ESG as part of
our firm’s DNA

Eric Assimakopoulos founded Revetas in 2012 and serves as Founding Partner for the Revetas Group.

With over 30 years of experience, Eric’s career began in the early 1990’s as the founder of the Gnome Group, a company specialized in designing, building, and establishing the technology data centers which have become so prevalent today. After growing the group and building some of the largest data centers in the world even to this day, he partnered with Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds in the late 1990’s and served as the chairman and CEO of Metronexus, a real estate platform investing $300 million in 300,000 sqm of real estate in the US and Europe.

In 2002, he founded and launched Bifrost, a real estate investment and asset management platform operating in Central and Eastern Europe. Bifrost would also later work closely with the Belgian Ministry of Finance to acquire high quality properties which they leased and would include a sale and leaseback of a 47,500 sqm headquarters building from KKR. Bifrost’s continued success also led to the purchasing of properties from large corporations such as Suez Tractebel group while maintaining strategic partnerships with institutional investment funds such as Patron Capital.

Bifrost would eventually serve as the precursor to Revetas, an entirely vertically integrated group that leverages the expertise Eric has developed over the past 30 years in real estate development, asset management, and investment. As a group, Revetas is an expert in special situations and distressed real estate, reflecting his and his team’s experience across multiple cycles of the business cycle.

Originally from the United States, Eric has been living for over 20 years in France, England, and Slovakia.

Katerina is a Senior Administrator and ESG Lead at Revetas Capital. In her roles, Katerina is a critical bridge between departments, serving as a project coordinator and team support for a wide range of tasks, including oversight of the Annual Investor Meeting, accounting, investor relations, and operations.

Over the past several years, her position has increasingly focused on ESG and sustainability within Revetas Capital, where she helps the group focus on double-bottom-line efforts meant to produce a positive outcome across the Firm’s portfolio and community. Katerina began her career in hospitality, where she worked as a Front Desk Assistant at the Park Inn by Radisson Hotel in Ostrava, before serving as a Personal Assistant to a former Chief Operating Officer of Revetas Capital.

Katerina holds a Bachelor’s degree in English and German from the University of Ostrava in the Czech Republic, where she also studied in Malta and Sweden. She is a native Czech speaker and is fluent in English and German.

Inga Heynen joined Revetas Capital in 2018 and serves as Head of Investments. She has 15 years of institutional experience in real estate and private equity across Central and Eastern Europe through the provision of debt and equity financing to real estate projects, to funds, JVs, co-investment partnerships, and public and private companies.

Since joining Revetas, Inga has been responsible for the full spectrum of transaction management for both acquisition and exits, and has led numerous such processes. Until 2023, she was also the portfolio manager for the Keystone investment and oversaw a number of other Fund II assets. Inga is a permanent observer of the Recommendations Committee, a member of the ESG Committee, and is actively engaged in the strategic management of the company. Prior to joining Revetas Capital, Ms. Heynen was a Principal Banker at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) where she worked in the years 2009-2018. At EBRD, she was focused on origination, execution and monitoring of equity (including as a limited partner), senior debt, mezzanine and public bond financing transactions across all real estate asset classes in CEE with a total transaction volume of over EUR 2 billion.

She holds a Master’s degree in Finance from Cass Business School in the UK and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Caucasus University in Georgia. Originally from Georgia, Ms. Heynen is fluent in English and Russian and is a native Georgian speaker.

Carmen Michaela Ianu is the Head of Construction and Program Management at TriGranit with almost 40 years of experience specializing in large scale projects with proven track record of planning, managing and delivering projects within planned budget and deadlines.

She is experienced in all main areas of project delivery: estimating, planning, procurement, construction and project management, cost engineering and cost control, contracts and claims management. Her experience is outstandingly diverse and international: she has been working in Europe, the Middle East, and the GCC region throughout her career. Carmen has also gained experience in projects financed by EU and the World Bank, therefore she is very familiar with several types of contracts used in the construction industry (including all FIDIC types of contracts from 1999 Editions onwards).

Regarding her education, Carmen holds a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering (graduated “Magna Cum Laude”) from USAMV Bucharest, Faculty of Land Reclamation and Environmental Engineering. She completed several further specialised trainings, as a special training in organizing the activity on construction sites, a special training in programming and using personal computers in design, engineering and planning activities, and a training in Local Administration and Civil & Commercial Law.

Carmen has a long track record working for TriGranit: between 2006 and 2012 she was the Project and Construction Manager, as well as Technical Coordinator of TriGranit Development Corporation. In 2012, she has decided to seek new challenges in her career and after years spent in the Middle East working on strategic, large scale projects, she re-joined TriGranit in 2019 as the Head of Construction and Program Management.

Carmen has excellent communication skills and speaks various languages – she is fluent in Romanian, English and French with a good command of Spanish and has a basic knowledge of Italian and German.

Michal Muc joined Ceres Management Services in 2017. As the Managing Director for Ceres, he is responsible for coordination of  property, project and leasing management services for the company in Central and Eastern Europe. He is also focused on company sustainability and strategic business development.

Michal has 26 years’ experience working for international companies including Pepsico, Ahold, NAVO (Procter & Gamble), DTZ and Savills. As the Senior Director and Managing Director of Property and Asset Management for DTZ and Savills, respectively, he was responsible for managing the portfolios of retail, office, and logistic properties in Poland. He managed more than 1.5 million sqm GLA and led  a team of over 200 specialists. Having strong expertise in finance, retail, distribution, and real estate industries, Michal was in charge for companies with turnover in excess of 200 million EUR.

Michal graduated in Engineering from Krakow AGH University of Science and Technology and in Finance from Warsaw School of Economics (SGH).

Wojciech (Wojtek) joined Ceres Management Services in January 2018. As the Director of Operations he is responsible for all of Ceres’ offices. Wojtek is focused on daily operations regarding property management as well as development and implementation of internal procedures pack – Property Management Toolkit.

Wojtek has over 20 years of experience in Retail and Real Estate sectors. Prior to joining Ceres he occupied senior managerial positions at companies such as: Eastbridge Group, Donaldsons, DTZ, Savills. In his high profile career, some of Wojtek’s key clients were: Credit Suisse AM, ING REIM, RE project development, Resolution Property, Charterhall, Akron Management, Commerz Real, Azora, Royal Properties, Rockspring, Polish private investors.

He was involved in the following projects: Apeiron Office Center, Bonarka for Business, Buma Square, CORSO Karlin, The Landmark, MHQ, Park Center Sofia, Radisson Hospitality Complex, Sofia Airport Center, Trinity One and Zirkon Office Center.

Wojtek holds Master of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Poznan University of Technology. He also took post graduate studies in Property Management.

Marcin Machynia is the ESG Project Lead for the Revetas Group, having previously spent his career with the Group in the areas of sustainability management and operations. As ESG Project Leader, he is responsible for ESG at both the group and portfolio levels. He has successfully completed several courses in the field organized by Polish institutions and has started the Materiality of ESG Factors Specialization offered by the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania.

Marcin Machynia joined Revetas in January 2017 as Security Coordinator for B4B, where he was responsible for coordinating the work of over 60 people in the complex and supervising the security of the entire complex. Marcin was promoted to Operational-Technical Coordinator, where he was responsible for tenant relations, day-to-day operational and technical issues related to B4B operations and BREEAM In-Use certification of buildings A, B, C and D.

In 2021, he initiated the B4B Sustainable Management Plan, working closely with Sweco Company and overseeing its implementation in the complex, as well as maintaining a close relationship with tenants regarding sustainability and the bi-annual meetings of the B4B Sustainable Management Committee. He has continued ESG initiatives at the group level, working on the implementation of Measurabl (ESG software), as well as working closely with ARUP on Revetas’ decarbonization strategy and starting the portfolio analysis.

Tom Lisiecki joined TriGranit Polska in 2004 as a Financial Analyst, soon after completing his university degree in Economics and Finance at the University of Toronto. He later served as commercial manager of the Debowe Tarasy in Katowice residential project in Katowice. He was promoted to Development Director of the B4B office project in Krakow (2007).

He served as Country Director – Poland from 2008, and he later became the Chief Development Officer of TGD and Managing Director and the President of the Board of Directors of the company’s Polish affiliate.

After TPG’s acquisition of TriGranit in 2015, Tom became the Chief Investment Officer of the corporation. In 2017, Tom left TriGranit and served as the Chief Development Officer for CityCon in Stockholm, returning in 2019 to TriGranit as the CEO.

Tom has been involved in all of TriGranit’s projects in Poland: the Silesia City Center and 1,000 apartments complex Oak Terraces (Debowe Tarasy) in Katowice, Bonarka City Center and Bonarka for Business (B4B – 7 class A office towers) in Krakow and the integrated transport, entertainment and commercial hub of Poznan – the Poznan City Center. Tom is a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and holds an Executive MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management.