Marco Riva is the CEO of Crossbay and is responsible for the overall strategy of the platform as well as for all investment and operational decisions, with oversight from MARK’s global investment committee.

Prior to forming Crossbay with Marcus Meijer in 2018, Marco worked for 5 years at Logicor, Blackstone’s European logistics platform, where he invested over €2 billion in logistics properties across Europe, and where he played an instrumental role in constructing and managing Logicor’s portfolio as well as the sale of the company to CIC in 2018.

During his tenure at Logicor, Marco saw an opportunity to access the growing last-mile logistics sector in Europe via an aggregation strategy targeting assets in urban infill locations in or around supply-constrained European consumption centres. In 2018 he formed Crossbay with Marcus and began executing the strategy across Italy and Spain before expanding into a number of other major European markets. They have since grown Crossbay into a fully-vertically integrated, pan-European platform with local logistics specialists located across Europe, supported by the centralised tax, accounting and other support functions of MARK in London.

Marco began his career at Goldman Sachs in Italy and graduated from the University of Bologna with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration. Marco speaks Italian, English and French.

Marcus Meijer is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of MARK and Chairman of Crossbay.

Marcus has extensive corporate finance, real estate investment and development experience. He has originated, executed, and exited single asset, portfolio, and non-performing loan transactions across the United States, the UK, and Continental Europe. Before founding MARK in 2004, Marcus served as CFO of MARK’s predecessor, MAB Group, where he was responsible for the strategic restructuring of the business, culminating in the sale of the business to a global financial institution.

Marcus began his career in 1995 at Hines in Chicago and London, before joining Goldman Sachs’ Principal Investment Team in 1997. Marcus graduated from Leyden University with a Master’s degree in law, and received his MBA in 2002 from INSEAD. He speaks six languages.

Ben Ryan is a Managing Director and is Head of Asset Management for Crossbay across Europe.

With 20 years’ experience in Real Estate Asset Management, Ben spent the last 10 years in private property companies including Delin Capital Asset Management and Praxis. Prior to that he was a Director of Asset Management at ING Real Estate in London.

Ben graduated with a BSc in Real Estate, has an MBA and has been a Member of the RICS for 19 years.