Luis Civantos

Luis is a Senior Real Estate professional with more than 22 years in the Spanish market. Within the first part of his career, Luis has been involved in large Shopping Mall developments for the local partner of multinational companies in Spain, such as ING Real Estate Development and Duprocom (Bowfonds). He started his track record by leading the construction process and ended it up managing the whole investment process for each development.

Luis is in touch with the Finance and Investment side of the Real Estate Business, leading the technical area of the Asset Management of a 610.000 m2 portfolio for General Electric Capital Real Estate containing Offices, Retail and Logistics. Currently he is part of the business management within Goodman Real Estate team which is one of the top leading Logistics development companies worldwide, with a Spanish portfolio made up of 603.000 m2 mainly located in greater Madrid and Barcelona.

Luis is a flexible and inclusive person that enjoys to be involved from the early steps of each project until the delivery and closing phases. He takes advantage of his technical knowledge for analyzing and preparing the scope of each development deal to ensure a delivery that fulfills the client requirements for each case.

After holding a senior technical position with the Goodman’s development team, he has taken up a new business role creating long-term development projects within Goodman’s team, which ranges built to suit, built to rent and land bank amid others.

He holds a Masters in Civil Engineering by the Polytechnical University of Madrid, specializing in Foundations and Structures, additionally he has completed an advanced management program in business management by IESE business School. Since 2015 he is RICS Chartered Project Manager surveyor. He speaks English, French and understands Catalan. Additionally his native tongue is Spanish.

CORPORATE EXPERIENCE

• Business Development Manager at Goodman Real Estate, 2021 – Present

• Technical Development Manager for Spain at Goodman Real Estate, 2015 – 2021

• Technical Asset Manager for Spain at General Electric Capital Real Estate, 2011 – 2015

• Freelance Real Estate Management, 2010 – 2011

• Development Operations Manager, Retail Division at DuProCom (Bowfonds and SNS partner in Spain), 2004 – 2009

• Development Operations Supervisor, Retail Division at ING Real Estate Development, 2002 – 2004

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• Adjunct Professor of Introduction to Real Estate, IE Architecture & Design University, Spain, 2016 – Present

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

• Masters in Civil Engineering specializing in Structural Engineering, Technical University of Madrid (UPM), 2000

• Management Development Program, IESE Business School, University of Navarra, 2010

• Post-graduate course in Urban Planning Management, Alfonso X University, 2008

• Member of RICS, Chartered Project Manager Surveyor, 2015

• Degree in Economics by UNED, Final Degree Project handed over