Board of directors

Mr Selinas has extensive experience in the financial and property industries of more than twenty years. He has multi-disciplinary expertise (Executive Management, Operational & Financial Restructuring, M&A Advisory, Private Equity, Trading, Derivatives Structuring) in several asset classes (Property, Distressed Debt, Fixed Income, Precious Metals) across varying types of institutions (Listed Property Companies, Private Equity Funds, Investment Banks, Hedge Funds), in several diverse jurisdictions (South Eastern Europe, China, Brazil, Middle East & Western Europe). He started his career trading fixed-income derivatives at the Bank of Montreal and moved to M&A with Lazard London after graduating from London Business School. He has held senior positions at Argo Capital Management and Charlemagne Capital and has been involved in all aspects of property investment, including acquisition, development, portfolio disposals, financing, asset management and restructuring in the retail, office, and residential sectors.

Martin Bartyzal has over 25 years of international experience in finance and banking in Central and Eastern Europe. He has broad experience in structured financing, capital markets, corporate finance, and risk management across sectors in the CEE region and worked on a number of projects with major real estate companies in Central and Eastern Europe. He held various positions in corporate and investment banking at Deutsche Bank in the CEE region and also managed the business of Deutsche Bank in the Czech Republic as Chief Country Officer between 2009 and 2018. He holds a Master’s degree from the Economic University in Prague and is a member of the Czech & Slovak Chapter of YPO.

Richard van Vliet is qualified as a Chartered Accountant in South Africa, England and Wales. On leaving Price Waterhouse in South Africa, he became the sole proprietor of an audit practice in Johannesburg, with work that focused on international mergers and acquisitions, taxation and financial structures. From 1995 until mid-1997, he also represented the Jersey General Group, an offshore investment group of companies in Johannesburg. He relocated to Guernsey in August 1997 as a founding member of Cannon Asset Management Limited and is now the managing director. He currently holds the chairmanship of The Cubic Property Fund, a Channel Islands Securities Exchange-listed fund, and a number of board positions on companies and investment funds exposed to property, equity and alternative investments. He also held the position of the main board member of Thames River Capital Holdings Limited, a fund management company with USD 9bn prior to its disposal.

Mr. Maimon serves as member of the Advisory Board of Aroundtown SA and of Grand City Properties S.A., both public companies traded on the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. As member of such Advisory Boards Mr. Maimon provides expert advice and assistance to the board of directors. In the past, he was the President and CEO of EL AL Airlines from 2014 to 2018. Prior to that, Mr. Maimon was EVP of Commerce & Industry Affairs, Sales & Marketing and Customer Service in EL AL Airlines and served as a Director in various commercial companies such as Leumi Gemel Ltd, Hever and Sun D’Or International Airlines.

Andreas is a Guernsey based independent director with over 30 years’ financial services experience. During his 24 year career with Deutsche Bank he worked in Banking, Investments, Fund and Trust services. He was appointed as a Managing Director in 2004 and served on a number of senior Boards and Committees in UK, Channel Islands and Europe.

For the last 10 years he was Country Head Channel Islands and ran the Financial Intermediaries EMEA Coverage team. He also worked with a number of Family Office groups in Switzerland and the Channel Islands. Before Deutsche he trained with PricewaterhouseCoopers and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1994. Andreas currently sits on, and Chairs, a number of Listed and Regulated Boards. He has experience in IPO’s, has also spoken at a number of conferences in the Channel islands and Caribbean on financial services.

Piotr Olendski is currently serving as a Member of the Supervisory Boards of DM Trigon S.A. and Non Executive Director in Celsa Huta Ostrowiec Sp.z o.o. He has acted as a financial consultant to several Polish companies in the renewable energy sector, and prior to that, he was Managing Director at PZU SA in charge of property and casualty corporate insurance and Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of PZUW SA (a subsidiary of PZU). Prior to PZU, Mr. Olendski worked for 19 years for Deutsche Bank Polska SA, including acting as Management Board Member responsible for investment banking for 7 years.

Daniel Malkin is an independent director at Aroundtown SA. He is also the co-founder and managing director at SIMRES Real Estate SARL. Previously he was an independent Director and member of the audit committee at Grand City Properties SA and, before that, he served as an independent Investment and Fund Manager of fixed income investment funds at Excellence Investment Bank and on the board of directors of several other Luxembourg companies. He holds a BA in Business Administration.

Favieli Stelian has over 25 years of international experience in real estate, renewable energy, business, finance and accounting. Today living in Romania, he is the Managing Partner of Nofar Energy.

From 2010 until the end of 2021, he has been the CEO of Shikun & Binui Romania (listed on the stock exchange in Israel). Prior to that, Mr Stelian was a director or manager of several Israeli companies both in Israel and Romania. Mr Stelian has a Master’s degree in Law from Bar-Ilan University, specialising in capital funds, intellectual property, international commerce. He also has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and is a certified public accountant.

Panico is Group Head of Investments at GRT and has over 20 years’ experience in the real estate, advisory and investment banking industries. Prior to joining Growthpoint Panico worked for five years as an independent property advisor and previously was Head of Property Advisory, Corporate Finance at Investec in South Africa.  Before that Panico was the Joint Chief Executive Officer of Annuity Properties Limited, a South African focused REIT that was listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.