Jean-François Ott Jf.ott@ottventures.cz Chairman
“I am a serial entrepreneur I enjoy working in the creative sphere and in bringing market changing concepts to reality.“
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1991 started Orco; developed & built €4 billion real estate portfolio More than 200 residential and commercial projects in Berlin, Moscow, Warsaw, Budapest, Prague, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Frankfurt 2004 Orco Germany went public, listed on Frankfurt stock exchange with €6 billion EUR market capitalization Founder of MaMaison hotel chain, first hotel MaMaison Pokrovka is opened in Moscow in 2002 Over €2 billion equity & bond funding raised and €2 billion bank financing arranged, 4 IPOs, €500 mln in private equity for Orco’s endurance fund Specialization in construction, renovation, historic, high-rise buildings, residential, logistics and retail
1991 After graduating in Finance and Economics from the Grenoble Political Sciences Institute and the INSEAD Owners Directors Program, Jean-Francois served 18 months in South Korea before starting a career as a derivatives trader in Paris in 1987. Jean-Francois was 26 years old when he founded Orco Property Group SA (‘OPG’) in 1991, when he purchased and refurbished his first building in Prague. 13 buildings later, Orco was listed in Paris 2000 and within 5 years became one of the largest property company in Central and Eastern Europe and Germany with a portfolio of more than 200 assets in residential, commercial and hotels which reached 1 200 000 m2 spanning over 9 countries. Besides Prague, Paris and Luxembourg, he led the launching new OPG subsidiaries and acquisitions in Budapest, Warsaw, Berlin, Moscow, Bratislava, etc. The portfolio was indeed built though both developments and acquisitions of properties which needed active asset management.
1999 - 2007 Among the major stages of OPG growth was the launch of the first extended stay hotel in 1999, the listing in Paris in 2000, the acquisition of IPB Real in Czech Republic in 2001 turning Orco into a large scale residential developer, the acquisition and redevelopments of Suncani Hvar hotels in Croatia in 2005 and the major transaction done by Jean Francois Ott is the privatization and repositioning of 850
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