago or weren't packaged in a way that was usable… Firms are more and more looking to combine those datasets to have something that's a lot more meaningful for whatever end use cases they have today – L.D. - In order to cater to the real estate vertical, the data needs to be as you started with, it needs to be clean, it needs to be easily accessible - Thomas - Data is being put front and centre where it should be. It means that people are able to make a lot more informed decisions – L.D.  - In a case like COVID, where the mobility patterns of people that changed overnight, it has an extremely powerful data set to help them understand what's happening in their neighbourhood, in their city, and help them make better decisions – Thomas - Our focus is on understanding how people move around on the planet, mobility data, that's where we are experts - Thomas   Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart   Sponsors You're listening to a podcast produced by A PODCAST COMPANY. This show was made by Podcast Syndicator where we help you go from start to grow to make money with your podcast. Let us help you share your message and your voice with the world. Reach out now. [email protected] to find out more. Thank you for listening and do come back to hear more shows like this.    1) Hey, don't miss out on a free webinar! 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The Propcast Season 2, Episode 2   Title: Deals and Investments within PropTech with Mike Sroka and John Fitzpatrick Summary: In this episode we talk to Mike Sroka of Dealpath and John Fitzpatrick of Blackstone about deals and investments within PropTech.   The Propcast by Louisa Dickins, Co-Founder of LMRE the leading Global PropTech recruiter brought to you in partnership with UK PropTech Association, The UK PropTech Association is a membership organisation to drive the digital transformation of the property industry. This show will focus on connecting the PropTechs, real estate funds and VC’s globally…and get everyone talking about innovation of the built environment.   About Our Host Louisa Dickins https://www.linkedin.com/in/louisa-dickins-ab065392/?originalSubdomain=uk Louisa started her career in property working at a well-known estate agency in London. Realising her people skills, she moved over to Lloyd May to pursue a career in recruitment. She now is a Director at LMRE, who are a specialist recruitment firm driven by PropTech and recruitment professionals, and Louisa oversees their 5 core areas. Louisa co-founded LMRE and provides a constructive recruitment platform to the new disruptors in real estate. Louisa is also on the board of Directors at UK PropTech Association (UKPA).   About LMRE LMRE believe there is a better way to recruit. LMRE focus on a more comprehensive, client led focus delivering exceptional talent to the right place at the right time. They are passionate about the industry and passionate about people's careers. LMRE spend time with each client to become and an extension of the business, and their transparency and core values help them grow with the sector. LMRE simplify recruitment and innovate with our clients and evolve the people driven, PropTech community.   About Our Guest Mike Sroka https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-sroka-9958391/ Mike is the Co-Founder and CEO of Dealpath, the real estate industry’s leading cloud-based deal management platform. Previously, he's spent over a decade growing venture-backed software companies including Fanhood, Zynga and OneSeason. Mike started his career at Hudson Advisors, managing agent for the Lone Star Funds, and graduated from Southern Methodist University with a B.S. in Economics with Finance Applications.     John Fitzpatrick https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-fitzpatrick-2b9a654/ John Fitzpatrick is a Managing Director and Global Chief Technology Officer of Blackstone Real Estate within the Technology and Innovations group. He is responsible for all aspects of technology across Blackstone Real Estate and our portfolio companies and also oversees the Blackstone Innovations investment program, which seeks to unlock value for LPs and the firm by taking stakes in targeted, early stage, technology-based investment opportunities. Prior to his current role, Mr. Fitzpatrick oversaw various initiatives across the entire Technology and Innovations group. Before joining Blackstone in 2011, Mr. Fitzpatrick worked at Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor’s, for seven years where he was most recently the Head of Product. He received a BS in Finance from St. John’s University and currently serves on the Blackstone Charitable Foundation’s Leadership Council.   Resources LMRE website www.lmre.co.uk    UKPA www.ukpa.com     Dealpath website www.dealpath.com  Blackstone website www.blackstone.com    Insights from this Episode

• I always think of us as kind of like pipeline through portfolio management, and really managing that lifecycle of an asset – Mike Sroka

• Investing is a game of connecting the dots and whoever can connect the dots and tell the best picture and have an information advantage typically wins – John Fitzpatrick

• Having centralised data that is globally accessible, has never been more important – Mike Sroka

• Two pieces of advice: one is to really have a wholesome vision for your overall technical - Mike ecosystem… and then two, the (PropTechs) that are quite successful are truly solving a business problem, and doing it in a technical way that will allow them to scale for the future – John Fitzpatrick

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The Propcast Season 2, Episode 1   Title: The Largest European VC with Gregory Dewerpe Summary: In this episode we talk to Gregory Dewerpe from A/O PropTech about being the largest European VC.    The Propcast by Louisa Dickins, Co-Founder of LMRE the leading Global PropTech recruiter brought to you in partnership with UK PropTech Association, The UK PropTech Association is a membership organisation to drive the digital transformation of the property industry. This show will focus on connecting the PropTechs, real estate funds and VC’s globally…and get everyone talking about innovation of the built environment.   About Our Host Louisa Dickins https://www.linkedin.com/in/louisa-dickins-ab065392/?originalSubdomain=uk Louisa started her career in property working at a well-known estate agency in London. Realising her people skills, she moved over to Lloyd May to pursue a career in recruitment. She now is a Director at LMRE, who are a specialist recruitment firm driven by PropTech and recruitment professionals, and Louisa oversees their 5 core areas. Louisa co-founded LMRE and provides a constructive recruitment platform to the new disruptors in real estate. Louisa is also on the board of Directors at UK PropTech Association (UKPA).   About LMRE LMRE believe there is a better way to recruit. LMRE focus on a more comprehensive, client led focus delivering exceptional talent to the right place at the right time. They are passionate about the industry and passionate about people's careers. LMRE spend time with each client to become and an extension of the business, and their transparency and core values help them grow with the sector. LMRE simplify recruitment and innovate with our clients and evolve the people driven, PropTech community.   About Our Guest Gregory Dewerpe Gregory is the Founder of A/O PropTech, Europe’s largest PropTech venture capital firm and a real estate and technology investor with over 15 years of experience across I-Banking, real estate and venture, a multi-billion deal-making history, and a deep understanding of the financial markets, real estate and venture eco-systems. Prior to A/O PropTech, Gregory founded AMD Capital, a specialised real estate investment company focusing on the most thriving segments of the industry through both private (direct assets) and public markets, taking advantage of market dislocations and price asymmetry in order to build strong conviction positions. Gregory is a Swiss national, fluent in English, French, and Italian; he attended HEC Lausanne University, London School of Economics (Masters), and Harvard Business School.   A bit about A/O PropTech A/O PropTech invests permanent capital and combines deep real estate, data science and engineering expertise together with a strategic sandbox of over $35bn of Real Estate assets from its investors. As a result of their permanent capital approach, A/O is Stage agnostic, investing from Series A to later-stage breakouts growth stages. They enable founders to create and scale disruptive tech-enabled products and platforms disrupting the real estate industry. Their mission is to transform real estate into a more digital, efficient, and accessible asset class by applying innovative technologies and business models. This mission is underpinned by a vision to improve quality of life, accelerate sustainable living, and enable the decarbonisation of the largest asset class in the world.   Resources LMRE website www.lmre.co.uk   UKPA www.ukpa.com    A/O website www.aoproptech.com    Insights from this Episode   - The number one lesson is it doesn't matter what product you're backing, doesn't matter what segment you're backing, it always comes down to the entrepreneurs – Gregory Dewerpe - You're going to work a lot with those people in tough times, in good times, but more importantly in tough times, and being able to understand who's across the table means you can help them better and you can support them better. And so a lot of work needs to go into the people. It's really all about the people – Gregory Dewerpe - I always say I'm looking for humility. Humility is something that might sound very generic, but for me, I always say that when you find humble people, it means they're open minded to learn, they know they can get better, they're also able to change their plans when it doesn't go the way they want – Gregory Dewerpe - For me, everything around the decarbonisation is essential because the only way to be more efficient from a carbon standpoint is to become digital and tech enabled – Gregory Dewerpe - Since we've all been in lockdown, we've all had that time to take a step back and realise what's important, what's going on in the world and to actually really appreciate it, and make changes – Louisa Dickins - The office has been challenged over many decades. It needs to reinvent itself and I'm sure it will, it just going to be different and different doesn't mean worse... We reinvent ourselves, we reinvent the way we work and how we work, and how we interact with one another. So there's certainly going to be some great things happening so for me, it's all positive when I think about the future – Gregory Dewerpe - For issues like sustainability, I think the collaboration between private and public is actually essential – Gregory Dewerpe   Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart   Sponsors You're listening to a podcast produced by A PODCAST COMPANY. This show was made by Podcast Syndicator where we help you go from start to grow to make money with your podcast. Let us help you share your message and your voice with the world. Reach out now. [email protected] to find out more. Thank you for listening and do come back to hear more shows like this.    1) Hey, don't miss out on a free webinar! 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The Propcast Episode 10   Title: Real Estate, Tech Collaboration and US Launching with Real Estate with Oli Farago and Richard Croft Summary: We talk to Richard Croft (M7 Real Estate) and Oli Farago (Coyote Software) about Real Estate Tech Collaboration, and US Launching.   The Propcast is by Louisa Dickins, Co-Founder of LMRE the leading Global PropTech recruiter brought to you in partnership with UK PropTech Association, The UK PropTech Association is a membership organisation to drive the digital transformation of the property industry.   This show will focus on connecting the Proptechs, real estate funds and VC’s globally…and get everyone talking about innovation of the built environment.   About Our Host Louisa Dickins https://www.linkedin.com/in/louisa-dickins-ab065392/?originalSubdomain=uk Louisa started her career in property working at a well-known estate agency in London. Realising her people skills, she moved over to Lloyd May to pursue a career in recruitment. She now is a Director at LMRE, who are a specialist recruitment firm driven by PropTech and recruitment professionals, and Louisa oversees their 5 core areas. Louisa co-founded LMRE and provides a constructive recruitment platform to the new disruptors in real estate. Louisa is also on the board of Directors at UK PropTech Association (UKPA).   About LMRE LMRE believe there is a better way to recruit. LMRE focus on a more comprehensive, client led focus delivering exceptional talent to the right place at the right time. They are passionate about the industry and passionate about people's careers. LMRE spend time with each client to become and an extension of the business, and their transparency and core values help them grow with the sector. LMRE simplify recruitment and innovate with our clients and evolve the people driven, PropTech community.   About Our Guests Richard Croft https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-croft-b2b95022/?originalSubdomain=uk Richard is the Executive Chairman for M7 Real Estate. He is responsible for the strategic direction of the company, capital raising and leads the real estate fund management function. In this capacity he sits on the GP board and Investment Committees of all of M7’s funds in addition to numerous other M7’s JV boards.   Prior to co-founding M7 Real Estate in April 2009, Richard founded Halverton REIM LLP (subsequently GPT Halverton), a European real estate fund management business which was sold to The GPT Group (an Australian listed property trust) in July 2007. From 2005 to early 2009 Richard was CEO of GPT Halverton which at the time of sale employed circa 180 people across ten European offices and managed €2 billion of assets. Before his time at Halverton, Richard was International Investment Director of Property Fund Management PLC (now Valad), and was responsible for setting up their international infrastructure, including offices in Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin, Warsaw, Copenhagen and Madrid. Richard has been involved in over €8 billion of transactions across the UK and Europe during his 26 years of real estate experience.   In addition to his duties at M7, Richard is a Non-Executive Director of IPSX (the International Property Securities Exchange). He is a member of the Global Real Estate Institute and a regular speaker at conferences across Europe covering real estate and economic topics. Richard is a supporter of several charities and foundations and is actively involved The Suffolk Community Foundation and Shout About Suffolk.   Oli Farago https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliverfarago/?originalSubdomain=uk Oli is the CEO and Co-Founder of Coyote. He has been fundamental in scoping, designing and developing Coyote since its beginning in 2009. In fact, for the first three years of Coyote’s journey, he wrote every line of code himself. Prior to Coyote, Oli was one of the founding partners and CTO of M7 Real Estate. Oli has now been at the forefront of Real Estate technology for over 12 years. Oli spends his day working with a team of 37 on everything from the strategic growth and direction of the company, helping design new product features / functionality to demoing the platform and onboarding new clients. When Oli is not busy with Coyote or his family, he loves scuba diving and flying helicopters.   Resources LMRE website www.lmre.co.uk  UKPA www.ukpa.com Coyote Software www.coyote.co.ukwww.coyote.io M7 Real Estate www.m7re.eu   Insights from this Episode Our view is that we think technology is going to change real estate investing – Richard Croft   the industry is changing. The industry is becoming more accepting of technology, and the technology can improve the way that we do things – Richard Croft   We are just now entering into the period where I think people are really starting to commit to major projects of digital transformation – Oli Farago   They used to say that there were three rules to investing in real estate, which was location, location, location. I think that's changing, and is becoming space, space and connectivity. I think long term, it's going to cause a massive acceleration in adoption across the board. It is from networking that you make relationships, and through work relationships that you build businesses – Richard Croft   Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart   Sponsors You're listening to a podcast produced by A PODCAST COMPANY. This show was made by Podcast Syndicator where we help you go from start to grow to make money with your podcast. Let us help you share your message and your voice with the world. 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The Propcast Episode 9   Title: Global Data with Robert Courteau Summary: In this episode we talk to Robert Courteau from Altus Group about Global Data   The Propcast is by Louisa Dickins, Co-Founder of LMRE the leading Global PropTech recruiter brought to you in partnership with UK PropTech Association, The UK PropTech Association is a membership organisation to drive the digital transformation of the property industry. This show will focus on connecting the Proptechs, real estate funds and VC’s globally…and get everyone talking about innovation of the built environment.   About Our Host Louisa Dickins https://www.linkedin.com/in/louisa-dickins-ab065392/?originalSubdomain=uk Louisa started her career in property working at a well-known estate agency in London. Realising her people skills, she moved over to Lloyd May to pursue a career in recruitment. She now is a Director at LMRE, who are a specialist recruitment firm driven by PropTech and recruitment professionals, and Louisa oversees their 5 core areas. Louisa co-founded LMRE and provides a constructive recruitment platform to the new disruptors in real estate. Louisa is also on the board of Directors at UK PropTech Association (UKPA). About LMRE LMRE believe there is a better way to recruit. LMRE focus on a more comprehensive, client led focus delivering exceptional talent to the right place at the right time. They are passionate about the industry and passionate about people's careers. LMRE spend time with each client to become and an extension of the business, and their transparency and core values help them grow with the sector. LMRE simplify recruitment and innovate with our clients and evolve the people driven, PropTech community.   About Our Guest Robert Courteau https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobcourteau/?originalSubdomain=ca Robert Courteau is an accomplished senior executive with extensive experience in leading new business initiatives and achieving growth objectives with some of the world’s foremost companies. Most recently, he was President of SAP North America, a $6 billion global market leader in enterprise application software, with other previous roles including COO of its Global Customer Operations. Prior to joining SAP, Mr. Courteau served as an Executive Vice President for EDS Corporation. He has held a number of senior management roles at Xerox Corporation, where he served as a North American Divisional Vice President and General Manager. Robert has been an active board member of numerous North American not-for-profit organizations and has served on the boards of several publicly traded organisations. Robert joined Altus Group as CEO in 2012, and has repositioned the company for growth by capitalizing on a global market opportunity for software and data solutions into the commercial real estate sector.   Resources LMRE website www.lmre.co.uk  UKPA www.ukpa.com Altus Group www.altusgroup.com Argus Enterprise https://www.altusgroup.com/argus/products/argus-enterprise/ OnSiteIQ www.onsiteiq.io   Insights from this Episode Really getting control of how you look at your business is fundamental to good governance, insight and decision making – Robert Courteau   We are trying to attract CTOs from all sorts of other industries, whether it's finance or other technology sectors, and they're now seeing the huge opportunity they have to really change the real estate world – Robert Courteau   Cloud based technology opens up the opportunity to really innovate on how you operate your business on a global basis – Robert Courteau   At the end of the day, you have to have people that are like minded about making the customer the priority as you move forward – Robert Courteau   The automation of your workflows, the improvement in the way you manage your businesses is fundamental. If you have things like straight through processing of data and information, you're going to be at a competitive advantage – Robert Courteau   The whole world is going to be driven by AI machine learning, the ability to collect data at scale and to put that data into information – Robert Courteau   Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart   Sponsors You're listening to a podcast produced by A PODCAST COMPANY. This show was made by Podcast Syndicator where we help you go from start to grow to make money with your podcast. Let us help you share your message and your voice with the world. Reach out now. [email protected] to find out more. Thank you for listening and do come back to hear more shows like this.   1) Hey, don't miss out on a free webinar! Learn about how to launch a profitable podcast in just 60 days! http://www.apodcastcompany.com/sales-page1586718105525 2) Take your podcast from idea to execution in just 6 weeks! https://www.apodcastmasterclass.com/podcast-launchpad 3) Join our Exclusive Facebook group to Make Money Podcasting: https://www.facebook.com/groups/PodcastPeople/