Experts
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Here are a few of our worldclass experts:
Aleksandra Nastic
Lead Designer
Woods Bagot
Rienk Oosterhof
Chief Real Estate Officer
The Student Hotel
Gijs Hendriks
Development Manager
Boskalis
Joeri Beusen
Director Development Benelux
Accor
Erik Vanden Berghe
General Manager Real Estate, Construction & Maintenance
Kinepolis Group Belgium
Olga Polizzi
Director of Design
Rocco Forte Hotels
Huib Pasman
Chief Innovation Officer
Johan Cruijff ArenA
Anubha Khandelwal
Training Manager
The Oberoi Hotel Group
Arjan Pit
Managing Director
UN Studio
Teun Koek
Director
Westfiel Mall of the Netherlands
Gurminder Sagoo
Client Director
WSP
Vincent Taapken
Creative Director
nhow Rotterdam
Simon Gheysens
International Real Estate Investor and Developer
Ghelamco
Robert Yordi
General Curator
SeaWorld Yas Island
Deana Taylor
Deputy General Manager
Ferrari World
Aino Jansen
Project Director EXPO 2025 Osaka
Rijksoverheid
Paul van Bergen
Managing Director
DGMR
Koen Claesen
CEO
Van Mossel Automotive Group
Tom Grymonprez
Country Manager BeLux
Kinepolis Group Belgium
Julien Demonté
Director Aqualibi
Walibi Belgium
Ahmad Hussain
Deputy CEO
DXB Entertainments
Anton Vliegenthart
Director
De Doelen
Reid Donovan
Technical Director
Aecom
Bernard Van Oranje
Owner
Circuit Zandvoort
René van Schie
Director of Accommodations and Day Attractions
Metropoolregio Amsterdam
Jaap den Bleker
Team Lead Design & Development
Efteling
Thalita van der Valk
Sales and Marketing
Van der Valk International
Amit Nayak
Asset Manager & Development Lead
WASL Hospitality
Renaud Salmon
Chief Experience Officer
House of Amouage
Richard Johnson
General Manager
Mandarin Oriental Al Faisaliah
Rudolph Schöningh
Director Hotel Development & Franchise
Accor Group
Keith Gavin
Design Director
Godwin Austen Johnson
Richard Fenne
Director
Woods Bagot
Maarten Markus
Managing Director
NH Hotel Group Benelux, France, UK, Africa
Louis Abi Abboud
Head of Middle East
Ennismore
Mubarak Al Shamisi
Director Convention and Exhibition Bureau
Department of Culture and Tourism Abu Dhabi
Thomas Kaferle
General Manager
SeaWorld Yas Island
Jamie Vivian
Business Director
Muvi Cinemas
Thomas Rau
Founder
RAU
Paul Hooper
Director-Architect
Hooper Architects
Findlay Ross
Director
Theatre Projects
Marwan Jassim Al Sarkal
Executive Chairman
Shurooq
Frans Vreeke
Director
TivoliVredenburg
Abdullah Al Busaidi
Secretary General
Oman Society of Engineers
Werner Anzinger
General Manager
The Mandarin Oriental
Mads Wolff
General Manager
25hours Hotel One Central
Dikkie Scipio
Co-founder
KAAN Architecten
Dick van Wageningen
Director
Felix Claus Dick Van Wageningen Architecten
Suhaila Saeed Al Munthari
Conferences & Exhibitions Affairs Unit Head
Convention and Exhibition Bureau
Peter Bakkum
Head Project Management Renovation and Expansion
Paleis Het Loo
Erik Moederscheim
Creative Director
Moederscheim Moonen Architects
Yusef Shalabi
COO
Al Habtoor Group
Gurdish Sabharwal
Technical Director
The Oberoi Dubai
Dara Towhidi
Architect-Partner
Foster + Partners
Peter De Durpel
COO
Nextensa
Seppe Raaphorst
Director Urban Development
City of Apeldoorn
David Wallace
Director
Chapman Taylor
Ronald Luyben
General Manager
De Bijenkorf Den Haag
Ahmed Al Salami
Head of Building System Development Unit
Dubai Municipality
Olivier Harnisch
CEO
Emaar Hospitality Group
Stuart Johnson
Managing Director
Brown’s Hotel
Jim Heverin
Director
Zaha Hadid Architects
Dunia Joulani
Director
Deloitte Middle East
Michael Koth
General Manager
Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group
Edwin de Kuiper
Executive Board Member
Ballast-Nedam