People Moves Report H1 2020
Americas
Introduction
In this ‘unprecedented’ first half of 2020, Covid-19 came to test the $2bn commitment to its new GTR platform (hiring the inimitable coupled with Matt’s enviable rolodex and reputation amongst LPs, claim of our asset class to be ‘resilient’. It passed with flying colors, Franek Sodzawicny as CEO to build a global platform) puts it firmly we predict its progress to be greatly accelerated on this side of the and there is no better demonstration of this resilience than the in the game. In Renewables, we have seen a West Coast power pond. amount of hiring which has taken place in the midst of such volatile surge, with Generate Capital and Softbank Energy each making 5 market conditions. hires, and significant investment (foreign and domestic) into US Anyway, enough of my hype – I will leave you to peruse the report Renewables driving an increasing demand for talent. at your leisure. Do please reach out with any thoughts as to how we Make no mistake, these hires were not all in train pre-lockdown, nor might improve it for your edification in future editions. have they all been hurriedly concluded in these tentative early days On the Credit side, one very clear talent winner in the first half of of its easing. Many of the hires documented here in our H1 People 2020 is CIBC. Making six hires into its impressive Corporate We will also be publishing our annual diversity and compensation Moves Report were commissioned in those dark early weeks of the Banking division now led in the US by Project Finance heavyweight reports later in the year so make sure you are signed up for those. crisis, such was the confidence of the hiring entities in their own Jim King – three of them senior hires from direct competitors - the stability. Entire interview processes were held via Teams or Zoom, bank signaled its intent for continued growth. Staying with Project Stay safe and pretty much everyone now knows someone who has started a Finance, a significant outbreak of hiring is observed amongst the job without ever physically (even to this day) meeting their boss or Chinese banks, led by ICBC who seem to have contained Dan team. Such is the world we now live in. transmission within a small group of other Chinese banks. Outside of China Merchants Bank and Bank of China, only one French audit In equity investment, the major US private equity players continue firm was a ected with the removal of a junior, and is said to be to push into the asset class with hiring at H.I.G, KKR and Apollo making a speedy recovery. where Dylan Foo’s arrival in February triggered a succession of high caliber appointments as he builds a team fit for the adventure The continuing migration of foreign vehicles into the North DAN McCARTHY ahead. American market means that European and Australian investors Practice Leader, Americas are playing catchup with the natives when it comes to LP buy-in. Digital Infrastructure and Renewables were two of the most active This in turn has put well-connected IR/Fundraising professionals in sectors for hiring during H1. Digital is positively thriving in this new the spotlight and we were delighted to work on one of the most M: +1 (646) 512 0002 covid era with so many of us pushing our data usage to the max notable moves in this pocket of the market, the much publicized E: [email protected] and testing the resilience of those data centers. Digital Colony move of IR luminary Matt Nelson from Arclight to head up North continues its relentless march towards sectoral domination with American IR at Antin Infrastructure Partners. The quality of Antin’s hires in equity investment and for its new debt launch, whilst KKR’s product is already becoming well known here in the US but,
People Moves Report - Americas, H1 2020 | Cover Note pg. 2 EQUITY, Senior Career Moves 91% Male 9% Female
Name Leaving Joining Title Location
Partner & Co-Head of Dylan Foo AMP Capital Apollo Global Management CA Infrastructure Private Equity
Je Hunter Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners Apollo Global Management Senior Advisor TX
Dave Cohen GS Infrastructure Partners Apollo Global Management Principal, Infrastructure Private Equity NY
Andrew Kirby AMP Capital Apollo Global Management Principal, Infrastructure Private Equity NY
John Yanchek ArcLight Capital Partners, LLC ThreeHill Capital Partners Co-Founder & Managing Partner MA
Adam Heltzer Partners group Ares Management Corporation Head of ESG & Sustainability NY
Stuart Page The Carlyle Group Whitehall Capital Management Managing Partner TX
Randall Posejpal Mercuria Energy America Whitehall Capital Management Managing Partner TX
Brent Kelley White Deer Energy North Hudson Resource Partners Chief Financial O icer TX
Gary Graphia Kean Miller LLP Bernhard Capital Partners Operating Partner LA
Shawn Cherian Packet Host Energy Impact Partners Partner CA
Victor Flansburg Next Wave Energy Partners Triten Energy Partners Partner TX
Stephanie Hogue PwC Bombe Asset Management Chief Investment O icer & NY Managing Director
People Moves Report - Americas, H1 2020 | Moves to Equity pg. 3 EQUITY, Senior Career Moves (cont.)
Name Leaving Joining Title Location
Robert A Schultz Greentech Capital Advisors Capricorn Investment Group Partner NY
Florian Christ McKinsey & Company KKR & Co. Managing Director TX
Francis Van Scoy Trident Investment Management Star America Infrastructure Partners Chief Compliance O icer and Controller NY
Lawrence Cyrlin Citi KKR & Co. Managing Director, Structured Capital NY Markets
Benjamin Baker Deleware River Solar Greenbacker Capital Managing Director NY
Managing Director, Americas, Kevin Kerr Bastion Infrastructure Group Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Canada - Toronto Infrastructure & Natural Resources
Managing Director, Group Head Martin Laguerre CPPIB CDPQ NY Capital Solutions
Said Nashashibi Alinda Capital Partners LLC American Triple I Partners Managing Director NY
John DiMarco CCA Group, LLC First State Investments Director NY
Nosh Irani Ares Management Corporation InstarAGF Asset Management Inc. Principal CO
Reid Capalino Aligned Climate Capital LS Power SVP, Business Development NY
Alan Bezoza Dorsal Capital Management Digital Colony Senior Vice President CO
People Moves Report - Americas, H1 2020 | Moves to Equity pg. 4 EQUITY, Senior Career Moves (cont.)
Name Leaving Joining Title Location
Charles Monk Climate Infrastructure Strategies SB Energy (Softbank Group) Director CA
Jose Olmos Clearway Energy Group SB Energy (Softbank Group) Director CA
Velvet Voelz DynaSolar DevCo SB Energy (Softbank Group) Director, Asset Management CA
Yuri Estrada Siemens The Carlyle Group Vice President DC
Sebastian Caputto RBC Capital Markets John Laing Investment Director CO
Principal, Renewable and Sustainable David Gluck Clearway Energy Group The Carlyle Group CA Energy
People Moves Report - Americas, H1 2020 | Moves to Equity pg. 5 EQUITY, Mid-Level Career Moves 85% Male 15% Female
Name Leaving Joining Title Location
Principal, Infrastructure & Natural Igor Romitelli INSEAD MBA Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Canada - Toronto Resources
Paul Gurm American Infrastructure Funds H.I.G. Capital Principal NY
Kevin Rolston Cypress Creek Renewables Lacuna Sustainable Investments Principal CA
Bryan Gartner Apax Partners Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners Principal NY
Bill Glennon 3i Group Plc GI Partners Vice President NY
Lachezar Tolev REAL Infrastructure Partners Semiens Private Equity Risk Manager NY
Connor McGauley US Anesthesia Partners GI Partners Vice President NY
HK Hallet III Saratoga Investment Corp Digital Colony Vice President NY
Aman Sareen I Squared Capital AMP Capital Associate Director NY
David Xia Oak Hill Advisors Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners Vice President NY
Brett Baucum Oil Patch Group Intervale Capital Vice President TX
People Moves Report - Americas, H1 2020 | Moves to Equity pg. 6 EQUITY, Mid-Level Career Moves (cont.)
Name Leaving Joining Title Location
Catherine Cusimano HPS Investment Partners Bernhard Capital Partners Vice President LA
Gianluca Signorelli Lightsource BP SB Energy (SoftBank Group) Vice President CA
Matt Deitch Silverpeak Kimmeridge Energy Investment Analyst NY
Cash Cameron Citi Crosstimbers Capital Group Vice President TX
John Bergeron Entergy Rockland Capital Vice President TX
Kathryn Cantlon Technip FMC Hastings Equity Partners Vice President TX
Robert Mills AEC Partners Pickering Energy Partners Vice President TX
Marina Fenley CohnReznick Capital Generate Capital Investment Professional CA
Tony Hack NY Green Bank Generate Capital Investment Professional CA
William Roberts Moelis & Co Generate Capital Investment Professional CA
Helen McNamee BAML QIC Manager NY
People Moves Report - Americas, H1 2020 | Moves to Equity pg. 7 EQUITY, Mid-Level Career Moves (cont.)
Name Leaving Joining Title Location
Colin Witherspoon CIBC Capital Markets D.E. Shaw Renewable Investments Associate Director NY
Austin Winger KKR & Co. I Squared Capital Senior Associate FL
Steven Connell CBRE Global Investors Ares Management Corporation Senior Associate NY
Joseph Kasbaum EV Private Equity Hastings Equity Partners Senior Associate TX
Brian Green Abacus Finance Group PineBridge Investments Vice President NY
People Moves Report - Americas, H1 2020 | Moves to Equity pg. 8 EQUITY, Early Career Moves 67% Male 33% Female
Name Leaving Joining Title Location
Geet Bhatt Wharton MBA OGCI Climate Investments Senior Associate NY
Solomon Ferro Wharton MBA CPPIB Senior Associate, Global Infrastructure Canada - Toronto
Alison Montenegro Goldman Sachs Pantheon Ventures Associate CA
Grace Brandon Bank of America Merrill Lynch QIC Associate, Global Infrastructure NY
Cole Sorenson Macquarie Group First State Investments Executive NY
Emily Arches Javelin Capital Basalt Infrastructure Partners Associate NY
Tuyen Pham Gavilan Resources The Carlyle Group Associate NY
Francisco Sabal Scotiabank Digital Colony Associate NY
Henry Meiring OnyxPoint Global Management, LP GI Partners Associate NY
Brian Gramolini Citi Gamut Capital Management Associate, Private Equity NY
Jonathan Blum Basalt Infrastructure Partners Ashler Capital Associate NY
Demetrios Kellari X, The Moonshot Factory Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners Associate CA
Logan Dickinson RBC Pickering Energy Partners Associate TX
People Moves Report - Americas, H1 2020 | Moves to Equity pg. 9 EQUITY, Early Career Moves (cont.)
Name Leaving Joining Title Location
Luke Song Guggenheim GI Partners Associate NY
Shannon Dominguez JP Morgan Digital Colony Associate NY
Hamilton Foster CohnReznick Capital SB Energy (SoftBank Group) Associate CA
Rett Young SunPower Corporation Generate Capital Associate CA
Verena Cavalheiro Macquarie Group OMERS Infrastructure Associate NY
Alexander Dempsey Wharton MBA Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners Associate TX
Juan Camilo Garcia Wharton MBA SB Energy (SoftBank Group) Associate CA
Gloria Markov Wells Fargo Securities Blue Sage Capital Associate TX
Associate, Innovation & John Daugherty Accenture Energy Impact Partners NY Commercialization
Nathanael Robinson Citi Rockland Capital Associate, Private Equity TX
Hans How Equity Residential New Island Capital Management Associate, Impact Investing CA
Jacqueline Fedida BNP Paribas Greenbacker Capital Associate NY
Anaëlle Croteau ArcelorMittal Advantage Capital Solar Senior Analyst NY
People Moves Report - Americas, H1 2020 | Moves to Equity pg. 10 EQUITY, Early Career Moves (cont.)
Name Leaving Joining Title Location
Boyce Taylor Morgan Stanley The Blackstone Group Analyst NY
Courtney Lang Flat World Partners LS Power Analyst NY
Eric Guan Greentech Capital Advisors Macquarie Infrastructure & Real Assets Analyst, Waste Infrastructure NY
Jake Blank Greentech Capital Advisors D.E. Shaw Renewable Energy Investments Analyst NY
Jake Smith KPMG Pickering Energy Partners Analyst TX
Hayley McCurdy UPenn / Energy Impact Partners intern Terra Alpha Investments Equity Research Analyst DC
Shivani Shikha Semiens Basalt Infrastructure Partners Analyst NY
Maria Clara Uquillas Columbia University BTG Pactual Analyst, Timberland Investment Group NY
Cole Halliburton III University of Oklahoma Arch Energy Partners Analyst TX
Evan Vranian PA Capital Golding Capital Partners GmbH Associate NY
People Moves Report - Americas, H1 2020 | Moves to Equity pg. 11 CREDIT, Senior Career Moves 83% Male 17% Female
Name Leaving Joining Title Location
Andre Burba Pine Brook Road Partners, LLC Global Infrastructure Partners Managing Partner, Credit NY
Dean Criares Allianz Global Investors Digital Colony Managing Partner, Credit NY
Tal Sheynfeld EMM Investments Energy Impact Partners Partner, Credit Strategies NY
Scott Weinstein Goldman Sachs Orion Energy Partners Managing Director NY
Joshua Parrish Ascribe Capital Digital Colony Managing Director, Credit NY
Export-Import Bank of the United Managing Director, Structured and Daniel Tobin U.S. Department of Energy DC States Project Finance
Oliver Langel SYREN CAPITAL, LLC Landesbank Baden-Württemberg Leader Project Finance North America NY
Industrial and Commercial Bank of Michael Peist China Merchants Bank China (ICBC) Head of Infrastructure Project Finance NY
Jonathan Kim Natixis Mizuho Managing Director, Head of Power NY
Senior Director, Project Development Hillary Thatcher Government of Canada The Canada Infrastructure Bank Canada - Toronto of Indigenous Infrastructure
Michael Boarts Crédit Agricole CIBC Executive Director NY
Peter Lee Natixis National Australia Bank Director, Specialized & Acquisition NY Finance
Philipp Slabik NORD/LB CIBC Director, Project Finance NY
People Moves Report - Americas, H1 2020 | Moves to Credit pg. 12 CREDIT, Senior Career Moves (cont.)
Name Leaving Joining Title Location
Richard Cassells Bayern LB CIBC Director NY
US International Development Brian Gilmore EIG Global Energy Partners Director DC Finance Corp
Michael Kochis Morgan Stanley BNP Paribas Structured Loan Syndicate NY
Becca Glazer Sol Systems Wunder Capital Director, Capital Markets CO
Aleksandr Kleynberg Korea Development Bank Korea Development Bank (promotion) Director NY
Mizuho David Whitcher UBS Investment Bank Managing Director NY
Gregory Randolph Greenhill & Co NY Green Bank Managing Director and Co-Head NY
Lindsay Drogin Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation NY Green Bank Director NY
Marco Simental Scotiabank Nomura Managing Director NY
Sara Roccisano Centrica NY Green Bank Director NY
People Moves Report - Americas, H1 2020 | Moves to Credit pg. 13 CREDIT, Mid-Level Career Moves 62% Male 38% Female
Name Leaving Joining Title Location
Director, Loan Syndications & Trading, Nenter Chow Bank of China Industrial and Commercial Bank of China NY Americas
Mah Sissoko BNP Paribas Silicon Valley Bank Vice President, Project Finance NY
Hee Soo Yoon BAML National Australia Bank Vice President, Project Finance NY
Zhao Yang Nomura Orion Energy Partners Vice President, Senior Counsel NY
Arsalan Khan Wells Fargo Fifth Third Bank Vice President TX
Sven Semmelmann Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Generate Capital Vice President, Capital Markets NY
Hayley Arendtsz Lloyds Bank SMBC Vice President, Project Finance NY
Josh Presner Deutsche Bank Green Investment Group Vice President NY
Adrian Ruiz-Grossman CohnReznick Capital Silicon Valley Bank Corporate Development Manager CA
Industrial and Commercial Bank of Daniel Getman Mazars Assistant Vice President, Project Finance NY China (ICBC)
Jon Saelinger Goldman Sachs Orion Energy Partners Senior Associate NY
Vivek Chandwani UBS Scotiabank Vice President Canada - Toronto
People Moves Report - Americas, H1 2020 | Moves to Credit pg. 14 CREDIT, Early Career Moves 60% Male 40% Female
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The Port Authority of New York & New Maria Surilas MUFG Associate, Project Finance NY Jersey
David Khov CIT Ares Management Corporation Associate MA
Jack Scaccia Greentech Capital Advisors Ares Management Corporation Associate NY
Annabelle Henry KPMG Citi Associate, Project FInance NY
Connor Mackin MUFG DWS Group Associate, Infrastructure Debt NY
Coline Guedj Delphos International MUFG Associate, Project Finance - Americas CA
Eleanor Masinter Moody's Investors Service Vantage Infrastructure Associate NY
Marya Friedman Green Street Power Partners C2 Energy Capital Associate, Project Finance NY
Julius Gakwasi NY Green Bank J.P. Morgan Associate, Public Infrastructure NY
Sean Morgan EnterSolar CohnReznick Capital Associate NY
Henry Foskett BlackRock Global Infrastructure Partners Associate, Credit NY
People Moves Report - Americas, H1 2020 | Moves to Credit pg. 15 CREDIT, Early Career Moves (cont.)
Name Leaving Joining Title Location
Jupjee Kochar Stellus Capital Management Angelo Gordon Associate, Energy Credit TX
Michael Alerhand Morgan Stanley Investec Power and Infrastructure Finance NY
Shane Ogren Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Macquarie Group Associate, Debt Advisory NY
Varun Garg ArcLight Capital Partners, LLC Orion Energy Partners Associate TX
Ziyan Leng EY Bank of China Associate NY
Industrial and Commercial Bank of Axl Hu China Merchants Bank Associate NY China (ICBC)
Moon Cheng Columbia University in the City of New York Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Senior Analyst, Project Finance NY
Analyst, Renewable Energy Amaia Schultz Cypress Creek Renewables Fifth Third Securities CA Investment Banking
Jiri Honajzer HSBC Global Banking and Markets Brookfield Asset Management Analyst, Infrastructure Debt NY
Daniela Urias Inframation CIBC Analyst, Loan Syndications NY
Thomas Kunkel Baker Tilly Fitch Ratings Analyst, Project Finance IL
People Moves Report - Americas, H1 2020 | Moves to Credit pg. 16 CREDIT, Early Career Moves (cont.)
Name Leaving Joining Title Location
Anna Millington Commonwealth Bank CIT Bank Associate, Power & Project Finance NY
Mazen Abdelmaguid MetLife Investment Management ING Infrastructure Finance Analyst NY
Nicholas Rybak CIBC Capital Markets KeyBanc Capital Markets Investment Banking Associate OH
People Moves Report - Americas, H1 2020 | Moves to Credit pg. 17 IR, Senior Career Moves 75% Male 25% Female
Name Leaving Joining Title Location
Head of North American Investor Matt Nelson Arclight Antin Infrastructure Partners NY Relations
Jessica Ho man Brennan The Carlyle Group Onex Head of Client and Product Solutions NY
Head of Capital Formation & Investor Carlton Byrd Actis American Triple I Partners NY Relations
Head of Strategy & Business Craig Pollak Actis The Donerail Group NY Development
Matthew Zales Kimmeridge Energy Orion Resource Partners Head of Investor Relations NY
Grant Davis Infra-Energy Capital Advisors LLC FIRSTavenue Managing Director NY
Managing Director, Business Yokasta Segura-Baez Campbell Lutyens Capital Dynamics NY Development
Managing Director, Strategy, Impact & Kim Erle Cocoon Construct, co. NY Green Bank NY Investor Relations
Simon Willcocks ICR Rose & Company Director NY
Shirish Jajodia Rubicon Capital Advisors The AES Corporation Director, Investor Relations DC
Bradford Yankiver Motive Partners Ember Infrastructure Director NY
Viet Nguyen Riverstone Vista Equity Partners Managing Director, IR & Fundraising NY
People Moves Report - Americas, H1 2020 | Moves to IR pg. 18 IR, Mid-level Career Moves 62% Male 38% Female
Name Leaving Joining Title Location
Danyal Farooqi Stanwich Advisors FirstPoint Equity Director NY
Jonathan Azar Pride Wafra Optima Fund Management Director NY
Daniel Valladares Brookfield Asset Management KKR & Co. Principal NY
Nick Artemenkov Threadmark Lazard Private Capital Advisory CA
Samira Siskind GrandView Capital IFM Investors Associate Director NY
Alexander Morgan Pantheon Ventures Stonepeak Vice President CA
Cara Killackey Lee Partners Group I Squared Capital Vice President NY
Gairy Hall JP Morgan Aasset Management Oaktree Capital Management Vice President NY
Jacqueline Smith Bkm Capital Partners Oaktree Capital Management Assistant Vice President CA
Michael Heck Morgan Stanley Oaktree Capital Management Vice President NY
Rachael N. De Chacon Kirkland & Ellis The Blackstone Group Vice President NY
Ross Murphy Arclight Summit Partners Director NY
Vannie Yu Brookfield Asset Management The Blackstone Group Vice President NY
People Moves Report - Americas, H1 2020 | Moves to IR pg. 19 IR, Early Career Moves 43% Male 57% Female
Name Leaving Joining Title Location
Penn Sednaoui J.P. Morgan Asset Management KKR & Co. Associate NY
Ellen Erpenbeck Goldman Sachs Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners Associate NY
Charlotte Glatt Lazard AM Brookfield Asset Management Analyst NY
Je Cykiert Pinebridge investments Capital Dynamics Senior Associate Product development CA
Anuja Selvakumar Berchwood Partners Partners Group Associate NY
Madeleine Rodriguez Credit Suisse Private Fund Group Stonepeak Associate NY
People Moves Report - Americas, H1 2020 | Moves to IR pg. 20 Contact
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