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Lawrence Slade joined GIIA as CEO in January 2020, having most recently been Chief Executive of Energy UK since 2015. He has been involved in the energy industry since the late 1990’s working in countries all over the world. Lawrence is a member of the UK Government’s Committee on Fuel Poverty, an Advisory Board member of Connected Kerb, a Board Trustee and Audit Committee member of the Money Advice Trust (who run the National Debtline and Business Debtline), and is also a Fellow of the Energy Institute.
Phillip is an Executive Director in the Infrastructure team at DC Advisory focusing on infrastructure debt advisory.
Phillip has advised on some of the most high profile infrastructure financings over the last few year with inaugural issuances for a variety of sub-sectors. Transactions of note include the £1bn financing for Rock Rail South Western, €800m financing for Koole Terminals, €500m financing for Adven and €1.45bn financing for Beacon Rail.
Prior to joining DC, Phillip was a member of the HSBC and RBS corporate and infrastructure financing teams.
Darryl is responsible for origination, structuring and execution of new infrastructure debt transactions. Transactions are sourced and assessed against the investment strategies of our clients and structured accordingly.
Prior to joining Aviva Investors, Darryl was a partner at KPMG in the Infrastructure Advisory practice. Darryl has over 22 years’ experience in infrastructure finance having also worked at Hambros, SG, Newcourt Capital, RBC and was head of European Project Finance at HSBC. He is widely recognised as one of the leading infrastructure financing experts in the UK and has structured, advised and arranged on a wide number of projects globally and has particular expertise in public private partnerships.
Before joining Allianz Global Investors, Adrian Jones was a Managing Director within MBIA UK Insurance Limited. He was primarily responsible for infrastructure debt, project finance, and public finance origination and execution. Adrian also provided senior support to the transaction monitoring teams, negotiating major variations and complex remediation. His main areas of focus were Public Private Partnerships/Private Finance Initiative financings, utility debt raising, and transportation financing. Prior to joining MBIA, Adrian worked for Schroders/Citigroup, Deloitte and ANZ Bank in advisory and debt arranging capacities. Adrian holds an MA from St. Edmund Hall, Oxford University.
Arnaud joined Rivage Investment in 2014 and is in charge of the origination and debt project management for our clients investments.
Arnaud has 20-years' experience in capital markets and structured debt. He started his career in 1990 at the Compagnie Bancaire, the specialised financial services control holding group of Paribas. He was responsible for the finance and ALM activites until 1997. Then, he joined the Crédit Lyonnais as a senior originator, and was responsible for the bond syndication afterwards.
From 2001, Arnaud worked at WestLB AG in London as a senior originator for France and Southern Europe debt issuers. He worked in structured finance at WestLB Paris from 2006 to 2009 where he was responsible for the infrastructure sector, financial acquisition transactions and LBOs. From 2010 to mid 2014, Arnaud was senior originator in the infrastructure debt team of WestLB London where he refinanced Eiffarie and the A150 highway, then managed the "distressed debt" portfolio, where he actively contributed to the financial restructurings of several LBOs and France and Southern Europe projects.
Arnaud is a graduate from Centrale Paris and has an International Finance Master from HEC.
Priit Koit joined Utilitas as the Chief Executive Officer in 2013. Utilitas, Estonia’s largest producer of renewable energy and largest district heating operator, is leading the country’s transition to renewable energy in urban energy supply. Prior to joining Utilitas Koit held senior roles in investment banking in the region, most recently heading the Estonian team at SEB.
Michael specialises in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and major project development with a focus on the energy sector (in particular oil and gas and power).
His clients include multinational corporates, financial institutions, governments and individuals. In the last 12 months, Michael has advised on significant mergers and acquisitions including a number of disposals in the North Sea, an acquisition in Egypt and an oil storage acquisition and joint venture.
Holger Linkweiler is Managing Director of AviAlliance and AviAlliance Capital. Furthermore, he is Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Athens International Airport S.A., Member of the Board of Directors of Budapest Airport Zrt., Member of the Supervisory Board at Flughafen Düsseldorf GmbH and Member of the Operating Board of Aerostar Airport Holdings, LLC (San Juan Airport).
Within AviAlliance he oversees the operational departments Mergers & Acquisitions, Investments and Financing, Aviation, Technical Services as well as the Legal department. Furthermore, he heads the Asset Management of the airports in Athens and San Juan.
As co-founder of the company Holger Linkweiler assumed responsibility for the company's business planning and financing activities. He also managed the acquisitions of the stakes in the airports in Sydney and Budapest and the founding of AviAlliance Capital.
David Rees is responsible for the long-term performance of AMP Capital’s infrastructure assets as part of AMP Capital's active asset management strategy. Mr Rees has been a board member of a number of AMP Capital’s European infrastructure assets including Newcastle Airport, Angel Trains, Alpha Trains, Wales and West Network and Thames Water. Mr Rees joined AMP Capital in March 2012 with 25 years of experience in infrastructure businesses including corporate strategy, business development, corporate finance, investor relations, regulation and government affairs.
Prior to joining AMP Capital he worked for 10 years at National Grid, the international network energy company, where he held a number of senior finance roles, including director of finance and regulation at Transco, the UK gas transmission and distribution business, group director of M&A and business development, and global director of investor relations. Mr Rees led the team responsible for the sale of four of National Grid’s UK gas distribution businesses in 2005. He was also Chairman of Trustees and a member of the Investment Committee of National Grid’s UK Pension Scheme. Before joining National Grid, he was director of corporate finance and economic affairs and a member of the executive committee at OFWAT, the UK water regulator. Mr Rees started his career in investment banking at County NatWest, where he worked on the privatisations of UK water and electricity businesses.
Mr Rees holds a Master of Arts honours degree in Mathematics from the University of Oxford in the UK.
Tim is an experienced and highly credible consultant with many years of experience working at senior levels within the aviation industry. He has worked on a wide range of projects around the world and has particularly valuable C-level connections within the aviation finance community. Over the past five years, Tim’s work has been largely focussed around airport transactions providing clients with advice on traffic forecasting and aeronautical yield modelling. Tim has also been involved with providing strategic advice to one of the short-listed parties who are seeking to provide additional runway capacity in south-east England as part of the UK Government’s Davies Commission. Tim has also worked on writing and reviewing airline business plans and provided due diligence to investors in various segments of the aviation industry including airlines, airports, lessors and ground handling companies. He also currently runs the Air Transport Economics MSc module at City University in London. Tim’s ten years of investment banking experience ensures that he understands the shareholder and other stakeholders’ perspective of the aviation industry. He also has first-hand airline experience gained from his time at Aer Lingus.
Paul has been Director of the IFS since January 2011. He is also currently visiting professor in the Department of Economics at University College London. Paul has worked and published extensively on the economics of public policy, with a particular focus on income distribution, public finances, pensions, tax, social security, education and climate change. He was awarded a CBE for services to the social sciences and economics in 2018. As well as a previous period of work at the IFS his career has included spells at HM Treasury, the Department for Education and the FSA. Between 2004 and 2007 he was deputy head of the Government Economic Service. Paul is currently also a member of the committee on climate change and the Banking Standards Board. He was an editor of the Mirrlees Review of the UK tax system.
Raffaele Della Croce is a Senior Economist at the OECD, and Senior Fellow at Imperial College. At the OECD he is in charge of the G20/OECD Taskforce on Long-Term Financing and responsible for producing statistical research and analysis on sustainable finance, long term investment financing and connectivity infrastructure. He is the Lead Manager for the OECD project “Institutional Investors and Long-term Investment” in the Financial Affairs division of the OECD and also responsible for the Long Term Investment Network gathering major pension funds, insurance companies, and sovereign wealth funds across the world www.oecd.org/finance/lti. Raffaele represented the OECD to G20, European Parliament, Financial Stability Board and UN meetings and is currently involved in a new project on the impact of innovation as blockchain on sustainable finance and the use of Big Data - public (i.e. satellite, drones, ground sensors) and private - with AI, IoT for infrastructure investment. Representing the OECD he took part to the 25 members FSB working group - chaired by Dutch Central Bank President Knot - mandated to analyze the impact of financial regulation on infrastructure financing and report to the G20 Leader’s summit in November 2018 in Buenos Aires. Before joining the OECD in 2010, he worked in the financial industry for eight years, mainly with Ernst & Young and Moody’s Investors Services in London. As part of international teams advising governments or private consortia, he has been involved in the analysis, structuring and negotiation of the largest transactions in the utilities and infrastructure sectors in Europe, Middle East and Africa region. Raffaele has been educated in Rome, Oxford and Columbia Universities. He also serves in the advisory committee of the OECD Provident Pension Fund.
Anish Butani joined bfinance in April 2017 to provide specialist coverage to clients seeking to deploy capital to the Infrastructure sector and support initiatives in Real Estate and Private Equity Markets. Anish has over 10 years of experience in total, which included 8 years with KPMG Corporate Finance based in London, where he was a senior member of the infrastructure corporate finance team. Anish has significant experience acting as an M&A and valuations advisor to global infrastructure fund managers across all sub-sectors in the asset class, including renewable energy, regulated utilities, transport and social infrastructure.
Prior to joining bfinance, Anish was at John Laing Group plc, the international investor in infrastructure, where he was responsible for leading and shaping divestment processes of their infrastructure project portfolio. Anish has a degree in Economics, Politics and International Studies from Warwick University.
René has joined La Banque Postale Asset Management in 2012 to launch their private debt platform dedicated to infrastructure, real estate and corporate debt. The platform is now managing EUR 3.9 bln on behalf of 27 institutional investors, with a team of 12 sector specialists, investing across European debt markets.
René is also the Chairman of the Infrastructure Committee of the French Asset Management Association (AFG), and member of the Infrastructure Advisory Board of UN PRI (Principles for Responsible Investment).
René enjoys a 25-year experience in project finance advisory and arranging across Europe, North America and Asia, out of Paris, London and Singapore.
Before joining La Banque Postale AM, René was the Global Head of Infrastructure and Deputy Global Head of Project Finance at Dexia, where he worked for 10 years.
Before Joining Dexia in 2002, René worked for 9 years at Crédit Lyonnais (now Credit Agricole CIB), where he started in 1993 in their Paris-based Infrastructure project finance team as a manager. He then spent 4 years in their Singapore-based Asian Project Finance group as Associate Director in charge of infrastructure, energy and telecom. In 2000, he moved to Credit Lyonnais’ London project finance team covering Public-Private-Partnerships, Infrastructure and utilities.
René is 50, graduate from the ESSEC Business School, and speaks French, English, Arabic and Japanese.
In his role as Senior Managing Director, Philippe has led the OMERS Infrastructure team and the investment strategy effort in Europe since 2015.
Philippe joined OMERS in January 2009 and has played a leadership role in investments including Associated British Ports, High Speed One, Tank & Rast, London City Airport, CLH, Thames Water, SFR FTTH and VTG.
Prior to joining OMERS Infrastructure, Philippe was an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs advising clients on M&A and financing across Europe in a number of sectors including power & utilities, transport infrastructure, financial institutions, industrial and consumer retail. Before that, he worked for McKinsey & Company.
Philippe has a Business degree from ICADE (Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Spain), and an MBA from Columbia Business School (Columbia University, USA).
Mark is a member of the Aviva Investors’ Executive team and a Director of the Aviva Investors Global Services Limited Board. He is responsible for leading and developing the Real Assets business which includes Infrastructure, Real Estate and private debt markets. Mark sits on the Investment Committee of the Investment Association and chairs their Sustainability and Responsible Investment Committee.
Mark began his career as a consultant Actuary and then gained a diverse experience across markets with investment banking roles in fixed income, equities and capital markets. He has extensive risk management and derivatives experience. Mark joined us from the Friends Life Group where he was Chief Investment Officer of the Group and Managing Director of their in-house asset manager, Friends Life Investments. Previously he was the Chief Investment Officer of AXA UK. Mark is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and has a Mathematics degree from Cambridge University.
Julia is co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Meridiam Infrastructure. Julia previously sat on the Board of Meridiam SAS. In April 2017, she was appointed as a Commissioner for the UK’s National Infrastructure Commission. In addition, she is a non-executive director at the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund and separately, the International Project Finance Association, a member of the Advisory Board of Glennmont Partners, a fund focussed on renewable energy and is a Honorary Professor at the Bartlett School, University College London.
She has been directly involved in long term infrastructure development and investment (25 year maturity) in UK, Europe, North America and Africa as part of the equity only Meridiam funds (established from 2005 with AUM >c£5bn) in energy, transport, environmental and social projects. Meridiam manages six long term funds, and acts as a developer, investor and asset manager having initiated some 56 projects with a total value in excess of $70bn. The main contributors to the Meridiam funds are pension funds (around 20% coming from the UK), insurance companies and development institutions.
Julia has an extensive history and background otherwise in infrastructure investment, having acted as an investor, adviser both to Governments and to the private sector and provider of debt and junior funding in respect of a large number of major infrastructure projects around the globe over decades. Julia’s past roles have included Head of Project Finance at Hill Samuel in London, Co-Head of Project Advisory at Charterhouse Bank and Senior Director and Head of Eurozone Infrastructure Finance at Bank of Scotland.
Lincoln Webb joined BCI in March 2002. He leads the management of our growing, global portfolio of real assets that provide strong cash flows and long-term capital growth. As a member of the executive management team, Lincoln is also engaged with setting the strategic direction and overall management of the corporation. With $153.4 billion of managed assets as of March 31, 2019, BCI is one of Canada’s largest institutional investors within the global capital markets.
Lincoln holds an MBA, specializing in international business, from the University of Victoria; a masters of city planning (architecture); an advanced management designation from INSEAD; and is a CFA® charterholder. He has participated in management programs at HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, as well as Harvard Business School.
He serves on the presidential and supervisory boards of Open Grid Europe, and the boards of Cleco Corporation, Endeavour Energy, Glencore Agriculture, Teays River Investments LLC, TimberWest Forest Corporation, and Corix Infrastructure. In past, he was a director of Aquarian Water Company, Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal Pty Ltd, Puget Sound Energy, Thames Water, and Transelec S.A., Chile’s largest electric transmission provider.
