Infrastructure Investor Global Investor Forum 2021

Bruno Alves

Senior Editor, Infrastructure Investor

Bruno Alves is the Senior Editor of award-winning publication Infrastructure Investor. Bruno has been a journalist for nearly 20 years and first joined Infrastructure Investor in December 2009, where he quickly rose to become Associate Editor and a leading writer covering the infrastructure asset class. He’s been Senior Editor since 2015 and is also responsible for Agri Investor, PEI Group’s agriculture-focused publication.

John Anderson

Global Head Corporate Finance & Infrastructure, Manulife

The most recent decade of John Anderson’s 30-year investing career has increasingly focused on gender and racial inclusion.

John has been a leader in his firm building greater gender inclusion in his investment officer roster, including expanding recruiting scope, focusing on diversity that thrives, programs to advance and retain women in their careers, and all-team conversations on what a successful diverse workplace looks and feels like.

After the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, John helped lead an acceleration of his firm’s work on racial inclusion. This included facilitating broad employee conversations on race that ranged from book club on How to be an Anti-Racist, to helping lead an employee seminar on Racial Justice and Healing. It also included integrating racial inclusion more deliberately into the recruiting, retention, and advancement programs in his investment teams, and investment group conversations on what a successful diverse workplace looks and feels like.

John’s current investing focus includes a $15 billion infrastructure equity program with a $10 billion direct investing program in the US through the Manulife Infrastructure Funds, and a $5 billion global fund of funds program. He is a 30-year infrastructure investor, chairs the investment committee for these programs, and is President of Manulife’s infrastructure funds.

John’s broader role at Manulife also includes a $200 billion global investment-grade corporate lending program across public and private markets, acting as an approving officer for private equity fund investments, and voting as a member of Manulife’s global investment committee.

Externally, John chairs the Infrastructure Investor advisory group for the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investing organization, and he is on the board of the YW Boston, whose mission is to empower women and eliminate racism, with a particular focus on the intersectional challenges faced by black women. He has served as a mentor to women at other firms through the Toronto-based Women in Capital Markets organization.

Before entering the private sector, John served as an Intelligence Officer at the Central Intelligence Agency. He has been an executive sponsor of the Manulife veterans club in the United States.

John holds an MBA from Georgetown University and received his BA in Economics from The University of Chicago. He speaks intermediate French, Serbo-Croatian, German, Spanish, and Russian, and would not be mistaken for a native speaker in any of these languages.

Manulife

Manulife Investment Management is the global wealth and asset management segment of Manulife.
Manulife Investment Management’s comprehensive private markets platform includes infrastructure, private equity and credit, real estate, timber, and agriculture.

The Manulife life insurance companies serve customers across Canada, the US, and East Asia, and have 35,000 employees.

Jemima Atkins

Investment Professional, Pioneer Point Partners

Jemima Atkins is an investment professional at Pioneer Point Partners, based in London, where she makes investments in European infrastructure assets in the energy transition and environment sectors. Pioneer only invests in sustainable infrastructure and targets investments that contribute to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions and circular economy.

Jemima joined Pioneer in 2022, and has particular focus on the energy efficiency, renewables and carbon removal sub-sectors. She has previously held investment roles at Allianz Capital Partners in the infrastructure equity team and Allianz Global Investors in the infrastructure debt investment team. At Allianz, Jemima worked across private markets asset classes to promote sustainability improvements and the transition of infrastructure assets to net-zero. Prior to Allianz Global Investors, Jemima worked at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. She holds a BSc Natural Sciences from Durham University where she specialised in biodiversity and conservation biology.

Pioneer Point Partners

Pioneer Point Partners is a lower-mid market, value-added infrastructure private equity investor. We are sector specialists, focussed on investing in the energy transition and environment sectors across Europe. Our strategy is aligned with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and we target investments that contribute to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions and circular economy. We have committed over €1.4 billion equity investments since 2010 and in 2022 reached Final Close of €575 million on our maiden institutional fund, which is categorised as meeting the provisions set out in Article 9 of SFDR for products that have a sustainable investment objective.

Alena Antonava

Investment Manager, RPMI Railpen

Alena Antonava is an Investment Manager of Long-Term Income Fund (LTIF) at RPMI Railpen. LTIF targets core infrastructure, renewable energy, and long-lease commercial real estate investments in the UK. LTIF invests across capital structure and through various structures including direct investments, co-invest, and investments via managed accounts.

Alena joined Railpen in September 2019 and is involved in all areas of investment activity including origination, transaction execution, and portfolio management. Since joining Railpen Alena was involved in the acquisition of two onshore wind farms in Scotland and debt financing of smart metering business in the UK. Prior to Railpen Alena served as an Investment Executive at Arcus Infrastructure Partners LLP where she was part of the telecoms team. She has more than 10 years of experience in financial services.

Alena is a Chartered Accountant, and holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Belarusian State Economic University and an MBA from Anglia Ruskin University.

Karen Azoulay

Head of Infrastructure Debt, BNP Paribas Asset Management

Karen joined BNP Paribas Asset Management in May 2017 from SCOR Investment Partners where she had been Head of Infrastructure since 2012 and implemented and developed SCOR’s infrastructure debt strategy. She previously worked for Dexia, joining in 2003 and initially headed the credit analysis team for the energy sector, before joining the Project Finance team as director for the energy and environment sectors. She began her career at KPMG’s Bank & Finance sector.

BNP Paribas Asset Management

BNP Paribas Asset Management is the investment management arm of BNP Paribas, one of the world’s major financial institutions. Managing and advising EUR 625 billion in assets as at 30 June 2021, BNP Paribas Asset Management offers a comprehensive range of active, passive and quantitative investment solutions covering a broad spectrum of asset classes and regions. With around 500 investment professionals and over 400 client servicing specialists, BNP Paribas Asset Management serves individual, corporate and institutional investors in 69 countries around the world. Since 2002, BNP Paribas Asset Management has been a major player in sustainable and responsible investing.

For more information, please visit bnpparibas-am.com

Oskar Backman

Investment Manager, Polhem Infrastructure

Oskar Backman has spent over 20 years in the financial industry, with a focus on real assets. In 2019 Oskar left AP1 to build up the investment activities of the newly established Polhem Infra in Stockholm, a dedicated infrastructure investment company owned by AP1, AP3 and AP4. Backman has participated throughout his career in international transactions ranging from multiple real estate strategies, tax-based leasing, project finance, public procurements, private placements (of bonds) and M&A.

Robert-Jan Bakker

Member of Management, Partners Group

Robert-Jan Bakker is part of the European Private Infrastructure business unit, based in Zug. He has 15 years of industry experience. Prior to joining Partners Group, he worked at APG Asset Management and Deloitte. He holds a cum laude master’s degree in finance and investments from the Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands. He is also a CAIA charterholder.

Annette Bannister

Managing Director, MetLife Investment Management

Annette Bannister is a Managing Director and Head of European Infrastructure and Project Finance for MetLife Investment Management (“MIM”). Annette is responsible for overseeing the origination and execution of new infrastructure debt transactions in the UK and Europe, as well as the ongoing management of existing investments. Annette joined MIM in 2015.
Annette has 17 years of experience in project finance and infrastructure debt. Prior to joining MIM, Annette was in the Infrastructure Investment team at Legal and General Investment Management. Prior to this, Annette was an Associate Director at AMP Capital’s Infrastructure Debt Fund where she focused junior debt transactions in infrastructure. Annette also spent five years in investment banking (project and infrastructure finance) at Societe Generale and later, Barclays Capital.
Annette is a graduate of the University of Durham where she earned a BA(Hons) in Business Finance and University of Durham Business School where she earned an MSc in Finance and Investment.

MetLife Investment Management

MetLife Investment Management provides public fixed income, private capital, and real estate investment solutions to institutional investors worldwide. MetLife Investment Management is the institutional asset management business of MetLife, Inc., one of the world’s leading financial services companies. MetLife Investment Management had $666.7 billion of total assets under management as of June 30, 2021.(1)
With over 150 years of disciplined risk-management experience we provide deep expertise in skillfully navigating markets with the goal of delivering strong, risk-adjusted returns. Our client-centric culture enables our dedicated team of investment professionals to singularly focus on creating the tailored solutions designed to help our clients meet their unique needs and objectives—both today and moving forward in the future.

(1) As of June 30, 2021. At estimated fair value. Includes all MetLife general account and separate account assets and unaffiliated/third-party assets managed by MIM.

Paul Barr

Partner, Pantheon Ventures

Paul is a Partner in Pantheon’s Global Infrastructure and Real Assets Team. He previously worked in the Infrastructure teams at GIC, Challenger Group, and Macquarie. Prior to this Paul worked in a number of corporate finance and consulting roles, with a focus on the energy sector. He holds a BCom (Hons) in Business from the University of Edinburgh, and is a CFA Charterholder and a Chartered Accountant. Paul is currently based in London, and will soon be relocating to San Francisco.

Pantheon Ventures

Pantheon is an established and experienced private markets investor, with a 24-year track record of investing in the global infrastructure and real assets markets. The firm launched a dedicated global infrastructure practice in 2009 and, as of March 31st, 2021, had ~$16bn of dedicated assets under management and advice. Pantheon is the earliest infrastructure secondaries specialist, with close to $4bn committed to 39 transactions incorporating both traditional LP portfolio sales and GP-led secondaries, and is also an active primary fund and co-investor, with a combined total of 155 infrastructure and real assets transactions completed as of July 2021. The investment team is made up of 25 professionals based in London, San Francisco and Hong Kong, including a senior leadership team of eight Partners.

Chris Beall

Managing Partner & Founder, NOVA Infrastructure

Chris is the Managing Partner and a Founder of NOVA Infrastructure and has 24 years of experience in private equity, investment banking and infrastructure operations and engineering. Since 2017 Chris has built NOVA with Allison Kingsley, forming the NOVA team and leading the execution of infrastructure investments for NOVA in the target sectors of transportation, environmental services, energy and energy transition, and communications. He serves as Chair of NOVA’s Investment Committee.

Prior to NOVA, Chris was a Managing Director and Co-Portfolio Manager for Oaktree Capital’s Infrastructure Investing strategy, following Oaktree’s acquisition of Highstar Capital in 2014. He was one of four owners and a Partner of Highstar Capital, a fourth-generation infrastructure private equity firm responsible for over $6.3 billion of infrastructure investments. Earlier in his career, Chris worked in Lehman Brothers’ energy investment banking group and as an engineer in the oil and gas industry.

Chris currently serves on the Board of Directors for Integrated Waste Solutions Group, a vertically integrated waste platform that he co-founded, and Hawthorne Aviation, a private aviation FBO platform. From 2013-2022, Chris also served on the Board of Directors of the National Passenger Rail Corporation (Amtrak), the largest provider of passenger rail service in the U.S.; nominated by President Obama in 2012 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2013.

Chris holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Oklahoma State University.

NOVA Infrastructure

NOVA Infrastructure is a value-added investment manager targeting middle market infrastructure investments in North America. Currently deploying capital for NOVA Fund I, NOVA actively invests in attractive investment opportunities across the target sectors of environmental services, transportation, energy / energy transition, and communications infrastructure. NOVA’s highly experienced team creatively sources infrastructure investments, pairing the best downside protection features of the infrastructure asset class with operationally-focused strategies to generate incremental returns.

Helen Beatty

Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills

Helen is a finance and projects lawyer specialising in transactions in the infrastructure, power and mining sectors.

Based in London, Helen has extensive experience advising both sponsors and financiers on major energy, infrastructure and mining projects. Helen has worked on traditional project finance and public private partnership structures together with acquisition and holdco financings for assets in those sectors. Helen is also very versatile and has experience with a number of more bespoke structured financings, including commodity prepayments, reserved based lending and specialised mining finance in both Europe and emerging markets.

Herbert Smith Freehills

With globalisation and population growth driving change in both developed and emerging markets, unprecedented investment sums are required for the development and maintenance of crucial infrastructure. As governments continue to face funding pressures, they need innovative solutions and delivery partners to provide the infrastructure required for tomorrow’s world. Our government and private sector clients trust us to work on their most complex, market-defining, 'first of a kind' projects and transactions. Our global infrastructure team has worked together over many years and has an outstanding record advising sponsors, contractors, funds, banks, governments and other public bodies on the complexities and nuances of regional and cross-border infrastructure and construction and engineering projects, transactions and disputes. We have a true depth of resource with over 200 lawyers across the firm’s international network focused on the infrastructure sector. With a multi-disciplinary global infrastructure team of world-leading sector specialists and regional experts, we provide commercial insight and legal advice from the consenting and planning process, through to construction, financing, operation, maintenance and ultimately the refinancing or sale of major projects and assets. Our infrastructure disputes lawyers guide our clients and help them to achieve the best commercial outcomes through settlement negotiations, litigation, arbitration, and all forms of alternative dispute resolution.

Frederic Blanc-Brude

Director, EDHECinfra and CEO, Scientific Infra

Frederic Blanc-Brude is the Director of EDHECinfra, an index, analytics and research provider specialised in the provision of unlisted infrastructure equity and debt market indices and custom benchmarks. Before joining EDHEC in 2011, he spent 10 years in the infrastructure finance field with direct involvement in more than USD6bn of transactions. He holds a PhD in Finance (King’s College, London) and degrees from the London School of Economics, the Sorbonne, and Sciences Po Paris. He is a regular contributor to the G20 working group on long-term infrastructure investment, has advised the European Occupational Pensions and Insurance Authority on the prudential treatment of infrastructure investments and also represents EDHEC on the Advisory Board of the Global Infrastructure Facility of the World Bank. Frederic is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Alternative Investments and is a regular contributor to the press. He also chairs the management committee of TICCS®, The Infrastructure Company Classification Standard.

EDHECinfra

EDHECinfra is an independent research organisation delivering unrivalled indices and research on the risk-adjusted performance of infrastructure investments. Our indices help investors answer a vital question: What is the risk-adjusted performance of private infrastructure debt or equity? EDHECinfra is building the largest, most representative database of underlying infrastructure investments in the world. By 2020, the EDHECinfra Global 1000 Unlisted Infrastructure Index will track most major markets. EDHECinfra index and analytics data is available through an online platform at indices.edhecinfra.com or through Bloomberg (EIPEE, EIPDE).

Lennart Blecher

Head of Real Assets' Advisory Teams, Deputy Managing Partner and Chairperson of EQT Exeter, EQT

Lennart Blecher joined EQT Partners in April 2007 and is Head of Real Assets, Deputy Managing Partner and Chairperson of EQT Exeter.

Lennart holds a Master of Law degree from the University of Lund, Sweden and has studied at the University of Dallas, Texas - Academy of US & International Law. Prior to joining EQT Partners, Lennart was from 2004 to 2007 Managing Director and Senior Banker in the investment bank of Unicredit/HypoVereinsbank in Munich. From 2002 to 2004, Lennart was Managing Director at GE Commercial Finance in London.

Between 1987 until 2002, he held various positions in the ABB Group, in Zurich such as General Counsel for the ABB Financial Services Group, President and Business Area Manager for ABB Structured Finance and ABB Equity Ventures. Lennart has held various non executive positions in European banks and reinsurance companies. Lennart is a member of the EQT Executive Committee and is a Chairperson of the Infrastructure Partners Investment Committee.

EQT

EQT is a purpose-driven global investment organization focused on active ownership strategies. With a Nordic heritage and a global mindset, EQT has a track record of almost three decades of delivering consistent and attractive returns across multiple geographies, sectors and strategies. Uniquely, EQT is the only large private markets firm in the world with investment strategies covering all phases of a business’ development, from start-up to maturity. EQT today has more than EUR 112 billion in assets under management including BPEA EQT across 45+ active funds within three business segments – Private Capital, BPEA EQT and Real Assets.

With its roots in the Wallenberg family’s entrepreneurial mindset and philosophy of long-term ownership, EQT is guided by a set of strong values and a distinct corporate culture. EQT manages and advises funds and vehicles that invest across the world with the mission to future-proof companies, generate attractive returns and make a positive impact with everything EQT does.

Real Assets – The Real Assets’ business segment comprises three business lines: EQT Infrastructure, EQT Active Core Infrastructure and EQT Exeter. The Real Asset segment has EUR 44.2 billion in assets under management as of December 2022.

Private Capital comprises six business lines: EQT Private Equity, EQT Future, EQT Ventures, EQT Life Sciences, EQT Growth and EQT Public Value. The Private Capital segment has grown rapidly and has EUR 68.2 billion in assets under management as of December 2022.

Sarah Borg-Olivier

Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President, Instar Asset Management

Sarah Borg-Olivier is Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President for Instar where she is responsible for overseeing fund administration activities and non-investment operations, including investor relations, business development, environmental, social and governance initiatives, and human resources and professional development strategies.

Sarah has 20 years of experience in designing and executing various initiatives to drive business growth and establish brand leadership. She formerly held executive roles with Capstone Infrastructure Corporation, a publicly-traded diversified infrastructure company, and Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets Canada Ltd. She also previously led the investor relations practice of a Toronto-based consulting firm where she provided strategic counsel to a diverse North American client base and managed a team of consultants.

Sarah holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from the University of Toronto and completed the Certified Professional of Investor Relations (CPIR) program sponsored by the Richard Ivey School of Business and the Canadian Investor Relations Institute (CIRI). She served for a number of years on the Board of Directors of CIRI’s Ontario chapter.

Instar Asset Management

Instar is an independent alternative asset management firm focused on North American middle-market opportunities in the infrastructure sector and other alternative real asset categories. Instar’s growing footprint spans North America with a diversified portfolio of companies that deliver essential infrastructure services and value to communities, partners and investors, helping us to fulfil our purpose of enriching people’s lives. Visit www.InstarInvest.com.

François Bornens

Partner – Investor Relations, Arjun Infrastructure

François Bornens has been a Partner at Arjun Infrastructure Partner since its creation in 2015. He has responsibility for Investor relations and business development. Arjun is an independent infrastructure asset management company managing €3.8 billion of capital on behalf of institutional investors.

Until the end of 2014, François was responsible for all client relationships and capital raising for the J.P. Morgan infrastructure product platform across Europe and the Middle East. Before this, François spent two decades at Citi in Paris and London. As the co-head of marketing and distribution for Europe at Citi Alternative Investments, François led a team responsible for all senior level relationships covering alternative products including infrastructure.

François holds a Master in Economics from Paris X University and an MBA in International Management from Thunderbird School of Global Management (AZ, USA).

Arjun Infrastructure

Arjun Infrastructure Partners is an independent asset management company dedicated to executing and managing mid-market infrastructure investments. Founded in 2015, Arjun now manages circa €3.8 billion of capital on behalf of prominent institutional investors. Arjun works in close partnership with its clients, offering transparency throughout the investment lifecycle. We provide customised solutions which enable our clients to achieve their specific investment objectives. In 2021, Arjun closed a fund structure focussing on Europe and mid-market infrastructure sectors at its cap of €1bn of commitment. Arjun’s team of 27 professionals and a further 8 industry partners has extensive operational and financial experience in the utilities, energy & renewables, digital and transportation infrastructure sectors. We offer a proven ability to source bilateral investment opportunities and have a strong focus on ESG as part of our long-term, responsible asset management approach.

Oliver Bradley

Managing Director, Macquarie Capital

Oliver Bradley is Managing Director, Digital Infrastructure Investing at Macquarie Capital, the advisroy, capital markets and principal investment arm of Macquarie Group Limited. The Digital Infrastructure team invests directly in and supports the growth of companies that are facilitating the increasing data consumption of businesses and consumers, including fibre networks and data centres.

Since returning to Macquarie in 2019 (he previously worked at the firm from 2005-15), Oliver has led Macquarie Capital's investment into Voneus, a UK rural Fixed Wireless to Fibre broadband developer and Onivia, a new SPV Macquarie established to acquire Fibre to the Home networks in Spain, creating Spain's first wholesale only FTTH network with a footprint in excess of 3.5m homes.

Prior to re-joining Macquarie, Oliver was Corporate Finance Director at CityFibre, the wholesale FTTx business and largest UK Altnet. Before CityFibre, Oliver was a commercial specialist at the Infrastructure and Projects Authority, part of the UK government. There he advised ministers on digital infrastructure policy and was responsible for the Digital Infrastructure Investment Fund, which saw the UK government commit £400m, matched by private sector investors on the same terms, to invest in UK fibre.

Macquarie Capital Infrastructure & Energy Capital

Macquarie Capital’s IEC division specialises in investing our own capital in smart, sustainable infrastructure projects, and companies. We sponsor the development of landmark projects that strengthen communities by creating new digital, energy and social infrastructure. We also offer flexible, partnership capital to infrastructure companies to help fund capital expenditure, business

Neil Brown

Head of Capital Formation, Low Carbon

Neil Brown is Head of Capital Formation at Low Carbon, having recently joined from Actis. He leads capital raising efforts as Low Carbon scales to be a 20GW player by 2030. Neil works with investors globally and has spent more than 20 years raising capital and leading fundraising teams across the globe.

For the last 10 years, Neil was a Partner at Actis, where he was responsible for leading $10 billion in capital raisings during his tenure. Prior to joining Actis, he co-founded Minerva Capital Advisors, a boutique advisory firm which specialised in high-level strategic transactions for private equity, hedge fund and real estate clients. He has also held senior positions as a business head within Citi’s Alternative Investments business in New York and London.

Among his many accolades, Neil was included in PEI Infrastructure Investor’s inaugural ‘Infrastructure Rainmaker 20’ list, which highlights professionals who have demonstrated “exceptional fundraising prowess” in the infrastructure field.

Low Carbon
Low Carbon was founded in 2011 with a mission to create renewable power capacity for the world, at scale. We do this through building, developing and managing solar, wind and waste to energy projects.
We have over 8GW of renewables projects in development right now across the UK, Europe and North America and we continue to grow rapidly.

We have built a financially sound company with a sustainable and profitable business model. Our platform is underwritten by purpose, quality and integrity and generates measurable results on a daily basis.
The Low Carbon investment model enables the deployment of capital into renewable infrastructure. We have built a platform of purpose, quality, and integrity that generates measurable results.
By the end of this decade, we want to have created 20GW of new renewable energy capacity – enough to power the equivalent of 7.8 million homes.

Clare Burgess

Partner, Clifford Chance

Clare Burgess is a Partner with a particular focus on the infrastructure and renewables sectors. Clare has advised on a wide range of infrastructure transactions including project bonds, private placements, corporate bonds and multi-source financings including secured corporate debt transactions (whole business securitisations). She acts for a broad range of market participants, including banks, institutional investors, multi-laterals, sponsors and corporates. She has particular experience advising on complex, credit-enhanced transactions, aggregator/portfolio financings, and restructurings/terminations. She also advises on the issuance of green bonds, both corporate issuance, and renewables project and portfolio financings.

Clifford Chance

Our global team of multi-disciplinary, highly experienced lawyers are known for delivering practical and innovative solutions to clients across the infrastructure sector. We are a recognised market leader and are consistently ranked at the top of the global infrastructure and project finance league tables and directories. Our integrated global network provides full service capabilities at every stage in the infrastructure value chain from fund formation to the structuring and financing of projects through to disputes and litigation and mergers and acquisitions. We offer clients a dedicated team of lawyers with the right balance of specific geographical experience, industry knowledge and legal skills to deliver a world class service to our clients. Clifford Chance has been awarded Global Law Firm of the Year at the Infrastructure Investor Awards for the past 3 years.

Stéphane Calas

Managing Director, Cube Infrastructure Managers

Stéphane has over 25 years of experience in investment banking, infrastructure and asset management.

He is the Managing Director in charge of Telecom & Smart Infrastructure for Cube’s brownfield fund, and sits at the Investment Committee and Asset Management Committee of Cube IM. Since joining Cube in 2010, he has primarily focused on the telecom, energy and public transport sectors. Stéphane is/has been a member of the Boards of portfolio companies such as G.Network, Heliot Europe, Osprey Charging, Stations-e, Boreal Transport, Covage and Idex.

Previously, Stéphane has spent some 15 years in Investment Banking at Dresdner Kleinwort and PwC Corporate Finance, based in Paris and London, latterly as global Head of Infrastructure in the M&A Advisory division of Dresdner Bank/Commerzbank.

Stéphane is a Civil Engineer and an MBA graduate from Ecole des Ponts ParisTech.

Cube Infrastructure Managers

Cube Infrastructure Managers is an independent Luxembourgian management company focusing on investments in the European infrastructure space. The Manager is constituted by a close-knit manager team with broad industrial and managerial experience, and with a highly international profile. Cube Infrastructure Managers has raised €2.5 billion through three funds all active in the European infrastructure space, Cube Infrastructure Fund, Cube Infrastructure Fund II and Connecting Europe Broadband Fund. ESG aspects are an integrated part of Cube’s business model during the investment stage, during the asset management period and at exit, as such the sectors Cube focus on generally contribute to the shift towards a low-carbon economy and provide social benefits to local communities.

Bruno Candès

Partner, InfraVia Capital Partners

Bruno Candès is a Partner with InfraVia Capital Partners.

He is coordinating infrastructure investment activities. He also sits on the investment committee of the Growth Equity strategy.

Bruno has more than 20 years of experience in global infrastructure markets in particular as a principal investor across Europe and North America. Before joining InfraVia, Bruno worked for several financial and corporate institutions including Axium Infrastructure, Babcock & Brown or Egis.

InfraVia Capital Partners

InfraVia is a leading independent European private equity firm, founded in 2008, specialized in infrastructure, real assets and technology investments.

We support entrepreneurs and companies in their growth journey and help them expand their businesses and become top-tier sustainable platforms.

InfraVia manages EUR 12 billion of capital and employs over 85 people. Since inception, we have invested in 50+ companies across Europe.

Gwenola Chambon

CEO and Founding Partner, Vauban Infrastructure Partners

Gwenola Chambon, CEO and Managing Partner of Vauban Infrastructure Partners, has had a pivotal role in establishing Vauban as a European leader in infrastructure asset management. Under her leadership, Vauban currently oversees more than €9 billion across 8 funds, solidifying its position as a key player in the industry. Over the past 15 years, Gwenola has transformed Vauban into a multibillion-dollar asset manager with international prominence.
Headquartered in Paris, Vauban distinguishes itself with a team of over 76 professionals who have collaborated for over a decade. Specializing in European core infrastructure investments, Vauban predominantly targets brownfield mid-market assets, following a long-term strategy focused on yield and sustainable value creation.

Vauban's recent successes encompass significant transactions in mobility, energy transition, social infrastructure, and digital infrastructure across 16 different geographies. These achievements underscore Vauban's reputation as a prominent player in the European infrastructure market. Particularly noteworthy are recent acquisitions such as the acquisition of Cellnex’s Austrian tower alongside EDF Invest and MEAG, Cellnex being the third largest provider of passive mobile tower infrastructure in Austria, Coriance, a leader of the French district heating sector, and the merger of Aves One and Wascosa into a major European railcar leasing platform.

Gwenola Chambon graduated from ESCP Business School in 1995 (master’s in business). Throughout her 28-year career, Gwenola has developed an extensive knowledge of the European infrastructure sector and has deep experience financing and investing in infrastructure assets. She has worked on numerous landmark transactions, from the first PPP projects in continental Europe (Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, France) to the development of strategic acquisitions in the European core infrastructure space (notably in digital infrastructure in France, Spanish PPPs, Coriance, Railcar Platform etc.). Prior to founding Vauban Infrastructure Partners, Gwenola headed the equity infrastructure activities of Natixis IM for 9 years and spent two years at the infrastructure fund Galaxy. Before that, Gwenola was Head of European Infrastructure at CFIG, and previously was a senior member of the project finance team at BNP Paribas.

In addition to her responsibilities as director on the boards of various European infrastructure companies (Proxiserve, Axione, Papre etc.), Gwenola is a member of several industry groups including the European Commission working group of Experts in Infrastructure, PRI advisory board as well as a member of its expert group, EFAMA, and the AFG and AFIC working groups for infrastructure. She is also an active member of the Institut de la Gestion Déléguée in France and of IFA (Institut Français des Administrateurs) and is responsible for project finance courses in ESSEC’s Masters of Complex Financing.

In 2024, Gwenola Chambon was named chairwoman of the Philarmonie de Paris.

Vauban Infrastructure Partners

Vauban Infrastructure Partners is a leading infrastructure asset manager focused on European core infrastructure investments. Headquartered in Paris, Vauban employs c.76 professionals, the majority of whom have been working together for over a decade. Vauban targets predominantly European brownfield mid-market assets, and pursues a long-term, yield-driven strategy matching the underlying nature of the assets and long-term commitment to all stakeholders’ interests through a strong focus on creating sustainable value. Vauban has raised c.€9bn across 8 funds in core infrastructure, and has invested in the mobility, energy transition, social infrastructure, and digital infrastructure sectors spanning 16 different geographies.

Laurent Chatelin

Partner – Infrastructure, Eurazeo

Laurent joined Eurazeo as Partner and head of the Infrastructure investment team.

Prior to that, Laurent was a Partner of Marguerite, a European infrastructure asset manager with 1.5bn€ AuM which he joined at inception in 2010. During his tenure at Marguerite, he originated and executed several principal investments mainly in the digital and energy space and held several board positions.

Prior to that, Laurent spent 7 years in London as a principal investor in the European greenfield and Brownfield infrastructure space with ABN Amro and Macquarie Capital.

He started his career as Finance Manager with the Alcatel-Lucent (Nokia) group structuring project finance base solutions for the group’s clients (Satellite, fix, wireless and fiber networks).

Laurent graduated from ENPC in Finance ＆ Economics and from ENS-Ulm in Biology.

Eurazeo

Eurazeo is a leading European investment group with €33.5bn in diversified assets under management, including €23bn on behalf of institutional and private clients through its private equity, private debt, real estate and infrastructure strategies.

The Group supports more than 600 mid-market companies, leveraging the commitment of its 400 employees, its sector expertise, its privileged access to global markets via 12 offices in Europe, Asia and the United States, and its responsible approach to value creation based on growth.

The company’s institutional and family shareholding structure, and its solid financial structure, ensure its long-term viability.

Meryem Cherif

Associate, AP Ventures

Meryem Cherif is an Associate at AP Ventures, looking after fundraising, Limited Partners and ESG integration. She also manages AP Ventures’ investment in Ergosup. Prior to this role, she worked for 5 years at UNEP Mediterranean Action Plan in Barcelona as project manager for BAT4MED and SwitchMed. These projects contributed to the adaptation and adoption of the IPPC to Northern African countries and to the creation of a green business incubation program (selection, training, mentoring and access to finance) benefitting over 1400 green entrepreneurs in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Lebanon.
Meryem holds a Dual MSc in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering from Arts et Metiers Paristech and Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, and an MBA from London Business School. Meryem speaks Native French, fluent English, fluent Arabic, fluent Spanish and conversational Catalan.

AP Ventures

AP Ventures is headquartered in London and manages venture capital funds with a global mandate to invest in pioneering new technologies and businesses which aim to solve global challenges such as renewable energy integration, resource scarcity and a growing population. AP Ventures has been investing in the hydrogen industry since 2013 and is recognized as a leading venture capital fund across this value chain. AP Ventures manages $395 million of assets on behalf of 12 LPs and presently has a portfolio of 17 technology companies across the hydrogen value chain.

Andrew Claerhout

Partner & Co-Head of Infrastructure, Searchlight Capital Partners

Andrew Claerhout is a Partner and Co-Head of Infrastructure Investing at Searchlight Capital Partners. Prior to joining Searchlight in 2019, Mr. Claerhout led Infrastructure and Natural Resources investing at the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (“OTPP”) where he worked for 13 years. Prior to running the Infrastructure and Natural Resources business at OTPP, Mr. Claerhout led the private equity Consumer and Industrials sectors and spent a number of years leading the London office. Prior to OTPP, Mr. Claerhout worked at Edgestone Capital, Pacific Equity Partners, and Bain and Co. Mr. Claerhout received an HBA from the University of Western Ontario, a degree from the Executive Program at Stanford University Graduate School of Business, and a degree from the Directors Education Program at University of Toronto – Rotman School of Management.

Searchlight

Searchlight is a global private investment firm with offices in New York, London and Toronto. Searchlight seeks to invest in business where their long-term capital and strategic support accelerate value creation for all stakeholders. Searchlight drives value through creative transaction structuring, thoughtful strategic direction, operational expertise, deep industry knowledge and an integrated transatlantic team. Searchlight has worked successfully in partnership with leading corporate and family-owned businesses throughout the world.

Barney Coles

Managing Director, Clean Energy Infrastructure - Capital Dynamics

Barney is a Managing Director and Co-Head of the Clean Energy Infrastructure team and a member of our Responsible Investment Committee. He has over a decade of renewable energy financing experience across Europe. Prior to joining the team, Barney spent over six years in energy corporate finance at Ernst & Young in London, working across lead advisory, project finance, and M&A in the clean energy and utility sectors. He also provided transaction advice to both the private and public sector on large-scale clean energy infrastructure procurement processes. Barney has a bachelor’s degree in Economics from University of Cambridge and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.

Capital Dynamics

Capital Dynamics is an independent global asset management firm focusing on private assets including private equity, private credit, and clean energy infrastructure. Capital Dynamics offers a diversified range of tailored offerings and customized solutions for a broad, global client base, including corporations, family offices, foundations and endowments, high net worth individuals, pension funds and others. The firm oversees more than USD 15 billion in assets under management and advisement1. Capital Dynamics is distinguished by its deep and sustained partnerships with clients, a culture that attracts entrepreneurial thought leaders and a commitment to providing innovative ideas and solutions for its clients.

Capital Dynamics’ roots go back to 1988, the year our predecessor (Westport Private Equity) was founded in the UK. Our headquarters were established in Zug, Switzerland in 1999. The firm employs approximately 160 professionals globally and maintains offices in New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong, San Francisco, Munich, Milan, Florida, Birmingham, Dubai and Seoul.

In 2020, Capital Dynamics was awarded the highest rating (A+) from the Principles for Responsible Investment for (i) Strategy & Corporate Governance, (ii) private equity strategy, and (iii) clean energy infrastructure strategy.

Patrick Deasy

Private Investment Funds Partner, Goodwin

Patrick Deasy is a partner in Goodwin’s award-winning private investment funds group. His practice focuses on private capital solutions across various alternative asset classes, including energy and infrastructure, private equity and real estate, in Europe and in developing markets. He acts for general partners on structuring and formation of direct funds, funds of funds, permanent capital vehicles, asset management platforms, co-investment vehicles and segregated accounts, management and investment advisory companies, carried interest, co-investment scheme and other compensation schemes and for institutional investors on their investments in to investment funds and other private capital vehicles.

Patrick joined Goodwin in January 2017, along with seven other partners who formed the bulk of the market-leading and former SJ Berwin private investment funds group.

Goodwin

We are an award-winning, European practice focusing on the private funds market. With roots in Boston, Goodwin has grown into an international powerhouse that works seamlessly across geographies. Our market expertise and long-standing industry relationships help clients identify opportunities and solutions that create value. Our deep knowledge of the infrastructure fundraising market allows us to deliver the most commercially viable fund structure and fund terms, and to anticipate any pressure points for investor negotiations. We have experience in representing sponsors of infrastructure funds at the intersections of where our deep experience lies—private equity, real assets, clean tech, energy, project finance, and financial services. Our expertise is not only in raising capital, but also deploying capital, both equity and debt. Our integrated tax, regulatory and deal capabilities combined with our knowledge of the legal issues that can affect a business allows us to best assist our clients.

Jean Francis Dusch

CEO, Edmond de Rothschild UK, CIO Infrastructure Debt, Edmond de Rothschild AM UK

Jean-Francis Dusch brings 29 years of international project and structured finance experience to the team. He joined the Edmond de Rothschild Group in 2004, as co-head of the Project Finance department before taking charge of the group’s structuring advisory services. He contributed to the successful development of the Project Finance advisory (EdR led the 2011 IJ league tables as global financial advisor in transport and PPP) and Private Equity structuring activities. In 2013, as part of the group’s globalisation, Jean-Francis headed the group’s Infrastructure, Real Assets and Structured Finance department. This led to the closing of Benjamin de Rothschild Infrastructure Debt Generation in 2014, a EUR 4.7bn platform investing in senior and junior debt across all sectors and comprising a mix of collective counts and managed accounts.

Andrea Echberg

Partner and Head of Global Infrastructure and Real Assets, Pantheon

Andrea is a Partner and Head of Pantheon’s Global Infrastructure and Real Assets Team. She is responsible for global infrastructure and real assets investments covering primary, secondary and co-investments. She is a member of the International Investment Committee and Global Infrastructure and Real Assets Committee. Andrea has an engineering industry background followed by 21 years’ experience in the infrastructure finance and investment sectors. Prior to joining Pantheon, Andrea led infrastructure direct and co-investment teams for Société Générale, Macquarie Capital and ABN AMRO delivering successful investments in both brownfield operating and greenfield PPP assets. She has a BEng in mechanical engineering from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine. Andrea is based in London.

Pantheon

Pantheon is an established and experienced private markets investor, with a 24-year track record of investing in the global infrastructure and real assets markets. The firm launched a dedicated global infrastructure practice in 2009 and, as of March 31st, 2021, had ~$16bn of dedicated assets under management and advice. Pantheon is the earliest infrastructure secondaries specialist, with close to $4bn committed to 39 transactions incorporating both traditional LP portfolio sales and GP-led secondaries, and is also an active primary fund and co-investor, with a combined total of 155 infrastructure and real assets transactions completed as of July 2021. The investment team is made up of 25 professionals based in London, San Francisco and Hong Kong, including a senior leadership team of eight Partners.

Ingrid Edmund

Head of Financing, Infrastructure Investments, Columbia Threadneedle Investments

Ingrid is co-founder of the Columbia Threadneedle European Sustainable Infrastructure Fund, an open-ended fund focused on mid-market equity investments established in 2019. She leads the financing activity of ESIF’s portfolio companies and has senior level responsibility for sourcing and executing investment opportunities, asset management and fundraising activities. She is a member of the fund Investment Committee and sits on the boards of investee companies Condor Ferries (Channel Islands) and ESIF’s onshore wind platform (Sweden). She has 20 years industry experience, across green energy, transportation, digital, and social infrastructure. Prior to joining Columbia Threadneedle, she held roles at Hastings Funds Management, HSBC Asset Management, SMBC and Standard ＆ Poor’s. Ingrid holds a masters degree in Finance, Economics and Econometrics from Cass Business School, London and a BSc in Mathematical Economics from the Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest.

Colombia Threadneedle Investment

Columbia Threadneedle Investments is a leading global asset manager. We know investors want strong and repeatable risk-adjusted returns and we aim to deliver this through an active and consistent investment approach that is team-based, risk-aware and performance-driven. Better insights - Our talented investment teams around the world work together to generate richer insights on global, regional and local investment landscapes. Better decisions - The ability to exchange and debate investment ideas in a collaborative environment enriches our teams' investment processes and results in better informed decisions for our clients. Better outcomes - With a broad range of investment strategies and solutions we are committed to first class client service and investment excellence.

Mohamed El Gazzar

Partner, I Squared Capital

Mohamed El Gazzar is a Partner of I Squared Capital, responsible for infrastructure strategy in Europe. Since joining I Squared Capital in 2013, Mohamed has led the acquisition and development of portfolio companies encompassing thermal, renewables and utilities and has recently diversified to include transportation and social infrastructure. Before joining I Squared Capital, Mohamed spent 12 years at Morgan Stanley, most recently as an Executive Director of Morgan Stanley Infrastructure (MSI), a global platform for infrastructure investments in high-growth markets at Morgan Stanley Investment Management. Prior to joining MSI, Mohamed was part of Morgan Stanley Principal Investments (MSPI), where he evaluated investments for Morgan Stanley’s proprietary investments group and was involved in several acquisitions in the EMEA region. Mohamed holds an L.L.B. with Honors from Warwick University in the United Kingdom.

I Squared Capital

I Squared Capital is an independent infrastructure investor with over $30 billion in assets under management and specializing in sourcing, managing, and building global infrastructure platforms in the North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America. Headquartered in Miami, the firm has more than 165 professionals across its offices in Hong Kong, London, New Delhi, and Singapore. I Squared Capital has invested in a diverse portfolio of 40 companies in 53 countries across the energy, utilities, digital infrastructure, transport, and social infrastructure sectors, with over 24,000 employees and providing essential services to millions of people around the world.

Adam Emmert

Senior Managing Director, Tiger Infrastructure Partners

Adam Emmert is a Senior Managing Director at Tiger Infrastructure Partners. He has been a member of the Tiger Infrastructure Partners team since the firm’s inception. Adam was previously a member of Lehman Brothers' infrastructure private equity team. Prior to that, he held positions with Highstar Capital, the Lehman Brothers’ Merchant Banking Group and the Lehman Brothers' Global Power Group. Adam serves on the boards of 11:11 Systems, Crosslake Fibre, Danskammer, IAC, Modern Aviation and NorthLink Aviation. Adam holds a BA from Kenyon College, an MA in International Affairs and International Economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Tiger Infrastructure Partners

Tiger Infrastructure Partners is an innovative private equity firm focused on providing transformational growth capital to middle market infrastructure companies. Tiger’s value-add approach targets growth investments across the Digital Infrastructure, Energy Transition and Transportation sectors in North America and Europe, where Tiger believes strong tailwinds are driving demand for new infrastructure. Tiger maintains offices in New York and London.

Matthias Fackler

Partner and Head of EQT Infrastructure Team Europe, EQT

Matthias Fackler joined EQT Partners in Munich in September 2008 and is Head of Infrastructure Continental Europe.

Matthias holds a Master degree in Business Administration of the University of Tübingen.

Prior to joining EQT Partners, Matthias worked from 2000 to 2008 at the Investment Bank Rothschild mainly on transactions related to the infrastructure sector.

Between 1996 and 2000 Matthias worked at Arthur Andersen focusing on transaction services and financial audits. During that time he also passed the German exams of Tax Adviser and Chartered Accountant.
Matthias is a member of the Infrastructure Partners Investment Committee.

EQT

EQT is a differentiated global investment organization with a 25-year history of investing in, developing and owning companies, and has a demonstrated track-record of attractive, consistent investment performance across multiple geographies, sectors and strategies. EQT manages and advises a range of specialized investment funds and other investment vehicles that invest across the world with the mission to generate attractive returns and future-proof companies. EQT has three business segments – Private Capital, Real Assets and Credit. All business segments are guided by a responsible approach, a digital transformation agenda as well as a thematic investment strategy. The EQT Infrastructure advisory team consists of around 50 Investment Advisory Professionals based in Madrid, Munich, New York, Singapore, Stockholm and Zurich. The EQT Infrastructure Investment Advisory team has vast investment expertise and knowledge within the infrastructure sector, as well as established networks in the local business communities and societies. By maintaining a "local-with-locals" presence, the Investment Advisory Professionals are uniquely positioned to analyze infrastructure companies and the markets in which they are located and operate, to develop proprietary investment opportunities. The teams’ industrial, hands-on approach, combined with an ability to see what is "beyond the obvious" in terms of operational value creation potential, are key advantages when scanning investment opportunities, unlocking their value and monitoring their development.

Uwe Fleischhauer

Managing Director, YIELCO Investments AG

Uwe Fleischhauer is Founding Partner and member of the Executive Board and Investment Committee of YIELCO Investments AG in Munich, Germany. YIELCO, established in 2011, is an innovative alternative investment service provider with focus on the asset classes Infrastructure, Private Debt and Private Equity, offering multi-manager portfolios, co-investments, and managed account solutions and advisory. The company presently manages approximately EUR 9.1 billion in capital commitments from institutional investors and family offices.

Before YIELCO, Uwe worked almost 14 years (1998 to 2011) in his own Private Equity advisory firm Fleischhauer, Hoyer & Partner (FHP), Private Equity Consultants, as independent consultant and advisor for institutional investors.

Uwe performed advisory and consulting projects for institutional investors around the asset class Private Equity including all sub-segments as well as Infrastructure. He has been one of Germany’s most respected independent researchers and published on a regular basis market surveys and studies on current topics in Private Equity and Infrastructure.

Beforehand, Uwe was over seven years a management consultant / project leader at the international consulting firms Arthur D. Little and Mercer Management Consulting. He graduated in Business Administration from University of Bremen, followed by a postgraduate degree in “European Enterprise Management” at Dorset Business School in Bournemouth (England) and University of Barcelona (Spain).

YIELCO Investments AG

YIELCO is an independent, globally active, specialized investor and service provider in the field of alternative investments, focused on asset classes that generate attractive and / or long-term predictable and sustainable returns. YIELCO Investments is managed by experienced investment experts who have been supporting institutional investors in all areas of alternative investments for an average of over 15 years. On this basis, YIELCO has developed an innovative range of products and services that are characterized by attractive conditions and a high level of interest alignment with customers. An international advisory board complements the expertise with extensive direct investment experience. Optimally diversified multi-manager portfolios, co-investments, and managed accounts considering individual requirements, enable investors to set up cost-effective, alternative investment portfolios in the segments of infrastructure, private debt, and private equity, whilst also taking into account ESG criteria.

Mark Florian

Global head, BlackRock Infrastructure Funds, BlackRock

Mark Florian leads the Global Energy & Power Infrastructure team at BlackRock, which currently manages about $9 billion, investing in the power, midstream, utility and other energy sectors across three long term funds. The team has created over 35 portfolio companies for the Funds, typically with leading energy companies across the world, and is actively investing globally.

Mr. Florian started the Global Energy and Power Infrastructure business at First Reserve, a private equity firm focused on energy, in 2008, and this business moved to BlackRock in 2017. The team now includes about 60 professionals and is located in Greenwich Connecticut, London, Houston and Singapore. Prior to First Reserve, Mr. Florian had a 23-year career at Goldman Sachs. He was a Partner at this Firm, and worked across many areas including corporate investment banking, mergers and acquisitions, and public finance in his career there. His last position at Goldman was as the COO of the Public Sector and Infrastructure Department, managing the infrastructure investment banking business which included about 150 people, and a member of the investment committee for Goldman Sachs Infrastructure Partners.

BlackRock
BlackRock’s purpose is to help more and more people experience financial well-being. As a fiduciary to investors and a leading provider of financial technology, we help millions of people build savings that serve them throughout their lives by making investing easier and more affordable. For additional information on BlackRock, please visitwww.blackrock.com/corporate

BlackRock Alternative Investors
BlackRock Alternative Investors serve investors seeking outperformance in real estate, infrastructure, private equity, credit, hedge funds and alternative solutions.  We strive to bring our investors the highest quality investments by drawing upon our global footprint, superior execution capabilities and position as a preferred partner. BlackRock manages $264 billion in alternative investments and commitments on behalf of clients worldwide as of March 31, 2021.

Dylan Foo

Head of Global Infrastructure, Apollo Global Management

Mr. Foo is a Partner and Head of Global Infrastructure at Apollo. Mr. Foo has more than 20 years of industry experience investing in Asia, UK, Europe and North America, with a particular focus on mid-market assets in transportation, telecommunications and social infrastructure. Mr. Foo currently serves as Chairman of the Investment Committee overseeing the various Apollo infrastructure funds. Mr Foo currently serves on the board of directors of Brightspeed, Primafrio and Broad Reach Power. Mr. Foo received a Master of Applied Finance from Macquarie University and a Bachelor’s of International Business from Queensland University of Technology.

Ted Frith

Chief Operating Officer, GLIL Infrastructure

Ted joined GLIL in November 2018 and he is the Chief Operating Officer. He chairs the Executive Committee and is responsible for the day-to-day management of GLIL.

Ted’s career spans 30 years in investment banking and asset management and he has a track record of building and developing a number of successful businesses. The first half of his career was in the foreign exchange and interest rate markets. Ted worked for Orion Royal Bank, Midland Montagu, Citibank and Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein.

Ted left investment banking in 2005 and embarked on a new career in asset management.

Ted graduated from Oxford University after studying Chemistry with Quantum Mechanics.

GLIL Infrastructure LLP (GLIL)

GLIL Infrastructure LLP (GLIL) is a joint venture between a number of UK local government pension funds targeting investments in core infrastructure assets predominantly in the UK. The founding partners of GLIL are the pension funds of Greater Manchester, Merseyside, West Yorkshire, who are known collectively as the Northern Pool, and Local Pensions Partnership (LPP) which manages the assets of Berkshire, Lancashire, and London Pensions Fund Authority. GLIL was chosen as an Infrastructure partner by Nest Corporation in March 2021. GLIL has committed capital of £3.6 billion.

Kalliope Gourntis

Deputy Editor, Infrastructure Investor

Kalliope is Deputy Editor at Infrastructure Investor, focusing primarily on the print edition, the latest role she’s assumed since joining the company in 2013. Kalliope initially covered the US market when she was based in New York, but has since relocated to Europe, where she oversees Infrastructure Investor’s team of reporters in London, New York and Sydney. Prior to joining PEI Media, she worked for Reuters in Athens as Energy Correspondent and has published a number of bylined articles that have appeared in the International Herald Tribune (now New York Times), The Wall Street Journal Europe and The Financial Times.

Dominic Helmsley

Head of Core Infrastructure, Abrdn

Dominic heads up the Core Infrastructure team at abrdn. He has over 30 years’ experience in the infrastructure sector combining extensive mergers and acquisitions experience with asset management expertise. Dominic spent 12 years with BAA plc where he headed their international acquisitions group and oversaw the acquisition and management of a number of overseas investments. Dominic has then spent eighteen years in the fund management industry, initially with Babcock and Brown, as part of the European Infrastructure team and then as a Partner with Arcus Infrastructure Partners, which completed an MBO from Babcock and Brown in 2009.

Dominic left Arcus to establish an infrastructure team at SL Capital, part of Standard Life Investments and for the last 10 years he has led that business successfully raising and deploying three funds to date. The business now sits within abrdn plc following the merger of Standard Life and Aberdeen Asset Management.

abrdn European Infrastructure

abrdn’s European Infrastructure business focuses on European mid-market core/core+ infrastructure assets across utilities, transport, energy and digital sectors.

The team is led by Dominic Helmsley with an experienced dedicated team of 24 investment professionals along with portfolio directors and professionals across legal, finance, operations and compliance. In addition an extensive panel of circa 20 senior advisors provide ongoing support to the business.

The team is part of abrdn plc, one of Europe’s largest asset managers with over £500 billion of assets.

The Infrastructure team manage over €3 billion of assets and have successfully invested three funds, with assets across the rolling stock, solar, hydro, district heating, storage and fibre sectors. The team will launch their 4th fund in 2024. The fund will build on the successful strategies adopted by the prior funds and will capitalise on the key macro infrastructure themes of energy transition, transport de-carbonisation and digitisation.

Michael Hoverman

Managing Director and Head, Global Partners Group, CIM Group

Michael Hoverman is a Managing Director and Head of the Global Partners Group, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Michael oversees the Global Partners group at CIM, which is responsible for building strong relationships with CIM’s institutional partners and co-investors. Additionally, Michael sits on CIM Group’s ESG Committee, which is responsible for managing and implementing environment, social and governance initiatives across the organization.

Prior to joining CIM in 2014, Mr. Hoverman was a Vice President focused on infrastructure within Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets at Macquarie Group in New York, where he primarily worked on Macquarie’s flagship North American infrastructure funds, Macquarie Infrastructure Partners I, II & III.

Mr. Hoverman earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Philosophy from Bates College and a Master of Finance degree in Investment Banking from INSEAD. Michael holds his Series 7, 63 and 24 licenses with FINRA.

CIM Group

Established in 1994, CIM Group is a community-focused owner and operator of real assets for our own account and on behalf of our partners and co-investors seeking exposure to real assets and associated credit strategies with a principal focus on metropolitan areas across the Americas. CIM’s real asset holdings include residential, commercial, retail, hospitality, debt and infrastructure as well as U.S. based net lease and other credit strategies. CIM is vertically integrated and has broad expertise including in-house research, acquisition, credit analysis, development, finance, leasing and onsite asset management capabilities. CIM employs over 1000 people, including over 575 professionals and its 15 Principals. CIM is led by its three original founders, Richard Ressler, Avi Shemesh and Shaul Kuba, who have worked together to own and operate real assets for over 25 years.

Jasmine Hunet Lamourille

Managing Director, Evercore

Jasmine Hunet Lamourille is a Managing Director in Evercore’s European Private Capital Advisory team.

Jasmine has over 12 years of secondary market advisory experience. Prior to joining Evercore in 2013, Jasmine was a member of the Secondary Advisory Team within the Private Funds Group at UBS. Jasmine has extensive experience advising both LPs on strategic sale transactions, as well as GPs on continuation/acquisition fund transactions, fund recapitalisations, restructurings, spin-offs and capital raises.

Jasmine graduated with Dean’s Honors from ESCP Europe, with a “Grande Ecole” Master in Management and Finance. Jasmine is fluent in English and French, and has a good knowledge of Spanish.

Evercore

We founded Evercore in 1995, on the premise that clients would be best served by an investment banking firm free of the conflicts of interest inherent to large, multi-product financial institutions. We believed our model would attract the most talented senior finance professionals to our firm. We believed that by maintaining the highest standards of excellence we could create a firm unlike any other in terms of capabilities to advise on highly complex strategic transactions, dedication to our client and our experience and professionalism.

Today, we serve a prominent and diverse set of clients and investors, including leading multinational corporations, large institutional investors and financial sponsors, and high net worth individuals.

Allison Kingsley

Founder and Partner, NOVA Infrastructure

Allison Kingsley is Founder ＆ Partner of NOVA Infrastructure, a value-added, middle market asset manager investing in environmental services, transportation, energy / energy transition, and digital infrastructure sectors in North America. With nearly 25 years of experience in infrastructure, Allison leads NOVA’s sourcing and execution of infrastructure investments, sits on NOVA’s Investment, Executive, and Valuation Committees, and serves on the Board of Directors for multiple NOVA portfolio companies. Prior to founding NOVA, Allison invested across different roles and firms, including PartnerRe / Reformation, Ambac, and Lehman Brothers. Allison is also a political economist and former tenured business school professor, with a B.A. cum laude from Rice University, a M.S.L. from Yale Law School, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University.

NOVA Infrastructure

NOVA Infrastructure is a value-added investment manager targeting middle market infrastructure investments in North America. NOVA actively invests in attractive investment opportunities across the target sectors of environmental services, transportation, energy / energy transition, and digital infrastructure. NOVA’s highly experienced team creatively sources infrastructure investments, pairing the best downside protection features of the infrastructure asset class with operationally-focused strategies to generate incremental returns.

Stephane Kofman

Director, Fund Management, InfraRed Capital Partners Ltd

Stéphane joined InfraRed in 2007.

He leads the Infrastructure business line's new strategic initiatives and product development from initial design and investment strategy definition to successful fund raising. He also focuses on securing and managing investments for the value-add greenfield infrastructure funds.

He was previously leading the firm's development in the energy sector across Europe, the Americas and Australasia, focusing on low carbon power generation, energy storage, flexible generation and transmission assets. Stéphane was responsible for investment screening, deals prioritisation, origination and transactions of both greenfield and brownfield acquisitions.

Before joining InfraRed he worked within HSBC's Asset and Structured Finance department for six years where he specialised in big ticket leasing (transportation) and designing structured products. Stéphane began his career at PwC in 1995 as an auditor and then moved to Project Finance (power sector) at Crédit Commercial de France (now HSBC France).

InfraRed Capital Partner

InfraRed Capital Partners is an international investment manager focused on infrastructure and real estate. It operates worldwide from offices in London, New York, Sydney, Seoul and Mexico City. It manages US$10bn of equity capital in multiple private and listed infrastructure funds, primarily for institutional investors across the globe. InfraRed Capital Partners is authorised and regulated in the UK by the Financial Conduct Authority. InfraRed implements best-in-class practices to underpin asset management and investment decisions, promotes ethical behaviour and has established community engagement initiatives to support good causes in the wider community. InfraRed has been a signatory of the Principles of Responsible Investment since 2011 and has been awarded triple A+ score in 2019 PRI assessment. InfraRed is a part of SLC Management which is the institutional alternatives and traditional asset management business of Sun Life. Over the past 30 years InfraRed has established itself as a highly successful developer and custodian of core infrastructure, renewable energy and real-estate assets that play a vital role in supporting sustainable communities. For more information go to www.ircp.com

Andreas Köttering

Managing Director, CBRE Investment Management

Andreas joined CBRE Investment Management in 2018 and is a member of the firm's investment committee. He is the head of European private infrastructure investment practice, and has over 25 years of extensive experience in infrastructure investing.

Prior to joining CBRE IM, Andreas was most recently the Europe Co-Head of Infrastructure for GIC in London and before that Managing Director, Infrastructure EMEA at CPPIB. Previously, Andreas worked at Schroders and Citigroup, providing M&A and capital markets advice to clients in the infrastructure and utilities sectors. He held positions as a Principal Investor at Siemens in Germany and Hong Kong, and as a project finance banker at KfW.

Andreas graduated from the London School of Economics with a B.Sc. (Econ) and then went to St Antony's College, Oxford University, to obtain an M.Sc, in Agricultural Economics and a D. Phil. With a thesis on 'Futures Trading in Commodity Markets'.

CBRE Investment Management

CBRE Investment Management is a leading global real assets investment management firm with $143.9 billion in assets under management as of September 30, 2022, operating in more than 30 offices and 20 countries around the world. Through its investor-operator culture, the firm seeks to deliver sustainable investment solutions across real assets categories, geographies, risk profiles and execution formats so that its clients, people and communities thrive.

CBRE Investment Management is an independently operated affiliate of CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBRE), the world's largest commercial real estate service and investment firm (based on 2021 revenue). CBRE has more than 105,000 employees (excluding Turner & Townsend employees) serving clients in more than 100 countries. CBRE Investment Management harnesses CBRE's data and market insights, investment sourcing and other resources for the benefit of its clients.

Jaroslava Korpanec

Head of Infrastructure, Allianz Capital Partners

Jaroslava Korpanec joined Allianz Capital Partners (ACP) in 2008 and has worked on a number of debt and equity investments in the infrastructure sector since joining. Jaroslava was, among other transactions, responsible for the below acquisitions:

- Chicago Parking Meters, the 75 year concession to own, manage and operate the on street parking system of the city of Chicago
- Gassled, stakes from Total and Statoil in the Norwegian offshore gas system
- Net4Gas, the gas transmission and transport system in the Czech Republic
- Porterbrook, one of the major UK rolling Stock leasing companies
- Thames Tideway Tunnel, the £4.2 billion project to construct a new super-sewer under the river Thames
- Cadent gas, the largest distributor of gas in the UK
- Affinity Water, the largest water only supply company in the UK
- Gasnet, the gas distribution business in the Czech Republic

Prior to joining ACP, Jaroslava worked at AIG Financial Products in the principal finance group where she made several investments in the infrastructure sector. Jaroslava was one of the principals responsible for the acquisition and management of London City Airport in behalf of AIG Financial Products.

Prior to her position at AIG Financial Products Jaroslava was a senior attorney with the US law firm of Simpson Thacher and Bartlett where she spent six years.

She was awarded a Masters and a Master of Arts degree in Law from Cambridge University, United Kingdom (1996). Jaroslava is also a member of the New York bar and a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales.

Pete Labbat

Managing Partner, ECP

Mr. Labbat is a Managing Partner of ECP. He is involved in all areas of the firm’s investment activities, serves as the Chairman of the Investment Committee and Valuation Committee and is a member of the ESG Committee and Management Committee.

Prior to joining ECP in 2006, Mr. Labbat spent 13 years in Goldman Sachs’ Investment Banking Division. He began his career within Goldman Sachs’ Mergers & Acquisitions Department, advising on and executing numerous strategic transactions including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and divestitures across a variety of industries. As a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, Mr. Labbat had senior-level coverage responsibility for electric and gas utilities and independent power companies throughout the United States. Mr. Labbat was also responsible for mergers and acquisitions in the natural resources sector.

Mr. Labbat received a B.A. in Economics from Georgetown University and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

ECP

ECP is a leading infrastructure investor based in Summit, New Jersey, and has been on the forefront of renewable energy investing since its inception in 2005. With a deeply experienced team that has invested across numerous energy transitions, ECP frequently partners with high-quality businesses that aim to both maintain reliability and have a positive, environmental impact while disrupting the traditional energy ecosystem. ECP primarily invests across five key asset classes: power generation, renewables, storage solutions, environmental infrastructure and sustainability, efficiency & reliability assets. With $27 billion in committed capital, the firm invests with the goal of powering a sustainable future.

Vittorio Lacagnina

Partner, Apollo Global Management

Vittorio Lacagnina is a Partner in the Institutional Client & Product Solutions group at Apollo where he leads capital formation for Infrastructure. Prior to joining Apollo in 2022, Vittorio was Managing Director & Head of Business Development, Private Infrastructure at Partners Group.

Vittorio has 25 years of industry experience across a variety of senior investment, advisory and capital formation roles with QIC, SteelRiver Infrastructure, Babcock & Brown and DEPFA Bank. Vittorio began his career in the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs where he acquired relevant transaction and coverage expertise across the Americas and Europe.

Vittorio graduated with a first-class BA (Hons) in international business from the European Business School, London. He is a volunteer for Glasswing International and involved in Positive Youth Development, Community Empowerment and Emergency & Trauma-Informed Care in Central America.

Apollo is a global, high-growth alternative asset manager. In our asset management business, we seek to provide our clients excess return at every point along the risk-reward spectrum from investment grade to private equity with a focus on three business strategies: yield, hybrid, and equity. For more than three decades, our investing expertise across our fully integrated platform has served the financial return needs of our clients and provided businesses with innovative capital solutions for growth. Through Athene, our retirement services business, we specialize in helping clients achieve financial security by providing a suite of retirement savings products and acting as a solutions provider to institutions. Our patient, creative, and knowledgeable approach to investing aligns our clients, businesses we invest in, our employees, and the communities we impact, to expand opportunity and achieve positive outcomes. As of March 31, 2022, Apollo had approximately $513 billion of assets under management. To learn more, please visit www.apollo.com.

Raphael Lance

Head of Mirova Energy transition funds, Natixis Investment Managers

Raphaël joined Mirova (100% affiliate of Natixis IM) in 2009 as Managing Director of the renewable energy funds (Fideme , Eurofideme 2, Eurofideme 3, Eurofideme 4) with around 1.3 Bios€ assets under management, representing 200 projects across Europe, and 5GW of capacity. He is leading a team of close to 20 professionals
Raphaël started his career at Crédit Lyonnais in the Project and Asset Finance division before joining General Electric where he has worked for 12 years. Raphael held several finance and M&A management positions in GE healthcare, GE Oil & Gas and GE Energy Financial Services.
Raphael holds a Master’s degree and a DESS in Finance from Paris IX Dauphine and the International Executive Program at INSEAD. He has an extensive international experience having lived in Vietnam, Hungary and Italy for a total of 10 years.

Natixis Investment Managers

Our multi-affiliate approach connects you to the independent thinking and focused expertise of more than 20 active managers. Ranked among the world’s largest asset managers(1) (USD 1.3 trillion AUM(2)), we deliver a diverse range of solutions across asset classes, styles, and vehicles. We’re dedicated to advancing sustainable finance and developing innovative ESG products. We consult and partner with our clients, and continually evaluate markets and assumptions to ensure their strategy delivers on long-term goals.
1 Cerulli Quantitative Update: Global Markets 2020 ranked Natixis Investment Managers as the 17th largest asset manager in the world based on assets under management as of December 31, 2019.
2 Assets under management (“AUM”) as of March 31, 2021. AUM, as reported, may include notional assets, assets serviced, gross assets, assets of minority-owned affiliated entities and other types of non-regulatory AUM managed or serviced by firms affiliated with Natixis Investment Managers.

Sola Lawson

Co-Managing Director, African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM)

Olusola was appointed Co-Managing Director in August 2020 and has more than 16 years of corporate finance and infrastructure equity investing experience across European and African markets.

Over the last decade, after founding the Nigerian office for AIIM, he was responsible for originating, executing and managing more than USD500m of equity invested in the digital infrastructure, power, renewables, midstream and transportation space across Africa. This included the co-development,
construction and successful exit of the Azura power project in Nigeria, the first project financed power deal to close in Nigeria in 20 years. He has served on several portfolio company boards, including Lekki Toll Road, Azura Power, Starsight Power Utilities, Tema LNG, Accugas, Savannah Uquo Gas Limited, and as a Board Observer at IHS Towers. Sola serves as a Director on the AIIM Board and is a member of the Executive Committee and the Business Review Group of Old Mutual Alternative Investments. Olusola is also a member of the AIIM Investment Committees, namely AIIF3 and IDEAS.

Previously he was an Investment Manager in Macquarie Group’s European Infrastructure Funds team in London, where he worked on a number of European infrastructure transactions in a principal capacity, and played a key role in portfolio company management, primarily in the petrochemical storage and transportation space.

Prior to joining Macquarie, Olusola worked at PwC London, where his focus was on transaction advisory services to a primarily private equity client base.

Olusola holds a B.Sc Economics (Hons) from the University College of London.

About African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM)

African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM) is one of the most experienced private equity investment managers with a 21 year track record focused exclusively on African infrastructure. AIIM currently manages USD2.0bn in AUM out of 5 regional offices on the continent with a portfolio extending across more than 63 investments, 29 exits and operations in 19 countries throughout sub-Saharan Africa across its 7 African infrastructure funds. The funds are designed to invest long-term institutional unlisted equity in African infrastructure projects such as toll roads, renewable energy, power generation, midstream energy, airports, ports and digital infrastructure assets.

Andrew Liau

Managing Director and Co-Head of H.I.G. Infrastructure, H.I.G. Capital

Andrew is a Managing Director on the infrastructure team based in H.I.G.’s London office and co-heads the firm’s infrastructure activities. He has over 20 years of experience in private equity and investment banking.

Prior to joining H.I.G., Andrew was a Senior Managing Director in the infrastructure group at Ardian, where he led a number of successful core plus investments. Prior to Ardian, he was a founding member of First State Investments’ European infrastructure team. Andrew began his career at RBC, where he worked on infrastructure financings.

Andrew earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of British Columbia and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

H.I.G. Capital

H.I.G. Capital is a leading global private equity investment firm with over $45 billion of equity capital under management.* The H.I.G. family of funds includes private equity, growth equity, debt/credit, real estate and biohealth. H.I.G. aligns itself with committed management teams and entrepreneurs to help build businesses of significant value. Our team of over 350 investment professionals has substantial operating, consulting, technology and financial management experience, enabling us to contribute meaningfully to our portfolio companies.

* Based on total capital commitments managed by H.I.G. Capital and affiliates.

Nicholas Lockley

Director Events - EMEA, PEI

Bertrand Loubières

Head of Infrastructure Finance, AXA IM Alts

Bertrand is Head of Infrastructure Finance at AXA IM Alts. His responsibilities include managing a team of 10 infrastructure specialists investing in infrastructure loans and bonds.

Before joining AXA IM Alts’ Real Assets in 2015, Bertrand headed the origination, structuring, and placement of all infrastructure project and structured bond opportunities in EMEA and APAC at BNP Paribas. Prior to this, Bertrand worked in the whole business securitisation team of Morgan Stanley and has held a series of roles focused on infrastructure and structured finance.

AXA IM Alts

AXA IM Alts is a global leader in alternative investments with c. €163 billion of AUM(1), across real assets (real estate & infrastructure), private debt & alternative credit and private equity & hedge funds. AXA IM Alts employs over 750 people located in 16 offices around the world and serves the needs of more than 400 clients from Europe, North America, Asia Pacific and Middle East, including 100+ third party insurance clients globally and with over 80 in Europe. We are a global leader in real assets investment with c. €110 billion of assets under management, the number one property portfolio and asset manager in Europe(2), and one of the largest worldwide. 

(1) Source: AXA IM (unaudited) as at 30 June 2021.
(2) Source: INREV Fund Manager Survey, May 2021. #1 largest European managers in total real estate assets under management. 

Charlotte Madden

Global Co-Head of Infrastructure, Clifford Chance

Charlotte Madden is Global Co-Head of Infrastructure at Clifford Chance. Charlotte specialises in advising private equity houses and infrastructure funds on domestic and cross-border M＆A. Charlotte has represented financial investors through all stages of the investment cycle across a range of infrastructure sectors, including highly regulated transactions.

Clifford Chance

Clifford Chance is a recognised market leader globally, and our team is set up to deliver best value on complex transactions across the Infrastructure and Energy Transition space. We provide full service capabilities at every stage of the infrastructure value chain from fund formation to the structuring and financing of projects through to disputes and litigation and mergers and acquisitions. Our lawyers across jurisdictions work extremely closely and have strong links, providing an efficient and seamless service and an exceptionally broad bench of expertise and vast deal experience to provide clients with cutting-edge insights into current market practice.

Steven Marshall

Chairman and Managing Partner, Cordiant Digital infrastructure, Cordiant

Steven Marshall is Chairman of Cordiant’s Digital Infrastructure practice. He is Co-Head of both Cordiant Digital Infrastructure Limited (CORD:LSE) and Cordiant Digital GP/LP fund (in fundraising).

Formerly President of American Tower’s core business (AMT:NYSE; market capitalisation ~$120B), he oversaw two $5 billion acquisitions, as well as a significant programme of organic growth and tuck-under acquisitions during his 10 year tenure. Prior to that he helped American Tower establish operations in EMEA, India and parts of Latin America. Before AMT he was CEO of National Grid Wireless (then Europe’s largest digital infrastructure business) and Executive Chairman of a $1.5 billion fibre joint-venture between France Telecom, Sprint and National Grid. He served as Chairman of the Wireless Infrastructure Association in USA, and as a Director of the CTIA (the mobile carriers’ association in the USA). He currently Chairs the Boards of CRA, Czech Republic; NextGenAccess a fiber developer in the UK; DataGryd, an interconnected Data Center in NYC; Paradigm Infrastructure, a tower developer in Africa; and Brasil TowerCo, a tower developer in Brasil. He is also a non-executive director of Tawal, Saudi Telecom’s wholly owned Tower Company. Mr. Marshall trained as a building and civil engineer at the University of Manchester, UK and subsequently earned his MBA at Alliance Manchester Business School, UK.

Cordiant

Cordiant is a sector-focused investor in “Infrastructure 2.0”: where technology change and operating expertise drive IRR. Deploying operator-heavy sector teams, we focus on digital infrastructure, renewable energy infrastructure and agriculture value chain in equity and credit. With ~$4 billion of institutional capital, Cordiant orients towards middle market, growth capital investments. An early signatory of UN PRI, and a founding signatory of Operating Principles for Impact Management, Cordiant aims to combine profitable investment with sustainability and a responsible approach to capital deployment. Partner-owned and -run (ensuring tight alignment with LPs), Cordiant welcomes co-investment partnerships. The firm manages permanent capital vehicle Cordiant Digital Infrastructure Limited (CORD:LSE) and GP/LP funds (such as the pending Digital Infrastructure II). Cordiant has offices in Montreal, London, Luxembourg and Sao Paulo.

Minesh Mashru

Head of Infrastructure, Cambridge Associates

Minesh is a Managing Director and Head of Infrastructure in the Real Assets Investment Group at Cambridge Associates. He is focused on the infrastructure investment activities for the group, in both public and private markets, debt, equity, and across different structures, including underwriting funds, management teams, co-investments and direct investments. Minesh works with a global client base, comprised of public and corporate pensions, large families and endowments, in Europe, the US and the Middle East.

Prior to joining Cambridge Associates, Minesh was a Partner and Director at OM Capital Partners with a focus on direct, co-investment and portfolio management within infrastructure, agri-business and industrials across debt and equity investments. He previously worked as a Senior Vice President of QG Alternative Investments, where he was a senior representative for investment sourcing, execution and portfolio management of a USD 1.1 billion infrastructure private equity fund.

Before that he was a Vice President on RBS’ advisory team, with a global mandate across infrastructure, transportation and logistics; undertaking industry changing transactions including the privatisations of Aena Aeropuertos, the Channel Tunnel rail link (High Speed One), and the acquisition of Gatwick Airport. In total, Minesh has had leading roles in infrastructure equity and debt investments exceeding USD 50 billion, beginning his career at UBS.

Cambridge Associates

Cambridge Associates (‘CA’) is a privately-held Global Investment Company providing both discretionary and non-discretionary investment solutions to our clients as our single line of business.

Our fundamental mission has always remained unchanged: we strive to help long term investors around the world to meet or exceed their investment objectives by providing proactive, unbiased advice grounded in intensive and independent research.We have focused on discovering new ways to add long-term value to our clients’ portfolios based on their unique objectives for nearly 50 years.

Private Investments (“PI”) in particular have been, and continues to be, a core part of our business. Today, we have specialised investment teams in Private Equity, Private Debt, Infrastructure and other Real Assets as well as an integratedESG team working alongside our respective teams. We have over 100 Private Investment specialists who focus on investment and research in underlying PI asset classes located across our global offices.

Graham Matthews

CEO Infrastructure, PATRIZIA

Graham is Head of Infrastructure at PATRIZIA and a member of PATRIZIA’s Executive Committee. He was formerly founding shareholder and Chief Executive of Whitehelm Capital before the business merged with PATRIZIA in 2022. Graham started the Whitehelm infrastructure business in 1998, at the time when private ownership of public infrastructure originated globally.

Graham led the growth of the Whitehelm business and development of the firm’s investment philosophy and its world-wide asset acquisitions and disposals. He has been instrumental in delivering operational, financial, and sustainability improvements across a wide range of infrastructure businesses in Europe and globally. Graham previously held senior roles in the Australian Federal Treasury and represented Australia at the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC.

PATRIZIA

With operations around the world, PATRIZIA has been offering investment opportunities in real estate and infrastructure assets for institutional, semi-professional and private investors for 40 years. PATRIZIA manages approx. EUR 58 billion in assets and employs around 1,000 professionals at 28 locations worldwide. PATRIZIA has been making an impact since 1984 by helping children in need, since 1992 in close collaboration with Bunter Kreis (“colourful circle”) in Germany for aftercare of children with severe diseases and since 1999 through its support for the PATRIZIA Foundation. The PATRIZIA Foundation has given more than 600,000 children and young people worldwide access to education, healthcare, and a safe home to get the chance to live a better self-determined life over the last 24 years. You can find further information at www.patrizia.ag and www.patrizia.foundation

Irene Mavroyannis

Global Co-Head of Business Development, Infrastructure, Partners Group (USA) Inc.

Irene joined Partners Group in April 2023 as Global Co-Head of Business Development, Infrastructure, and is based in NY. She has 30+ years of finance experience and prior to Partners Group was the Global Head of the Infrastructure Private Capital Advisory business for Sera Global, Brookfield’s real assets advisory platform. Irene’s previous roles include Managing Director in the Investor Solutions Group at Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA), Head of North America and Business Development at Hastings Funds Management and Global Product Specialist for Infrastructure & Energy at KKR. Irene also previously worked in investment banking at both Morgan Stanley and Citigroup in NY. Irene received a Master of Laws from the University of Chicago Law School, a JD (Magna cum Laude) from the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, and a Bachelor of Social Sciences (Econ/Math) (Summa cum Laude) from the University of Ottawa. Irene sits on the University of Chicago Alumni Board, the Board of the Philharmonia Foundation and is a non-executive director at Verdigris Inc.

Rosheen McGuckian

Chief Executive Officer, NTR

Rosheen was appointed Chief Executive Officer of NTR plc in April 2013.  Since joining NTR in 2008, Rosheen has held a number of leadership positions in NTR including most recently as Group Business Development Director and CEO positions in solar development, energy storage, water treatment and waste management platforms within the group.
Prior to joining NTR, Rosheen was CEO of GE Money Ireland, the consumer finance division of General Electric. Prior to that, Rosheen led the business transformation initiative for Irish utility ESB Power Generation.   
Rosheen is a Director of Grafton Group plc and construction group Sisk. Rosheen was recently voted as one of the Top 25 in the Global Women’s Power List and Top 50 in the Global Green Fund Power List. She holds a PhD and MA from Dublin City University, and BSc from Trinity College Dublin.

NTR Plc

With almost 40 years of experience in investing in and managing infrastructure assets, NTR now applies that expertise on behalf of investors who wish to avail of the attractive, reliable cash flows that quality sustainable infrastructure assets can provide.
For two decades, NTR has invested in renewable energy and during that period, NTR has through its associated companies, constructed and operated c.2GW of wind projects and 630MW of solar projects across Europe and the US.
Since 2015, NTR has acquired and managed renewable energy investments on behalf of third party investors through its renewable energy funds.

Ali Miraj

Global Lead, Infrastructure Sponsor Coverage, ING

Ali Miraj is an infrastructure financier, broadcaster, political commentator and DJ. Having qualified as a Chartered Accountant, he works in Infrastructure Finance at ING, co-ordinating global relationships with infrastructure equity funds.

He presents shows on LBC and regularly appears on Sky News to comment on domestic political developments and international affairs. In 2012, he founded the Contrarian Prize to recognise the independence, courage and sacrifice of British public figures whose ideas challenge the status quo. A former Conservative Parliamentary Candidate, he was first elected as a Councillor at the age of 23. He served as an adviser to the Conservative Foreign Affairs Team from 2001-2003 and as a Board Member of the party’s Policy Commissions on Quality of Life and International and National Security (2005-2007).

He is a trained House music DJ and has had multiple residencies and played at leading venues around the world. He is national Vice President of CPRE, the countryside charity and Junior Warden and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of International Bankers. He holds an MSc In Politics of the World Economy and BSc Econ (International Relations) both from the London School of Economics.

ING

ING is a global leader in the infrastructure space with a EUR 25bn portfolio across sectors including regulated utilities, airports, ports, containers and rail, telecoms, renewables and energy. Specialist teams in EMEA, New York, Singapore and Australia provide global coverage to our client base, providing lending, financial markets, debt capital markets and M&A advisory expertise.

We support our infrastructure clients across the capital structure providing project, acquisition and fund financing solutions. Sustainability is at the core of ING’s approach with the bank actively steering its c. EUR700bn lending book towards fulfilling the Paris climate goal.

Adebayo Ogunlesi

Chairman and Managing Partner, Global Infrastructure Partners

Bayo Ogunlesi is Chairman and Managing Partner and a Founding Partner of GIP, a leading private equity firm that invests in infrastructure assets. He chairs both the Investment and Operating Committees and is a member of the Valuation Committee. He is based in New York City.

Prior to the formation of GIP in 2006, Mr. Ogunlesi spent 23 years at Credit Suisse, where he held several senior positions including Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Client Officer of the Investment Banking Division. From 2002 to 2004, he was Head of the Global Investment Banking Division and a Member of the Executive Board and Management Committee.

Previously, Mr. Ogunlesi was an attorney with the New York law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore. He also served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Thurgood Marshall, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He has been a Lecturer at the Harvard and Yale Law Schools and the Yale School of Management where he taught courses on Transnational Investment Projects.

Mr. Ogunlesi holds a B.A. (First Class Honors) in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University, a J.D. (magna cum laude) from Harvard Law School and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He is the Lead Director of Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., and a member of the Boards of Directors of Callaway Golf Company, Kosmos Energy Holdings, Terminal Investment Limited SA and Freeport LNG Development, L.P. He is a Member of the Dean's Advisory Boards of the Harvard Law and Business Schools and the Harvard University Global Advisory Council.

Ed Pallesen

Managing Director, Co-Head of Infrastructure, H.I.G. Capital

Ed is a Managing Director based in H.I.G.’s New York office and co-leads the firm’s Infrastructure activities.

Prior to joining H.I.G., Ed was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs & Co. Ed worked at Goldman Sachs for 19 years in a variety of capacities, including in the Telecom, Media and Technology group in Investment Banking, and, most recently, as head of the Americas at Goldman Sachs’ Infrastructure fund. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Ed served as a judicial law clerk for the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Ed earned a B.A. from Harvard College, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and a D.Phil. from Oxford University, with honors, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

H.I.G. Capital is a leading global private equity investment firm with over $45 billion of equity capital under management.* The H.I.G. family of funds includes private equity, growth equity, debt/credit, real estate and biohealth. H.I.G. aligns itself with committed management teams and entrepreneurs to help build businesses of significant value. Our team of over 350 investment professionals has substantial operating, consulting, technology and financial management experience, enabling us to contribute meaningfully to our portfolio companies.

* Based on total capital commitments managed by H.I.G. Capital and affiliates.

Lorenzo Parola

Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills

Lorenzo Parola is a Partner of Herbert Smith Freehills and Head of the Italian Energy and Infrastructure Practice. Mr Parola is admitted to both the Italian Supreme Court (Corte di Cassazione) and as a Solicitor of England and Wales. He is one of the leading energy and energy technology lawyers in Italy having been involved in some of the most complex and “first of a kind” transactions in the sector.

Mr Parola advises infrastructure funds, utilities and oil majors in domestic and cross-border M&A transactions in the oil & gas, power, renewables, energy transition and circular economy sectors. He has a substantial track-record on permitting, contractual and regulatory issues related to the development of energy infrastructure, including renewables and CCGT plants, interconnectors, LNG regasification terminals and gas storages.

He is a Visiting Professor at various masters and advanced university courses (LL.M. in Law of Internet Technology of Bocconi Univtoersity, Master in Energy Management of Business School Polytechnic of Milan, II Level Master in Energy Efficiency and Industrial Sustainability – Master di II livello in Efficienza Energetica e Sostenibilità).

Herbert Smith Freehills

With globalisation and population growth driving change in both developed and emerging markets, unprecedented investment sums are required for the development and maintenance of crucial infrastructure. As governments continue to face funding pressures, they need innovative solutions and delivery partners to provide the infrastructure required for tomorrow’s world. Our government and private sector clients trust us to work on their most complex, market-defining, 'first of a kind' projects and transactions. Our global infrastructure team has worked together over many years and has an outstanding record advising sponsors, contractors, funds, banks, governments and other public bodies on the complexities and nuances of regional and cross-border infrastructure and construction and engineering projects, transactions and disputes. We have a true depth of resource with over 200 lawyers across the firm’s international network focused on the infrastructure sector. With a multi-disciplinary global infrastructure team of world-leading sector specialists and regional experts, we provide commercial insight and legal advice from the consenting and planning process, through to construction, financing, operation, maintenance and ultimately the refinancing or sale of major projects and assets. Our infrastructure disputes lawyers guide our clients and help them to achieve the best commercial outcomes through settlement negotiations, litigation, arbitration, and all forms of alternative dispute resolution.

Chantale Pelletier

Global Head of Infrastructure Equity Investments, Fidelity International

With 25 years of experience in the financial and infrastructure sector, Chantale Pelletier held various leadership and executive positions where she has been actively involved in developing, growing, and managing infrastructure investment portfolios globally. She has overseen and carried out large-scale international projects including the acquisition and management of investments across a range of sectors, such as renewables, energy, transport ＆ mobility, digital infrastructure, and utilities.

In her role as Global head of Infrastructure Equity Investments at Fidelity International, she is leading the development of Fidelity’s infrastructure strategy, driving a new offering across both Infrastructure Debt and Equity.

She joined Fidelity from Schroders where she was most recently Global Head of Infrastructure and CEO of Schroders Capital Management (France). In this role, she led the growth and development of their infrastructure investment platform toward sustainable infrastructure.

Prior to this, Chantale was Managing Director, Head of Europe, Infrastructure Group at global institutional investor Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), one of the world’s largest infrastructure investors. Chantale spent more than 20 years in senior global roles at CDPQ.

Throughout her career, she has served on several Boards of Directors, including those of Keolis, Fluxys, Eurostar, Plenary Group, London Array and Budapest Airport.

Chantale is currently a member of the Board of Directors and the Audit Committee of Pomerleau, a Canadian leader in the construction industry. She also sits on the Board of Directors and on the Audit Committee of Previan, a leading industrial technology group.

Fidelity International

Fidelity International is a global leader in investment and retirement expertise. As a privately-held company with a heritage extending more than 50 years, we think generationally and invest for the long term. It is our core business, ensuring we are driven by our clients’ needs and not shareholder demands.

For institutions we offer tailored investment solutions and consultancy. In total, we manage USD 776 billion across public and private markets*.
Source: Fidelity International, 31 December 2023. Data is unaudited, asset figures are rounded to the nearest US$ billion.
*Includes assets under management and assets under administration. Although combined headline client asset figures for Fidelity International and Fidelity Canada are reported here, it should be noted that the financial results of Fidelity International and Fidelity Canada are not consolidated from a financial reporting perspective.

André Pfleger

Senior Investment Manager, SV SparkassenVersicherung

André Pfleger has been working at SV SparkassenVersicherung in Stuttgart since 2012 and, as Senior Investment Manager, is responsible for the Alternative Investments at SV with a focus on the asset classes Infrastructure and Timber and a portfolio volume of approx. 1 bn EUR. Before that, he worked for around 8 years at the accounting firm PwC in the Transaction Services division. He graduated from the University of Hohenheim with a Diploma in Economics and Business Administration and has been a CFA charterholder since 2008.

SV SparkassenVersicherung

SV Sparkassenversicherung bundles the insurance offerings of the savings banks in the German federal states of Baden-Württemberg, Hesse, Thuringia and parts of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is a nationwide building insurer and the third largest public insurance company in Germany having AuM of ca. 30bn EUR. The company is based in Stuttgart, with other locations in Erfurt, Karlsruhe, Kassel, Mannheim and Wiesbaden. SV has invested into Private Equity since the 2000s and started its investment program into infrastructure in 2010 with direct investments into PV assets. Since then SV has rolled out a global and sector wise diversified infrastructure program including directs, funds and co-investments.

Paul Polman

Paul Polman, CEO Unilever (2009-19) and Co-Author of Net Positive

Influencer, business leader, campaigner, Co-Author of “Net Positive: how courageous companies thrive by giving more than they take”, recently published October 2021.

Paul Polman works to accelerate action by business to tackle climate change and inequality. A leading proponent that business should be a force for good, Paul has been described by the Financial Times as “a standout CEO of the past decade”.

As CEO of Unilever (2009-2019), he demonstrated that a long-term, multi-stakeholder model goes hand-in-hand with excellent financial performance. Paul was a member of the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Panel which developed the Sustainable Development Goals and which he continues to champion, working with global organizations and across industry to advance the 2030 development agenda.

Paul’s new book, “Net Positive”, is a call to arms to courageous business leaders, setting out how to build net positive companies which profit by fixing the world’s problems rather than creating them. He Chairs IMAGINE, a social venture dedicated to systems change, and Saïd Business School, and he is Vice-Chair of the UN Global Compact as well as a B Team Leader. Paul is Honorary Chair of the International Chamber of Commerce, which he led for two years.

Ross Posner

Managing Partner, Ridgewood Infrastructure

Ross Posner is Managing Partner of Ridgewood Infrastructure, which invests in essential infrastructure in the U.S. lower middle market. Illustrative investments include the Vista Ridge pipeline supplying San Antonio with ~20% of its fresh water under a long-term take or pay contract; Undine LLC, which owns and operates regulated water and wastewater utilities; and the Neptune subsea electric transmission line supplying Long Island, NY with 20% of its electricity under a long-term availability based agreement. Prior to creating Ridgewood Infrastructure, Mr. Posner was a senior executive of Allstate Investments responsible for over $10 billion of capital. As Global Group head, Mr. Posner created and led Allstate’s Infrastructure and Real Asset private equity business. He was also responsible for Allstate’s Project Finance and Private Placements portfolios.

Mr. Posner began his career at JPMorgan, working in its New York and London offices. Subsequently, Mr. Posner worked in mid-market private equity. Mr. Posner received a B.S. from Syracuse University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Ridgewood Infrastructure is a leading investor in essential infrastructure in the U.S. lower middle market. It is part of the affiliated Ridgewood Companies, a leading real asset investment manager currently managing over $5 billion in total capital and commitments focused on direct equity investments in infrastructure and energy.

Marie-Victoire Rozé

Senior Managing Director, Ardian

Senior Managing Director and Member of the ASF Committee, based in Paris.

Marie-Victoire Roze joined Ardian as an Analyst in 2005. She is primarily engaged in the origination and evaluation of secondary purchases of Fund of Funds’ investments, and the origination of co-investments across Infrastructure and Private Equity asset classes.

Before joining Ardian, she completed various internships in Paris and New York: JP Morgan (Investment Banking) M&A, Keolis, Merrill Lynch (private banking).

Education: Paris Dauphine University ESCP-EAP, Paris Assas II University

ABOUT ARDIAN

Ardian is a world-leading private investment house with assets of US$114bn managed or advised in Europe, the Americas and Asia. The company is majority-owned by its employees. It keeps entrepreneurship at its heart and focuses on delivering excellent investment performance to its global investor base.

Through its commitment to shared outcomes for all stakeholders, Ardian’s activities fuel individual, corporate and economic growth around the world.

Holding close its core values of excellence, loyalty and entrepreneurship, Ardian maintains a truly global network, with more than 800 employees working from fifteen offices across Europe (Frankfurt, Jersey, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, Paris and Zurich), the Americas (New York, San Francisco and Santiago) and Asia (Beijing, Singapore, Tokyo and Seoul). It manages funds on behalf of more than 1,200 clients through five pillars of investment expertise: Fund of Funds, Direct Funds, Infrastructure, Real Estate and Private Debt.

Immanuel Rubin

Head of European Secondaries / Partner, Campbell Lutyens

Immanuel has 18 years of private equity, infrastructure and corporate finance experience, of which 17 years was spent at Campbell Lutyens. He is Head of the European and Asia secondary team as well as a member of the firm’s management committee.

Immanuel has advised on over 80 secondary transactions including GP led liquidity transactions, LP fund portfolios and direct interests across multiple asset classes including Private Equity, Infrastructure and Private Credit.

Campbell Lutyens

Founded in 1988, Campbell Lutyens is a global and independent private capital advisor, focused on fund placement and secondary advisory services. Its fund placement practice advises and raises capital globally for private equity, infrastructure and private credit managers. Its secondary advisory practice advises across a wide range of transactions, including the sale or restructuring of portfolios of funds or direct investments and GP-led liquidity and fund restructuring transactions. The firm has a team of more than 160 operating from offices in London, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Charlotte, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Michael Ryan

CEO, Dalmore Capital

Michael co-founded Dalmore Capital Limited in 2009 and is CEO. Michael is a Dalmore shareholder and board member as well as being on the Investment Committee and the Executive Committee. Michael’s day-to-day responsibilities as CEO are to lead the business, particularly in relation to fundraising. Michael also serves on the investment committee of IST, an investment foundation backed by a number of Swiss pension funds which invests across the infrastructure sector. Michael has over 25 years of infrastructure experience. Prior to Dalmore, Michael spent five years as Managing Director of Infrastructure Investors (I2). From 2001 to 2004, Michael was a Director and shareholder of Noble PFI following two years as a Director of Edison Capital. Prior to October 1999, Michael was a Director of KPMG’s PFI advisory unit, where he worked with a range of public and private clients. Michael began his career in 1989 with KPMG, where he undertook a variety of roles in turnaround, consulting and corporate finance. In 1995, he was seconded to a project lending team at HSBC to help develop their infrastructure lending. Michael is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland.

Dalmore Capital

Dalmore Capital is an independent fund management company that seeks to provide its institutional investors with access to long-term investment opportunities in limited volatility infrastructure assets. The firm was formed in 2009 by Michael Ryan, John McDonagh and Alistair Ray, each of whom has significant experience in making and managing infrastructure investments. The investments made by Dalmore Capital are in infrastructure assets that involved in the provision of essential public services. This includes schools, hospitals, roads, utilities, trains, waste treatment and green energy generation. Dalmore’s primary investment focus is on assets located in the UK, although Dalmore also manages assets in Ireland, continental Europe and Canada. Dalmore manages over £5.5 billion of capital sourced from leading institutional investors globally. Its funds have invested in over 120 infrastructure assets through co-mingled discretionary funds and co-investment vehicles. The firm currently has a team of 50, split equally between acquisition and asset management functions and support functions.

Angelika Schöechlin

Senior Partner, Antin Infrastructure Partners

Angelika joined Antin in 2010 and is a member of the Investment Committee.

Angelika is a board member of Fund II portfolio companies Amedes and GSR, Fund III portfolio company Almaviva and Fund IV portfolio companies Babilou and Hippocrates. She previously served on the boards of Westerleigh in Fund I and Inicea in Fund II.

Before joining Antin, she worked for Goldman Sachs and Terra Firma. She has experience in both principal investment and mergers and acquisitions and has significant experience in deal execution, financing solutions, operational change and asset management.

In 2008, she was elected into “Generation CEO” (an exclusive business network for women in top management) and, in 2010, nominated as one of the top 40 German Managers under 40 by the German newspaper Die Welt.

Antin

Antin Infrastructure Partners is a leading independent private equity firm focused on infrastructure investments. Based in Paris, London and New York, and fully owned by its 14 partners, the firm employs over 100 professionals. Antin targets majority stakes in infrastructure businesses in the energy and environment, telecom, transport and social infrastructure sectors. The firm has raised close to €15 billion across four funds and has made investments in 24 companies.

In 2008, she was elected into “Generation CEO” (an exclusive business network for women in top management) and, in 2010, nominated as one of the top 40 German Managers under 40 by the German newspaper Die Welt.

Oliver Schubert

Senior Partner, Vantage Infrastructure

Oliver joined the business in 2012 and has over two decades of relevant experience. Based in London, Oliver leads Equity transaction origination and execution. He is a member of the Equity Investment Committee and the firm’s global Executive Committee.

Prior to joining the firm, Oliver was Senior Vice President of Macquarie Capital (Frankfurt) and Head of Corporate Acquisition Finance (Germany) at BNP Paribas. He holds a MSc in Management from ESSEC Business School (France) and a Master of Business Administration from INSEAD (France/Singapore).

Vantage Infrastructure

Vantage Infrastructure is an independent infrastructure debt and equity specialist committed to delivering sustainable investment solutions as a long-term partner to our clients with $5.7 billion AUM.
The firm has a heritage as one of the world’s first infrastructure investment firms with a long track record of partnering with global clients to implement leading investment solutions within the infrastructure sector whilst aiming to protect our clients against downside risks. Fundamental to our approach is responsible investing and embedded ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) considerations in our process as a driver of value and risk.

Reflective of this, Vantage is a signatory to the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), a supporter of the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), a GRESB Infrastructure Member and an Investor member of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC). Through its managed investments, the firm contributes to 10 out of 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Colin Simpson

Head of Asset Management, GLIL Infrastructure

Colin is Head of Asset Management at Local Pensions Partnership Investments (LPPI) and is part of the team responsible for origination, execution and management of LPPI’s infrastructure investments. His role includes GLIL Infrastructure, a £2.5 billion collaboration between institutions in the local government pensions sector. He is currently a Director of multiple portfolio companies across the social infrastructure, transmission, renewable energy and regulated utilities sectors.

Colin has more than 14 years of infrastructure experience, most recently from Amber Infrastructure where he had responsibility for a portfolio of social infrastructure assets. Earlier in his career he worked for global engineering consultancies AECOM and Arup. He holds an MBA from Cass Business School and an engineering degree from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh

LPPI

Local Pensions Partnership Investments is part of the LPP Group, which was established in 2016 to enable UK local government and public sector schemes to pool resources and improve management of their assets for members and employers. It currently manages £21.5bn of pension assets (30 June 2021). Experts in Local Government Pension Scheme pooling, LPPI focusses on strong investment performance, stewardship and in-house management. A robust operating model and integrated risk management provides clients with the full benefits of consolidated management, advisory and investment services.

The infrastructure commitments are managed through the LPPI Infrastructure fund, launched in June 2017 which, including infrastructure assets held on individual clients’ balance sheets, has assets and commitments around £1.7 billion (30 June 2021). LPPI’s infrastructure investment team seeks to gain cost-effective, diversified exposure to global infrastructure assets, predominately in the UK, Europe and North America.

Lawrence Slade

Chief Executive Officer, Global Infrastructure Investor Association

Lawrence Slade became Chief Executive Officer of the Global Infrastructure Investor Association (GIIA) in January 2020. GIIA represents investors with over US$1tn AUM. Prior to his role with GIIA Lawrence Slade worked with Energy UK since 2011, becoming their Chief Executive in January 2015, additionally he served on the boards of Eurogas and Eurelectric in Brussels. He has been involved in the energy industry since the late 1990’s working in countries all over the world. Lawrence is currently a Board member of Connected Kerb, a Board Trustee and Audit Committee member of the Money Advice Trust (who run the National Debtline and Business Debtline) and is also a Fellow of the Energy Institute.

GIIA

GIIA is the membership body for the world's leading institutional investors. With more than 80 members, we work with governments and other stakeholders to boost the role of private investment in providing infrastructure that improves national, regional and local economies. GIIA members have investments in over 1700 assets across six continents, totalling US$1 trillion of infrastructure assets under management.

Adam Smallman

Director – Membership Programs, PEI Media

Adam joined PEI in December 2018 in a new role as Head of Content Strategy. Previously he spent three years with investment bank Liberum and held leading editorial and content roles at Dow Jones and Informa PLC. His responsibility is to ensure PEI’s subscription products reach and engage the group’s professional audiences.

Jérôme Sousselier

Managing Director, ICG

Jérôme joined ICG in May 2018 and is a Managing Director in the European Infrastructure Equity team. He is responsible for identifying, analysing and executing investment opportunities within this strategy. Prior to joining ICG, he was Head of Infrastructure at EDF Invest where he was responsible for sourcing, executing and managing deals that led to the constitution of a portfolio of eight infrastructure assets worth €1.6 billion. Jérôme has previous investing experience gained at GE Alstom, a leading energy & transportation company, where he led M&A transactions as well as large operational joint venture projects. Prior to that he worked at Goldman Sachs in European M&A and BHP Billiton in physical energy trading. He is board member for Océinde Communications and and has held several board positions in his career, including at Terega, Madrilena Red de Gas and Thyssengas. Jérôme received an MBA from Berkeley and graduated from Sciences Po (Paris) in Economics & Finance.

ICG

ICG is a global alternative asset manager with over 32 years' history, managing $65.2bn of assets (as at 31 August 2021) in structured and private equity, private debt, real assets, and credit. We develop long-term relationships with our business partners to deliver value for shareholders, clients and employees, and use our position of influence to benefit the environment and society.

We operate across four strategic asset classes: corporate, capital market, real asset and secondary investments. ICG is listed on the London Stock Exchange (ticker symbol: ICP).

ICG Infrastructure focuses on Core+ mid-market infrastructure assets across Europe with the ability to invest across the capital structure, enhancing downside protection through investments into equity/quasi equity and mezzanine instruments. The dedicated team has strong industrial backgrounds and is able to drive operation value creation.

Further details are available at: www.icgam.com.

Jonathan Stevens

Managing Director, Head of European Infrastructure Debt, BlackRock

Jonathan Stevens, Managing Director, is the Deputy CIO of BlackRock Real Assets Debt and Head of BlackRock’s Infrastructure Debt division in Europe. He has over 20 years of experience in infrastructure as an advisor, banker and as an asset manager. Mr. Stevens leads the Investment Team in Europe and is a member of the Infrastructure Debt management and investment committees.

Mr. Stevens is responsible for BlackRock’s infrastructure investment activity in Europe on both directly originated and bi-lateral deals, in combination with agented transactions.

Prior to joining BlackRock, Mr. Stevens had eighteen years of experience in leading the origination and execution of infrastructure transactions in the UK, Continental Europe, North America and Australia. In his last role, Mr. Stevens was Head of European Infrastructure at CIBC and sat on its European Operating Committee and European Deals Committee. Prior to that, Mr. Stevens led WestLB’s EMEA Infrastructure Debt business and its team of eighteen bankers in London, Düsseldorf, Madrid and Milan.

Mr. Stevens earned a BSc in Physics from the University of Sussex.

BlackRock

BlackRock’s purpose is to help more and more people experience financial well-being. As a fiduciary to investors and a leading provider of financial technology, we help millions of people build savings that serve them throughout their lives by making investing easier and more affordable. For additional information on BlackRock, please visit www.blackrock.com/corporate

BlackRock Alternative Investors
BlackRock Alternative Investors serve investors seeking outperformance in real estate, infrastructure, private equity, credit, hedge funds and alternative solutions.  We strive to bring our investors the highest quality investments by drawing upon our global footprint, superior execution capabilities and position as a preferred partner. BlackRock manages $264 billion in alternative investments and commitments on behalf of clients worldwide as of March 31, 2021.

Jackie B. Surtani, Asian Development Bank

Jackie Surtani

Director – Infrastructure Finance, Asian Development Bank

Jackie Surtani was appointed Director of the Infrastructure Finance Division that covers East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands in April 2017.
Prior to ADB, Jackie led the risk function of Siemens Financial Services’ Asian commercial finance unit as their Regional Chief Risk Officer and was responsible for a team of 80 staff in China and India. Jackie began his career at Chase Manhattan Bank (now JP Morgan) as Director of Global Power and Project Finance; was a Director for Global Project Finance at Credit Suisse; and Head of Project Finance Asia Pacific at KBC Bank for 14 years.
Mr. Surtani has 30 years of successful experience in Asia infrastructure leading and advisory. He has a strong credit philosophy and sector and regional knowledge across the entire energy chain (i.e power generation, renewable energy, LNG), infrastructure and telecommunications.
Mr. Surtani is a national of the United Kingdom. He obtained his Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Finance and Economics from the University of East Anglia in 1988 with a First Class Honours degree. He obtained his Master of Philosophy Degree in Management Studies from the University of Oxford in 1990.

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) envisions a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific, while sustaining its efforts to eradicate extreme poverty in the region. Despite the region's many successes, it remains home to a large share of the world's poor: 263 million living on less than $1.90 a day and 1.1 billion on less than $3.20 a day.
ADB assists its members, and partners, by providing loans, technical assistance, grants, and equity investments to promote social and economic development.
ADB maximizes the development impact of its assistance by facilitating policy dialogues, providing advisory services, and mobilizing financial resources through cofinancing operations that tap official, commercial, and export credit sources.

Dominik Thumfart

Managing Director and Global Co-Head of Origination, Infrastructure & Energy, Deutsche Bank

Dominik Thumfart is a Managing Director and Global Co-Head of Origination, Infrastructure & Energy, on Deutsche Bank´s Global Credit Financing Solutions platform. In this role, Dominik leads origination of structured credit opportunities and coverage dialogue with institutional investors, particularly the leading infrastructure funds globally, and a select number of strategic investors (including project developers, independent power producers, and operators of corporate platforms in the digital / energy transition / social and transportation infrastructure sectors.

Prior to joining Deutsche Bank Group in November 2008 as Managing Director in the asset and project finance business, Dominik spent fifteen years at Citigroup, predominantly in Frankfurt, London, New York, and Vienna. He was made a Managing Director in 2004 and between 2004 and 2008 was the EMEA Business Head of its Asset Finance Group, Global Markets, based in London.

Dominik holds a Master and a Doctorate in Business Administration from Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration) and a CEMS Master in International Management which included an exchange term at Escuela Superior de Adminstración de Empresas (ESADE) in Barcelona.

Garret Tynan

Managing Director, European Head Project Finance ＆ Infrastructure, KBRA

Garret Tynan is the Managing Director and European Head of Infrastructure and Project Finance at KBRA Europe Limited (KBRA).

Garret previously spent five years with KfW IPEX-Bank GmbH in London, where he was responsible for originating and executing project and leveraged finance transactions in the UK, Europe, and North America.

Prior to KfW IPEX, Garret worked for nine years at Depfa Bank plc in Dublin, where he initially focused on public-private partnerships/PFI, utilities, and leveraged finance in the UK and, in later years, managed a team responsible for restructuring and winding down the bank’s global infrastructure portfolio.

Garret is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland and started his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency department in Dublin.

Garret earned both a B.A. in accounting and finance, and an MBS in accounting from Dublin City University. He also holds graduate diplomas in International Financial Reporting Standards (ICAI) and Management and Applications of IT in Accounting (DCU), as well as certificates in Directors Duties ＆ Responsibilities (ICAI) and Complex Financial Instruments (Institute of Bankers).

KBRA

KBRA is a global full-service rating agency with a mission to set a standard of excellence and integrity. Established in 2010, KBRA remains dedicated to the restoration of trust in credit ratings by creating new standards for assessing risk and by offering timely and transparent ratings. KBRA provides market participants with an alternative solution by delivering in-depth research across various sectors within the United States and European markets. We strive to provide the investment community with the products and tools needed to make informed investment decisions.

Marco van Daele

CEO, SUSI Partners

As CEO, Marco van Daele heads SUSI Partners’ Leadership Team and is responsible for the overarching strategy development and execution. He joined the firm in 2017 as Chief Investment Officer, overseeing the company’s global investment and asset management activities, in 2020 took over broader management responsibilities as Co-CEO, and now heads the management of the company as CEO.

Before joining SUSI, Marco was a Senior Vice President at Brookfield Asset Management, where he was responsible for the European renewable energy investments team and led the strategy formulation, origination, and execution activities in this segment. Prior to that, he was a Principal in the Infrastructure and Private Equity team at Arcapita, a global alternative assets firm, after starting his career in M＆A at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein.

SUSI Partners

Founded in 2009, SUSI Partners is a Swiss-based investment manager specialised in sustainable energy infrastructure investments with EUR 1.9bn in capital commitments from institutional investors. The firm’s investment strategy focuses on private equity and credit opportunities across the energy transition spectrum, including clean energy generation, energy efficiency measures, and solutions enabling clean energy use. With a successful track record of more than 140 transactions in over 20 countries to date, SUSI Partners seeks to achieve attractive risk-adjusted returns for its clients and their beneficiaries while contributing meaningfully to achieving global climate neutrality.

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Konstantin von Falkenhausen

Partner, B Capital Partners AG

Konstantin is a Managing Partner at B Capital Partners, an infrastructure investment house based in Zurich. He has been with B Capital since 2010. Konstantin has 20 years of direct investment experience, both in private equity and for the last 10 years exclusively in infrastructure. In addition to his investment experience, he is also an entrepreneur in the clean tech industry and has set up an innovative biogas technology company.

Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, he was a partner at a German mid-market private equity fund, focusing on transactions in the clean energy and manufacturing sectors. He is also an experienced investment banker, working at a US-based investment bank and specializing in semiconductor and semiconductor capital equipment transactions.

He holds a Master in Economics from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

B Capital Partners

B Capital Partners AG is a partner-owned investment house, established in 2003 in Zurich. A signatory to UNPRI and a member of GRESB, B Capital exclusively focuses on sustainable infrastructure investments. We target predominantly energy transition related sub-sectors across Europe. Since 2010, it has invested and advised capital in excess of EUR 2.6bn.

B Capital is currently deploying capital for its Luxemburg-based B Capital Energy Transition Infrastructure Fund as well as for its institutional clients and large family offices via direct mandates.

Energy transition comprises not only wind and solar but more importantly, it includes sub-sectors such as hydro power generation, district heating, battery storage, data/communication for smart cities, energy efficiency, electrified transport and hydrogen.

Most importantly, B Capital Partners has developed a comprehensive ESG DD & Risk Management Tool with an integrated Impact Tool. The initial ESG DD Tool for infrastructure assets, developed together with GRESB, is available as open source on our website.

Daniel von Preyss

Head of PE/Infrastructure, Executive Director, Impax Asset Management

Daniel joined Impax in 2009 and heads Impax’s Private Equity/Infrastructure business. Daniel is a member of the investment committees for each of the New Energy Funds. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of Impax Asset Management Group and sits on the boards of Impax Asset Management Limited and Impax Asset Management (AIFM) Limited.
Daniel has significant business and senior transactional experience with blue chip companies within the energy and utility sectors. Prior to joining Impax he was responsible for Babcock & Brown’s Northern European infrastructure investment activities. Prior to this, Daniel was Director in the European Energy and Utilities team at Deutsche Bank with a strong focus on M&A activity in Europe and a member of Citigroup’s Utilities team.
Daniel holds an MBA from Cologne University (Germany) and studied International Business for one year under a scholarship at Sophia University in Japan.

Impax Asset Management

Founded in 1998, Impax offers a range of listed equity, fixed income, smart beta and private market strategies. All strategies utilise the firm’s specialist expertise in understanding investment opportunities arising from the transition to a more sustainable economy. We are engaged investors, in regular dialogue with companies in our portfolios and reporting on our stewardship activities to our clients. Where possible, we endeavour to measure and report on the positive environmental and societal impacts of our investments.
https://impaxam.com/

Dominik von Scheven

Managing Director, Real Assets, Hamilton Lane

Dominik is a Managing Director on the Real Assets Investment team based in the firm’s Frankfurt office. He is responsible for infrastructure equity investments.

Prior to joining Hamilton Lane in 2024, Dominik was Global Head of Infrastructure with HSBC Asset Management where he focused on secondary investments, co-investments as well as primary investments. Prior to that Dominik was Co-Head of Infrastructure and Energy for Deutsche Bank Private Equity, where he was responsible for infrastructure equity investments globally. Previously Dominik held positions at two family offices and a U.S.-based renewable energy developer, and worked in the corporate development team of The Cloud Networks.

Dominik started his career at TriStone Partners, a London-based investment boutique. He completed an apprenticeship with Steinway & Sons in Hamburg and received a Bachelor’s degree in Economics & Finance from Westminster University, London.

Hamilton Lane

Hamilton Lane (Nasdaq: HLNE) is one of the largest private markets investment firms globally, providing innovative solutions to institutional and private wealth investors around the world. Dedicated exclusively to private markets investing for more than 30 years, the firm currently employs nearly 700 professionals operating in offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Hamilton Lane has $854.0 billion in assets under management and supervision, composed of $119.2 billion in discretionary assets and $734.8 billion in non-discretionary assets, as of September 30, 2023.

Hamilton Lane specializes in building flexible investment programs that provide clients access to the full spectrum of private markets strategies, sectors and geographies. For more information, please visit www.hamiltonlane.com or follow Hamilton Lane on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hamilton-lane/.

Gijs Voskuyl

Partner, DIF Capital Partners

Gijs is Partner and member of the Executive Committee at DIF Capital Partners. In addition, he is overseeing the activities in DIF’s traditional infrastructure fund series and is a member of the relevant investment committees. Gijs joined the company in 2008 as a member in the investment team, mostly focusing on concession type investment opportunities in Western Europe. In 2012 he moved to Canada to establish the Toronto office and open up the North American market investing in utility, concession and (sustainable) energy investment opportunities. Since 2018 he is leading DIF’s traditional infrastructure fund series. Previously to DIF, Gijs worked at ING, where he focused on lending to and advising large (transportation) infrastructure clients. Gijs holds a Master’s degree in Economics of Infrastructure from the Technical University of Delft.

DIF Capital Partners

DIF Capital Partners is an independent infrastructure fund manager, with more than EUR 15 billion of AUM. DIF was founded in 2005 and has built a leading position in managing mid-market investments, primarily in Europe, North America and Australia.

DIF follows two strategies: its traditional DIF funds, of which DIF VII is the latest fund in the series, invest in lower risk mid-sized infrastructure projects and companies in the energy transition (incl. renewables) and utilities sector, as well as PPPs and concessions. The firm’s CIF funds invest in small to mid-sized companies that will thrive in the new economy. These companies are typically active in the digital, energy transition and sustainable transportation sector.

With a team of over 200 professionals in 11 offices, DIF Capital Partners offers a unique market approach combining global presence with the benefits of strong local networks and investment capabilities. DIF is located in Amsterdam (Schiphol), Frankfurt, Helsinki, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, New York, Paris, Santiago, Sydney and Toronto.

Sadek Wahba

Chairman and Managing Partner, I Squared Capital

Sadek Wahba is the Chairman and Managing Partner of I Squared Capital. Prior to founding I Squared Capital, Sadek was the CEO of Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners and was an economist for several years at the World Bank. He is a Senior Fellow of the Development Research Institute, NYU, a Senior Member of St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, and a member of the Global Advisory Council of the Wilson Center, Washington DC.

He is a frequent commentator on the need for more infrastructure investment to promote sustainable economic growth and new policy approaches to infrastructure funding that combine private-sector resources with traditional public-sector options.

Sadek holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, a M.Sc. in economics from the London School of Economics, and a B.A. in economics from the American University in Cairo. He was twice named Global Infrastructure Personality of the Year, and Global Infrastructure Personality of the Decade, by Private Equity International.

I Squared Capital

I Squared Capital is an independent infrastructure investor with over $30 billion in assets under management and specializing in sourcing, managing, and building global infrastructure platforms in the North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America. Headquartered in Miami, the firm has more than 165 professionals across its offices in Hong Kong, London, New Delhi, and Singapore. I Squared Capital has invested in a diverse portfolio of 40 companies in 53 countries across the energy, utilities, digital infrastructure, transport, and social infrastructure sectors, with over 24,000 employees and providing essential services to millions of people around the world.

Rick Walters

Director, Infrastructure, GRESB

Rick has more than 30 years experience in Sustainability, Investment, Engineering and Management. His spans a diverse range of businesses, infrastructure and industry through design, construction and operations phases. Rick was a founder of the Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia (ISCA) overseeing the development and operation of the Infrastructure Sustainability (IS) rating scheme from idea to launch and successful take up across industry. As GRESB Chief of Standards and Innovation he is responsible for the support of the GRESB Foundation which oversees the GRESB Standards development and supports new product development.

GRESB

GRESB is an investor-led and mission-driven initiative to provide ESG data on real asset investments to investors, managers and the wider industry. Our Assessments provide a consistent framework to measure ESG performance based on self-reported data that is validated, scored and peer benchmarked. This approach allows investors to analyze their portfolios for ESG risks, opportunities and impacts and engage with managers on their performance.
The 2021 real estate benchmark covered more than 1,200 property companies, real estate investment trusts (REITs), funds, and developers. Our coverage for infrastructure includes more than 550 infrastructure funds and assets. Combined, GRESB represents USD 5 trillion in real asset value. More than 100 institutional investors, with over USD 22 trillion AUM, use GRESB data to monitor their investments, engage with their managers, and make decisions that lead to a more sustainable real asset industry

Eugene Zhuchenko

Managing Director, ETORE Advisory

Eugene Zhuchenko has over 20 years of infrastructure experience. Prior to founding ETORE Advisory, he was the CEO of Long Term Infrastructure Investors Association, managed an infrastructure portfolio at APG Asset Management, led M&A projects at APM Terminals and provided transport and energy advisory services at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Eugene has been a board member in several private equity infrastructure companies in Europe and North America. He is a Chartered Certified Accountant and holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

ETORE Advisory works with institutions, fund managers and asset companies to unlock new opportunities in infrastructure investing. With tailored solutions such as collaborative investing, we help our clients excel where markets are less efficient and success is linked to innovation.

Tom Zimmermann

Senior Research Manager, Fundraising, PEI Group

Tom Zimmermann is a Senior Research Manager, Fundraising at PEI Group, focusing on the GP-LP relationship via private markets fundraising. Based in London, he is responsible for leading a team of research associates dedicated to maintaining the firm’s databases of institutional investors, fund managers and funds in the private markets space. He is also leading a number of data products such as rankings (including II100, PEI300 and PERE100) as well as quarterly fundraising reports.

Tom graduated from the University of Mannheim with a BSc (Hons) degree in Economics in 2017 and obtained a MSc degree in International Development from the University of Edinburgh in 2018. He is currently pursuing the part-time Executive MSc degree in Finance at the London School of Economics.

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Global Investor Forum - Tuesday 19th

Welcome from Infrastructure Investor

Nicholas Lockley

Chair’s welcome

Ali Miraj

Keynote panel: Building back better: lessons learned from a difficult 18 months

Ali Miraj

François Bornens

Gwenola Chambon

Stephane Kofman

Chantale Pelletier

Gijs Voskuyl

2021 and climate change: Making sense of net zero, SDGs, EU taxonomy and COP26

Rick Walters

Laurent Chatelin

Graham Matthews

Rosheen McGuckian

Oliver Schubert

Profit with purpose: Investing to succeed both financially and socially

Paul Polman

Nicholas Lockley

Coffee break

Beyond wind and solar- examining interesting areas for renewables investors

Lawrence Slade

Mohamed El Gazzar

Mark Florian

Jaroslava Korpanec

Lorenzo Parola

Marco van Daele

Fundraising in 2021: Getting back on the road

Bruno Alves

John Anderson

Oskar Backman

Sarah Borg-Olivier

Dominic Helmsley

Lunch break

Sectors in focus: What will be the next digital?

Patrick Deasy

Adam Emmert

Uwe Fleischhauer

Vittorio Lacagnina

André Pfleger

Digital infrastructure: Does the reality match the hype for the ‘fourth utility’?

Dominik Thumfart

Steven Marshall

Garret Tynan

Getting aligned: How to manage stakeholder engagement in 2021

Clare Burgess

Meryem Cherif

Sola Lawson

Jemima Atkins

How is infrastructure doing on equality, diversity and inclusion?

Helen Beatty

Robert-Jan Bakker

Neil Brown

Allison Kingsley

Coffee break

The road to recovery: Putting the covid crisis in context

Charlotte Madden

Konstantin von Falkenhausen

Ingrid Edmund

Ross Posner

Michael Ryan

Global Keynote Panel: Industry leaders look forward to 2022 and beyond

Bruno Candès