Infrata’s Managing Director since 2016, Alonzo Guzman has more than 14 years’ of industry experience. He has advised lenders, investors and sponsors of infrastructure projects all over the world. He has served as a Director at Infrata since the company’s inception. 

As a Civil Engineer, Alonzo has undertaken a variety of roles, including Lenders’ Technical Advisor, Procurement Advisor, Project and Programme Manager, and Employer’s Agent. Alonzo has supported the management of PPP procurement internationally, as well as leading a number of LTA transactions across transportation and accommodation sectors. 

Alonzo holds a BSc in Civil Engineering, and an MSc in the Management and Implementation of Development Projects from the University of Manchester.

Valery Olefir leads Infrata's aviation team, and is responsible for strategic advisory services across all transport sectors at Infrata. He brings more than 15 years of experience to the company, having worked on a large number of advisory and due diligence projects. These projects combine traffic forecasts, business planning and technical services for clients across Europe and globally. Valery has lead over 20 airport due diligence transactions, many for complex airport networks. 

Prior to joining Infrata, Valery was a Vice President within HSH Nordbank’s Transportation and Infrastructure team. Here, he was engaged in debt and advisory mandates on a range of transport assets across Europe. Before this, Valery was a Managing Consultant at Scott Wilson Business Consultancy.

Valery holds an MBA from London Business School.

John Gibbon is a Chartered Engineer and a leading transportation consultant. He specialises in railway planning, operations, multi-modal transportation systems, light rail systems, airports, and ports.

John has been involved in the financial modelling of transportation infrastructure, such that it can be reviewed for privatisation, restructuring, or investment from the public or private sector.

Mauricio is a Civil Engineer with over 10 years experience in the construction industry in Colombia and the UK.  He has previously been involved in project management as an independent consultant specialising in environmental and risk management areas.

Ray Powell is a Chartered Civil Engineer with more than 35 years of project experience in transportation and social infrastructure. Ray has spent over 20 years in the PPP field, providing technical advice to public and private sector clients, including bid management/direction, technical and commercial due diligence for bidding consortia, rating agencies, and lenders.

In addition to working on bid stage due diligence, Ray has worked on monitoring construction and drawdown, operations and lifecycle reviews.

Eimear Connery is a Technical Advisor at Infrata, and works across all infrastructure disciplines, providing technical due diligence and transaction support, as well as construction monitoring services.

Eimear is a Chartered Civil Engineer with more than 12 years’ experience working on major infrastructure projects worldwide, serving in both design and technical advisory roles.

Howard is based in our Bogotá office, from which he undertakes construction monitoring services on behalf of Lenders on an array of projects in LatAm and the US. Prior to working in Colombia, Howard was delivering technical due diligence on primary and secondary market transactions in Europe, North America, LatAm and Australasia.

Pedro Pires is one of Infrata’s Principal Consultants. His vast experience includes advising lenders and investors in transportation infrastructure projects across Europe, North America, and South America.

Pedro is a Structural Engineer, with more than four years’ experience in the industry. As well as providing technical advice, Pedro carries out design, technical due diligence, construction and operations monitoring, and lifecycle reviews on behalf of rating agencies and lenders.

Nuno Sousa provides technical advisory services on behalf of financiers through bid, construction and operations phases. He works across the sectors of roads, railways, waterways, and social infrastructure.

Nuno is a native French and Portuguese speaker, allowing him to work in multiple markets worldwide, reflecting Infrata’s recognised global portfolio. He also holds a 5-year Integrated Master’s (MEng) in Civil Engineering.

Pedro Sousa is a skilled Technical Advisor and Civil Engineer, with experience in transactions across both rail and road sectors. He has a proven track record advising lenders and investors in Europe, North America, and South America.

Throughout his 13+ years in industry, Pedro has performed leading roles in some of Europe’s most challenging infrastructure projects, such as Crossrail in London, and the High Speed Line tunnel in Barcelona.

Dion Zumbrink is an Airport Specialist at Infrata, with extensive experience on projects ranging from masterplanning to traffic forecasting and business planning. He has acted on numerous major airport transactions, advising sponsors, vendors and lenders.

Dion holds an MSc Degree in Airport Planning and Management from Cranfield University.

Antonio is an accomplished advisor with 10 years of experience in the Infrastructure sector and more than 30 infrastructure transactions carried out to date in Europe, North America and South America. His expertise entails commercial, technical and contractual management of large and complex infrastructures projects. Before joining Infrata Antonio has undertaken commercial leading roles in strategic projects in the UK.

Antonio is a MSc Civil Engineer and holds an MBA in the LSC and is a native Spanish speaker.

Caroline Gayed is a consultant providing technical and commercial due diligence services and support to construction and operation monitoring. Caroline has delivered economic assessments, traffic and business plan studies and technical review for a variety of global infrastructure projects. Caroline is an Engineer from École des Ponts et Chaussées and holds an MSc Economics from the London School of Economics. She is fluent in English and is a native French speaker.

Francisco is one of our consultants. He has delivered technical and commercial due diligence for a diverse range of projects worldwide including roads, railways and social infrastructure. 

Francisco is a native Spanish speaker and holds a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering with specialties in civil infrastructure, transports and urban services. 

Raj is a consultant within Infrata’s aviation team. Raj has delivered economic assessments, traffic and revenue forecasts, and commercial analysis for a variety of infrastructure projects. His specialties include financial modelling, traffic forecasting and econometrics. Raj holds an MSc from The London School of Economics. 

Amar heads up the Accounts team providing accurate and up-to-date financial information to the team and Directors.

Eleana is a consultant within Infrata’s Traffic & Revenue and Aviation teams. She has a background in economics and development from the London School of Economics and delivers economic assessments, traffic and revenue forecasts as well as commercial analysis for global transport infrastructure projects. 

Luca Benedini is a managing consultant with 20 plus years of experience in the Transport and Energy Infrastructure sectors. 

He has substantial experience in supporting toll road concessions transactions, offering traffic and revenue advisory services. Luca has worked on various types of tolled infrastructures (roads, bridges, express lanes) both as brown and green field. He has worked for developers, investors and banks across Europe, the Americas and Asia.

Prior to joining the consultancy business, Luca worked for ExxonMobil in a variety of commercial and supply optimisation roles both in the downstream and upstream businesses across Europe.

Luca obtained an MA in International Trades in Italy and an MSc in Transport at Imperial College, UK. He is a native Italian speaker and fluent in English and Spanish.

Ivan Sacco is a Consultant and provides technical advisory services on behalf of lenders and investors.

He is a Civil Engineer with over 12 years of experience working in relevant transportation projects and utilises his knowledge to aggregate value to the Infrata’s team. 

Ivan is fluent in English and Spanish and is a native Portuguese speaker, giving the ability to work in markets worldwide.

Jesús Ciurana is one of our Consultants at Infrata bringing 7 plus years of experience in design and development of infrastructure projects. 

Currently based in Colombia, is providing support in the delivery of projects that Infrata has in South America. His experience includes advising authorities on privatisation initiatives and developing PPP projects in the MENA region.

Jesús holds a 5-year degree in Civil Engineering from Polytechnic University of Valencia and an MSc Degree in Water Management from Cranfield University. He is fluent in English, Spanish and French

Connor Doolittle is an Economics Analyst at Infrata. Connor uses his knowledge of econometric and statistical analysis to provide due diligence on global transportation infrastructure projects. Connor holds a BSc in Economics and Economic History from the London School of Economics and speaks English and Spanish. 

Tiago Palas is a Technical Advisor with over 11 years of experience in the construction of major Infrastructure Projects, such as the following projects in London: Crossrail, Heathrow Terminal 2 and Tideway. His knowledge acquired throughout the different projects allows him to provide advisory services through technical and commercial due diligence and construction monitoring. Tiago is a native Portuguese speaker also fluent in English and Spanish.

Ian Paterson is a Chartered Civil Engineer with more than 35 years of project experience in the management and delivery of major international infrastructure projects.  Ian has spent over 30 years in the PPP/P3 field working on behalf of procuring authorities, concessionaires, contractors and investors.

For the last 20 years Ian has specialised in providing technical procurement and due diligence advice to public sector clients and private sector investors for PPP/P3 projects and secondary market acquisitions in the global transportation and social infrastructure sectors.  

Sara is an economic analyst on the Aviation team. She has experience performing socioeconomic analysis, traffic forecasting, and econometric modeling. Prior to joining Infrata, Sara worked in Financial and Valuation Due Diligence on a variety of projects at PricewaterhouseCoopers. She holds an MSc. in Economics from the London School of Economics and an undergraduate degree in Economics & Statistics from McGill University. She is a fluent English, Spanish, and Arabic speaker.