Eyck Piorkowski (49) runs his own real estate company in Germany and Spain, and has been involved in property management for more than 10 years. He has a long track record of property transactions, and currently he has a portfolio of more than 60 international clients. Networking with local and international real estate services, and opening new markets in the Germany, Spain and Mexico, he is always seeking new opportunities.

Piorkowski considers himself fortunate to have worked for the largest cosmetic company of the world: L’Oreal in Paris. He worked with industry professionals as well as supermodels and stars, including Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell and Oliver Bierhoff. His major life realisation is that everything is possible through intelligent marketing.

Tor is Chairman of Capital Finance International (see www.CFI.co), which publishes the successful business and finance print journal CFI.co.

Tor has four decades of investment management experience starting with Nordea bank in the mid 1980’s and as a pioneer in currency risk management and derivatives hedge fund management starting in 1990 in London.

Tor is former Vice President at Merrill Lynch International Bank in London and worked with UBS Wealth; Credit Agricole Private Bank, Switzerland; and Seymour Pierce private bankers in London.

He was Group CEO for investment fund manager Gaiacorp Currency Managers and Titan Capital Management in London and New York; Chairman for Trinity Fund Administration in Ireland; Chairman for Gaiacorp Asia in Hong Kong and Bombay. Mr Svensson also worked for the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Tor has raised more than $2 billion in finance for companies and infrastructure projects around the world.

Mr. Svensson holds a Master’s Degree of Science in Economics from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark and holds an MBA from The Kenan Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US. He studied post-graduate at IESA business school in Caracas, Venezuela and economics at La Universidad de Los Andes in Bogota, Colombia. He has taught Consumer Behavior and International Business as a lecturer at Coker College, SC, US.

Tor interviews prominent people as well as is a prominent guest speaker all over the world on international business and finance.