INFRA FINANCE INFIN BREAKFAST CLUB

Outlook for European Infrastructure Investment 2018

Date: 08.30-09.30, Wednesday 31st January 2018 Venue: KFW IPEX-Bank, Zeppelinallee 8, 60325 Frankfurt am Main

08.00-08.30 Registration, networking and continental breakfast 08.30 INFIN & KfW IPEX-Bank Welcome 08.30-09.30 Panel Discussion Panel Moderator: - Christian Bevc, Managing Director Transport and Social Infrastructure (PPP), KfW IPEX-Bank Panel Members: - Benjamin Hemming, Senior Investment Manager, Infrastructure Debt, Meag Munich ERGO Asset Management GmbH - Stefan Weiss, PPP Director, Strabag AG - Claudia Appels, Investment Manager, John Laing - Alexander Herrmann, Managing Director, ViA6 West GmbH & Co KG

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CHRISTIAN BEVC BENJAMIN HEMMING MANAGING DIRECTOR, GLOBAL HEAD TRANSPORT & SENIOR INVESTMENT MANAGER, MEAG SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE, KFW IPEX-BANK GMBH. Benjamin joined MEAG’s Infrastructure Christian is a trained Banker and holds a Debt Team as a Senior Investment Manager degree in Business Administration from the in October 2014 and is responsible for the University of Frankfurt. Prior to his current coordination of all core European Markets assignment he held various management within the team. He has more than 12 years’ positions in both Origination & Structuring as experience in originating and structuring well as in Risk Management within KfW Group infrastructure project finance transactions with and for an Investment Bank. a strong focus on transportation and social infrastructure PPPs in the EMEA region.

STEFAN WEISS Previously, Benjamin held a Director position within the PPP DIRECTOR, STRABAG AG infrastructure and industry project finance group at Siemens Bank in Munich and London. He started his career with Stefan Weiss is commercial Director for BayernLB in the infrastructure project finance team EMEA in PPP infrastructure projects with STRABAG, Munich and Paris. responsible for the markets in Germany and Benelux. He has been with STRABAG since Benjamin has completed training as a banker and holds Master 2009 and has been working on several PPP degrees in business administration and economics from the tenders and projects. Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt.

From 2011 – 2015 he gained operational site experience at the A15 Project in the Netherlands where he held various ALEXANDER HERRMANN management positions in the SPC as well as in the CJV. MANAGING DIRECTOR, VIA6WEST GMBH AND PROJECT Currently, Stefan is chairman of the board in the A15 O&M MANAGER AT JOHANN BUNTE BAUUNTERNEHMUNG company. GMBH Prior to joining STRABAG, Stefan worked for the Austrian’s Previously Project Manager at Bilfinger Project Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology as Investments GmbH in Wiesbaden. a co-ordinator for large infrastructure projects. He started his career at the Austrian construction company Porr AG Alexander has 12 years experience in where he worked in the legal department, as well as the M&A development and realisation of PPP projects in department. Continental Europe with focus on Germany, Hungary and Norway. ViA6West is the He holds a Doctor of Laws degree from University of Vienna as project Company for the motorway PPP project A6 Wiesloch / well as a MBA from the Warwick Business School. Rauenberg to Weinsberg in Baden-Württemberg with a project volume of 1,3 bn Euro, a construction phase until 2022 and a project phase until 2046. CLAUDIA APPELS INVESTMENT MANAGER, JOHN LAING

John Laing is an international originator, active investor and manager of infrastructure projects. Its business is focused on transport, social and environmental infrastructure PPP projects and renewable energy projects.

Claudia joined John Laing in 2015 and is currently an Investment Manager in the European investments team. She is responsible for bidding and investing activities in Continental Europe (key area of focus: the Netherlands and Germany) if it comes to PPP projects. Furthermore, she is actively involved in pursuing renewable energy opportunities in The Netherlands and Germany. Before joining John Laing she gained experience in project and corporate finance in the banking sector and at a renowned construction company in the Netherlands. Claudia holds a Master of Science degree in Business Management from the Radboud University Nijmegen.