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Hans-Martin Aerts

Managing Director and Head of Infrastructure Investments, Asia Pacific | APG Asset Management Asia

Hans-Martin Aerts is a Managing Director and Head of Infrastructure Investments, Asia Pacific at APG Asset Management, one of the largest pension fund asset managers in the world with assets under management of approximately €500 billion (as at April 2019). In February 2007, Hans-Martin moved to Hong Kong to establish APG’s first office in Asia Pacific and has since been responsible for managing the infrastructure investments in Asia Pacific. Prior to working for APG, Hans-Martin was a Senior Portfolio Manager at ABP. He joined ABP in 2001 and has since worked in various areas, including infrastructure, structured finance and global equities. Hans-Martin is a CFA charter holder, and holds an MSc in Economics from the Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

Rahul Agarwal

Senior Assistant Vice President, Invest India

Rahul Agarwal has a decade of experience in Infrastructure Financing policy & Corporate Strategy. Rahul Agarwal is the Senior Assistant Vice President in Invest India, the Official Investment Promotion Agency of India. At Invest India, Rahul heads the teams for Infrastructure and a special Financial Investors Initiative which attracts SWFs, Pension Funds, and Private equity investments in India. Rahul has previously worked as a consultant for High Level Committee on Financing Infrastructure, Planning Commission, Government of India. He has wide experience of working with policy makers to enable financing of large infrastructure needs of India. Rahul was instrumental in developing infrastructure section of the 12th Five Year Plan of the country and updating Model Concessional Agreements for PPP. Rahul started his career with Bank of America Merrill Lynch as an Institutional Derivatives Analyst where he was responsible to develop global institutional trading strategies. Rahul has also worked for a leading university of India as their Head of Strategies and Program Management. Rahul holds a Masters in Business Administration (Finance) and Bachelors in Commerce (Hons.) from University of Delhi. Rahul is also a Certified Financial Risk Manager and a Chartered Financial Analyst. Rahul also has 1000 hours of corporate trainings in the areas of Economics, Financial Management and Derivatives under his belt.

Eng Seng Ang

Chief Investment Officer, Infrastructure | GIC

Mr Ang Eng Seng is GIC’s Chief Investment Officer for Infrastructure and Adviser to the Integrated Strategies Group (ISG). Before this, he was President of Europe and Head of ISG. Prior to joining GIC in 1994, Mr Ang was a Director of the Auditor-General's Office in Singapore. From 1996 to 1998, he was seconded from GIC to China International Capital Corporation in Beijing, first as the Deputy General Manager and subsequently as the General Manager of its Direct Investment Department. He was Head of the Greater China Team for GIC Special Investments from 1999 to mid 2003, before becoming the Head of Europe Private Equity Group till 2009. He was concurrently Global Head of GIC’s Direct Investment Group and Head of the Infrastructure Group from 2009 to 2012. Mr Ang holds an MA from Cambridge University. He is a qualified Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a charter holder of Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

Jingjing Bai

Senior Advisor, Bfinance

Jingjing Bai is a Senior Advisor to bfinance since 2019, based in Hong Kong, and is responsible for multiple private markets fund selection projects in excess of 4 billion USD. In the recent years, Jingjing led several global alternative investment program covering Private Equity, Private Debt and Real Assets mandated by large corporates and family offices. Previously, she was the Head of HSBC Private Capital Advisory in Asia Pacific, and a Managing Director of Eaton Partners, oversaw the firm’s activities in the region, with a focus on Private Markets since 2007. She was one of the pioneer Venture Capital investors in China since the early 2000s, backed by MediBIC, a listed Japanese Biotech company. She started her career with Dell Computer Japan, as the Product Marketing Manager responsible for Dell’s mainstream product program. She holds MA from International University of Japan and BA from Nanjing University. She is fluent in Chinese, Japanese and English, and awarded full scholarship by the Konosuke Matsushita Memorial Foundation（松下幸之助記念志財団）since 1999.

晶晶白（ジンジン・バイ）氏は、2019年よりビーファイナンスのシニアアドバイザーとして香港を拠点に活動し、40億米ドル（約5520億円）を超える複数のプライベートマーケットファンド選定プロジェクトを担当。近年は、大企業やファミリーオフィスから委託されたプライベートエクイティ、プライベートデット、リアルアセットを対象とする複数のグローバルなオルタナティブ投資プログラムを主導した。以前は、HSBCプライベート・キャピタル・アドバイザリーのアジア太平洋地区責任者、また、イートン・パートナーズのマネージングディレクターとして、2007年からプライベートマーケットを中心とした同地区での活動を統括。2000年代初頭から、日本の上場バイオテクノロジー企業であるメディビックの支援を受け、中国におけるベンチャーキャピタルの先駆者の一人として活躍。デル・テクノロジーズ株式会社で、デルのメインストリーム製品プログラムを担当するプロダクトマーケティングマネージャーとしてキャリアをスタートさせた。国際大学で修士号、南京大学で学士号を取得。中国語、日本語、英語に堪能で、1999年に松下幸之助記念財団から全額奨学金を授与された。

Projesh Banerjea

Portfolio Manager, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA)

Projesh is a Portfolio Manager at ADIA where he works across the energy, transport, and utilities sectors globally and leads the Infrastructure Division’s India coverage efforts. Prior to joining ADIA, he worked at Macquarie Capital in London and JPMorgan in New York. He holds an MBA from the University of Oxford, MSc in Economic History from the London School of Economics and a BA in Mathematics and Economics from DePauw University.

Tani Burge

Director and Head of Investor Relations, Alinda Capital Partners

Tani Burge is a Director at Alinda Capital Partners based in the London office. She is Head of Investor Relations and her primary responsibility is developing LP relationships, managing co-investor partnerships, syndication strategies for transactions and fundraising across all Alinda products. She has wide-ranging corporate governance experience and sits on the board of one of Alinda’s European portfolio companies. Prior to joining Alinda, she worked as an M&A lawyer at leading global law firm Linklaters, in both London and Hong Kong. Tani is a qualified lawyer in both Australia and Hong Kong, spent many years living and working in Asia and speaks Mandarin Chinese and Japanese. Alinda is one of the world’s largest and most experienced infrastructure investment firms. Founded in 2006, it was one of the earliest infrastructure fund managers, successfully executing core-plus strategies for over 12 years. Alinda has invested in infrastructure businesses across 33 states in the United States, as well as Canada, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium and Poland. Alinda’s investment partners include some of the largest institutional investors in the world. Alinda’s specific sectors of focus are transportation, utility-related, digital and energy mid-stream infrastructure. Alinda has offices in Greenwich CT, USA and London, UK.

Dennis Chan

Head of Infrastructure, Managing Director, China Ping An Insurance Overseas (Holdings)

Dennis Chan, managing director, head of global infrastructure investment in China Ping An Insurance Overseas (Holdings) Limited. Mr. Chan has more than 20 years of experience in infrastructure & real asset investment, corporate finance and corporate strategy, he is involved in transactions in more than 15 different countries. Before joining Ping An, Mr. Chan used to work for Hutchison Port, Babcock & Brown and Link Real Estate Investment Trust.

Abu Bakar Chowdhury

Managing Director, ASMA Capital

Mr. Chowdhury is the Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer at ASMA Capital Partners B.S.C. (c). He is a member of the Management Committee and, alongside his role within the investment decision making process, is responsible for the finance function at ASMA Capital. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of a number of investee companies of the Fund. Previously, Mr. Chowdhury was a Managing Partner at EMP Bahrain and was responsible for managing IDBIFI, which returned in excess of US$1.2billion to the investors. Prior to EMP Bahrain, Mr. Chowdhury was with Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank where he was responsible for managing and structuring Infrastructure and Asset‐Backed Investments.

Wilson Chung

Principal, Digital Colony

Wilson Chung is a Principal at Digital Colony. Mr. Chung is based in Singapore and focuses on identifying and evaluating Asia Pacific investment opportunities. Prior to joining Digital Colony, Mr. Chung was most recently a Senior Vice President in the infrastructure principal investments team at Macquarie Capital. He led Macquarie’s balance sheet investments in digital infrastructure in Asia, with a focus on building platforms and developing greenfield datacenters and other digital infrastructure assets. Before joining Macquarie Capital, Mr. Chung was the co-founder/CFO of a Hong Kong telecommunications infrastructure developer and prior to that, he covered consumer, industrial and telecom investments for an Asian regional private equity fund.

Gwen Colin

Independent Advisor in Sustainable Finance, G Capital Asia

Gwen is an independent advisor for PE/Infra funds looking to develop their sustainable projects in Asia. She was until recently supporting the development of a consulting company expert in energy transition and sustainable finance, in Europe/APAC with leading financial players. She has been managing projects for global banks and PE/Infra funds on topics like impact management, climate change and sustainable finance more broadly. Gwen has done most of her career in some major financial corporations. She started as a legal advisor, then project manager, at Credit Agricole Asset Management (now Amundi) in Paris and Luxembourg, where she conceptualized and managed customized solutions to drive new opportunities and lead businesses to a new international scale. Amundi gave her the opportunity to lead the product innovation and sales distribution of a new Socially Responsible Investments offer targeting the Middle Eastern and South East Asian sovereign entities, institutional clients, private banks and family offices. Gwen graduated with a Master in Business Law and a Master in Business Administration from the University of Bretagne Occidentale in France. She has a certification in Islamic Finance from the Security Investment Institute of London.

Nicole Connolly

Chief Executive Officer and Founder, IPIF Management

Nicole has worked in the superannuation and funds management industry for more than 20 years. Prior to establishing IPIF, Nicole was Director of Alternative Assets at Russell Investments and Head of Alternative Investments at Telstra Super, one of Australia’s largest corporate superannuation funds. Nicole has extensive experience in the design, implementation and management of the infrastructure asset class for institutional investors in Australia.

Bruce Crane

Managing Director, Infrastructure & Natural Resources, OTPP

Bruce Crane leads Ontario Teachers’ infrastructure investing activities across Asia-Pacific and currently serves on the boards of Sydney Desalination Plant and India’s National Investment and Infrastructure Fund. Bruce joined Ontario Teachers’ in 2020 as one of the initial members of its new Singapore office, its 2nd in Asia after the Hong Kong office.

Prior to joining Ontario Teachers’, Bruce spent nearly 10 years at OMERS Infrastructure where he most recently led their investing efforts in Asia. Previously, he was based in New York where he focused on North & South America transport and energy related investments. While at OMERS, he served on Boards at Midland Cogeneration Ventures, Chicago Skyway, GNLQ Regas (Chile) and IndInfravit Tollroads (India). Prior to that, Bruce worked in Investment Banking at UBS (NYC) and Morgan Stanley (Houston) and earlier as a Field Engineer for Foster Wheeler (global).

Bruce holds a BS in Civil Engineering from Lehigh University and an MBA from the Columbia Business School.

Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan

The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan is Canada's largest single-profession pension plan. It pays defined benefit pensions and invest plan assets on behalf of its members — about 329,000 retired and working teachers.

Ontario Teachers’ has $204.7 billion in net assets* and holds a diverse global portfolio, approximately 80% of which is managed in-house. Since its inception in 1990, it has earned an annual total-fund net return of 9.5%.

Ontario Teachers' is an independent organization headquartered in Toronto. Its Asia-Pacific regional offices are in Hong Kong and Singapore, and its Europe, Middle East & Africa region office is in London.

(*all figures at June 30, 2020 unless noted)

Sandiren Curthan

Senior Director, Infrastructure Investments, PSP Investments

Sandiren Curthan is a Senior Director, Infrastructure Investments, at the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments), one of Canada’s largest pension investment managers. He is involved in the origination, execution and asset management of equity investments in all infrastructure asset classes globally.

Prior to joining PSP Investments in 2011, Sandiren worked in Investment Banking and Infrastructure Advisory at BNP Paribas, PwC and BMO Capital Markets in Europe and Canada.

Sandiren holds a Bachelor of Business from HEC Montréal. He sits on the board of AviAlliance, a global airport investor and manager, and Vena Energy, a leading renewable energy developer in Asia-Pacific.

Nicole Douglas

Head of Investor Research, PEI

Nicole Douglas is the Head of Investor Research for PEI’s Research & Analytics department. Based in London but working across the company’s offices and products, she oversees researched content, studies, and projects on investors globally. She is also responsible for the annual Perspectives study, which offers a granular view of investor sentiment across the private markets landscape for the year ahead. Her team also manages a series of investor rankings across all major asset classes.

John Faye

Senior Director, Infrastructure, CDPQ Singapore

John Faye is Senior Director, Infrastructure, Asia Pacific, based in CDPQ’s Singapore office. In his role, he is responsible for the sourcing and execution of infrastructure investments in Asia. Mr. Faye has 20 years of experience in global infrastructure, notably as an investor focused on energy infrastructure with various private equity firms. He started his career as a power and utilities investment banker. He is a graduate of the University of South Wales and holds an MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University in the Netherlands. He is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) and of the EDHECinfra Advisory Board, which develops unlisted infrastructure indices and benchmarks.

Eduard Fernández

Reporter, Infrastructure Investor

Eduard Fernández is a reporter with Infrastructure Investor based in Hong Kong. Previously, he worked as the correspondent in China for several Spanish media outlets, and as news editor for China´s public television network, CCTV. Some of his articles have been published in The Guardian, the South China Morning Post, The Straits Times or El País. Eduard holds a Master´s Degree in Journalism from the University of Hong Kong, and a double Bachelor´s Degree in Journalism and East Asian Studies from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Marc Ganzi

President and Chief Executive Officer, Colony Capital

Marc C. Ganzi is President and Chief Executive Officer of Colony Capital, Inc. (NYSE: CLNY). Prior to becoming President and Chief Executive Officer of Colony Capital & Chief Executive Officer of Digital Colony, Mr. Ganzi founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of Digital Bridge, a leading global investor and owner of mobile and internet infrastructure that was acquired by Colony Capital in July 2019 as part of Colony’s transformation to become the premier platform for digital infrastructure and real estate investment. At the time of the acquisition, Digital Bridge managed nearly $15.0 billion of global digital infrastructure assets, directly and through Digital Colony Partners. In conjunction with the acquisition, Mr. Ganzi became CEO-Elect of Colony Capital. Prior to Digital Bridge, Mr. Ganzi founded Global Tower Partners (“GTP”) in 2003, which grew to become one of the largest privately-owned tower companies in the U.S. under his leadership before being acquired by American Tower Corporation in 2013 for $4.8 billion. At GTP, Mr. Ganzi executed a series of strategic acquisitions, build-to-suit agreements with wireless carriers and financings in the credit markets. Prior to the formation of GTP, Mr. Ganzi worked as a consulting partner for DB Capital Partners from 2000 to 2002 where he oversaw the institution’s investments in the Latin American tower sector. Before joining DB Capital, Mr. Ganzi co-founded and served as President of Apex Site Management, one of the largest third-party managers of wireless and wireline communication sites in the United States. In 2000, Apex merged with SpectraSite Communications to create one of the largest telecommunications site portfolios in the United States at the time.

コロニー・キャピタル（NYSE：CLNY）の社長兼最高経営責任者。同職およびデジタル・コロニーの最高経営責任者に就任する以前は、大手グローバル投資企業で携帯・インターネットのインフラを持つデジタル・ブリッジを創設し、最高経営責任者として運営にあたる。デジタル・ブリッジは、コロニー・キャピタルがデジタル・インフラおよび不動産投資の一流企業へ転換を遂げるための一環として、2019年7月に同社が買収。買収時のデジタル・ブリッジの、直接およびデジタル・コロニー・パートナーズを通じた世界のデジタルインフラ資産運用額は約150億ドルに上った。買収と同時にコロニー・キャピタルの次期最高経営責任者となる。デジタル・ブリッジの前は、2003年にグローバル・タワー・パートナーズ（「GTP」）を設立し、同氏のもとで米国最大級の非公開タワー会社に成長。その後、2013年にアメリカン・タワー・コーポレーションに48億ドルで買収された。GTPでは、一連の戦略的買収、無線通信事業者とのBTS型契約、クレジット市場での融資を実施。GTP設立以前は、2000年から2002年までDBキャピタル・パートナーズのコンサルティング・パートナーとして、ラテンアメリカのタワー部門への投資を統括。それ以前は、無線・有線通信サイトの第三者経営者として米国最大手のひとつであるエイペックス・サイト・マネジメントを共同設立し、社長として運営にあたる。エイペックスは2000年にスペクトラサイト・コミュニケーションズと合併し、当時の米国で最大級の電気通信サイト・ポートフォリオを生み出した。

Sharat Goyal

Managing Director and Head, India, AMP Capital

Mr Goyal has been with AMP Capital since 2011. He has over 20 years’ experience in investing, investment banking and debt/ mezzanine financing in the infrastructure sector. He has worked with public financial institutions, advisory firms and private equity firms in India. His prior employments include Macquarie Capital and Ashmore. In his current role, he has led asset management, investments and funds administration in India & China besides supporting the global energy team.

Chris Heathcote

Consultant, Ostium Consulting

Chris Heathcote is an independent consultant working for a number of clients in the infrastructure and real estate development sectors. Most recently he was the inaugural CEO of the Global Infrastructure Hub, a G20 organisation, which he lead between 2015 and the end of 2018. Chris brings a wealth of knowledge in infrastructure, developed through extensive experience in both the public and private sector. Previously, Chris was a Director of Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets in the United Kingdom. His additional, recent, private sector experience includes positions held with WestLB AG and Lloyds Banking Group. During his time with these companies, Chris was involved in infrastructure projects in the United States, Europe, Turkey, China, the Ivory Coast and Australia. Chris also served as head of project finance at Partnerships UK (a joint UK Treasury and privately-owned company, which promoted the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and Public Private Partnerships (PPP)), with a focus on major infrastructure projects including the Wembley National Stadium and London Underground. He has also advised the Brazilian Government on preparing and executing a PPP program, and co-authored of the UK Government White Paper “Meeting the Investment Challenge” while working in the UK Treasury. Chris also structured major road projects in Israel and South Africa. Chris was also a founding partner of Hyder Infrastructure Investors in the mid-1990s, one of the early infrastructure equity funds. The fund was involved in financing of projects including Melbourne City Link, the Asian Infrastructure Fund and many United Kingdom public infrastructure projects funded with private capital.

Steven Hong

Director, Castalia Advisors

Steven Hong is a Director at Castalia Advisors (Castalia), and has amassed 13 years of experience in infrastructure developed from Government, PwC, and most recently the Global Infrastructure Hub. During this time, he has worked on projects across an infrastructure asset’s lifecycle from policy and regulations, preparation and development, procurement and execution, and asset management, across the Asia Pacific market. Castalia is an independent international economic and financial infrastructure advisory firm. Founded in 1980, Castalia has pioneered infrastructure PPPs globally, and have advised on $US70 bn of privately finance infrastructure projects across transport, energy and water sectors in more than 100 countries. Castalia’s clients not only include institutional investors, but also developers, governments, utilities, regulators, and multilateral institutions.

John Jackman

Managing Director, Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners

John is a Managing Director at Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners. Prior to joining Stonepeak, John was a Senior Managing Director at Macquarie Capital where he led the Asian infrastructure and renewable principal investment business. John has over 17 years of experience in power and renewables within Macquarie having worked in Australia, Europe, and Asia across ~8GW of projects. John holds a Bachelor of Engineering / Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Queensland.

Lieven Jacquemyn

International PPP Expert

Lieven Jacquemyn is an internationally experienced project finance professional with a solid track record of originating and transacting a total project value of more than US$3bn as financial advisor and investor. As former council member of the International Project Finance Association (IPFA) Asia, Lieven is a recognized healthcare and transportation industry expert. He is the author of various infrastructure related publications and a regular speaker at industry conferences.

Dhanpal Jhaveri

Managing Partner, Everstone Capital

Dhanpal Jhaveri is Managing Partner at Everstone Capital, a premier investment group focused on India and South East Asia, with assets in excess of US$5 billion across private equity, real estate, green infrastructure and venture capital. An astute dealmaker with a collaborative and hands-on approach, Dhanpal’s leadership of Everstone’s fast-growing private equity business is based on over 25 years’ experience in investing, corporate strategy, M&A and investment banking. He is also the CEO for EverSource Capital, which is as a joint venture between Lightsource BP and Everstone Capital to make green and sustainable investments in India. Founded in 2018 and based in Mumbai, EverSource’s launch fund is the Green Growth Equity Fund (GGEF), established in partnership with India’s National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) and the UK government. Prior to joining Everstone, Dhanpal worked as Director (Corporate Strategy) with Vedanta Resources Plc. His previous assignments include, being the Head of Investment Banking at ICICI Securities, and Partner for Corporate Finance at KPMG. Outside the boardroom, Dhanpal spends time, sharing his deep experience to guide young and upcoming business leaders, as well as entrepreneurs, especially in his current role as Board member and past President of TiE, Mumbai. He is a member of the Managing Committee of Indian Merchants’ Chamber and on the Board of Avasara Leadership Institute, an educational institution focused on accelerating academic and leadership outcomes for India’s brightest girls from less empowered social and economic backgrounds. Dhanpal holds a degree in Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Mumbai and graduated with an MBA from Babson College, USA, in 1992.

Daniel Kemp

APAC Editor, Infrastructure Investor

Daniel Kemp is APAC Editor for PEI Group’s Infrastructure Investor and Agri Investor, overseeing coverage of the Asia-Pacific region for both titles. He joined PEI in February 2018 and is based in Sydney. Daniel is an experienced B2B journalist, working for five years prior to joining PEI as Innovation & Features Editor for Construction News in the UK and was named Feature Writer of the Year at the International Building Press Awards in 2017.

Daniel Kemp는 PEI 그룹의 인프라 투자자(Infrastructure Investor) 및 농업 투자자(Agri Investor)의 APAC 편집자로, 두 직책의 아시아 태평양 지역 보도를 관리하고 있습니다. 그는 2018년 2월에 PEI에 입사하였으며 시드니에 거주하고 있습니다. 대니얼은 경험이 풍부한 B2B 저널리스트로, PEI에 입사하기 전 5년 동안 영국 건설 뉴스의 혁신 및 특집 편집자로 일했으며 2017년 국제 건축 언론 어워드에서 올해의 특집 작가로 선정되었습니다.

ダニエル・ケンプ氏は、PEIグループの「Infrastructure Investor」と「Agri Investor」のAPACエディター。両タイトルのアジア太平洋地域の報道を統括。2018年2月にPEIに入社し、シドニーを拠点とする。経験豊富なB2Bジャーナリストで、PEI入社前の5年間は英国の「Construction News」でイノベーションと特集の編集者として勤務し、2017年にはInternational Building Press Awards（国際建築プレス賞）でFeature Writer of the Year（年間最優秀特集記事ライター）に選出された。

Jim Yong Kim

Vice Chairman and Partner, Global Infrastructure Partners

Jim Yong Kim M.D., Ph.D., is Vice Chairman and Partner at Global Infrastructure Partners. From July 2012 to February 2019, Kim served as the 12th President of the World Bank Group. Soon after he assumed that position, the organization established two goals to guide its work: to end extreme poverty by 2030; and to boost shared prosperity, focusing on the bottom 40 percent of the population in developing countries. A physician and anthropologist, Kim’s career has revolved around health, education, and improving the lives of the poor. Before joining the WBG, he served as the President of Dartmouth College and held professorships at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. From 2003 to 2005, Kim served as Director of the World Health Organization’s HIV/AIDS department. He led WHO’s “3 by 5” initiative, the first-ever global goal for AIDS treatment, which greatly expanded access to antiretroviral medication in developing countries. In 1987, Kim co-founded Partners In Health, a non-profit medical organization. Kim received a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, was recognized as one of America’s “25 Best Leaders” by U.S. News & World Report, and was named one of TIME magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World.”

Pushkar Kulkarni

Managing Director Infrastructure and Sustainable Energies, CPP Investments

Pushkar Kulkarni is an electronics engineer with an MBA with over 25 years of experience in the infrastructure sector. His leadership experience has been across the value chain of infrastructure; technology, operations, M&A and finally as an investor. Prior to joining CPP Investments where he currently leads infrastructure investments for India, he held leadership positions at SERCO and within the Strabag group in India. He has represented India at the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) on several technical committees responsible for communication standards in road & transport infrastructure.

CPP Investments

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments™) is a professional investment management organization that manages the Fund in the best interest of the more than 21 million contributors and beneficiaries of the Canada Pension Plan. In order to build diversified portfolios of assets, investments are made around the world in public equities, private equities, real estate, infrastructure and fixed income. Headquartered in Toronto, with offices in Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Mumbai, New York City, San Francisco, São Paulo and Sydney, CPP Investments is governed and managed independently of the Canada Pension Plan and at arm’s length from governments. At September 30,2023, the Fund totaled C$576 billion.

Jake Lee

Head of Infrastructure, Hyundai Insurance

Jake (Jong Kwan) Lee is Head of Infrastructure, leading domestic and overseas infrastructure investments at Hyundai Insurance based in Seoul, South Korea. Prior to his current position, he helped build overseas Private Equity and Debt investment platform at Hyundai Insurance. Jake has work experiences in Alternative Investments (Infrastructure and Private Equity), M&A advisory, Valuation, Financial Modeling, Financial Analysis, and Auditing at Hyundai Insurance, J.P. Morgan, KPMG, and Deloitte. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Yonsei University in South Korea and an MBA from Emory University in the USA.

이종관 현대해상 인프라 매니저는 국내외 인프라투자를 담당하고 있다. 이 전에는 당사 사모펀드 및 채권투자 플랫폼 구성을 맡았다. 현대해상, J.P. 모건, KPMG, 딜로이트 등에서 대체투자 (인프라 및 사모펀드), M&A 자문, 밸류에이션, 금융모델링, 금융분석, 감사 등의 업무를 수행해왔다. 연세대학교 행정학과를 졸업하였으며, 에모리대학에서 MBA를 취득하였다.

Joanne Lee

Responsible Investment Specialist Asia, First Sentier Investors

Joanne Lee is a sustainable finance expert with over 14 years of experience in environmental finance. As a Responsible Investment (RI) Specialist at First Sentier Investors (FSI), Joanne works on the strategic development and implementation of the firm’s RI initiatives and is leading FSI’s work on nature and biodiversity. Based in Hong Kong, she develops thematic content related to sustainability and provides advice and analytical support on this topic for all teams.

Prior to joining FSI, Joanne was a Sustainable Finance Specialist at WWF, driving the research and advocacy on net-zero portfolio alignment, natural capital and green financial solutions. She also worked on renewable energy financing at the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) in Abu Dhabi and climate consultancies in the US. Joanne is a CFA Charterholder with a Master’s degree in Environmental Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.

Georg Obert

Managing Director, wpd-invest

Georg Obert is active in the renewable industry since 2004. He successfully closed numerous wind (onshore and offshore) and solar transactions over the course of his professional life. His transactions have a strong focus on Europe, but he was also active outside of Europe, where he financed wind farms and negotiated PPAs. His track record encompasses a transaction volume of well over EUR 1 bn. He also advised several parties on selling their projects during his time at Esko, but soon decided together with the management team to join the ranks of wpd to create the first institutional fund with a strong industry background. He is currently responsible for the transaction side of wpd invest’s business, which currently focuses on two Luxembourg vehicles (Green Return Funds) and two managed accounts.

Boe Pahari

Managing Partner, Global Head of Infrastructure Equity, AMP Capital

Boe Pahari, Global Head of Infrastructure Equity, Managing Partner, joined AMP Capital in March 2010 and is responsible for leading AMP Capital’s global infrastructure equity activities. Mr Pahari has over 20 years of experience in the industry having started his career at Citigroup in Sydney and subsequently worked for more than 13 years with ABN AMRO based in Singapore, Amsterdam, New York and London. During this period, Mr Pahari worked in regional and global positions, including as Regional CFO for Asia Pacific, Global Head of Strategy and M&A, Global Head of Proprietary Structuring Group, Head of Emerging Growth Markets, Head of Infrastructure Capital, Americas, Global Head of Integrated Finance/Infrastructure Capital, Global Head of Special Situations and Distressed Capital and Global Head of Structured Capital. Subsequently, in Royal Bank of Scotland Mr Pahari was appointed Global co-Head Principal Strategies.. Mr Pahari holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws degrees from the University of NSW and Master of Laws from the University of Sydney, Australia.

Melannie Pyzik

Managing Director, Head of Investor Solutions, Argo Infrastructure Partners

Melannie is a member of the Argo Investment Committee and leads the Investor Solutions group at the firm. Argo currently manages over $6 billion of equity on behalf of institutional investors globally. Melannie is an experienced investment professional, with deep expertise in infrastructure markets globally, specializing in unlisted infrastructure investments for over 20 years. Her experience spans across sectors that include renewables, telecom/ digital infrastructure, energy, utilities and transport. Melannie has an investor centric mindset, with expert knowledge and understanding of the infrastructure market globally. Melannie is on the Board of TierPoint, a portfolio company from Argo’s Series 3 fund.

Prior to joining Argo Melannie had roles at Macquarie, QIC and Credit Suisse. At QIC, she was a Director and led the capital formation efforts for the infrastructure team globally, including leading the co-investment program, along with the ongoing client management for QIC Global Infrastructure clients. Melannie started her career in infrastructure as an investment banker, and has over a decade of experience across, advisory, principal investment, co-investment and private placements at Macquarie and Credit Suisse. Her experience includes working in Australia, Asia, UK, Europe, and North America. Transactions she was involved in, included sectors such as toll roads, airports, telecommunication, healthcare, and utilities. Outside of her funds management career Melannie was the CEO of the Skin Cancer Network (SCN) and passionate supporter of the not-for-profit sector. Melannie holds Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Economics degrees, both from the University of Queensland.

Melannie Pyzik는 Argo의 투자위원회 위원이며, 사내 투자 솔루션 그룹을 이끌고 있습니다. Argo는 현재 글로벌 기관투자자를 대표해 60억 규모의 자산을 운용하고 있습니다. Melannie는 경험이 풍부한 투자 전문가입니다. 인프라 시장에 대한 심도 있는 지식을 바탕으로 20년 이상 비상장 인프라 전문 투자를 제공하고 있습니다. 재생 에너지, 통신/디지털 인프라, 에너지, 공익사업, 운송 부문에 걸쳐 경험을 쌓아온 그는 투자자 중심의 사고방식과 전문적 지식, 글로벌 인프라 시장에 대한 이해를 갖추고 있습니다. Argo Series 3 펀드의 포트폴리오 기업인 TierPoint의 이사회 구성원이기도 합니다.

Argo 합류 전에는 Macquarie, QIC, Credit Suisse에 근무했습니다. QIC에서는 이사로서 공동투자 프로그램, QIC 글로벌 인프라 고객의 지속적 관리를 포함한 글로벌 인프라 팀의 자본형성 활동을 지휘했습니다. 투자은행원으로 경력을 시작한 Melannie는 Macquarie와 Credit Suisse에서 자문, PI, 공동투자, 사모투자 업무를 10년 이상 담당했으며, 호주, 아시아, 영국, 유럽, 북미 지역 근무 경험이 있습니다. 유료도로, 공항, 통신, 의료, 공익사업 등 다양한 부문의 거래에 관여했습니다. 펀드 매니지먼트 외 경력으로 Skin Cancer Network(SCN) 최고경영자를 역임했으며, 비영리 부문의 열정적 지지자입니다. 퀸즐랜드대학교에서 회계학과 경제학 학사 학위를 취득했습니다.

メラニー・ピージック氏はアルゴ投資委員会のメンバーであり、同社の投資家ソリューション・グループを率いている。アルゴは現在、世界中の機関投資家に代わり60億ドル以上の株式を運用している。ピージック氏は20年以上にわたり非上場インフラ投資を専門とし、世界のインフラ市場に深い専門知識を持つ経験豊富な投資のプロとして知られ、その経験は、再生可能エネルギー、通信／デジタルインフラ、エネルギー、公益事業、運輸など、幅広いセクターに及ぶ。また、投資家中心で考えるとともに、世界のインフラ市場に関する専門的な知識と理解を持っている。アルゴのシリーズ3ファンドの投資先であるティアポイントの取締役も務める。

アルゴ入社の前は、マッコーリー、QIC、クレディ・スイスでキャリアを積んでいる。QICではディレクターとして、QICグローバル・インフラストラクチャーの継続的な顧客管理とともに、共同投資プログラムの主導など、世界中のインフラストラクチャー・チームの資本形成を主導。マッコーリーとクレディ・スイスでは、アドバイザリー、プリンシパル・インベストメント、共同投資、私募投資などで10年以上の経験を持つ。オーストラリア、アジア、英国、欧州、北米でも勤務し、有料道路、空港、電気通信、ヘルスケア、公益事業などのセクターに携わった。ファンド・マネジメントのキャリア以外では、非営利セクターSCN（皮膚がんネットワーク）のCEOを務め支援した。クイーンズランド大学で商学士号と経済学士号を取得している。

Chandra Reddy

Advisor to Corporate Chairman, GMR Group

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Vicki Rigg

Managing Director, Palisade Investment Partners

Vicki has over 25 years’ experience in the infrastructure and energy sectors. She joined Palisade as one of the founders in 2008 and holds a senior leadership role in the business. Vicki focuses on investors and capital across the group and has oversight of Palisade’s funds and mandates and operations. She has a particular interest in risk and governance and is a director on the boards of Palisade Investment Partners, Palisade Impact, Palisade Real Assets and Palisade Americas and a number of Palisade’s investee companies.
Prior to joining Palisade, Vicki spent time with Perpetual Investments and prior to that, 10 years with Mallesons Stephen Jaques (now King & Wood Mallesons) and Linklaters in Sydney, London and Hong Kong.
Vicki’s experience spans a broad range of sectors including PPPs, roads, airports, pipelines, renewable energy, power and gas. Her roles have included acquiring and managing assets, sitting on infrastructure boards and acting for sponsors and financiers in relation to the development, acquisition and financing of projects in Australia, Asia, India and the UK.
Vicki is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and is admitted as a Solicitor in both NSW and England & Wales. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Law) and Master of Arts (Law) from St Catharine’s College, Cambridge University.

Lachmi-Niwas (LN) Sadani

Founder and Managing Partner, Lensbridge Capital

LN is Founder and Managing Partner of Lensbridge Capital, a boutique investment and advisory firm which focuses on opportunities in Asia Pacific across a range of sectors including consumer, technology, etc. In this capacity, he also assists Cisco Systems’ (Nasdaq: CSCO) Global Infrastructure Funds team to source/evaluate digital infrastructure investment opportunities across Asia Pacific. LN has held several leadership roles in the private equity/venture capital investments sector over the last two decades and overseen capital raise and deployment in alternative assets of over US$ 2.0b across Europe and Asia Pacific. His leadership roles have included co-founder/Head of Asian office of Ardian Investments (formerly known as AXA Private Equity) and Chief Investment Officer for Asian private equity/infrastructure at the Nomura Group. He started his private equity career at the European team of Apax Partners in London and has also done a stint with the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (“GIC”). Prior to that, LN worked for several years in management consulting with Arthur D Little in N. America and Asia Pacific. He also founded and led a technology incubator in Singapore called Innovation Associates. LN holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MS in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a B Tech in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He is a citizen of Singapore and a recipient of the coveted National Talent Scholar award from the Government of India.

Ben Simpfendorfer

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Silk Road Associates

Ben Simpfendorfer is Founder and CEO of Silk Road Associates, a data-driven strategic advisory based in Hong Kong established in 2010. Ben advises Fortune 500 multinationals and leading Chinese firms on their commercial strategies in Greater China, South East Asia, the Middle East & Africa, providing global boards and regional strategy teams with data-driven solutions into fast-moving markets. He briefs CEOs and executive boards worldwide. Ben has worked in Asia and the Middle East for the past 20 years. He was previously chief China economist at RBS and senior China economist at JPMorgan in Hong Kong. He started his career in Beirut in the 1990s, later working as a Middle East & North Africa senior analyst for Dun & Bradstreet in London. Ben is a leading expert on China’s Belt and Road initiative, a Mandarin and Arabic speaker, author of The New Silk Road (Palgrave: 2009) and The Rise of the New East (2014), and a member of the Foreign Experts Committee advising the Chinese government on the implementation of Belt and Road initiative. He is a regular commentator on Bloomberg, CNBC, FT, WSJ & Forbes.

Damian Stanley

Partner, Head of Asia Infrastructure Equity and Head of Global Airports Group, AMP Capital

Damian Stanley is a Partner, Head of AMP Capital’s Infrastructure Equity business in Asia and also Head of AMP Capital’s Global Airports Group. Mr. Stanley joined AMP Capital in 2015 and has led key investments including in ESVAGT, Leeds Bradford Airport and London Luton Airport, as well as the divestment of CLH. Mr Stanley has over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry having started his career at PwC in London as a Chartered Accountant and then as a Corporate Financier with Commerzbank Securities. Mr Stanley has extensive experience leading transactions and managing assets within the infrastructure space, with a predominant focus on the transport sector. He was most recently a director of the Australian board of Whitehelm Capital and Chairman of its UK subsidiary board. Previous roles have included Head of Infrastructure Investment Advisory, EMEA at Morgan Stanley and Managing Director, Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets at Macquarie Group in Sydney and London. Mr Stanley holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from the University of Bristol, United Kingdom.

Debra Tan

Director and Head, China Water Risk (CWR)

Tan heads China Water Risk (CWR), a non-profit think tank that aims to create a world where water and climate risks are embedded in business & finance. She built CWR from an idea into a ‘go-to’ resource on water issues and a leader in the water risk conversation globally. For the past eight years, Tan has worked to “mainstream” water risk into financial decision-making and corporate strategies on both a macro-level through the concept of “water-nomics” and on a micro-level through the quantification of water risk in credit/equity valuations. Today, CWR is part of China’s Task Force on Environmental Risk Analysis for Financial Institutions; it’s also a founding member of Hong Kong’s Green Finance Association. Reports Tan has written for and with financial institutions analyzing the impact of water risks on the Power, Mining, Agricultural and Textiles industries are considered ground-breaking and instrumental in understanding not just China’s, but global water challenges. One of these led the fashion industry to nominate CWR as a finalist for the Global Leadership Awards in Sustainable Apparel; another is helping to build consensus toward water risk valuation. Her contributions to water-nomics with China’s Ministry of Ecology & Environment can be found in one of China’s top environmental policy journals. Tan is a prolific speaker on water risks, delivering keynotes and panels at water award seminars, investor & industry conferences plus policy & academic forums. Currently, she sits on various water advisory committees for corporates/NGOs. She is often quoted by the media and her opinions feature in publications by the UN, G20 plus water yearbooks. Before venturing into the water world, Tan worked in finance, spending over a decade as a chartered accountant and investment banker specializing in M&A and strategic advisory. She spends her spare time exploring Himalayan glaciers in Asia.

Luca Tonello

General Manager, Global Structured Finance, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation

Luca Tonello leads one of Asia’s most respected teams engaged in capital raising and advisory for the infrastructure and energy sectors at SMBC. He oversees a multi-billion dollars Asia focused portfolio with exposure to sustainable energy, power, infrastructure and natural resources. Over the last decade, Mr. Tonello and his team have contributed to the development of critical infrastructure in Asia. For its contribution, the team has received several prestigious industry awards and recognitions, most recently the 2018 Asia Pacific Bank of the Year by Project Finance International and 2018 Asia Pacific Financial Adviser of the Year by IJGlobal. Besides chairing the Finance Committee of ICCS over the last two years, Mr. Tonello was recently invited to join the alliance board of Infrastructure Asia (IA), a government initiative aimed at developing Singapore as the infrastructure hub in ASEAN. Mr. Tonello is committed to supporting the infrastructure finance industry in Asia as Chairman of the Project Finance Committee of the Asia Pacific Loan Market Association (APLMA) and as board member of the International Project Finance Association (IPFA). He has contributed to several working groups on infrastructure development and financing promoted by the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Asia Development Bank (ADB), the Infrastructure Finance Facilitation Office (IFFO) of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the Indonesia Minister of Finance, the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the OECD Organization to name a few. Mr. Tonello grew up near Turin in Italy, where he graduated in Mechanical Engineering with a major in energy. He spent the early part of his banking career in London where he also graduated from the London Business School with a Master in Finance before moving to Singapore, where he still lives.

Chris Torrens

Senior Partner, Control Risks

Chris Torrens is a Senior Partner at Control Risks, based in Beijing. He is responsible for growing the company’s outbound China business, managing a team of consultants in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong that advises both state-owned and private Chinese multinational companies operating globally. In this role Chris has visited Chinese multinational clients in Cameroon, Chad, Colombia, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Kenya, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, South Africa, the UK and Venezuela. Before this, Chris was based in London, where he led the Global Risk Analysis practice for Europe and Africa, managing a 40-strong team responsible for all political, operational and security risk analysis undertaken across the region, via both online and consulting channels. Chris is a regular media commentator on geopolitical and compliance risk issues, and has been interviewed by CGTN, CNBC, Sky News, Bloomberg and the BBC. His articles have appeared in the People's Daily, the Economist, Financial Times and specialist publications. His book, Doing Business in China, was published by The Economist Group in 2010. Chris is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and holds an MBA from the China-Europe International Business School in Shanghai.

Lubomir Varbanov

Head of New Business, Infrastructure and Natural Resources, Asia Pacific, IFC (International Finance Corporation)

Lubomir Varbanov is Head of New Business for Infrastructure and Natural Resources, Asia Pacific at the International Finance Corporation (IFC). Lubomir has over 20 years of industry and investment experience in emerging and developed markets, and has led and advised on over US$5 billion of investments in all infrastructure sub-sectors worldwide. Prior to assuming his current position, he headed the Global Equity Group for IFC Infrastructure and Natural Resources and earlier worked in a progression of origination, execution and portfolio management roles in IFC’s Petrochemicals, Financial Markets and Oil & Gas teams. Before IFC, Lubomir was Head of Corporate Finance at energy multinational BG Group in London. Lubomir holds a BA in Business Studies and Languages from Regent’s College, London and an MSc in Finance from London Business School. He speaks Bulgarian, French, German and Russian.

James Wardlaw

Partner, Federated Hermes

James has 36 years’ experience in financial markets, both public and private. He joined Federated Hermes Infrastructure just over a year ago as a Partner responsible for investor relations and capital raising. He is a member of the Infrastructure Investment Committee. James joined from Campbell Lutyens where he led their infrastructure practice for 8 years before becoming Vice Chairman. Previously, he spent 23 years as a financing banker with Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and SGWarburg. James also spent 3 years at HMTreasury with responsibility for the financing strategy of the major infrastructure projects in the UK. In addition, he was for 6 years a member of the expert panel of advisers to the UK Regulators Network, the internal network of the economic regulators in the UK. He is also a non-executive director of the Hyde Group, a major provider of affordable housing in the south of England and a member of the Global Advisory Board of Campbell Lutyens. James has a BA in Economics from Durham University.

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Agenda

Agenda

Asia Forum - Wednesday 13th

Registration and coffee

PEI welcome and chairman’s opening remarks

Keynote Panel: The Asian investment opportunity

Lubomir Varbanov

Luca Tonello

Chris Heathcote

Dhanpal Jhaveri

John Jackman

Keynote Presentation: : Imagination to Infrastructure

Boe Pahari

LP Keynote Interview

Eng Seng Ang

Eduard Fernández

Networking Coffee Break

Presentation: Investing in Offshore Wind

Georg Obert

Panel: Finding value in Mid-Market Infrastructure

Damian Stanley

Melannie Pyzik

Tani Burge

Jingjing Bai

Networking Lunch

Keynote Interview: Building for Tomorrow: Infrastructure Investment in Emerging Markets

Jim Yong Kim

Daniel Kemp

Panel: The emergence of digital infrastructure as a key subsector

Abu Bakar Chowdhury

Wilson Chung

Marc Ganzi

Lachmi-Niwas (LN) Sadani

Panel: The rise of direct investment in Asia

Bruce Crane

Hans-Martin Aerts

Sandiren Curthan

John Faye

Networking Coffee Break

Roundtables

Sandiren Curthan

Chris Heathcote

Steven Hong

Lieven Jacquemyn

Joanne Lee

Chris Torrens

Close of Day One Followed by Cocktail Reception

Agenda

Asia Forum - Thursday 14th

LP Breakfast Briefing (Invitation Only)

Registration and coffee

PEI welcome and chairman’s opening remarks

James Wardlaw

Day 2 Keynote Panel: Building a successful investment portfolio in India

Rahul Agarwal

Pushkar Kulkarni

Projesh Banerjea

Chandra Reddy

Sharat Goyal

The role of ESG and diversity in infrastructure investing

Vicki Rigg

Debra Tan

Daniel Kemp

Joanne Lee

Gwen Colin

Presentation: - The Greater Bay Area: world-class infrastructure or unrealised potential?

Ben Simpfendorfer

Networking Coffee Break

Presentation: Investor sentiment from Infrastructure Investor’s LP Perspectives Study