Witold M. Orlowski. Professor of economics, working mainly on the economics of transition and the European integration of Central and East European countries. Founder of NOBE (Independent Centre for Economic Studies), one of Poland’s leading economic think-tanks, and the Dean of the Business School of the Warsaw University of Technology. Chief economic advisor to PricewaterhouseCoopers Polska. Member of the Economic Council of the Prime Minister, deputy chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Museum in Warsaw, Special Advisor to the European Commission. Former economic advisor to the president Aleksander Kwaśniewski. Studied at the University of Lodz and the Harvard University. In the period 1993-1997 at the World Bank. From 2001 until 2005 the chief economic advisor to the president. In the past also advisor to the Chief Negotiator of the EU membership of Poland, member of the Macroeconomic Council of the Minister of Finance, consultant to many international and national bodies and organizations. Popular economic commentator and columnist of major Polish newspapers. Author of 8 books and 150 scientific publications.

Vice-President & Member of the Board,
Yann Guen has 20 years experience in international real estate and retail companies. He has been Poland since 1999, in the field of hypermarket development with Geant Polska and King Cross. In 2006 he became Vice-President of Mayland Real Estate. In 2009 Yann Guen participated in the sale of assets in the largest transaction in retail real estate in Poland since 2007.

Pawel W. Gralinski, architect, founder & president of Arch Magic Group, has over 25 years of International experience in architecture, engineering & planning, providing complex design services, project management & investment consultancy. Mr Gralinski has received the prestigious merit from ICSC for the Sadyba Best Mall in Warsaw.

John Banka, Partner, Poland Investment Services, joined the Colliers International Investment Advisory Group in 2002, coming from the Real Estate Group at Andersen/Ernst & Young in Warsaw, where he was Senior Manager. He most recently advised SEB on its purchase of Trinity Park III in Warsaw, a EUR 93 million acquisition, and is currently involved with various investment transactions throughout Poland valued at approximately EUR 175 million.
His major investment clients have included Skanska Property Development, St Martins, Pramerica, Buma Group, Prochem SA, Orco Property Group, Unilever, Bank BPH, ING Real Estate, Eurocash SA, UBS, and Europlan Capital.
A native of Chicago, John has an extensive background in economic development projects and urban design, and came to Poland in 1996 as the investment manager for the Warsaw Financial Center project. He has joint Polish and US nationality and is a Bachelor of Arts, Urban Studies Furman University, South Carolina, and has a Master’s Degree in Urban Planning and Policy from the University of Illinois, and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Kellogg School, Northwestern University.

Since January 2007 Maciej has been responsible for the Westdeutsche ImmobilienBank Representative Office in Warsaw. Westdeutsche ImmobilienBank AG is one of the leading real estate financers in Germany providing an individualized and innovative range of products and services to its customers active all around the World. Between 2003 and 2007 he was Director of Commercial RE Finance Department at Bank BPH.

Ewa Kraszewska, Legal Advisor at Trusiewicz & Siwko Law Firm
She headed the legal department of a Spanish real development and construction company Tremon S.A. and REPSA S.A. in Warsaw, handling the construction process of residential investment, starting from the acquisition of a real property to the entire construction process and sale of apartments. She also cooperated with a Spanish company BEGAR S.A. in the course of the due diligence process, real property acquisition and obtaining of the required administrative permits. For the next couple of years she worked at Warsaw-based international law firm Garrigues, where she advised foreign businesses investing, mainly, in real estate trading and renting as well as in wind energy. She was involved in the process of introduction on the Polish market of banking services provided by a foreign financial institution. She has worked for Trusiewicz & Siwko since 2009 where she is responsible for advising a special purpose vehicle which was incorporated with a view to constructing the Multi-Functional Integrated Communication and Commercial Centre and a new railway station in Katowice as well as for advising on the construction process of the said investment. Moreover, Ms. Kraszewska deals with public tenders when advising National Sport Centre as well as public and private partnerships.