Jonathan Carmody Managing Editor, Americas Infralogic 212 500 1393

As editor for the Infralogic Americas team, Jonathan Carmody is responsible for delivering proprietary information on project finance, fundraising and M&A situations across the North, Latin America and the Caribbean regions.

Jonathan joined Infralogic in February 2014 and is responsible for driving the American content to ensure that our coverage in the region stays focused and up to date.

Maria Marcela Silva Regional Director, Infrastructure World Bank Group

María Marcela Silva is Regional Director for Infrastructure in the Latin America and the Caribbean Region (LCR), based in Washington, D.C.

A Colombian national, she joined the World Bank in 2002 as Transport Specialist in the Transport and Urban Department. She has since then held various positions both in operations and at the corporate level.  Her most recent assignments have been as Transport Practice Manager in the Latin America and the Caribbean Region and in the Africa Region.

Before joining the Bank, Silva worked for the Colombian Government at the National Planning Department. She holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Civil Engineering from Universidad de los Andes in Colombia, and a master’s degree in Economics and Finance from Bristol University.

Andre Clark Juliano Senior Vice President Siemens Energy Latin America

André Clark is Senior Vice President for Siemens Energy Latin America and Vice President of Siemens Energy Brazil, having previously been President and CEO of Siemens Brazil and also CEO of ACCIONA for Brazil, Bolivia, Uruguay and Paraguay. André was born in São Paulo and began his career in the Pulp & Paper industry in 1995. With 17 years of experience in Energy, Oil & Gas, Manufacturing, Logistics and Infrastructure segments, André holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of São Paulo (USP) and an MBA in Finance and Operations Management from Stern School of Business, New York University. With an active role in leading associations and entities from different business segments, he is present in the most important discussions about Brazil. André is President of the Administrative Council of the Brazilian Association of Infrastructure and Basic Industries (ABDIB); Vice-president of the Plenary Board of the Brazilian Association of Machinery and Equipment (ABIMAQ); Member of the Business Council of the Economic Group formed by Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRICS); Member of the Leaders Committee of the National Confederation of Industries and of the Leaders Committee of Business Mobilization for Innovation (CNI /MEI); Member of the Board of Trustees and Senior Fellow of the Infrastructure Nucleus (CEBRI); Member of the Advisory Board of GRI Club Brasil; Member of the Superior Council of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC); Member of the Board of Directors and Vice President of the Digital Transformation Council of the Brazilian Institute of Oil, Gas and Biofuels (IBP).

Daniel Barreto Superintendente BNDES - The Brazilian Development Bank

Daniel Barreto is the Head of the Energy Division at BNDES – The Brazilian Development Bank, being responsible for the financing of energy sectors, including renewables, electric power transmission & distribution, and oil & gas.

BNDES is on “Top 3 Investors” in renewable energy worldwide, and supported 70% of Brazilian national capacity expansion in the last 20, including wind and solar farms, hydroelectric plants, and biomass.

Daniel has been in the BNDES for 14 years and was previously in executive positions in some divisions: Industry, Logistics and Strategic Planning.

Before joining BNDES, he has worked in energy companies such as Petrobras and ExxonMobil, and he holds a degree in Production Engineering from the Federal Fluminense University (UFF), and a master's degree in Economics and Finance from Ibmec-RJ.

Carlos Guinand Executive Chairman Sonnedix

Carlos Guinand is one of the founders of Sonnedix and has served as the company’s Chairman of the Board since 2012, managing all aspects of the company’s governance and performance. He is instrumental in setting the strategic direction and growth of the company, especially when it comes to providing his knowledge on international governance and operational issues. He is also the Chair of the Performance and the Human Resource & Compensation Committees.

Over the course of his career, Carlos has gained wide-ranging expertise across industries: he’s been a successful entrepreneur in various businesses over the last 20 years; has gained significant experience overseeing a portfolio of private equity investments in South America and Europe; and he’s also been a Managing Director of Editorial Arte, a leading printing and publishing company in South America, for the last 18 years.

Peter Nørby Svendsen Project Development, Power-to-X European Energy

Currently position: Project Developer for European Energy – developing Power-to-X projects worldwide.

European Energy is currently constructing the world largest commercial E-methanol Power-to-X plant in Denmark. 

Work history: 15 years international experience in O&G in various roles from technical to Development Manager of large scale O&G projects.

Specialist in sustainable development and climate change planning and policies. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science with specialization in International Affairs (Catholic University of Argentina), and has a degree in environmental management (National University of San Martin). Research Fellow at the MIT SPURS (2013-2014). Experience in international negotiations, transport and waste management policies. Former President of the LEDS LAC platform (2017) and Chair of the UN´s 10 Year Framework of Programs for SGD 12 (2020-2021). Secretary of Climate Change, Sustainable Development and Innovation (2020-2021) and Undersecretary for Strategic Affairs of Argentina (2022). Nowadays he is a consultant and faculty at the National University of San Martin.

Alejandro Perellón Investment Director - Americas Hy24

Alejandro spent the majority of the past 14 years working in the mining and renewable energy sectors in private equity, investment banking, and corporate development roles. When he first learned about how hydrogen could serve as a critical piece of the broader clean energy transition, he was instantly captivated. He soon realized that not only could clean hydrogen help decarbonize areas such as the fertilizer and transportation sectors, but it could also serve as a solution to renewable energy’s intermittency, by storing electrons, and linking clean energy supply and demand centers, by serving as an energy carrier. He now leads Hy24’s investment opportunities in the Americas that is investing in clean hydrogen to advance the energy transition

Carlos Marron Managing Partner Finergreen

Carlos is Managing Partner of Latin America for Finergreen, an international financial advisory boutique specialized in the renewable energy sector (Solar, Wind, Hydro, Biomass and Storage).

The company has completed €2.1 billion of transactions representing more than 6 GW of assets. With a team of 50+ people based in Paris, Madrid, Budapest, Dubai, Singapore, Mexico, Abidjan and Nairobi, the company operates through three main segments: Mergers & Acquisitions, Project Finance and Strategic Advisory

Based in Mexico City, Carlos and his team cover Central and South America, including the Caribbean.

Carlos has over 10 years of M&A experience in Mexico and LatAm, and holds Bachelor's degrees in Finance and in Economics from Southern Methodist University.

Jorge Camina Partner & Head of Sustainable Infrastructure Credit Denham Capital Management

Mr. Camiña is a Partner and Head of Sustainable Infrastructure Credit. Jorge brings over 20 years experience in project finance and investment management, having held senior positions at both Allianz Global Investors and Santander Corporate & Investment Banking. In his most recent role, as Director of Infrastructure Debt at Allianz Global Investors since 2016, Mr. Camiña was responsible for the origination, structuring and execution of Infrastructure Debt investments in the Americas. He led the execution of a strategic shift towards renewable power across US and Latin America, investing in over three gigawatts of solar and wind assets. He was also member of the Infrastructure Debt investment committee. Jorge received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration by Deusto Business School in Spain.

Leon Valera Managing Director, Energy Group Societe Generale

Leon Valera heads the Latin America practice for the Energy Group at SG . Mr. Valera has over 20 years of experience in the origination and structuring of transaction across the energy and infrastructure sectors. His expertise includes financial advisory, arranging financing across multiple sources (Banks, Capital Markets, MLAs), as well as dedicated equity raising for projects.

• Prior to joining SG, Mr. Valera spent time as part of Global Structured Solutions at Citigroup and the Debt Capital Market department at Deutsche Bank.
• Mr. Valera’s experience includes Tellurian, RLAM Refinery, Gatun Power, TAG Pipeline, El Llano solar, Enfragen, ARCO Solar, Tierra Mojada, Nueva Era pipeline, Cerro Dominador, Ichthys LNG, Delek’s Tamar, and Fermaca’s pipelines in Mexico.
•  Mr. Valera holds a B.S. in International Finance and Economics from Babson College

Alan Cooper Chief Executive Officer On.Energy

Entrepreneur Alan Cooper co-founded On.Energy with Ricardo de Azevedo in 2015. In his role as CEO, Cooper brings a proven track record of successfully bringing to market diverse energy technologies that integrate complex hardware with software and business models that create value for customers and for shareholders. When most of the energy marketplace was still looking at renewables, Cooper saw the viability of energy storage systems, giving rise to On.Energy - helping to build the company’s energy management system, structuring industry-first financial models for no-money-down BESS and successfully raising over $120M of capital & project equity for On.Energy.

Strengthened by heritage and inspired by innovation, he founded and scaled Cooper Precision Companies alongside his father Norman, where he currently sits as a board member, growing their energy services division to operations in 6 countries, staffing over 300 people and generating +20M in EBITDA. The group of U.S.-based energy technology companies got their start servicing the oil and gas industry and have since expanded into supporting energy transition technologies, embracing both history and history in the making.

Cooper holds a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Economics from the University of Toronto and is a member of YPO, a global community of diverse and extraordinary CEOs.

Jean Francois Joachim Peñuela CFO VGMobility

Jean has over 12 years of experience in investment banking including corporate finance and structuring private equity funds.

He has led the structuring and closure of cross-border transactions and resource for more than 20 private equity funds, managing total assets of over $ 2 billion among institutional investors in Europe and the US.

Jean is a former founding partner of Athos Partners, a company specialized in supporting private equity fund managers operating in private debt, mezzanine, and infrastructure debt, amongst others.

He has also worked for Rothschild as part of their investment banking team in Paris and as an assistant to the financial management of AXA investment managers.

Jeans holds an Economics and Business Administration degree. with a Masters in banking and finance from the University Paris II – Assas in Paris.

Principal at Vinci Partners’ Infrastructure team. Prior to Vinci, He worked for Citi Infrastructure Investors as Investment Principal, responsible for identifying, analyzing and executing transactions for the fund. Previously, he worked in the Strategy and Business Development group of Citi Alternative Investments, the alternative investment platform of Citigroup, where, among other activities, he coordinated the structuring and fundraising of the bank's first infrastructure fund. He also held roles in corporate areas of M&A,Strategy and Treasury at Citi. Before moving to the US, he worked as a consultant at Accenture in Brazil. He graduated in Civil Engineering from UFRJ and holds an MBA from the Univ. of Michigan’s Ross School of Business

Beatriz Souza Director, Head of Investors Relations BTG Pactual Private Capital Group

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Alejandro de la Vega Partner-Infrastructure Investment Banking Deloitte – Financial Advisory Spanish Latin America

Specialist in infrastructure financing and advisory with over 70 transactions worth more than US$ 20 billion over a 20+ year career in infrastructure lending and advisory at Santander, Infra X, Agere and Deloitte.

Alex has developed strategic relationships with relevant government entities in Mexico (ministry of finance, development banks, Pemex, CFE, SCT), major infrastructure financial & industrial sponsors, DFIs, international and local commercial banks, ECAs and multilaterals among others.

Previously he held senior positions at Santander, Agere and Beel and is currently a Partner at Deloitte where he started the infrastructure investment banking advisory team for Spanish Latin America.

Aniceto Huertas Partner BEEL Infrastructure Partners

Aniceto has more than 15 years of experience in the international financial sector, with a focus on origination, structuring and closing of advanced equity and project finance transactions in the infrastructure and energy sector in México and Latin America.

He is a founding partner of Beel Infrastructure Partners, an asset manager and financial advisor for infrastructure and energy projects in Mexico and Latin America (beelinfra.com)

Before founding Beel in 2018, Aniceto worked in CitiBanamex Afore, one of Mexico´s largest pension funds, where he was Risk Director, responsible for transaction origination, structuring, closing and monitoring of US$10bn AUM, including 55+ private equity & debt funds and co-investments.

Prior moving to Mexico, Aniceto was based in Washington DC for 10 years, where he was a senior investment officer in the infrastructure department at the Inter-American Investment Corporation, part of the Inter-American Development Bank Group, where he worked on more than 50 project finance and equity transactions in the infrastructure sector across Latin America.

He has also worked for the International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group, and the Spanish Economic and Commercial Office in the USA.

He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and holds a Masters in Finance degree from George Washington University in Washington, DC, an International MBA from ICEX/CECO in Madrid, Spain, and a Professional Certificate in Strategic Decision and Risk Management from Stanford University. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from both the University of Hertfordshire, UK, and University of Malaga, Spain, under a double-degree program.

Luis Arizaga Partner Exus Managment Partners

Prior to joining EXUS in 2020, Luis founded EIRA Capital, an investment platform that focuses on Energy and Infrastructure transactions in Mexico, and selected countries in Latin America. Also, Luis was previously part of Macquarie, where he spent more than seven years in the Macquarie Capital and Macquarie Funds divisions, working on fund capital raising, equity investments, and asset management activities, as well as third party advisory on energy and infrastructure transactions in Mexico and Latin America. During his years at Macquarie, he also held board positions in the several investments made by Macquarie which covered energy, PPPs, roads, and telecom companies.

Luis' previous involvement at financial institutions includes positions in the investment banking teams of Deutsche Bank's M&A group in New York, and Citibank's Banamex Accival M&A group in Mexico.

In addition, Luis currently participates as: (i) Independent Member of the Investment Committee of INFONAVIT's Investment Fund; (ii) independent board member of COX Energy Americas; (iii) independent board member of SIMPATI Mobile; and (iv) founder of Fundación Reversible, a new charitable foundation focused on global warming issues.

Luis holds an MBA from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at NYU in New York, and a BA in Accounting and Finance from ITESM in Mexico.

Wade Aust Managing Director Altantra

Wade Aust is one of three US-based Partners of Alantra. He has twenty-two years of M&A experience and is responsible for the Business Services and Industrials sectors. He travels extensively between the US, Continental Europe and the UK. He competed on the 1984 and 1988 U.S. Olympic Sailing Teams and worked as a coach in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. He received his bachelor’s degree in Finance and Mathematics from Salve Regina University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

Juan Ricardo Noero Managing Director Augment Infrastructure

Juan Ricardo Noero is a Managing Director at Augment Infrastructure with 30 years experience in infrastructure project structuring and management. Between 2010 and 2022, he was CEO of Puerto Bahía S.A., a large-scale port terminal in Colombia for which he led planning, design, financing, construction and operations. Juan Ricardo also served as Deputy Minister of Transport and Infrastructure of Colombia between 2002 and 2006 where he was responsible for the structuring of over US3 billion in infrastructure projects across the country.

Juan Ricardo has an MBA from SDA Bocconi and a BSc from Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá.cture with 30 years experience in infrastructure project structuring and management. Between 2010 and 2022, he was CEO of Puerto Bahía S.A., a large-scale port terminal in Colombia for which he led planning, design, financing, construction and operations. Juan Ricardo also served as Deputy Minister of Transport and Infrastructure of Colombia between

Fradyn Suárez Partner, Corporate Finance and Investments King & Spalding

Fradyn Suárez is a partner in King & Spalding’s Project Finance practice resident in the Miami office. Fradyn has more 20 years of experience representing stakeholders in connection with complex finance transactions and restructurings and other investments in the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Her practice is mostly focused on project finance, with a concentration in development banks, infrastructure and energy. She has extensive experience working with both lenders and sponsor groups and regularly serves as finance counsel to various energy and infrastructure companies with investments in the United States and Latin America.

Suhitha Reddy Managing Director Augment Infrastructure

Suhitha is a Managing Director at Augment Infrastructure and has 15 years of infrastructure investing and finance experience. Previously, she was a member of the IFC Global Infrastructure Fund, a US$1.2 billion fund managed by IFC Asset Management Company (AMC), where she was responsible for investments in Latin America and Asia in the water, telecommunications, and power sectors. Prior to this, Suhitha worked as a Latin American synthetic equity trader at Deutsche Bank, a member of IFC’s infrastructure investment team, and an investment banker at Citigroup. Suhitha has an MBA from the Wharton School and a BA from MIT.