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Michael Allen Partner Arcus Infrastructure Partners

Michael Allen is a Partner and a Co-Head of the Transport  Sector Team at Arcus. Michael was part of the team that founded Arcus in 2009  and has 28 years’ experience which draw on both legal and investment banking  backgrounds to effect the origination, acquisition, financing and realisation  of investments. He has significant capital markets experience (both in equity  and debt) as well as a strong track record in executing complex transactions.  As Asset Manager, Michael has also been involved in various projects at Brisa,  an AEIF1 portfolio company, to improve the overall performance. Michael holds a  LLB (Hons) from King’s College, University of London (UK) and attended the  Corporate Finance Programme at London Business School (UK).

Neil King Managing Director Canada Pension Plan Investment Board

Neil runs the European Infrastructure team at  CPPIB.  He has more than 25 years of experience in the infrastructure  market, including 15 years as a banker at Lloyds, Barclays and WestLB, followed  by a 10 year spell as a founding partner in 3i’s infrastructure business.

Jaroslava Korpanec Head of Infrastructure Allianz Capital Partners

Jaroslava Korpanec joined Allianz Capital Partners (ACP) in 2008 and has worked on a number of debt and equity investments in the infrastructure sector since joining. Jaroslava was, among other transactions, responsible for the below acquisitions:

- Chicago Parking Meters, the 75 year concession to own, manage and operate the on street parking system of the city of Chicago

- Gassled, stakes from Total and Statoil in the Norwegian offshore gas system

- Net4Gas, the gas transmission and transport system in the Czech Republic

- Porterbrook, one of the major UK rolling Stock leasing companies

- Thames Tideway Tunnel, the £4.2 billion project to construct a new super-sewer under the river Thames

- Cadent gas, the largest distributor of gas in the UK

- Affinity Water, the largest water only supply company in the UK

- Gasnet, the gas distribution business in the Czech Republic 

Prior to joining ACP, Jaroslava worked at AIG Financial Products in the principal finance group where she made several investments in the infrastructure sector. Jaroslava was one of the principals responsible for the acquisition and management of London City Airport in behalf of AIG Financial Products.

Prior to her position at AIG Financial Products Jaroslava was a senior attorney with the US law firm of Simpson Thacher and Bartlett where she spent six years.

She was awarded a Masters and a Master of Arts degree in Law from Cambridge University, United Kingdom (1996). Jaroslava is also a member of the New York bar and a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales.

Belen Marcos President and CEO Vinci Highways

Ms. Marcos joined Vinci in 2020 andhas extensive experience in managing and operating toll highways. She started workingfor Cintra in 1999 in Madrid and after served in different positions inprojects in the US such as Chicago Skyway, North Tarrant Express and LBJExpress. In 2016, she was appointed President of Cintra US and later joinedVinci in 2020 to lead the Vinci Highways division.

Niall Mills Managing Partner and Head of the Global Unlisted Infrastructure Investments First Sentier Investors

Niall Mills is the Managing Partner and Head of the Global Unlisted Infrastructure Investments business. He is based in London and has been with the businesssince 2008. Niall is a member of the EDIF I, II & III and GDIF InvestmentCommittees.

Niall currentlysits on the boards of investee companies in Anglian Water Group and Utilitas and was formerly on the Board of divested companies,Electricity North West and Caruna.

Prior to joiningFSI, Niall worked in industry holding senior roles at Southern Water, Honeywell,Bechtel and United Utilities.

Niall holds aMaster of Business Administration from London Business School, an Institute ofDirectors Diploma in Company Directorship and a Bachelor of Engineering(Hons) from Sheffield Hallam University. He is a Fellow of the Institution ofCivil Engineers. 

Elie Nammar Senior Director Vauban Infrastructure Partners

Elie Nammar joined Vauban Infrastructure Partners as a Senior Director in February 2021. Elie Nammar is dedicated to asset management in the digital infrastructure sector. Prior to joining Vauban, Elie was an Associate Partner at Oliver Wyman and a Group Principal Strategy Manager at Vodafone. During his tenure there, Elie was a senior member of the Telecom Media and Technology practice working with local and global companies across Europe defining their growth strategies and optimizing their spend. Elie brings to Vauban his extensive experience in the topics such as Operational and Digital transformation, Capex optimization, 5G, Product portfolio definition, and an acute understanding of the European digital infrastructure market, its dynamics and players. His experience further reinforces Vauban’s asset management practices in the digital infrastructure sector.

Elie holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, a Master of Engineering from Telecom Paris and a master’s in Digital Business Strategy from HEC Paris. Elie is fluent in 3 languages (Arabic, English and French).

Christoph Nanke Senior Vice President Head of Finance & Investor Relations Fraport

Christoph is heading Fraport’s Finance & Investor Relations department since 2018. Before that he held various management positions within the M&A

department of Fraport AG, were he, among others, was responsible for the acquisition of the airport concessions won in Greece and Brazil. He held board and management positions of airport companies in Germany, Russia, India, China and Austria. Christoph graduated in business administration with a degree from the University of Bamberg. Before moving to Fraport AG, he started his career in the banking sector.

Marco Pugliese Managing Director OMERS Infrastructure

Marco joined OMERS Infrastructure in 2019 as a Managing Director based in London. He currently focuses on the origination, execution and management of infrastructure investments in Europe, with a particular focus on telecom and digital infrastructure.

 Prior to joining OMERS Infrastructure, Marco spent over 13 years with the investment banking team of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he advised clients on M&A and capital market transactions. Prior to that, Marco worked for McKinsey & Company.

 Marco holds a degree in Business from LUISS (University of Rome) and an MBA from Saïd Business School (University of Oxford).

Steven Sonnenstein Senior Managing Director Digital Colony

Steven Sonnenstein is a Senior Managing Director and member of the Investment Committee at Digital Colony. Mr. Sonnenstein is an accomplished telecommunications infrastructure executive with over 24 years of global mergers and acquisitions, asset management and operations experience. Mr. Sonnenstein is responsible for the origination, evaluation, completion, and ongoing asset management of new investments for Digital Colony globally. He has been responsible for over $1B in equity committed/deployed since joining Digital Colony.Prior to joining Digital Colony, Mr. Sonnenstein was a Senior Director at the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments), one of Canada’s largest pension investment managers, where he was responsible for leading all telecommunication infrastructure investments within the broader infrastructure group in addition to his other investment management responsibilities.Before joining PSP Investments, Mr. Sonnenstein worked for Brookfield Asset Management in its Private Equity and Infrastructure Groups with a particular focus on and experience in South America. Prior to that, Mr. Sonnenstein spent several years working in mergers and acquisitions and distressed advisory.Mr. Sonnenstein shares management oversight of Andean Telecom Partners and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Aptum Technologies, Highline do Brasil, Beanfield Metroconnect, Wildstone and Edgepoint.Mr. Sonnenstein received a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University in 1996 and a post-graduate degree in Chartered Accountancy.