Frank Hovorka

Frank Hovorka started his career in 1990 in construction field. A couple of years later, he joined the French construction group VINCI. He worked on different operational positions on construction sites. Based in Eastern Europe (mainly in the Czech Republic and Hungary) he worked with a team specialised in offices, retail and hotel buildings.

In 1997, he joined the French state owned group « Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations » to work as the technical director of the property management subsidiary based in Prague (Czech Republic). He also participated at that time in the creation of the facility management subsidiary company as a financial manager.

In 2000, he came back to France in order to work for EMGP as an operational manager. EMGP is a REIT company that owns more than 400 000 m² of commercial asset, and plots to develop of other 1 million m² in the north of Paris.

He participated in the development of several commercial buildings during these last years focusing on sustainable development (offices, data center, TV studios ) and a project of 40 000 m² of green shopping mall.

In 2005 he achieved the first office building certified as a « green building » by Certivea (French green building council).

In January 2007, he joined the international real estate department of Icade (real estate integrated developer) as head of development for commercial buildings, especially in Germany.

In Munich, he achieved an office building of 20 000 m² with the gold certification by DGNB (German green building council).

He is also involved in research projects for net zero energy buildings and financial indicators for the green value (UNEP FI).

From 2010 to 2017 he worked for the « Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations depots Group » in charge of the real estate sustainable development policy.

He is now head of strategy at Quartus.