“We are delighted to have Paul Douay, Jonathan Doughty and Roger Goyk join our ACROSS Advisory Board,” says Reinhard Winiwarter, founder and publisher of ACROSS. “The projects on which Paul Douay and URW are working show an impressive differentiation through extraordinary gastronomy and leisure concepts and, above all, sustainable positioning. These are probably the most important success factors in the industry at the moment. With their current project The Playce at Potsdamer Platz, the two industry experts Roger Goyk and Jonathan Doughty are visibly proving to the entire sector that they can create great and, above all, innovative concepts together with the two companies, Brookfield Properties and ECE Marketplaces. ”
All three industry experts are a great asset to the Advisory Board. Roger Goyk is a proven retail expert who looks far beyond the retail and leasing world. Jonathan Doughty, with 40+ years of experience, is one of the most knowledgeable, experienced, skilled, and talented people in the Food Service industry. Last but not least, Paul Douay has had an impressive career and is one of the most influential characters in the European placemaking industry.
“Paul Douay, Jonathan Doughty and Roger Goyk stand for what our industry needs: The courage to try something new, to join forces to get it off the ground in the best possible way. Welcome to the ACROSS Advisory Board. We are happy to learn from your experiences”, says Reinhard Winiwarter.
PAUL DOUAY
Paul Douay has been Managing Director, Asset Management, Central Europe at Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) since July 2024. In this role, he is responsible for the implementation of corporate strategy, with a focus on investments and leasing in Germany, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. His career at URW began in 2010 at the headquarters in Paris – with positions in the areas of investment, investor relations and operating management, among others. Most recently, he was Managing Director and Director of Operations Austria & Germany. He started his career in Mergers & Acquisitions at ING-Barings in London in 2008. Paul Douay holds a Master in Finance & Strategy from Sciences Po in Paris and an MRICS / RICS certificate.
JONATHAN DOUGHTY
Jonathan Doughty is a trained chef. He founded the consultancy Coverpoint Foodservice Consultants in 1993. At the end of 2014, he sold the company to JLL (Coverpoint and the team has since separated from JLL again). He moved to ECE in 2017 as Global Head of Food and Leisure. He was responsible for the concept of the Foodtopia gastronomy floor in Frankfurt’s MyZeil shopping center. Since 2022, Jonathan has increasingly focused on his consulting firm Viklari Consulting, which he founded in his home country of England. However, he continues to work mainly as a consultant for ECE. As part of this work, he contributes his gastronomic and leisure expertise to revitalizing The Playce in Berlin.
ROGER GOYK
Roger Goyk started his retail and leasing career at CBRE Germany, from where he moved to HGHI Holding GmbH after five years. He has been Director Retail at Brookfield Properties since the beginning of 2017. His core project was and is the design of The Playce. In 2016, Brookfield Properties took over the Potsdamer Platz property and invested over 200 million euros in renovating the 270,000 sq m estate. The renovations have transformed the area into a vibrant pedestrianized avenue with various bars, cafes, unique flagship stores, and high-profile retailers to curate a unique retail and entertainment district that provides one-off brands and experiences for Berliners and visitors.
About the ACROSS Advisory Board
The ACROSS Advisory Board was established in mid-2016. From day one, the Board’s stated goal has been to offer its expertise in topic formulation. Over the years, the board has not only grown, but it has also become more interdisciplinary, just like the retail real estate world itself. In addition to shopping center managers, the board includes architects, retail experts, financial experts, PropTech professionals, consultants, and outlet managers. The mix of expertise from the various areas that our industry has to offer makes the ACROSS board unique. That is not only due to the fact that the mixed-use asset class is on the rise, but also because we all know that collaboration and thinking outside of the box are essential to our business. The ACROSS Advisory Board is currently comprised of 30 members. That gives us the opportunity to closely monitor current trends and changes within the industry and to be able to classify them.
