Francesca Toninato is currently the Global CEO of 7 For All Mankind, the well-known Californian lifestyle premium denim brand. She joined the brand in January 2018, as CEO of 7 For All Mankind International and since then she has been leading it, first in the EMEA region and more recently globally, shaping its new path after the acquisition from Delta Galil Industries. During the previous 8 years, Francesca served in various leadership positions at Diesel, including 3 years as Global General Manager of the Licensing Business Unit and 3 years as Global General Manager of the Intimate Apparel and Swimwear Business Unit. Before entering the fashion business, Francesca was a Senior Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Co. where she served a wide variety of clients mainly in the Retail and Consumer Goods industry. Francesca holds a BA in Business Administration from Bocconi University in Milano and a bilingual MBA from IESE University in Barcelona.

Marc Espinet is a Partner at Property Market Analysis LLP, one of Europe’s leading independent real estate research consultancies. Marc heads PMA’s European Retail team, which analyses retail property markets across the continent and produces five year performance forecasts for high street shops, shopping centres and big box retailing. Marc has more than 35 years’ of experience in property research, eight of which were spent in Germany, where he worked for another well-respected independent property research consultancy, bulwiengesa AG. Marc is a member of the International Council of Shopping Centres (ICSC), European Council of Shopping Places (ECSP), Society of Property Researchers (SPR) and Investment Property Forum (IPF). He is a graduate of the London School of Economics, the University of California at Berkeley and the College of Estate Management at the University of Reading.

Raimund Paetzmann is VP Corporate Real Estate at Zalando SE in Berlin and focuses on Real Estate Management, Construction, Architecture as well as all building-related employee services like Building Operations, Security, Office, Travel and Event Management. He joined Zalando in 2017 to support the growth of the company's office, retail and logistics Real Estate portfolio. Previously to joining Zalando he built and led the Amazon EMEA real estate team, which was involved in the strategic network planning and design of the European Fulfillment Network. He has pioneered introducing new buildings and a new type of advanced e-commerce logistics network across Europe. He also contributed significantly to the new generation of European Fulfillment Warehouse types. Since June 2018, he has also been Deputy Chairman of the Logistics Real Estate Committee of the German Property Federation ZIA.

Rebeca Guzman Vidal is the group head of retail at international investor, asset manager and developer Chelsfield, where she works on retail strategy across a global portfolio that spans gateway cities including London, Paris, New York and Hong Kong. Chelsfield is currently redeveloping a third of the 3.5 acre Knightsbridge Estate, a mixed-use, retail-led portfolio in London, on behalf of owner The Olayan Group. Rebeca is heavily involved in bringing new retailers to the development and leveraging relationships that cross over into the Paris and New York portfolios. More recently, she has also focused on refining the long term retail strategy of the portfolio to ensure its resilience as the world prepares for a global recovery. In Paris, Rebeca is working on projects on Avenue Montaigne that will significantly change the retail landscape of the Triangle d’Or whereas in New York she is working closely with the team in delivering a best-in-class amenities and retail strategy for the redevelopment of 550 Madison Ave., a Philip Johnson-designed tower that has been completely re-imagined by the ownership team including delivering the largest public green space in the Plaza District in recent decades. Prior to joining Chelsfield, Rebeca worked at CBRE where she was part of the London retail advisory team working for some of London’s major landlords including Grosvenor, The Crown Estate, Cadogan Estate and Great Portland Estates. She specialised in luxury assets and worked on a number of high-profile placemaking schemes including Regent Street, Sloane Street and Mount Street. She started her career in the Barcelona office and subsequently moved to London and later Hong Kong. Throughout her experience, Rebeca grew more enamoured with global retail and regularly visiting key “gateway cities” to check out the latest store and restaurant openings. In her free time, Rebeca typically enjoys travelling and is a real foodie, so will travel for food, a neat combination. Since the Covid crisis started she has been living in London and turned her attention to starting a “positive talk only” retail podcast with two co-hosts who also work in retail real estate ironically called “Retail is Dead” as well as cooking new recipes and religiously working out both at home and where permitted in gyms too as a fervent supported of local gym group Third Space.