Hello, Team.
Team Alio captures a cross-section of highly honed skills and expertise
in real estate development, wellness, and positioning.
Unbridled Innovation Meets Analytical Pragmatism
Jean-François Garneau
JF is Chief Development Officer, founder of ALIO and INITIAL, an innovative strategic planning and development services company that bridges the worlds of creativity, research and business, based in Geneva, Switzerland and Montreal, Canada.
JF brings over 35 years of diversified experience in real estate development and planning, mainly for resort projects, hospitality as well as mixed-use urban developments. A native of Montreal, Canada, JF has lived and worked in Switzerland since 2004.
Akram
El harraqui
Akram El Harraqui is an accomplished international expert in master planning and landscape architecture. With over 16 years of experience, he has created a diverse portfolio of large-scale international projects.
He is a founding manager of Premier ART, a consultancy firm specialized in urban planning and landscape architecture. This position has enabled him to manage many diverse, responsible and creative design projects.
Jody
Turner
Jody is founder of CultureofFuture.com and a brand development expert who has worked with some of the biggest brands responsible for setting some of the most defining human trends of our time.
Jody has contributed to the good people at Apple, Nike, The Gap, TEDActive, BMW/Mini, Sony, Samsung, Microsoft and IDEO. She also spreads the good word via London’s Trendwatching.com. Jody’s expertise is narration, innovation, communication and design.
Elizabeth Adams
Elizabeth is a strategic storyteller “giving voice” to innovative projects and visions. She quite literally wrote the book on how real estate can be so irresistible to its target audience and was part of a pioneering company that were the first to explore the concept of strategic storytelling.
She has helped envision entire neighbourhoods, wrote the story for residential projects, and applied envisioning and storytelling methodology to countless clients in real estate, retail, music, and management.
Tracy
Oats
Tracy is a brand strategist who develops compelling marketing and communication collateral for prominent real estate projects in North America, The Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
High-profile properties she has worked on include New York by Gehry, 9 West 57, The Plaza Hotel & Pied a Terre, and One West End by Pelli Clarke Pelli in New York City as well as many more across the world. In addition to consumer-directed communications, Tracy develops investor presentations for real estate funds and other asset types.