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Isabel is the Regional Industry Director, Infrastructure Natural Resources, Asia Pacific, based in Singapore. For seven years prior to her current role, Isabel was the Regional Manager for PPP, initially for South Asia based in Delhi, and subsequently in Singapore as her mandate expanded to cover APAC for the last four years. Isabel spent four years in IFC’s Subnational Finance unit where she worked in deal origination, structuring and supervision of debt and structured finance products in more than six countries in LAC. Prior joining IFC, Isabel held various positions in WBG operations in the urban sector in the Middle East and North Africa region, the water sector in Latin America, and the transport, power and urban sector in South Asia. Prior joining WBG in 2001, Isabel worked in emerging markets and Western Europe for WS Atkins in the UK as Senior Management Consultant; working on infrastructure finance in Thailand, Argentina, Barbados, Qatar, the UK, and Europe.
Isabel is a civil engineer by training, holds an MBA and a PhD from the University of Birmingham.
Fumio is the head of Renewable Energy Investment in Daiwa Energy & Infrastructure since 2021.
Prior to joining Daiwa Energy & Infrastructure in 2018, Fumio has 10 years of experience in investment and fund management, including 5 years with Daiwa Real Estate Asset Management where he engaged in business development as well. One of his primary achievements there was the launch of a renewable energy asset management business. He has executed various investments and financing transactions since joining Daiwa Energy & Infrastructure.
Fumio holds a master’s degree of science in advanced architectural studies from University College London.
Koichiro Danno is an expert of energy & environment business, ICT & telecommunication, water & resources and smart city. He provides consulting services for business strategy, sales & marketing, M&A, incubation and start-up.
Takanori Fukushima has had an extensive career in derivatives and risk management at domestic and global investment banks. He now heads the PPP & Infrastructure Investment Research Department at Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Research Institute offering research, consulting and advisory services for PPP & infrastructure investments. Clients include municipal governments engaging in PPP projects. He serves as a member of several government study groups and councils including: expert advisor for the Cabinet Office “PFI Promotion Office,” chairperson for MLIT “Study Group for Real Estate Risk Management,” member of METI “Asia Infrastructure Finance Committee,” MLIT “Study Group for Infrastructure REIT,” and MLIT “Working Group for Securitization of public-owned real estate.”
He has co-authored “Introduction to Infrastructure Investment” and “Infrastructure Investments by the Private Sector” both published by Nikkei Business Publications Inc.
He holds an MBA from the Graduate School of Finance, Accounting and Law at Waseda University and is an adjunct researcher at Institute of International Real Estate Studies at Waseda University. He is also a Chartered Member of the Securities Analysts Association of Japan (CMA).
Robin oversees Asia-Pacific coverage for Inframation. A 22-year news veteran, with 13 of them spent editing financial news, Robin has worked for the world's leading news outlets, including The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires. He has been a regular on live television, commenting mainly on Chinese government and central bank policy. At Inframation he is responsible for daily news coverage and analysis written by a team of journalists spread across Greater China, Japan, India, Singapore and Australia.
Stefano Ghezzi joined OTPP in 2017 and is member of the Infrastructure and Natural Resources team based in Singapore covering the infrastructure and renewable sectors across Asia Pacific. During his time at OTPP Stefano has been involved in investments globally including the recent acquisitions of Caruna Networks, SGI and IDEAL, amongst others. Prior to joining Ontario Teachers', Stefano worked in the infrastructure and energy group at Citigroup and in derivatives trading at Commerzbank in London.
Stefano holds a M.Sc. in Finance from Warwick Business School and a B.Sc. in Economics from Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan.
Yuichiro Kawabe is an executive officer and general manager of project finance department at Shinsei Bank, and is in charge of domestic and overseas project finance. In domestic project finance business, his team mainly organizes project finance for renewable energy projects and syndicate to regional financial institutions and institutional investors. Shinsei has arranged financing for more than 100 renewable energy projects such as solar power generation, wind power generation, biomass power generation, and geothermal power generation so far.
Yoshi focuses innovative strategies and products with the investment horizon structures. He has more than 30 years of experience in investment and risk management.
Before that, Mr. Kiguchi was a managing director of Russell Investments in Japan, where he supervised several teams, and delivered a wide range of consulting and solutions to the institutional clients including Toyota, Fujitsu, NEC, Sekisui, Toray, and Mazda. He joined Russell as a consultant in 1998.
Prior to joining Russell, Mr. Kiguchi was with Sumitomo Life for ten years. He was placed in charge of corporate strategy, equity investments, researching capital markets, including private equities, and performing quantitative risk management and ALM.
B.S., Precision Machinery (Robotics), the University of Tokyo, 1988.
Tom has been with Infrastructure Capital Group (ICG) for over 10 years and Managing Director since 2014. He is responsible for overseeing all activities of the group and has been pivotal in the group’s expansion in recent years, including launching new products and more than doubling in size.
Tom has many years of experience in the purchasing and selling of infrastructure assets in multiple jurisdictions, and has significant global infrastructure investment banking experience across roads, rail, airports, ports, regulated utilities, power generation, pipelines & PPPs. Tom has international experience having spent a decade in Canada and Europe. Tom is also an accomplished company director, sitting on numerous boards and with experience as Chair of various committees. Tom brings substantial experience across all aspects of the infrastructure industry, with advisory and fund experience. He has transactional, execution, origination, commercial, HR, risk management and strategic thinking skills.
Tom is a portfolio manager for DIT, is a member of the Investment Committee and has directorships on ICG, various trustee boards and various portfolio companies.
Tom holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and Bachelor of Commerce.
Udhay Mathialagan is a Managing Director in Brookfield’s Infrastructure business, primarily responsible for data infrastructure investments in Asia Pacific.
Mr. Mathialagan joined the organisation in 2018 and is responsible for leading the establishment and growth of the data infrastructure sector in the region.
Mr. Mathialagan led the acquisition of DCI Data Centers, an Asia- Pacific focussed data centre business serving global cloud service companies and Vodafone New Zealand, the leading mobile and broadband telecom operator in New Zealand, which resulted in a 50% investment by Brookfield.
Mr. Mathialagan has previous experience in developing, operating and investing in telecom related businesses and prior to joining Brookfield, held roles as Senior Adviser at Macquarie Capital’s Telecom, Media and Technology group, Director of Strategic Development at Crown Castle Australia and was also the founder and CEO of Insight Infrastructure.
Mr Mathialagan holds an MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management, the Netherlands and is currently Chair of the Board of DCI, and Chair of the Board of Vodafone New Zealand.
Takashi previously worked for Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. before he joined KPMG in 2001.
Takashi has been providing tax advisory services with particular focus on M&A / reorganizations related to various sectors, advising clients on tax structures recommended for setting up funds inside / outside Japan (e.g. Singapore, Cayman Islands, Luxemburg) as well as on on-going / closure of funds. His clients are mainly foreign sovereign funds, private equity funds, real estate funds and foreign institutions/multinational companies. Recently Takashi has been assisting in setting up venture capital funds inside/outside Japan as well.
Following introduction of the FIT regime in 2012 and Prior to an increase in interest from investors in healthcare-related assets, Takashi was one of the first tax professionals to advise on this industry. He has developed vast experience in the field and understands the new trends in the market as well as implications of the relevant tax laws.
He has also specialized in the provision of post-transaction bookkeeping, entity administration and tax compliance for entities involved in the tax structuring and M&A transactions, allowing for a seamless and comprehensive service package that ensures accurate implementation after the investment has been made.
More specifically, for real estate (i.e. Logistic and Hotel) / renewable energy assets development projects, Takashi Has been supporting on the set up of Listed / Private REIT and tax compliance.
He returned from a 2.5 year secondment to Italy, where he teamed with Italian and European professionals to support Japanese clients with various investments into Italy as well as with their Italian operations from audit, tax, legal and advisory perspectives.
Ken-ichiro Matsunaga is in charge of Japan Post Bank's infrastructure investment program including both infrastructure equity and debt investment. He joined Japan Post Bank in July 2021 after 15-years career at Development Bank of Japan which covers infrastructure fund investment, GP co-investment, debt SMAs, ECA finance and project finance. In his last 5 years at DBJ, he provided gatekeeping/advisory services to large Japanese institutional clients as an asset management arm. He holds a Bachelor of Law from the University of Tokyo.
Mark McLean is a Managing Director and Head of Asia-Pacific for Morgan Stanley Infrastructure. He has over 20 years of experience in investment management and investment banking, including extensive experience in Australia in the investment and management of infrastructure opportunities. McLean is focused on generating opportunities for MSI in OECD counties in the Asia-Pacific region and is based in Melbourne.
Kanna leads Private Capital Markets team in Japan where her primary role is to connect Japanese capital to global infrastructure opportunities. Her most recent experiences include successful formation of a partnership with JERA on Formosa 1, 2 and 3 offshore wind projects in Taiwan, and acquisition of Electricity North West in UK by a consortium including Kansai Electric.
Since joining Macquarie in 2013, she has worked on 2 of the first 3 major infrastructure privatisation projects in Japan, Sendai Airport and Aichi Toll Road, as a financial advisor to the winning consortium of each transaction.
Before joining Macquarie, Kanna engaged in commercial lending for non-EU EMEA companies in Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation’s EMEA headquarter in London for 5 years. Kanna started her career as a business consultant at BaringPoint (currently PwC) where she worked on various business process optimisation projects for Japanese companies.
Anthony is Asia Chairman and Partner of H.R.L. Morrison & Co a leading alternative asset manager investing in infrastructure through both private and listed markets. Anthony has over 35 plus years of experience with both traditional and alternative investment management across different regions and asset classes. Before H.R.L. Morrison & Co Anthony had spent an extensive period with Citigroup Global Asset Management and Salomon Brothers Asset Management as regional Chief Investment Officer and a member of its global investment management committee. He had previously built and run the proprietary investment team in Asia for Alliance Trust Plc and spent early part of his career with BNZ Investment Management.
Anthony is also current Chairman of JIDA Capital Partners Limited, a China focused sustainable infrastructure investment management company. He is a Non-Executive Director of UK listed Utilico Emerging Markets Trust PLC and had served 9 years as Board Director of listed company Infratil. Anthony is current Chairman of Asia Corporate Governance Association (ACGA) and is an Advisory Board member of Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC. He was past Chairman and Fellow of Hong Kong Securities and Investments Institute and was a past Chairman and Fellow of New Zealand Society of Investment Analysts (now known as INFINZ).
Hironobu Nakamura joined Asset Management One Alternative Investments, Ltd. (“AMOAI”) as General Manager, Chief Investment Officer in April 2018. Mr. Nakamura has the overall responsibility for investment origination and fund management. He has 20 years of experience in global project finance and infrastructure related business, having started his career in 2000 with Project Finance Dept. of Mizuho Bank. He has worked around the world including Tokyo, New York and London and was instrumental in the expansion of Mizuho’s project finance business globally. Spearheading his senior activity in equity investment as well as debt space, in 2015 he was seconded to USD1.25Bil global infra fund, jointly established by Mizuho, JBIC, Mitsubishi Corp and a Canadian Pension Fund and served as a member of Investment Committee. He has led a numbers of significant transactions including; MLA for the largest IPP in Thailand, multiple MLA for IPPs in Vietnam, Indonesia and Australia, Sole MLA for Hold-Co acquisition finance to multiple IPPs in U.S., Acquisition of Transmission and Distribution business in Finland and other EU.
Jun joined Actis in 2022, as the firm opened its office in Tokyo and extends its footprint in Asia. Jun oversees Actis’ operations, relationships and growth in Japan and also works with the firm’s central teams, including the Investor Development Group, to diversify the global institutional investor base.
Jun was previously Head of Macquarie Capital Japan, where he worked for almost 14 years. Before this, Jun worked for Fuji Bank, Mizuho Corporate Bank, and UBS for 22 years, working across corporate finance, project finance, export finance and asset-backed securities for deals in Japan and overseas.
Jun has a BA in Economics from Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, and a Master of Business Administration from Southern Methodist University, Texas, USA.
Keisuke Okano is in charge of Infrastructure investments at ORIX Life Insurance Corporation. Since joining ORIX Life in 2019, he has led the growth of the infrastructure portfolio. In prior role, he was in Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) for 8 years where he took various role there, including he served as portfolio manager for Infrastructure investments from the time when GPIF starts alternative investment.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Waseda University.
Kok Leong Toh is part of Partners Group's Asian Private Infrastructure business unit, based in Singapore. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the firm's portfolio company Green Island Renewable Power. He has been with partners Group since 2011 and has 13 years of industry experience. Prior to joining Partners Group, he worked at CIMB Bank where he is part of the Investment Banking large corporate coverage team based in Singapore. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Singapore Management University and an executive master in finance from Insead, France.