About Global Branded Residences

 For the past 20 years, Riyan Itani has specialised in providing branded and luxury non-branded residential development consultancy in the global urban and resort sectors. 

His experience covers strategic development advice, feasibility studies, and financial appraisal as well as branded residential operator selection and contract negotiation. Considered a market-leader in branded residential advisory sector, Riyan has consulted on over 150 non-branded resorts and residential developments and over 100 branded residential schemes across the globe.

Riyan has been the keynote speaker at numerous conferences and forums including the Resort & Residential Hospitality Forum (R&R), the Association of Portuguese Developers and Investors (APPII), The Luxury Property Forum as well as private webinars for Savills, Marriott International and Brands Lab International (BLI).

Riyan is a multi-award winning development consultant with a proven track record and relentless passion for the branded residential sector.

A dynamic business and marketing strategist with more than 20 years’ experience in the property sector internationally, Caitlin is an effective leader of projects and people.

As Consultant - Brands & Operators for Global Branded Residences, Caitlin helps clients, brands and operators identify and collaborate on the world’s leading branded residential opportunities. Caitlin’s comprehensive knowledge of development and proficiency in property marketing extends to the art of conceptualising and negotiating brand and commercial partnerships.

Specialising in residential and mixed-use development, Caitlin has successfully directed and delivered ambitious projects in competitive markets for luxury and mid-market property, Build to Rent, mixed-use, hotels & hospitality and branded residences.  

Previously holding senior leadership positions within diversified and highly branded property companies for over a decade, in 2013 Caitlin founded Projects of Place, a strategic consultancy that works with industry trailblazers to define and deliver ambitious vision, while unlocking unique market opportunities for differentiation, commercial growth, customer engagement and brand excellence.

With a master’s degree in finance, Nina likes to look at projects from a perspective of quantitative precision. Nina enjoys helping create value, with challenge being her main driver. 

Her qualitative and people-oriented side is something she found to be closely tied to the niche of branded residences in the real estate industry.

Nina is originally from Serbia and is currently based in Barcelona. With her passion for learning languages and getting to know different cultures, Nina considers understanding people’s needs her main objective, both professionally and personally.

A regular commentator and international speaker on residential real estate, Chris is author of the industry’s leading independent reports “Branded Residences: An Overview”, the most comprehensive studies of this burgeoning sector.

Chris has proven experience of building brands and creating impactful, cost-effective campaigns.  Former Group Marketing Director at Hamptons International real estate agency, for over two decades he has worked on international branding, marketing and lead generation campaigns for many of the world’s most prestigious residential and resort developments, picking up several prestigious industry awards including:

• Overseas Property Professional: Gold Award for Marketing.
• International Property Awards: 6 x Best Development Marketing awards (spanning 5 global regions); Best Property Website; Best Estate Agency Marketing.
• Chartered Institute of Marketing Excellence Awards: 2 x Finalist - Digital Media and Hotels & Leisure categories.

In 2001 he was elected a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

Barry is Principal at Landsberg Residential Consulting Inc.  He launched his consulting practice after holding residential leadership roles at Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts and Accor Hotels. He has worked on all aspects of the development of mixed-use and stand-alone residential for over 40 developments worldwide. 

He has nearly 20 years’ experience providing end-to-end development support to developers/owners, as well as consulting and advisory services throughout all phases of sales and marketing planning, launch and on-going sales process. 

As a consultant Barry has delivered wide-ranging services collaborating with leading developers of branded luxury and lifestyle residential projects in markets including Nashville, Miami, New York, Puerto Rico, Calgary, Crete, and Marrakesh and has supported luxury and lifestyle brands in the development of their residential offerings.

Roger Allen is the Group Chief Executive Officer of RLA Global, a recognized international advisory to investors, owners, developers and management companies.  Specialized in hospitality, leisure, recreation, wellbeing and tourism related to hotels, resorts, residential, mixed-use, healthcare, active living communities and destination tourism developments. 

RLA Global works closely with the public and private sector in the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa via its operational offices in Las Vegas, Budapest and Dubai to provide conceptual planning, financial analysis and asset management of complex properties such as resorts, retreats and destination assets.   

For more than 20 years, Roger has been working on multiple levels of project developments in the hospitality, tourism and leisure industries, developing a singular expertise in destination projects: from the complexity of planning through to implementation and operations.

Roger has been engaged with most of the leading hotel operating brands, is a former partner at Horwath HTL for Central & Eastern Europe, Russia & CIS Countries and was a contributing author to the book “Hotel & Resorts Valuation – An Investor‘s Guide”.  

Roger is also a Board Director of the International Society of Hospitality Consultants (ISHC) and author of the industry standard Wellness Real Estate Report that is the only independent resource that tracks the financial impact of wellbeing and wellness on real estate performance.  

Alexander Posth is a German luxury residential real estate developer with 20 years experience in the business. 

Since 2016 he has been developing mixed-use projects in Miami, Florida. In 2019 he launched Diesel Wynwood the first Diesel branded condominium in Miami’s Art District.

Currently he is developing a 59-storey ultra luxury residential tower - 710 Edge in Miami‘s Edgewater district together with the One Thousand Group, the developers behind the late Zaha Hadid designed ultra luxury residential Tower One Thousand Museum.

With Princess Lilly zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, he founded and manages BPA - Branded Property Advisory Pte Ltd, a boutique branded real estate licensing firm that works with a large portfolio of luxury brands in fashion, automotive, medical wellness, publishing, entertainment, celebrities and high-end gastronomy. The firm has offices in Miami, Dubai and Singapore.