Michael Albrecht Managing Partner Ridgewood Infrastructure

Michael Albrecht is Managing Partner of Ridgewood Infrastructure, bringing significant investment experience in infrastructure and real assets.

Prior to Ridgewood, Michael served as Acting Global Head of Infrastructure & Real Assets for Allstate Investments, where he was also Direct Investments Head and the sole representative of the Private Asset Group on Allstate Investments’ risk management credit committee.

Prior to joining Allstate, Michael was a Senior Acquisitions Officer in JPMorgan Asset Management’s Infrastructure Investments Private Equity Fund. Michael also served as an Analyst at Altrinsic Global Advisors LLC, where he led global coverage of several infrastructure and real asset sectors. Michael began his career at RBC Dain Rauscher and Citigroup. Michael received an MBA from Cornell University and a Bachelor of Science from Stockton University, graduating magna cum laude. Michael is also a CFA^® charterholder.

Shawn Cumberland Managing Partner, Energy Transition EnCap Investments L.P

Michael S. Cumberland (“Shawn”) is a Managing Partner of EETF and has over 30 of years of experience in power and gas infrastructure.  Just prior to forming EETF, Mr. Cumberland was with Prisma Energy II, a private entity focused on investments in energy storage.  Previously, from 2016 to 2018, Mr. Cumberland was Head of North America for Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners and established the U.S. office.  During his tenure at Quinbrook, the U.S. team originated three major portfolio companies: Scout Clean Energy (a wind development company), GlidePath Power Solutions (a battery and distributed power developer), and Arevia Power (developer of the Gemini Solar Project in Nevada, approximately 1GW).  He originated and managed the investment in Scout, which represents one of Quinbrook’s largest investments.

From 2002 to 2016, Mr. Cumberland was with Arctas Capital Group, a company he co-founded that was an investor and advisor on several renewables and other energy infrastructure projects, both domestically and internationally.  Previously, Mr. Cumberland was with Enron, where he held senior executive roles, including President of Enron Caribbean, a role that was responsible for 15 energy businesses in eight countries (including power generation and distribution, gas pipelines, gas processing, LNG, and LPG) and served on the boards of two regionally listed companies.  Mr. Cumberland was also previously a Senior Managing Director at El Paso Merchant Energy, and was a co-founder of both The Wing Group and Power Pacific Company -- firms that developed power infrastructure investments in emerging markets.  Mr. Cumberland started his career in 1986 as a corporate securities and finance attorney in the Houston and London offices of Vinson & Elkins L.L.P.

Edward Fanter Managing Director and Co-Head of US Investment Banking Power, Utilities & Infrastructure National Bank Financial

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.

Mark B. Florian Managing Director and Head BlackRock Global Infrastructure Funds

Mark B. Florian, Managing Director, Head of BlackRock Global Diversified Infrastructure Funds, started the franchise in 2008. Since inception, Mr. Florian has overseen all of the Fund's activities, including overall strategy, portfolio construction, investment origination, structuring, execution, monitoring, and exit strategy. He is the Chairman of the Investment Committee for BGIF.

The BGIF team manages approximately $9 billion in capital commitments across three vintages. The BGIF team has created over 40 portfolio companies across the globe for the Funds and includes over 60 investment professionals who are located in Greenwich (Connecticut), London, Singapore, Houston and Mexico City. The BGIF team joined BlackRock in 2017 from First Reserve, a private equity firm that supported the creation of the BGIF franchise starting in 2008, when Mr. Florian joined the firm. The BGIF team raised the first two fund vintages while at First Reserve.

Prior to BGIF, Mr. Florian was a Partner at Goldman Sachs, fulfilling two primary roles at the firm: 1) managing its global Infrastructure Investment Banking business, and 2) serving on the Investment Committee for Goldman Sachs Infrastructure Partners. His 23-year Goldman Sachs career spanned a wide range of areas within the firm, including the government finance, corporate finance investment banking, and the mergers & acquisitions group. While at Goldman Sachs, he led over $25 billion of mergers and acquisition transactions, and also had structured over $35 billion in financing and hedging transactions. He has been asked to testify to the U.S. Congress on infrastructure issues multiple times and was appointed to a Federal Government commission, which developed recommendations to the U.S. Congress on key changes to its infrastructure finance system.

Mr. Florian holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Economics, magna cum laude, from Duke University and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.

Dylan Foo Partner & Head of Global Infrastructure Apollo Global Management

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 Senior Managing Director and Head of Generate Credit Generate Capital

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 Managing Director, Infrastructure Brookfield

Dave Joynt is Managing Director 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 Partner and Founder NOVA Infrastructure

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 Partner, Institutional Client & Product Solutions 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. 

Todd Lapenna Partner Stepstone

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 Managing Director and Co-Portfolio Manager Oaktree Capital

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 Managing Director, North America Head of Infrastructure Debt BlackRock

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 Principal Hamilton Lane

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.

Hadley Peer Marshall Managing Partner, Investments and Infrastructure Brookfield Asset Management

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.

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Nicholas Rubio Partner, Chief Executive Officer North America Meridiam

Based in New York, Nicolas is Chief Executive Officer, Americas, and Partner with Meridiam. Meridiam is a leading public infrastructure developer, investor and manager specializing in greenfield infrastructure with a core focus on sustainability and impact. It thrives in three key sectors: mobility and transportation; energy transition and environment; and social infrastructure. Globally it invests in over 100 projects across 25 countries representing $19.5bn assets under management. With a proven record of success and unparalleled industry expertise, Meridiam Infrastructure North America (MINA) manages 20 infrastructure projects in the US, Canada, and Chile; develops new projects; and explores new investment opportunities, now with its $1.2bn MINA III Fund. Key investments include La Guardia Airport in New York, the Purple Line light rail in Maryland, Managed Lanes projects in Texas, Colorado and Virginia, Campus energy in Iowa and California, and Fiber networks in Alberta and Indiana. Nicolas has over three decades of international leadership within the private infrastructure and construction sectors in Europe, Africa and the Americas. In 2010 he was awarded the “Entrepreneur of the Year Award” by the American Road and Transportation Builders Association for his role promoting PPPs for transportation in the United States In 2017 he was selected by the National Council for PPPs as part of America’s Top 10 P3 Transportation Infrastructure Pioneers Nicolas holds a master’s degree in Civil Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain.

James Wyper Senior Managing Director Stonepeak

James is a Senior Managing Director with Stonepeak and is Head of Transportation & Logistics. 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.