Candidate’s name
Stanislav Frnka
Current position
Senior Partner
Company’s name
Griffin Real Estate
Work experience in this position
Stanislav Frnka has been responsible for overall business management, international business development (acquisitions) already for several years when working at HB Reavis Group. Leading Polish operations from 2010 till 2018.
Description of business activity (profile, market sectors served, etc.)
Griffin Real Estate is the largest and most active investment manager in private equity real estate in CEE. Griffin originates and manages private equity type
investments into real estate-related companies and assets.
Size of the company managed by the candidate (headcount, regions of activity)
In HB Reavis Poland managed 170 professionals.
The y-o-y increase in profits/income generated last year
Do not have data. But total value of the projects brought into HBR portfolio from 2010 till 2018 is close to 2bln EUR.
Career path (Previous employers, professional progress, when was the candidate promoted to the current position, etc.)
Benefit Finance (2003-2006), HB Reavis Group (2006-2019), Griffin Real Estate (since June 2019)
Biggest business achievements, especially those made last year
Sale of West Station BC (difficult JV with PKP) to a Mapletree (Singapore), building permit for Forest (2018), largest office developer in Warsaw from 2015 (just 5 years after buying the first project KBC)
Contributions made to the improvement of the CEE commercial property market
Bringing to the Warsaw market projects such as Varso Place, Forest (Burakowska), Gdanski BC, West Station BC, Konstruktorska BC, Postepu 14 (all in HBR). and investing (privately) into a startup ProperGate, a company developing SW for managing logistics on the construction sites.
Other industry awards and prizes
Developer of the year, company of the year (Eurobuild), Leadership of the year 2016 and HOF awards 2017 (CiJ), employer of the year in 2016 … all while in HBR
