Infralogic Investors Forum New York 2023
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Paul is a Partner in Pantheon’s Global Infrastructure and Real Assets Investment Team. He previously worked at GIC, from 2012, where he was Senior Vice President, Infrastructure with a global remit focussing on primary, secondary and co-investment opportunities. Paul also has expertise in infrastructure direct investing and infrastructure debt transactions. Prior to GIC, Paul worked at Challenger Infrastructure and Macquarie Capital. Paul studied Business at the University of Edinburgh. He is also a CFA Charterholder, a Chartered Accountant, and a Member of the Securities Institute. Paul is based in San Francisco.
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.
Edward is Managing Director for National Bank Financial and Co-Head of US Investment Banking Power, Utilities & Infrastructure. Edward has more than 25 years of infrastructure investment banking and advisory experience in sectors that include water, wastewater, transportation, power/energy, and social infrastructure. Edward’s water-related experience includes: the concession/divestiture of Lower Colorado River Authority’s water assets; Carlsbad Desalination; Rialto Water/Wastewater P3; Enertech Rialto Biosolids Project; San Juan Capistrano Desalination Project; and New Haven WPCA restructuring. Edward held similar leadership positions at Deloitte, BMO Capital Markets, Lehman Brothers, and Barclays. Prior to investment banking, Edward worked for a multi-national consulting firm specializing in large water, wastewater and other environmental-related projects.
Edward has degrees from The Cooper Union (BE), Manhattan College (ME), NYU’s Stern School of Business (MBA). Edward is a CFA charter holder and a licensed professional engineer.
Mr. Foo is a Partner and Head of Global Infrastructure at Apollo, as well as co-head of Apollos Sustainability Investment Group. Mr Foo leads the firm’s infrastructure investment activities and chairs the Infrastructure committee. 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 energy infrastructure. Mr. Foo currently serves on the board of directors of Brightspeed, Broad Reach Power and Primafrio. Mr. Foo received a Master of Applied Finance from Macquarie University and a Bachelor’s of International Business from Queensland University of Technology.
Alfred Griffin is Senior Managing Director and Head of Generate Credit at Generate Capital, where he leads the company’s credit lending platform for sustainable infrastructure. Previously, Alfred was founding President of NY Green Bank, a $1 billion New York State-sponsored specialty finance company focused on specialty finance for sustainable infrastructure and clean energy. He led the organization from concept to over $1 billion of investments, making NYGB the largest exclusively focused sustainable infrastructure private credit fund in the United States -- investing in solar, wind, storage, energy efficiency, fuel cells, controlled environment agriculture, sustainable transportation and other proven technologies expected to reduce greenhouse gases. Prior to NY Green Bank, Alfred spent 16 years with Citigroup Global Markets in a variety of structured finance roles in Capital Markets and Investment Banking. He holds bachelor’s and Master of Business Administration degrees from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Dave Joynt is Managing Partner in Brookfield’s Infrastructure Group. In this role, he leads infrastructure investment activities in North America has a global focus on the transport sector. He also co-leads the investment team in Toronto.
Prior to joining Brookfield in 2020, Mr. Joynt was a senior principal at Canada Pension Plan Investment Board on its infrastructure team across a number of geographies, including working as CFO of its Australian rail business. Previously, Mr. Joynt worked in private equity and advisory.
Mr. Joynt holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the Harvard Business School, where he graduated as a Baker Scholar, and an Honours Business Administration degree from the Richard Ivey School of Business, where he graduated as an Ivey Scholar.
ALLISON KINGSLEY is Founder and Partner of NOVA Infrastructure, a value-added, middle market infrastructure manager investing in environmental services, transportation, energy transition, and communications sectors in North America. Currently NOVA’s portfolio for its $565 million Fund I consists of seven investments: a vertically integrated waste management platform; a US Flag maritime logistics business; a fixed base operator aviation platform; a port-centric storage and logistics platform; a renewable natural gas business; a fiber-to-the-home business; and a fixed wireless business.
At NOVA, Allison leads the sourcing and execution of infrastructure investments and sits on the Investment Committee. Currently, Allison serves on the Board of Directors for Bold Ocean, a government-contracted maritime logistics business operating US Flag vessels, and Harbor Logistics, a warehousing, drayage, and supply chain logistics business based in Charleston.
Allison has nearly 25 years of experience working in infrastructure. Prior to founding NOVA, Allison invested for infrastructure manager Reformation Capital and also executed bespoke investments for anchor PartnerRe’s principal finance portfolio. Previously, Allison worked at Ambac focusing on global project and structured financings. She started her career at Lehman Brothers in the M&A group in the investment banking division. In addition, Allison is a political economist and former tenured business school professor.
Allison holds a B.A. cum laude from Rice University, an M.S.L. from Yale Law School, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for YWCA Greenwich, an organization committed to eliminating racism and empowering women.
Vittorio Lacagnina is a Partner in the Institutional Client Group at Apollo where he leads product development for Sustainability & Infrastructure and serves as a member of the Infrastructure Investment Committee.
Prior to joining Apollo in 2022, Vittorio was Head of Business Development, Private Infrastructure at Partners Group. Vittorio has 26 years of industry experience across a variety of senior investment, advisory and capital formation roles.
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.
Vittorio is a Member of the Board of Governors of Ocean Exchange, whose mission is to accelerate the adoption of innovative solutions for a sustainable blue economy. He is also a supporter of Glasswing International involved in Youth Development, Community Empowerment and Trauma-Informed Care in Central America.
Todd Lapenna is a member of the infrastructure and real assets team. Lapenna is also involved in various investment activities.
Prior to joining StepStone, Lapenna was a portfolio manager at CalPERS where he led new investments, strategy and portfolio construction for the infrastructure program. Before that he held various investment and capital markets roles at the Royal Bank of Scotland, CIT, Export Development Canada, and Westcoast Energy. Lapenna has executed numerous debt and equity investments in private market power, renewables, energy, utilities, transportation, water and industrials.
Emmett McCann is a managing director and co-portfolio manager of Oaktree’s Infrastructure Investing strategy, specializing in the transportation sector. He is also a member of Oaktree’s ESG Governance Committee. Mr. McCann joined Oaktree in 2014 from Highstar Capital with over 19 years of experience in infrastructure, private equity, investment banking and finance. During his tenure at Highstar, Mr. McCann helped lead the firm’s first airport investment, London City Airport, and led the first major public-private partnership (“PPP”) for an U.S. airport, the 40-year lease of the Luis Munoz Marin Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Prior to joining Highstar in 2009, Mr. McCann helped build Morgan Stanley's infrastructure effort in Europe and North America. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, he was part of the team that established the infrastructure investment banking practice at Goldman Sachs. Over his career, Mr. McCann has advised multiple government agencies (both in the U.S. and internationally) on Public-Private Partnerships (“PPP”) across the transportation sector. He currently serves on the boards of directors of the Ports America Companies and LoneStar Airport Holdings LLC. He previously served on the boards of Aerostar Airport Holdings and CrowdVision Ltd. Mr. McCann holds a B.A. degree in finance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.B.A. with honors from the University of Chicago.
Stuart Murray is North America Head of Infrastructure Debt and is responsible for further enhancing BlackRock's origination effort and investment strategy in this key region. With over 20 years of industry experience, he brings wide-ranging expertise in infrastructure financing, strong industryr elationships, and in-depth understanding of the Americas infrastructure debt markets. Mr. Murray spent 17 years at Citigroup and was most recently Americas Head for Citi's Project & InfrastructureFinance team, covering all industry sub-sectors (e.g. renewables, power, energy, digital, social, transport) of the Infrastructure markets across North America, Latin America, Central America and the Caribbean. Prior to Citi, Mr. Murray was Director of Corporate Finance at The AES Corporation, a global independent power producer. Prior to AES, he spent five years in Leveraged Finance atJPMorgan Chase based in New York and London.
Mr. Murray earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Hamilton College and an MBA degreefrom the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
Lars Pace is a Principal on Hamilton Lane’s Real Assets Investment Team, where he is responsible for due diligence of primary fund opportunities in infrastructure and real assets. Prior to joining Hamilton Lane in 2010, Pace was a portfolio manager at American Beacon Advisors, Inc., where he oversaw a USD 1bn portfolio of private equity investments. Previously, Pace was a Financial Analyst with American Airlines Inc. and Ford Motor Company.
Rishi Patel is a Principal in the global credit group. Rishi has over twelve years of investment experience and has invested$4bn+ across the capital structure and arranged $20bn+ in high yield corporate and asset backed credit opportunities. He joined I Squared Capital from Upwell, a private global asset manager focused on investing in purpose driven platforms in renewables, water, and digital infra, where he served as a Principal on the investment team. Before joining Upwell, Rishi worked in Deutsche Bank’s Transportation, Infrastructure, and Energy Financing Group, where he was a Vice President leading special situation investments. During his tenure at Deutsche Bank, Rishi structured and executed opportunities globally, across the capital structure in various renewable, power, infrastructure, telecom, oil and gas, shipping, and aviation sector opportunities. Earlier in his career, Rishi worked as an investment analyst at Macquarie in the Distressed Debt and Special Situations Trading group. He was also an analyst and member of the investment committee at activist hedge fund Barington Capital, working on several successful public activist campaigns. He began his career at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in the Leverage Finance Group, focused on natural resources and digital infrastructure. Rishi earned a B.S. from the NYU Stern School of Business where he graduated with Honors. He has been a guest speaker at NYU Stern Center of Sustainable Business.
Hadley Peer Marshall is a Managing Partner in Brookfield’s Infrastructure Group and co-Head of its infrastructure debt business. In this role, Ms. Peer Marshall oversees the origination, execution and asset management of the Firm's infrastructure credit investments in the Americas.
Prior to joining Brookfield in 2015, Ms. Peer Marshall was Co-Head of the project finance and infrastructure group at Goldman Sachs, where she was responsible for originating, structuring, executing and advising on infrastructure and project financings for clients.
Ms. Peer Marshall holds a Master of Business Administration degree and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
| Aman joined QIC’s New York office in 2018 and leads the Transport coverage in North America on both acquisitions and asset management, with particular responsibility for investment origination. Prior to joining QIC, Aman was Executive Director, Investment Banking, Infrastructure and Power at CIBC Capital Markets. Aman’s experience spans M&A, debt financing and public-private partnerships transactions across the transportation, water, energy and social infrastructure sectors. Before joining CIBC in 2014, Aman was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley based in New York. Prior to his MBA, Aman worked as a transportation planning engineer with a focus on developing travel demand models for toll road, mass transit and airport projects. Aman is currently a director of MI Longbeach LLC (the project vehicle for the Long Beach Courthouse PPP project), CampusParc LLC (Ohop State University Parking Concession), and MasParc and Mobility LLC (Northeastern University Parking Concession). Aman holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Thapar Institute (India), a Master of Science from Virginia Tech, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. |
Jorge Rodriguez is Managing Director, Head of Debt Capital Markets, covering both public and private debt placements at Marathon Capital. Jorge is responsible for developing Marathon’s suite of debt solutions and services to energy and infrastructure clients.
Jorge has over 20 years of investment banking, capital markets, and investment management experience, having raised, managed, and invested in energy and infrastructure transactions domestically and internationally in an amount exceeding $200B. He has held various positions in sell-side and buy-side capacities as an investment banker and principal investor across the energy and infrastructure sectors. Most recently, Jorge was Managing Director, Portfolio Manager, and Head of Infrastructure Debt at DWS, where he was responsible for the management and strategic direction of the global infrastructure debt business, including managing its $2B investment portfolio. Before joining DWS, Jorge was Managing Director and Head of Infrastructure Finance at Dresdner Kleinwort, where he held roles in both New York and London, where he focused on the origination, structuring, execution, and placement of senior and mezzanine debt financings across all energy and infrastructure sectors. Jorge has previously held positions with Aladdin Capital, BNP Paribas, and Chemical Bank.
Jorge has been involved with several significant wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, and hydro financings involving the acquisition, refinancing, project finance, and restructuring on behalf of financial sponsors and strategic clients.
Jorge received a BA in Economics and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He holds Series 7 and 63 licenses.
James is a Senior Managing Director and is Head of Transportation & Logistics with Stonepeak. Prior to joining Stonepeak, James was a member of Credit Suisse’s Global Energy group, where he focused on the power and renewables sectors. James received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Yale University.
Eugene Zhuchenko has 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.
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