Infralogic Investors Forum Europe 2024
The European edition of our Investors Forum returns this November!
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Adam Petrie is Partner, Infrastructure at Apollo and is responsible for the origination, execution and management of infrastructure investments across the transport, energy and digital sectors. Prior to joining the firm in 2022, Adam was a Partner at AMP Capital’s infrastructure business, where he completed a range of infrastructure investments across Europe and Asia-Pacific. Adam also served on a number of portfolio company boards. Adam Petrie is a CFA charterholder and holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Lincoln University, New Zealand.
Alastair is Senior Managing Director, Europe for OMERS Infrastructure, and is based in London where he oversees the organization’s investment activity and team in the region.
Since joining OMERS in 2014, Alastair has played a critical role in the growth of the European team. In his most recent role, he was focused on advancing OMERS Infrastructure’s global investment strategy and leading the third-party capital program. Previously, Alastair had been responsible for investing across the European energy, utilities and renewables value chain during which he led or managed OMERS’s investments in Ellevio, Thames Water, Net4Gas, Associated British Ports, High Speed 1, Caruna, SGN and MapleCo.
Prior to joining OMERS, Alastair worked in investment banking at Deutsche Bank and Bank of America Merrill Lynch advising clients on European utilities and infrastructure transactions. He holds an MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford.
Alejandro López Delgado is Managing Director, Infrastructure at CDPQ. Based in Paris, he leads the origination and execution of infrastructure investments in Europe in sectors such as energy, transportation, social and digital infrastructure.
Mr. López Delgado has over 20 years of experience as a global infrastructure investor and has completed transactions with a combined enterprise value of over $50 billion, including ATC Europe, VTG, XP Fibre, Port of Melbourne, MapleCo, Exolum, Caruna, Ellevio, Tank & Rast, Manhal Development Company and the M4/M6 motorway. Before joining CDPQ in 2020, he spent eight years at OMERS Infrastructure where, as an Investment Director, he played a key role in building and developing the organization’s European portfolio. Prior to that, he worked as a Principal at Mubadala Infrastructure Partners in Abu Dhabi and was an Associate in Goldman Sachs’ Infrastructure Investment Group in London. He began his career at Ferrovial, a leading infrastructure developer and operator, and also worked as a strategy consultant at Boston Consulting Group.
Mr. López Delgado earned an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor’s Degree and a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. In addition, he is a Chartered Director and a Fellow of the Institute of Directors in the U.K. He currently serves on the Board of ATC Europe.
Alexis Ballif is Managing Director.
Alexis is a board member of portfolio companies such as Ascendi, LISEA, SPMR and Geosel.
Alexis joined Ardian in 2008. Previously, he carried out various internships within Pricewaterhouse Coopers and construction company Paris Ouest.
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Chris joined OMERS Infrastructure in London in June 2023 and leads investment efforts in digital infrastructure in Europe. He also works closely with asset management colleagues to oversee digital infrastructure investments.
Prior to joining OMERS, Chris was Senior Investment Director and head of digital infrastructure at Amber Infrastructure, where he led multiple investments across a range of digital infrastructure subsectors, also representing Amber on portfolio company boards.
Before Amber, he worked as an investment banker at Arma Partners, advising clients on digital infrastructure transactions across Europe, and as an equity research analyst at Merrill Lynch, covering the European telecoms sector. Chris started his career with PwC in London, working across assurance and consulting.
Chris holds a Master of Chemistry from the University of Oxford and a Masters in Finance from London Business School. He is also a Chartered Accountant (FCA, Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales).
David has more than 20 years’ experience in banking focussed on project finance, infrastructure debt and structured credit. David joined IFM from Barclays, where he was Head of Infrastructure and Structured Project Finance within their Corporate Bank. Prior to this, David was in the origination team of HBOS Infrastructure Finance, where he had responsibility for sourcing and executing senior debt, mezzanine and equity across the social infrastructure, transportation and energy sectors
Gridicity is pioneering the use of AI and optimisation techniques in the electric vehicle energy management software sector. The company’s mission is to radically enhance the operational efficiency of energy market participants, and accelerate the transition to clean and sustainable transport and energy.
Gridicity founder Alicia Blatiak's expertise stems from her academic background, notably her PhD focused on Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) technology from Imperial College London. With a history rooted in research, particularly on the interplay of transportation and energy systems, and professional stints at organisations such as DNV GL and the International Renewable Energy Agency, Alicia and Gridicity aim to shape the future of EV charging solutions.
Gridicity has received funding from Innovate UK and The Greenhouse Accelerator (a partnership between Imperial College’s Grantham Institute and the Royal Institution).
Eimear Connery Heads up Aviation Technical Advisory Services at Infrata. She is a Chartered Civil Engineer with over 18 years' of experience in the industry. She joined Infrata in 2016, from Aecom whom she was with for over 11 years through their legacy companies URS and Scott Wilson, bringing with her, her broad range of airport project experience and skills including master planning, feasibility assessments, due diligence studies, design and monitoring of major airport developments worldwide including on the design of the New Istanbul Airport. Since joining Infrata she has been involved in over 50 transaction projects across all infrastructure classes with her main focus in recent years being airports and the aviation industry. Her remit is a global one from small regional airports to major international transport hubs. Eimear leads Infrata’s services for both the US$9.5 billion, New Terminal One Project at JFK and the US$1.25 billion expansion project at Jorge Chávez International Airport, Lima both of which closed in 2022.
Frank Heiss joined ICG in October 2019 as Managing Director in the European Infrastructure Equity Team. He is responsible for originating mid-market core+ infrastructure deals across the DACH and Nordic regions. Frank joined ICG from Swiss Life Infrastructure Investments in Zurich. Prior to this, Frank worked for four years as a Director at Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets. He began his career in M&A advisory, having spent seven years at Merrill Lynch and Lazard in London and Frankfurt. He holds a MBA (“Diplomkaufmann”) from the University of Mannheim.
Mr. Mackenzie is Head of Infrastructure, responsible for overseeing DWS’s investment activity in infrastructure debt and equity globally. Hamish was responsible for establishing the European Infrastructure equity business in 2005 as well as directing the investment activity from its inception. This includes the flagship funds Pan European Infrastructure Fund (2007), PEIF II (2015) and PEIF III (2021) together representing in excess of €7 billion. The funds have successfully invested in a wide variety of transportation, energy and utility, Digital and Social infrastructure companies across Europe. Hamish has represented DWS on the boards of Peel Ports, Yorkshire Water, Tank & Rast, Autovia del Camino, Corelink Ltd, SAVE (the operator of Venice and Treviso airports) and Stagecoach Plc.
Hamish joined the team from Deutsche Bank's corporate and investment banking division where he was a specialist in the transport sector. Prior to that he worked as an M&A banker at HSBC having qualified as a chartered accountant with Deloitte & Touche.
Mr Mackenzie is CEO and SMCF for DWS Alternatives Global Ltd the FCA and SEC regulated entity that is the manager of inter alia the PEIF funds.
James is a Managing Director of Infracapital, the infrastructure investment arm of M&G. Infracapital manages a series of funds targeting European infrastructure with over 30 current investments. James is responsible for making investments across the European infrastructure sector and has led a number of Infracapital’s telecoms investments.
Jan Georg Budden (born 1968) is CEO and co-founder of Deutsche GigaNetz GmbH with 25+ years’ experience in telecoms with a focus on fiber and investments.
He founded "Euro Solutions" while still at university and advised American IT and telecommunications companies in partnership with the US Embassy. After graduating with a degree in business administration, he held positions at o.tel.o., in the corporate & carrier and submarine cable business, and at Global Crossing as Country Manager for Germany, Austria and Eastern Europe. Jan Georg Budden then joined Deutsche Telekom, where he held various management positions asExecutive Vice President at T-Systems. In 2007, he founded Axos Capital with the US investorsColumbia Capital and Doll Capital Management, an investment company with a specialized on privatizations (incl. fibre-optic investments).
Laura's principal areas of expertise span across leveraged and infrastructure finance, advising a range of financial institutions and funds, private equity sponsors and corporate groups on cross-border and local transactions.
Louisa is a Founding Partner of Astrid Advisors and has worked in capital raising and investment management for close to two decades. Prior to setting up Astrid Advisors, Louisa was co-Head of European Distribution for AMP Capital and, alongside Kate, established AMP’s European client business, raising a series of fund vintages for their private infrastructure equity and debt platforms. Louisa began her career in hedge funds and spent many years fundraising across a range of strategies for MooreCapital and GLG Partners. She has aBachelor of Science (1st Class) in Psychology from University College London.
Manjari Govada, CFA, is a Principal at DigitalBridge InvestmentManagement. Ms. Govada is based in London and focuses one valuating and managing European digital infrastructure investments and opportunities. In 2018, Ms. Govada relocated from DigitalBridge’sNew York office to help open the London office.
Prior to DigitalBridge, Ms. Govada was at BlackRock, in theAlternative Solutions Group focused on direct special situation investments across various alternative asset classes, geographies and sectors.
Ms. Govada received a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, inMathematics and Economics from the University of Minnesota, Morris and a Master of Finance from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Marcus Balmforth is Managing Director and Founder of Skylark Consulting Group, a leading Transport Infrastructure Management Consultancy. He is an experienced industry veteran with over two decades expertise supporting investors and airport management unlock hidden value through operational improvement. His specific background and experience in Traffic development, Retail and Airport Commercial Development is used to lead strategy and business planning in all assignments.
Marcus has carried out significant commercial development projects at Luton Airport as an executive director resulting in 30% + revenue per passenger growth, and as a director of Bristol, Rome and Birmingham airports. Most recently he provided strategic and business plan advisory services to the winning consortium of a minority shareholding in Brussels Airport.
He has a Masters degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Surrey University and a Bachelor of Science (BSc. Hons) from Bristol University.
A long-established investment banker and asset manager with more than 30 years’ experience, who has advised on, structured and financed over £6 billion and 8,000MW of infrastructure energy projects.
Mark has worked across different infrastructure finance platforms and now sources the capital needed for GRIDSERVE’s fast-growing infrastructure. GRIDSERVE is a tech-enabled sustainable energy business that aims to deliver at the speed and scale needed to move the needle on climate change. GRIDSERVE develops, builds, owns and operates a net zero 'Sun-to-Wheel' ecosystem of hybrid solar farms that supplies their leading electric vehicle charging network, covering 85% of the UK’s motorway service areas and some of the UK’s busiest retail destinations.
Previously Mark financed power projects globally at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson and Société Générale, before establishing the project finance power and renewable energy team at Investec and the solar investment fund at Greencoat Capital (now Schroders Greencoat).
Massimo is a partner at Zouk Capital, a London based private equity firm focussing in renewable energy, clean infrastructure and the energy transition. At Zouk, Massimo has been involved in transactions in the solar photovoltaic, waste to energy, storage and EV charging infrastructure sectors. In particular Massimo led Zouk investments in ZSOL Italian FIT PV project portfolio; in the JV with Solar Ventures, a developer platform of ground-mounted subsidy-free PV projects; in Green Hedge, a UK developer of utility-scale battery storage projects; in BE Power, the largest independent EV charge point operator in Italy, recently sold to ENI; in Liberty Charge, a joint venture with Liberty Global focussing on residential EV charging infrastructure in the UK and in Zest, a UK charge point operator focussing on destination charging. Massimo also co-lead the investment in InstaVolt, one of the largest charge point operators in the UK, recently sold to EQT.
Previously, Massimo worked at Citi in the Infrastructure and Energy finance team, whereby he advised on the financing of a number of multi-billion infrastructure projects in the oil and gas, power and transportation sectors in EMEA. He also worked at Bain & Company, whereby he advised clients primarily in the utility, automotive, luxury goods and consumer goods sectors. Prior to that Massimo was an officer in the Engineer corps of the Italian Army. Massimo holds a MS in engineering from Politecnico of Milan and an MBA from Columbia Business School of NY.
Michael leads Ashursts energy and infrastructure M&A business in EMEA and has over 20 years' of experience in mergers and acquisitions, capital raises and joint ventures with a focus on the energy and infrastructure sectors.
He began his career advising energy majors on M&A transactions in the conventional energy space and, in the last 10 years, his practice has developed so that he now also advises both strategics and private capital funds and developers on M&A and capital raising in the energy transition (including biogas, hydrogen (blue and green/green ammonia), CCUS, SMRs, renewables, battery storage), circular economy, digital (towers, fibre and data centres) and transportation sub-sectors of energy and infrastructure.
Michael is recommended as a Leading Individual in Legal 500, is regularly quoted in the media, has published chapters in leading energy and infrastructure textbooks and is a member of Chapter Zero, The Directors' Climate Forum.
Natasha has over 10 years of experience in the energy sector, and is now a part of the Leadership Team within the ENR practice at Bain London. Starting in downstream Oil and Gas, with a short stint in Nuclear Power, Natasha is now supporting Energy Automotive and Financial Services clients navigate the Energy Transition, especially when it comes to E-mobility, Solar, Battery storage and demand flexibility. Natasha has penned thought leadership papers, been a speaker at multiple events, has served on multiple Advisory Boards, including the DfTs Net Zero Transport Board and has been honoured as the one of the Top Women in EV by the EV Summit.
Nick Woolfitt leads National Australia Bank’s Specialised Finance team in Europe, with a particular focus on energy, utility and infrastructure finance. He joined National Australia Bank in 2011, having previously worked at another Australian bank. An infrastructure finance specialist with over 20 years’ experience, Nick has led many major acquisition and refinancing transactions in the transport, renewable energy, utility, digital infrastructure, mining and commodities sectors. Geographically he has worked on transactions across much of Europe as well as in the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. Nick holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Western Australia, and a Master of Laws from the University of Melbourne.
Perry joined Federated Hermes Infrastructure in 2012 becoming Head of Infrastructure in 2021. He is responsible for all aspects of infrastructure investment team activities including setting business strategy, managing key client relationships and chairing the Infrastructure Investment Committee. With over 25 years of experience in the infrastructure sector he represents infrastructure client mandates on various portfolio company boards. Perry was previously a Partner at a leading London law firm, where he was also Asia Managing Partner, Global Head of Finance and a member of the firm’s executive committee. Perry previously chaired the M25 PPP company
Phillip is part of the DC Advisory infrastructure team based in London, with close to 15 years’ investment banking experience.
Phillip helps lead the infrastructure debt advisory business within the broader M&A and debt sector team. He works across complex refinancings, inaugural debt financing platform implementations and acquisition financings; working with issuers, debt investors and bank lenders with whom he has a very strong working relationship.
Prior to joining DC, Phillip worked in the financing teams at both Royal Bank of Scotland and HSBC.
Robin is the founder and CEO of Zest, a B-Corp, a Great Place to Work, noted by Sifted as a ‘Tech to Watch’ for 2023 and an impact start-up’ according to dealroom.co. His vision and industry knowledge has been fundamental in securing funding for and creating a start-up culture within Zest. Robin has specialised in new business creation, scale-up and expansion for the past 15 years, within blue-chip brands including ENGIE, Centrica, Cox Automotive, EE, Orange and Rolls-Royce. His commitment to sustainability and transitioning to a net-zero society led him to found Zest, with a vision of creating a charging network that works for drivers and landowners, encouraging the growth of electric vehicles, eliminating range anxiety, and making charging accessible to all.
Rubayet is an experienced lawyer advising on high-profile energy and infrastructure projects globally. Whilst he has substantial experience of advising on project finance, PPP transactions in a range of sectors, he currently focuses on the development, financing and acquisition of renewable energy, energy efficiency and infrastructure projects which involve cutting-edge technology.
Stefan J. Rüter, is SVP Group Controlling and Financial Planning at Fraport. From 2017 till end of 2021, Stefan was Chief Financial Officer at Oman Airports Group. The group majorly owns and operates seven airports in the Sultanate of Oman. In addition to the airport businesses, Oman Airports owns and operates Oman Ground handling as well as Transom SATS Cargo, a premiere cargo operation handler. Before joining Oman Airports, Stefan was SVP Finance and Investor Relations - already at Fraport. From the very beginning of his career, Stefan completed a bank training and graduated as Master in International Finance and Law. After his university study, Stefan started in 1999 at Continental AG, a German blue chipautomotive supplier, first in Corporate Finance and later in Investor Relations.
Stephane Tetot, Director, is a Portfolio Manager with BlackRock's Global Renewable Power platform which currently manages close to $10bn across more than 300 projects across various technologies y across 4 continents. Stephane is responsible for originating, executing and managing renewable power investment opportunities in Europe.
Tatjana is a member of Pantheon’s Global Infrastructure and Real Assets Investment Team where she focuses on the analysis, evaluation and completion of infrastructure & real assets investment opportunities. Prior to joining Pantheon, Tatjana was part of the direct investment teams at IFM Investors, ING and Ardian, where she was responsible for execution, asset management and origination of infrastructure equity investments. Tatjana holds a BSc in Banking and International finance from CASS Business School, London and is a CFA charter holder.
Tim Floyd is Executive Director and head of the London office at Westbourne Capital, an independent investment manager focused exclusively on the infrastructure debt asset class. Since 2010, Westbourne has completed more than US$10 billion of sub-investment grade and investment grade financings across Europe, North America, Asia and Australia.
Tim joined Westbourne in 2013 and has expanded the firm’s investment footprint in the region across a range of sectors including utility networks and services, renewables, toll roads, ports, digital and social infrastructure.
Prior to joining Westbourne, Tim held roles at DWS, Hastings Funds Management and Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, and has over 15 years experience as an infrastructure investment fiduciary.
Tim holds a Master of Science in Accounting and Finance from London School of Economics and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Puget Sound.
Mr. Ivanov joined J.P. Morgan in 2003, and has served as a member of the European energy team and subsequently the European infrastructure and transport practice. He has over 50 completed transactions in the space across products and currently leads the Infrastructure and Transport IB coverage across EMEA. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, Mr. Ivanov had corporate finance experience with Citigroup. He holds a Master degree in International Business and Finance from Moscow State Institute for International Relations, and Executive MBA degrees from Columbia Business School and London Business School. Mr. Ivanov speaks English, German and Russian.
Witold is Investment Director at Mirova, leading investments in low carbon mobility for their €3.5B energy transition infrastructure platform. He has made numerous transactions in EV charging, e-mobility infra-as-a-service, or hydrogen mobility.
Zeynep joined the Infrastructure investment team in 2016 and sits on its investment committee. With a strong M&A and project finance background, Zeynep focuses on origination and execution of transactions in particular in the telecom, renewables and education sectors. She currently serves on the board of several portfolio companies. Previously, Zeynep worked at KPMG Corporate Finance in Paris as financial advisor in the Global Infrastructure and Projects Group.