Robin Ganguly Global Executive Editor Infralogic

Robin oversees global editorial and research coverage for Infralogic. A 24-year news veteran, with 16 of them spent editing financial news, Robin has worked for some of the world's leading news outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires and Bloomberg. He has been a regular on live television, commenting mainly on Chinese government and central bank policy. At Infralogic, he is responsible for daily news coverage and analysis written by a team of journalists spread across the globe, including the Americas, EMEA and the Asia-Pacific region.

Crosby Cook Partner EQT Partners Inc

Crosby Cook joined EQT Partners in September 2013.

Prior to joining EQT Partners, Crosby worked at Metalmark Capital Partners, a middle market private equity firm based in New York and focusing on investments in the energy, industrial, healthcare, and defense sectors. Previously, he worked as an analyst in the M&A investment banking group at Jefferies & Company in New York.

Crosby holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Bowdoin College.

Current directorships: First Student First Transit, Osmose Utilities Services, Inc.

Cecilio Velasco Managing Director, Infrastructure

Cecilio Velasco (New York) joined KKR in 2012 and is a Managing Director on the Infrastructure team. Mr. Velasco leads KKR’s energy transition investments in the Americas. During his time at KKR, Mr. Velasco has worked with the Americas, Asia-Pacific and European infrastructure teams and has been involved in a number of investments globally including Pinnacle Towers, Ecorbit, First Gen, Nitrogen Renewables, NextEra Energy Partners, Acciona Energia Internacional, Bayonne Water and Middletown Water, among others. Prior to joining KKR, he worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York in the investment banking division. He holds a B.S.B.A. in Finance and Accounting, magna cum laude, from Georgetown University.

Nasir Khan Managing Director Natixis

Nasir Khan is responsible for Infrastructure Finance as well as Infrastructure related industry groups including Power and Renewables, Transportation and Social Infrastructure, and Telecommunications.

Khan has over 20 years of experience in infrastructure and energy project finance. He previously worked as Managing Director and Head of Infrastructure for the Americas at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, where he specialized in business development across lending, advisory, and capital markets, and was awarded numerous Deal of the Year awards. Earlier in his career Khan also held positions at Ports America Group and Citigroup.

Gisele Everett Senior Managing Director, Americas OMERS Infrastructure

Gisele Everett is Senior Managing Director and Head of Americas for OMERS Infrastructure and is based in New York City.

Since joining OMERS in 2019, Gisele has been instrumental in shaping Infrastructure Americas’ strategy, portfolio construction, portfolio company value creation plans, and talent development. Under her leadership, Infrastructure Americas has completed several transactions including new investments in Direct ChassisLink Inc. (DCLI) and Navisun, and dispositions of GNL Quintero S.A. (GNLQ) and the Chicago Skyway, amongst others.

Prior to joining OMERS, Gisele held roles at Anchorage Capital Group, Deutsche Asset Management and Citigroup, having led teams responsible for the investment lifecycle from deal origination and execution through value creation to dispositions, across sectors including energy, industrials, telecoms and cleantech. She also held board director roles in over 15 companies covering various geographies and sectors.

Gisele has a BBA (finance major) from Fundação Getúlio Vargas in Brazil and an MBA (finance major) from Cornell University. She speaks English, Portuguese and Spanish.

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.

Dolly Mirchandani Partner, Global Head of Infrastructure, Transportation and Logistics White and Case

Dolly's practice focuses on the infrastructure and energy sector, including public private partnerships, reflecting 25 years of experience working on some of the most significant deals in the sector. She represents sponsors, infrastructure funds, commercial banks, institutional lenders, contractors, secondary market investors and governments in the tender, development, acquisition and financing of greenfield and brownfield infrastructure projects. Dolly has advised across multiple infrastructure asset classes including surface transportation (airports, ports, roads, parking, bridges, transit and rail), water and wastewater, waste management, district energy, digital and social infrastructure. Her breadth of practice and decades of experience allows her to anticipate concerns, propose solutions and promote agreement. She has played a leading role in the introduction of private investment and finance in the infrastructure sector in North America, having advised on multiple, award-winning transactions, including ones that were first-of-their-kind.

Rishi Patel Principal I Squared Capital

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.

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.

Jim Hughes Managing Partner EnCap Energy Transition

Mr. Hughes served as Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Prisma Energy Capital, a private entity focused on investments in energy storage, from December 2017 to July 2019. He served as CEO of First Solar (NASDAQ – FSLR) from May 2012 to June 2016. Prior to joining First Solar, Mr. Hughes served from October 2007 until April 2011 as Chief Executive Officer and a Director of AEI Services LLC, which owned and operated power distribution, power generation (both thermal and renewable), natural gas transportation and services, and natural gas distribution businesses in emerging markets worldwide.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Hughes was President of Prisma Energy International and spent almost a decade with Enron Corporation in positions that included President and Chief Operating Officer of Enron Global Assets, President and Chief Operating Officer of Enron Asia Pacific, Africa and China and as Assistant General Counsel of Enron International.

Mr. Hughes is a Director of TPI Composites, Inc. (NASDAQ – TPIC), which is the world’s largest independent manufacturer of wind turbine blades with operations in the U.S., China, Turkey and Mexico. He is a Director of Alcoa Corporation, (NYSE – AA) which was spun out from Alcoa, Inc. in late 2016. Mr. Hughes is also a Director of PNM Resources, Inc. (NYSE – PNM) an investor-owned utility with operations in Texas and New Mexico. He is the former chairman of the board of directors of the Los Angeles branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. He is also a member of the Energy Advisory Board of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank.

Mr. Hughes holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, a Certificate of Completion in International Business Law from Queen Mary’s College, University of London, and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Southern Methodist University.

Elena Rubinov Partner Mayer Brown

Elena Rubinov is a partner in Mayer Brown's Corporate & Securities practice. She maintains a broad M&A practice, representing public and private companies, including private equity and infrastructure fund clients, in corporate and business combination transactions such as mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, investments, co-investments, joint ventures, recapitalizations, restructurings and bankruptcy sales, among others. She regularly counsels clients in a variety of industries, including energy, infrastructure, media and entertainment, chemicals, financial services and retail. Additionally, she advises on debt and corporate restructurings in connection with equity recapitalizations, rights offerings and 363 sales and acquisitions.

Saurabh Anand Managing Director, Global Infrastructure The Carlyle Group

Saurabh Anand is a Managing Director with Carlyle’s Infrastructure Group where he co-leads renewables and energy transition sector investment strategy. Mr. Anand serves on the Board of Directors of Aspen Power, AlphaStruxure, Fermata Energy, and Enewill. Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Anand was a Managing Director with the Sustainable Infrastructure investment team at Denham Capital, a global energy transition investment firm, where he led multiple investments and served on the Investment Committee and Board of Directors of portfolio companies. Earlier, Mr. Anand spent four years with GE Energy Financial Services focusing on investments in power and energy.

Mr. Anand received a Bachelor of Engineering from Panjab University and a Master of Business Administration from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.

Corey Lewis Managing Director, Transaction Solutions Aon

Corey Lewis joined Aon's Transaction Solutions team in June 2015, focusing on tax insurance. Prior to joining Aon,Corey was an associate in the International Tax Services: Financial Services/Real Estate division in the New York office of PricewaterhouseCoopers. At PwC, Corey focused primarily on the tax structuring of international real estate investments.

Keith Derman Partner & Co-Head of Infrastructure Opportunities ARES MANAGEMENT

Keith Derman is a Partner and Co-Head of Ares Infrastructure Opportunities. Additionally, he serves on the Ares Infrastructure Opportunities Investment Committee and the Ares Climate Infrastructure Partners Investment Committee. As the Co-Head of Infrastructure Opportunities at Ares, he oversees all aspects of strategy, origination, capital deployment and portfolio management across the infrastructure industry. In 2015, Mr. Derman joined Ares Management through the firm's acquisition of Energy Investors Funds, where he was a Partner and had worked for 10 years. From 2002-2005, he was a Manager of Corporate Development at PSEG Power, where he focused on the acquisition and development of power generation and transmission projects as well as spending significant time in the company's commodity trading and international businesses. In addition, Mr. Derman worked as a Senior Financial Analyst in the Acquisition and Development Group at Sunterra Corporation, a publicly traded real estate and resort company. He began his career as a Financial Analyst at Smith Barney, where he was a member of the mergers and acquisitions group. Mr. Derman is a member of the Board of Directors of a number of portfolio companies including Apex Clean Energy and Swell Energy. Mr. Derman also serves on the Board of Visitors at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment. Mr. Derman holds a B.A., cum laude, from Duke University in Political Science and an M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School in Entrepreneurial Management.

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.

Raymond Azar Partner White & Case LLP

Ray is a partner in White & Case’s Project Development and Finance group based in the New York office. His practice focuses on the tender, development, financing, acquisition and divestiture of domestic and international projects in the renewable energy, conventional power, oil & gas, petrochemical and infrastructure sectors. Ray’s financing experience includes international corporate and commercial transactions, including the full spectrum of debt solutions, equity investments, asset-based structured financings and capital markets transactions.

Ray has extensive experience with all of the industry issues and negotiation dynamics for each link of a project, including drafting and negotiating the full range of finance and project documentation. His ability to represent both developers and lenders at various stages of a transaction, including the early design and engineering stage, provides a distinctive versatility to his practice and critical overall deal perspective to his clients. 

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Sayles Braga Senior Partner Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners

Sayles is responsible for origination, diligence, and execution of technology-enabled infrastructure transactions.

Sayles was previously a partner at Alerion Partners, an operationally-focused growth equity fund that he joined in 2010. At Alerion, he led control and non-control investments in, and sat on the boards of, companies across a range of industries.

Prior to Alerion, Sayles co-founded and led a mobile software company in the location-based application space. Sayles began his career at Lazard in the investment banking restructuring group, where he advised companies throughout their bankruptcy proceedings, recapitalizations, asset sales, and other M&A efforts.

Sayles graduated with honors from Harvard College with an AB in Economics.

Sadiq Malik Managing Director DigitalBridge

Sadiq Malik is a Managing Director at DigitalBridge Investment Management. Mr. Malik is a seasoned investment professional with over 20 years of in-depth investing experience in private, distressed and public companies across a variety of industries including the digital infrastructure verticals of towers, data centers, fiber and ground lease buyouts. At DigitalBridge, Mr. Malik is responsible for identifying, evaluating, consummating, and managing investments across all our verticals globally with a specific focus on the Americas and the MEA regions. 

Prior to joining DigitalBridge, Mr. Malik was a co-founding partner of Oskie Capital, a public and private equity firm, which invested in companies undergoing positive business transformations and corporate change.  Previously, he also worked on President Obama’s Auto Task Force at the U.S. Department of the Treasury during the financial crisis in 2009.

Earlier in his career Mr. Malik was an investment professional at Och-Ziff Capital, The Blackstone Group and Morgan Stanley.

Mr. Malik received a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, in Economics from Dartmouth College and an MBA, with distinction, from Harvard Business School.

Emily Goergen Azer Director GI Partners

Emily Goergen Azer is a Principal of GI Partners.  She currently serves on the boards of DRFortress and Rise Broadband.  Prior to joining GI Partners, Mrs. Azer was a Vice President at Stonepeak Partners in New York where she focused on infrastructure investments in the Communications sector.  Earlier in her carrier, Emily worked in the North America Private Equity and Global Infrastructure groups at KKR in New York and was an investment banking analyst with the Blackstone Group in New York.  Mrs. Azer received her B.S. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and her M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Florestan Ferroux Senior Director, Infrastructure Financing CDPQ Fixed Income Inc

Florestan Ferroux is a Senior Director, Infrastructure Financing, at CDPQ. In this capacity, he is responsible for building strategic partnerships for the Infrastructure Financing portfolio. He also develops and monitors the infrastructure financing strategy and portfolio.

Mr. Ferroux has close to 15 years of infrastructure structuring and financing experience. He has held different roles within CDPQ, including more recently, the position of Director, Transactions and Investments, at subsidiary CDPQ Infra, where he developed greenfield sustainable transportation projects. Before joining CDPQ, he was Vice-President, Infrastructure Advisory, at EY, where he advised public authorities and private sector clients in structuring and financing public-private partnerships.

 Mr. Ferroux is a Chartered Financial Analyst and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting from HEC Montréal.

Jason Webber Partner Latham & Watkins

Jason Webber advises clients on the development or acquisition and divestiture of infrastructure and energy businesses.

Jason represents clients in transactions relating to energy, energy transition, telecommunications, circular economy, and other traditional and emerging infrastructure sectors. He regularly advises clients on complex, multidisciplinary matters, including:

• Acquiring portfolio companies for infrastructure-focused investors, including through take-private transactions
• Enabling world-scale development projects through the investment of development capital
• Structuring complex equity investments, including cash equity auctions, mezzanine financings in lieu of equity, joint ventures, management equity structures, and consortium arrangements
• Negotiating multibillion-dollar debt investments, including commercial bank loans, private placements, underwritten project bonds, and export credit facilities
• Facilitating the sale or other exit of portfolio companies and single-asset companies

Dave Joynt Managing Partner, Infrastructure Brookfield

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 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.

James Wyper Senior Managing Director, Head of Transportation & Logistics Stonepeak

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.

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.

Matthew Mendell Managing Director, Americas OMERS Infrastructure

Matthew is a Managing Director with OMERS Infrastructure’s team in Toronto, where he is responsible for the origination, execution and management of infrastructure investments. Matthew’s current responsibilities include the key investment themes of mobility, natural systems and community services across the Americas. He joined OMERS in 2021.

Prior to joining OMERS, Matthew spent 12 years at Evercore, where he was most recently a Managing Director in the Americas infrastructure advisory team. While at Evercore, Matthew covered businesses across the full spectrum of infrastructure including the core, core-plus and value-added sectors. Prior to Evercore, Matthew was with the Macquarie Group, with roles at Macquarie Capital Advisors and Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets.

Matthew has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from McGill University, and a Masters of Finance degree from INSEAD.

Patrick Selinger Partner Winston & Strawn

Patrick Selinger represents clients in a wide range of U.S. and international transactions, including infrastructure development, mergers and acquisitions, project financings, and public-private partnerships.

Patrick also served as in-house counsel at a multi-national commodities trading company and as a secondee to the international legal department of a major Japanese trading house in Tokyo.

Nanda Kamat Managing Director and Head of Infrastructure for the Americas MUFG

Nanda Kamat joined MUFG in December 2009 and is currently the head of the Infrastructure Project Finance team. She has over 15 years of experience in project and infrastructure finance and while at MUFG has led numerous financial advisories for large-scale infrastructure projects including for the LAX Automated People Mover, I-395 Express Lanes, and Purple Line projects. She has also successfully closed financings in both the bank and bond markets for numerous greenfield and brownfield infrastructure assets, including PR-22, Long Beach Container Terminal, Veolia District Energy (now Vicinity Energy), and Indiana Toll Road. Nanda previously held positions at Transurban USA, Goldman Sachs, and Societe Generale. Nanda holds an MBA from The Wharton School, an MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University, and a BS in Finance from New York University.

Jorge Rodriguez Managing Director, Debt Capital Markets Marathon Capital

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.

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.

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.

Hadley Peer Marshall Managing Partner, 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.

Robin Ganguly Global Executive Editor Infralogic

Robin oversees global editorial and research coverage for Infralogic. A 24-year news veteran, with 16 of them spent editing financial news, Robin has worked for some of the world's leading news outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires and Bloomberg. He has been a regular on live television, commenting mainly on Chinese government and central bank policy. At Infralogic, he is responsible for daily news coverage and analysis written by a team of journalists spread across the globe, including the Americas, EMEA and the Asia-Pacific region.

Paul Barr Partner Pantheon

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.

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.

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.

Vittorio Lacagnina Partner, Institutional Client & Product Solutions Apollo Global Management

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.

Eugene Zhuchenko Founder ETORE Advisory

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.

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.