Some stats
20
Active countries
10
Working languages
45
Major projects under construction or in operation
400
Infrastructure projects over last 10 years
$250bn
Value of transactions to date
100
Active transactions
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Efficacité et Expérience
Nous réunissons l'expérience et l'efficacité d'une société établie, avec la soif d'innovation et l’agilité que nos clients attendent d'un cabinet de conseils indépendant et de dimension humaine.
Originalité et Créativité
Nous faisons preuve d’originalité et de créativité afin d’apporter des solutions aux problèmes les moins conventionnels. Cette capacité s'est avérée essentielle à de nombreuses reprises, dans la gestion et l'atténuation des facteurs de risque de projets complexes et de grande envergure.
Méthodes Analytiques d’Avant-Garde
Nos méthodes joignent l'utilisation d'outils analytiques de pointe à des décennies d'expérience, spécifiquement adaptés aux problématiques de financement de projet. Nos résultats permettent d’établir une stratégie d'investissement solide, aussi bien pour le financement de projets de partenariat public-privé (dette, obligataire), que pour l’acquisition de parts de sociétés de projet (equity).
Meet the team
The core of our team comprises former directors and senior managers of URS Scott Wilson’s project finance advisory team. As you’ll see, we’ve also made a few valuable additions.
Alonzo Guzman
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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
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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.
Mauricio Serrano Cabeza
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Mauricio is a Civil Engineer with over 15 years experience in the construction industry in Colombia and the UK. Through his experience, Mauricio has had the opportunity to take part on highly complex and challenging infrastructure projects, such as Crossrail in London. He has previously been involved in project management on various transport infrastructure projects in LATAM as an independent consultant, specialising on environmental and risk management areas.
John Gibbon
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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.
Ray Powell
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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.
Luca Benedini
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Luca Benedini is our Technical Director and Head of T&R at Infrata. He has 20 plus years of experience in the Transport and Energy Infrastructure sectors. He has substantial experience in supporting demand risk based transactions, offering demand and revenue advisory services to developers, investors and banks across Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa. Luca has led projects on various types of tolled transportation infrastructures (roads, bridges, express lanes), and has managed demand forecasts for car parks, pipelines and irrigation water canals.
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.
Olma Juny Alvarez Zapata
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Olma is an anthropologist, with an MSc in Environment and Development. She has 20 years' of experience in environmental and social management. She offers a deep knowledge of social, cultural and land matters.
She has worked for large consulting companies in Colombia as a director, project manager and as environmental and social advisor (LSA). She is an expert in due diligence, environmental compliance and asset acquisition processes for the lending bank, private investors and sponsors, with verification of compliance with IFC standards, Equator Principles, IDB safeguards and FDN guidelines.
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