Delegates of the member associations
| Igor Blažina | |
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He was born on June 22, 1961 in Postojna (Slovenija). He is married and has two children. He obtained a Master of Science in 1992. From 1997 to 2002, he was a member of the National Council of the Republic of Slovenia. In 2005, he was appointed as director of Chamber of commerce and Industry of Slovenija - Postojna regional chamber of commerce and industry. He is still director of the Chamber of Commerce and was appointed as director of Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenija - Real Estate Association in July 2007. |
| October 2007 |
| Alan Cooke | |
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Alan Cooke has been Chief Executive of Ireland’s largest property body, the 2,000-member Irish Auctioneers & Valuers Institute (IAVI) since 1994 and prior to that enjoyed a 23-year career in real estate, which included his serving as IAVI President in 1986. A. Cooke represents the IAVI on a number of international bodies, including the International Consortium of Real Estate Associations (ICREA), the European Property Agents Group (EPAG) and the FIABCI, serving as a member of the Strategic Planning Committee in the latter two organisations. A. Cooke served in 2005 as a member of the Government appointed Review Group that examined the auctioneering profession. As a result of the Group’s deliberations and the specific input of the IAVI, 2007 will likely see the formal establishment of the National Property Services Regulatory Authority which will include most of the recommendations of the IAVI. The IAVI has a degree entry standard for full individual membership and administers an Honours BSc. in Property Studies, the degree for which is awarded by one of Ireland’s leading real estate colleges, Dublin Institute of Technology, under a unique degree partnership arrangement. The IAVI represents about 500 auctioneering practices, including all of the national agencies. |
| November 2006 |
| Christian Dreyer | |
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Chr. Dreyer was born on February 27, 1974 in Ålesund. He grew up in Oslo (N). He is married and has two children. He is Bachelor in Real Estate, and has been working in Real Estate since 1996, at Eiendomsringen, Estate meglerne and Eie eiendomsmegling. He has been President at OAEF for 2 years, and member of the Board for 3 years. He is a member of the Board of the Norge Eiendomsmeglerforbund (NEF) since 2004. Besides being President of NEF, he also is the director of Eie eiendomsmegling. |
| June 2008 |
| Robert Ganly | |
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Robert Ganly is the new IAVI (IRL) president. R. Ganly officially took office as President of the Irish Auctioneers and Valuers Institute (IAVI) on April 17. The Irish Auctioneers and Valuers Institute (IAVI) represents over 2,000 property professionals, with the majority of Irish property transaction being conducted by IAVI members. The Institute serves the interests of its members and the profession generally. The IAVI also plays a vital role in safeguarding the interest of Irish consumers by demanding professional qualifications and top level expertise of its members and by ensuring that they adhere to the Institute’s high standards of ethics. Born in Scariff, County Clare, in 1955, R. Ganly entered the property sector in 1973 and qualified in 1977. He joined IAVI that same year. He is a Director of Ganly Walters, a leading property consultancy, and heads up the company’s Dublin Residential and Country Divisions. Over the last three years he has led the expansion of the company’s residential and rural practice throughout Ireland. Ganly Walters, was established in 1847 by Robert's great great great great grandfather. The company is now the only estate agency in the British Isles to have family involvement for 160 years. R. Ganly has in his practice focused on the residential and rural sectors. His particular area of expertise is the sale and acquisition of all types of quality country houses, farms and estates. He also has extensive experience in the sale and acquisition of high value luxury residential property of all types. R. Ganly has in his practice focused on the residential and rural sectors. His particular area of expertise is the sale and acquisition of all types of quality country houses, farms and estates. He also has extensive experience in the sale and acquisition of high value luxury residential property of all types. R. Ganly is married and has three children. His hobbies include fishing, shooting, travel and historic Car Rallying. He has completed the Targa Rusticala Rally in Wales, the rally of the tests in the UK and has competed in the circuit of Ireland for historic cars for over 20 years. |
| June 2007 |
| Ger Hukker | |
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GER HUKKER DID NOT DREAM OF BECOMING PRESIDENT OF NVM (NL) G. Hukker wished to become a full-service real estate broker, building up a network of real estate agencies throughout every country and being one of the most important players. Today, he runs several successful companies under the name "Drieman". He also has a minority participation in "Holding Keijser & Drieman" and manages the national franchise chain "Garantiemakelaars". If he has recently been elected NVM President, it is because he began to dream about certain projects "that I, as a broker, could not achieve alone" and that his colleagues within NVM also wished for. All these projects concern a changing professional environment and collegiality, facilitating members, quality care for the clients and the quality of the profession taking into account consumer wishes. "For instance, G. Hukker tells us, we are now busy putting the final touches to the quality rules which aim to strengthen the services for the clients. It’s a good thing that our members have been involved in this, preparing it with great care, for a long time. If we do not strengthen quality requirements, the depreciation of our profession will continue and we will not be recognisable anymore to the consumers". G. Hukker tells us furthermore that he and his team are thinking about a website where customers can voice their (dis)satisfaction. The comments could be used to make adjustments if necessary. This would demonstrate that NVM takes its customers’ opinions seriously and attaches thus high priority to its services. |
| October 2007 |
| Serge Ivars | |
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Serge Ivars was born in Casablanca in 1944. In October 2005, Serge Ivars succeeded Paul Rolland who had presided over the Confédération nationale des Administrateurs de Biens (CNAB) since 1999. After a detour through Montreal and studies in economics in Aix-en-Provence, he commenced his career in Marseille in 1967 in a property management firm which he took over a few years later. In 1987, Serge Ivars sold his company to URBANIA, a large property management group, for the account of which he continued to manage the firm, before taking up various positions in the Board in Paris. In January 2005, he left the URBANIA group to create a property management firm in the south of France. Over 30 years he has been committed to property management, Serge Ivars held various positions in CNAB before becoming President of the Marseille Provence regional chamber, a post he occupied from 1990 to 1994. He accompanied Paul Rolland throughout the latter’s presidency. As Deputy President, he presented CNAB in particular in the co-ownership Committee in the Chancery of the Ministry of Justice. |
| May 2006 |
| Thomas Malloth | |
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Born on October 12, 1962, Th. Malloth is Master of Laws. After one year practice at the Court, he joins Dr. Gerhard Sting’s chamber in Vienna, a specialist in property management and building renovation. During his first years, he mainly deals with rehabilitation, subsidized or not, and property management. In 1990, he became a full partner of the chamber still with Dr. G. Stingl. Today, the chamber is very active in property management, building rehabilitation and its commercialisation. By changing the statutes, he transformed the chamber into a "offene Handelsgesellshchaft", together with K. Bruzek (Master of Laws), a long-time collaborator. Th. Malloth is married with Patricia who is especially in charge of controlling the fiscal matters of the company. They have a daughter, Pia, born in 1999, who wants to be a dentist. Th. Malloth is a substitute trustee of the construction and urban renovation Fund in Wien. He has been a member of the Viennese association of property managers for ten years and is currently president of the Austrian Association of property managers (OVI). Junior lecturer at the university in Wien, at the Donau-Universität Krems and at the high vocational school of Wien-Neustadt, he is also expert on oath at the Court. Within the framework of its company, Th. Malloth deals mainly with real estate consultancy and urban development projects. Publications: * Malloth-Wirth, Qualitätsmanagement in Immobilienunternehmen, 1991, Landesinnung Wien * Malloth, Mag. Thomas, Immobilienmanagement, ÖVI, Wien, 2000 * Karst, Malloth, Trojan, Sanieren in Wien, ÖVI, Wien, 2003 * Various studies, surveys and articles on real estate matters. |
| June 2006 |
| Jukka Malila | |
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J. Malila became acquainted with the real estate sector in the late 1990s as he served for many years on the Board of Directors of a construction company alongside his day job. His closer connection with the sector dates from 2002, when he was appointed Managing Director and CEO of SKVL. J. Malila remained in charge of this national association and the businesses it owned until March 2008, when he was appointed Managing Director and CEO of the newly founded umbrella organization for the sector, KVKL. Before entering the real estate business, Ju Malila was the Municipal Manager (mayor) of a local authority in Central Finland from 1998 to 2002. Prior to that appointment, he was the Head of Communications at Teollisuuden Voima Ltd (TVO), known among experts as the best nuclear energy company in the world. During that time he contributed also to the launching of the project to build TVO's third nuclear power plant unit, the largest single private industrial investment in Finland ever. He was also a member of the communications committee of Posiva Ltd, which is engaged in nuclear waste management, and a member of international expert groups on communications in the nuclear energy industry. From 1988 to 1994, J. Malila was Deputy Managing Director of the Finnish Automobile Sport Federation and Managing Director and CEO of the Finnish Automobile Sport Association. At the same time, he was also Managing Director and CEO of the sports marketing company AKK Sports Ltd, whose portfolio includes organizing the World Championship Rally in Finland (the largest public event in the Nordic countries) and other large-scale motor sport events and competitions. He was one of the key figures in building the Finnish motor sports success strategy that included creating a coaching system for young Finnish drivers, resulting for instance in the success of F1 world champions M. Häkkinen and K. Räikkönen and rally world champion M. Grönholm. In earlier years he also used to be a journalist for a variety of newspapers, and over the years has served as editor-in-chief for four different magazines. J. Malila’s university studies focused on performance management in particular. Over the years, he has given courses organized by himself and by other parties in Finland and abroad (i.e. in London in the UK and at Goizueta Business School at Emory University in Atlanta - USA). J. Malila’s family includes his wife and three children. His favourite hobby is trekking in the beautiful, unspoiled natural environment of his home community of Kirkkonummi. |
| December 2008 |
| Marie-Louise Singemalm | |
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Marie-Louise Sigemalm is working as a lawyer at the Association of Real Estate Agents (Mäklarsamfundet) in Sweden. She has been working in the Association since 2001 and as a lawyer since 1995. She has been studying law at the University of Uppsala, just north of Stockholm. "I find it very interesting to work with real estate questions and specially the work in CEPI. It´s very important that the real estate agents learn to know how their collegues work in Europe. In Sweden we have noticed an increasing interest for cross border transactions and to work as real estate agent in other parts of Europe. I think it would be of great value for the real estate agents in Europe if they could learn from each other for example by sharing experiences." |
| March 2009 |
| Mark Van De Woestyne | |
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Mark Van de Woestyne was born is 1942. He was planning to become a teacher and worked for some time in Congo. When he came back to Belgium in 1967, he took classes of insurance and started his own real estate business in Eeklo. He became a member of the professional organisation CIB Oost-Vlaanderen, where his work and commitment led him to the rank of chairman of the Federation of estate agents and president of CIB-Vlaanderen. Because of his interest in real estate agents' education and ethics, he was asked to lecture on real estate in 'Syntra' and Kaho Sint-Lieven. In 1995 he was elected vice-president of the Executive Chamber of BIV. He also published articles on buying and selling real estate, on the drawing up of a real estate dossier (sale and hire) and wrote many articles on ethics and education. Today these interests stay alive, so he hopes to be able to use his experience in a European context. |
| March 2006 |
| Mikko Peltokorpi | |
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The General Assembly of the Finnish association Suomen Isännöintiliitto (FREMF) has elected its new president on May 11, in Helsinki. Since 1991, Mikko Peltokorpi has been CEO of Matinkylän Huolto Oy, in Espoo. For more than twenty years, he has played an important part in property management and, since 2005, has been a member of the Board of the association. Graduated civil engineer in 1980, M. Peltokorpi gives a class on maintenance at the Oulo School. He then turns to real estate and renovation. Two years later, he works at Matinkylän Hu |