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In The HotSeat Special: Buying into infrastructure – investing in the basics

In The HotSeat Special: Buying into infrastructure – investing in the basics

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On 28 August, the team will walk us through the weekly news and will be hosting a panel discussion on Buying in the infrastructure – investing in the basics speaking to Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure, Sequoia Economic Infrastructure Income and Cordiant Digital Infrastructure – register here. You can join our livestream here for future weekly shows.

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Steven Marshall | Cordiant Digital Infrastructure

Prior to joining the Investment Manager, Mr Marshall was President of American Tower Corporation – US Tower Division. Whilst serving as President, AMT pioneered the network neutral telecommunications infrastructure model in the United States, Germany, France and 12 other countries in both communication towers and combinations of towers and fibre.

Mr Marshall had a material influence on making AMT the company it is today – the largest network neutral telecommunications infrastructure company in the world with a market capitalisation of over US$100 billion.

Prior to AMT, he built National Grid Wireless into the largest network neutral tower infrastructure provider in Europe. Subsequently sold to private equity interests, it became the core of Arqiva. He also developed and ran a US$1.5 billion fibre network in Brazil owned jointly by National Grid, France Telecom and Sprint. Most notable amongst his many acquisition and divestiture activities was his overseeing and the integration of leading two US$5 billion acquisitions whilst at AMT.

Mr Marshall is Chairman of Next Gen Access UK (a long-distance fibre developer) as well as Chairman of Paradigm Infrastructure, an African Tower Developer. Mr Marshall holds a BSc (Hons) in Building and Civil Engineering from the University of Manchester, as well as an MBA from Alliance Manchester Business School, United Kingdom.

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Steve Cook | Sequoia Economic Infrastructure Income

Steve Cook has over 20 years of infrastructure experience and brings to the firm strong structuring and credit analysis skills.

Prior to Sequoia he was European Head of Whole Business Securitisation and CMBS, and Co-Head of Infrastructure Finance at UBS. Before that he was the Head of European Corporate Securitisation at Morgan Stanley.

Mr. Cook has been involved in a wide variety of infrastructure projects in the UK and across Europe as a lender, arranger and adviser.

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Jean-Hugues de Lamaze | Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure

Jean-Hugues joined Ecofin in early 2008 and is the portfolio manager in charge of the Ecofin Listed Infrastructure strategy.

Prior to joining Ecofin, Jean-Hugues co-founded UV Capital LLP, a utilities and infrastructure hedge fund. Before that, he worked for Goldman Sachs where he oversaw the European Utilities research team, and for Credit Suisse First Boston as head of French Research & Strategy. His professional career began as a financial analyst at Enskilda Securities.

Jean-Hugues has over 30 years of experience of international equity markets, from equity research & strategy to investment management.

He also was a Non-Executive Director of Direct Energie, France's 3rd largest energy operator (Total Energies group) from 2012 to 2019. He is a CFAF certified analyst and a member of the French Financial Analysts Society. He graduated from INSEAD (International Executive Programme, 2000), from the Paris-based business school Institut Supérieur de Gestion and earned a LLB in Business Law from Paris II-Assas University.

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