Aref Lahham

Managing Director and a Founding Partner at Orion Capital Managers

Speaker

Aref Lahham is CEO and co-Founder of Orion Capital Managers. Orion, a pan-European real estate private equity firm, was established in 1999 and has been responsible for over €12 billion of property investments throughout Europe.

Mr. Lahham has also held seats on the board of several publicly quoted companies and currently sits on the board of Neinor Homes and chairs its investment committee.

Mr. Lahham has over 39 years of real estate investment and development experience in the United States and in Europe. He has a BSc in Civil Engineering from Purdue University, an M.Eng. in Civil Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from INSEAD. He is a member of the ULI and the GRI, is a member of the Engineering College Council at Cornell as well as a member of the International Committee of the IE School of Architecture and Design. He is also a trustee of the charity theatre group Chickenshed.