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Committee Members
GRI Global Airports
Committee Members
Moderator
Daniel Engel
Partner - Infrastructure and Energy
Veirano Advogados
Alexandre
Monteiro
CEO
RIOgaleão
Amit
Rikhy
President & CEO
Carlyle Airport Group
Balint
Szentivanyi
Senior VP Global Investment & Management
Currently Unaffiliated
Behnad
Zandi
CEO
Adani Airport
Christoph
Schnellmann
CEO
Noida International Airport Ltd.
Cristiane
Gomes
CTO / Digital Transformation
CCR
Céline
Billant
Sr. Investment Director
iCON Infrastructure LLP
Daniel
Bircher
Managing Director at Zurich Airport International AG
Zurich Airport International Asia
David-Olivier
Tarac
Managing Director, Americas
Groupe ADP
Deborah
Flint
President & CEO
Toronto Pearson International Airport
Diana
Collazos
Associate Principal
Estudio Echecopar
Dorothée
Peuzé
Managing Director, Head of Project Finance - Energy & Infrastructure Group Latin America
Crédit Agricole
Ezequiel
Barrenechea
Director
Corporación América
Gherardo
Baruffa
Managing Director - Airport Group
Credit Agricole CIB
Ionut
Doldor
Director, M&A
AviAlliance GmbH
Jatin
Aneja
Practice Head–Projects & Infrastructure
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co
Mar
Beltran
Non Executive Board Director
Globalvia
Marcelo
Bisordi
Diretor
Mover Participações
Ralf
Gaffal
Managing Director
Munich Airport International
Rhonda
Hamm-Niebruegge
Director
Louis Lambert International Airport
Sidharath
Kapur
Sidharath Kapur
Stewart
Steeves
CEO
LaGuardia Gateway Partners LLC
Susan
Warner-Dooley
CCO for Airports
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Vivek
Agarwal
VP
Hamad International Airport
Willem
Sutherland
Senior Advisor
Monte Equity Partners
Daniel Engel
Partner - Infrastructure and EnergyVeirano Advogados
Brazil
Daniel Engel has significant experience in providing legal advice to national and foreign companies in infrastructure contracts in the various phases of projects (from greenfield to implementation, restructuring and claims management), in project finance, M&A transactions involving infrastructure and energy assets, as well as in public contracts and regulatory aspects of several industries.
Alexandre Monteiro
CEORIOgaleão
Brazil
Alexandre Monteiro holds B.Eng. and MSc. degrees in Engineering from the Catholic University from Rio de Janeiro, as well as PhD degree in engineering from the University of California. He has also concluded executive education courses in Harvard, Wharton and Brazilian IBGC. In 1997, he started his journey in financial market and worked for Indosuez and Unibanco. From 2005 to 2013, Alexandre held the CFO position in large corporations in Brazil. In 2014, joined the concessionaire of the Rio de Janeiro International Airport, RIOgaleão, as CFO. In March 2020, after overseeing the financial structuring and execution of the renovation of the airport for the RIO 2016 Olympics, Alexandre was promoted to CEO of RIOgaleão.
Amit Rikhy
President & CEOCarlyle Airport Group
USA
Founding Chief Executive of Carlyle Airport Group (CAG), The Carlyle Group’s global airport development and investment platform. Airport investment and management career spans over 25 years, including involvement in more than 50 airport P3 transactions globally. Former President and CEO of CCR USA. Before that, founder and CEO of Sigma Infrastructure Partners and SVP at Airports Worldwide. Experience also includes leading airport transactions in the United States and globally for Vantage Airport Group and Airport Group International. Directly involved in key US P3 airport transactions, as well as airport privatizations in Europe, the Americas and Caribbean, and Australasia.
Balint Szentivanyi
Senior VP Global Investment & ManagementCurrently Unaffiliated
Germany
Over 12 years experience at leading companies and investment banks including Zurich Airport, Lehman Brothers and Barclays Capital. Advised Board of Directors and Executives and also acted as the principal investor in mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity capital raisings and private equity transactions. Extensive international experience including in Brazil, South America, the UK, Western Europe, C&EE, Asia, Russia and the Middle East.
Behnad Zandi
CEOAdani Airport
India
For more than 30 years, Ben Zandi has been a driving force behind business turnarounds, mergers and acquisitions, commercial expansion and industry reinvention. Mr. Zandi takes an active role in re-imaging airport travel with pioneering technologies, retail concepts and new levels of customer experience. Ben has been on the leading edge of brand redevelopment, growth, and scalability in performance management. Ben was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Fraport USA, the North American division of Fraport Group, where the operations extended from Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Baltimore‐Washington to JetBlue’s Terminal 5 at JFK and the new $1.2 billion Nashville International Airport.
Christoph Schnellmann
CEONoida International Airport Ltd.
India
Cristiane Gomes
CTO / Digital TransformationCCR
Brazil
Master in Production Engineering, International MBA in Business, Postgraduate in Project Management, Risk Management and Compliance and Graduation in Mathematics. CTO / Digital Transformation Officer. Former CEO at CCR Airports, leading business in Brazil, Latin America, Caribbean and the USA. Former CEO of the Highway Concessionaire CCR AutoBAn, CCR Group´s CIO and Director at EngelogTec, the Group's technology excellence center. Also acts as a Chairwoman and Board Member in national and international businesses. With over 20 years professional experiences in infrastructure sector, such as Airports, Highways, Urban mobility, including major business transformation projects and consultancy at the beginning of the career.
Céline Billant
Sr. Investment DirectoriCON Infrastructure LLP
France
Daniel Bircher
Managing Director at Zurich Airport International AGZurich Airport International Asia
Malaysia
Based in Switzerland, Daniel Bircher has been in charge of the newly created International division since 1 May 2021, which comprises the strategic development of international business and supervision of the airports and subsidiaries of Flughafen Zürich AG abroad. A Swiss citizen born in 1968, he has worked for Flughafen Zürich AG since 2006. From 2011 he was Operation Director at Bangalore International Airport in India, from 2015 COO of Belo Horizonte Airport in Brazil and since 2018 he has held the post of CEO of Zurich Airport Asia in Malaysia.
David-Olivier Tarac
Managing Director, AmericasGroupe ADP
USA
David-Olivier Tarac has been working for more than 17 years in the infrastructure sector. He had successively positions at PWC Corporate Finance, at the French State Public Holdings Agency in charge of airports, at the Boston Consulting Group. He joined Groupe ADP 12 years ago successively as Director of Financial Operations and Investments, deputy CEO of TAV airports and was appointed recently as the managing director of ADP International Americas.
Deborah Flint
President & CEOToronto Pearson International Airport
Canada
Diana Collazos
Associate PrincipalEstudio Echecopar
Peru
Dorothée Peuzé
Managing Director, Head of Project Finance - Energy & Infrastructure Group Latin AmericaCrédit Agricole
USA
Dorothée has over 17 years experience in Structured Finance, across a variety of regions. Prior to joining the Energy and Infrastructure Group Latam team in NY in 2016 as a Managing Director, she was based in Paris/London and led a number of relevant infrastructure projects in Continental Europe, the UK and Middle East, including advising and structuring of public-private parnerships and concessions contracts. She is now responsible for origination and execution of project finance transactions in the infrastructure, P&U and natural resources sectors, across Latin America. She is graduated with ESCP Europe Business school (France), and is fluent in French, Spanish and English.
Ezequiel Barrenechea
DirectorCorporación América
Argentina
-ACI-LAC Executive Vice President
-Corporación América Regional Manager.
-Executive President of ECOGAL (Aeropuertos Ecológicos de Galápagos S. A.)
-Vice President of TAGSA(Guayaquil)
-Vice President of Aeropuertos Andinos del Peru S.A.,
-Corporación América Regional Manager.
-Executive President of ECOGAL (Aeropuertos Ecológicos de Galápagos S. A.)
-Vice President of TAGSA(Guayaquil)
-Vice President of Aeropuertos Andinos del Peru S.A.,
Gherardo Baruffa
Managing Director - Airport GroupCredit Agricole CIB
France
Since 2000, Gherardo is responsible for the sector coverage of all airports and airlines related businesses on a worldwide basis for the bank. He has been involved in many airport deals encompassing Equity & Debt Capital Market, M&A, Debt & Rating Advisory. In terms of major financing, Gherardo participated and closed most of the landmark transaction in the airport sector over the last 15 years. Gherardo has built a strong expertise and good relationship with the major airport operators, Infrastructure and Pension/Sovereign funds having a keen interest in the airport sector. He holds a Commercial Engineering degree from the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Ionut Doldor
Director, M&AAviAlliance GmbH
Germany
Ionut Doldor is Director M&A and heads Latin America and India business development at AviAlliance. He has more than 10 years of experience in leading multi-disciplinary teams for airport privatizations and investments, being involved in numerous projects across the globe on both buy- and sell-side. Examples include divestments of airports in the UK as well as bids in Portugal, Puerto Rico, Chile, Brazil and India. Ionut has joined AviAlliance in 2016, and has previously worked in Spain with Ferrovial Airports and in the UK at Heathrow Airport. He has degrees in business administration, economics and finance.
Jatin Aneja
Practice Head–Projects & InfrastructureShardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co
India
Jatin is part of the management board of the Firm. He has extensive experience in urban infrastructure, conventional & renewable energy, roads, ports, airports, railways, power, and oil & gas sector in India and the sub-continent. Jatin has been consistently ranked in ‘Band 1’ by Chambers and Partners; ‘Leading Lawyer’ by Legal 500, IFLR1000 & Asialaw Profiles and ‘Thought Leader’ by WWL 2019. He has advised on several marquee transactions including privatisation of Delhi & Mumbai airports, re-gasification projects by IOC, PLL & others and Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India pipeline projects. Currently he is advising GMR Infrastructure on divestment of major shareholding (over USD 1 billion) in GMR Airports Ltd.
Mar Beltran
Non Executive Board DirectorGlobalvia
Spain
Mar Beltran is a Director of the Board of Globalvia and Member of the Climate Infrastructure Partnership Forum. A non executive director and a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors with extensive experience in public and private infrastructure boards. A regular member of the Remunerations and Audit and Risk Committees of the Board, I have worked for over a decade in both Europe and the Asia Pacific. With experience in international policy for both the public and private sectors and have extensive investment experience across equity and debt. Degree in Aeronautical Engineering in Madrid and Executive MBA at Australia Graduate School of Management (AGSM).
Marcelo Bisordi
DiretorMover Participações
Brazil
Diretor da Divisão Aeroportos, responde desde setembro de 2018, pela gestão dos aeroportos do Grupo. Formado Engenheiro Civil pela Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie. MBA em Administração, Economia e Marketing pela Fundação Getúlio Vargas, em São Paulo. Marcelo atuou na área de Operações na empresa Gafisa antes de 1986, quando ingressou no Grupo Camargo Corrêa. Atuou primeiramente na área operacional em algumas das principais obras da construtora. Depois, atuou na estruturação de negócios como a Concessionária do Estacionamento de Congonhas, primeira concessão na área aeroportuária, Concessão da Nova Dutra e da Ponte Rio Niterói, da criação da Companhia de Concessões Rodovias (CCR), em 1997 e da captação das obras da Usina de Belo Monte
Ralf Gaffal
Managing DirectorMunich Airport International
Germany
Ralf is leading Munich Airport’s International Business since 2010 and created Munich Airport International in 2017 which he leads as Managing Director. He has been working in the aviation sector since more than 16 years with vast experience in airport planning, operations and management. Ralf successfully expanded Munich Airport’s international activities from consulting to management and investments. He developed a group of companies with more than 100 aviation experts supporting governments, airport operators or infra investors with advisory. He is chairman of the Board of various companies and member of the core leadership of FMG, the operator company of Munich Airport, the only 5-star airport in Europe and Top 5 Airport in the World.
Rhonda Hamm-Niebruegge
DirectorLouis Lambert International Airport
USA
Rhonda Hamm-Niebruegge has been the Director of St. Louis Lambert International Airport since January 2010. She is also Chairwoman of the 17-member St. Louis Airport Commission. She is also
Chairwoman of the 17-member St. Louis Airport Commission. Prior to STL, Ms. Hamm-Niebruegge logged over 25 years in aviation management positions with American Airlines, Trans World Airlines (TWA) and Ozark Air Lines; a majority of her career has been based in St. Louis, Missouri. She’s the current Chairperson of the Board of Christian Hospital; former Chairperson of the Advisory Board of John Cook School of Business at Saint Louis University; and past President of the Board of Habitat for Humanity Saint Louis.
Sidharath Kapur
Sidharath Kapur
India
Stewart Steeves
CEOLaGuardia Gateway Partners LLC
USA
Susan Warner-Dooley
CCO for AirportsPort Authority of New York and New Jersey
USA
Vivek Agarwal
VPHamad International Airport
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Willem Sutherland
Senior AdvisorMonte Equity Partners
USA
Willem Sutherland headed the Latin America region for ING. While travelling extensively in Latin America, he is based in New York. Prior to assuming his current position, he was also head of the Infrastructure Finance and Advisory activities for ING in the Americas. Willem has more than 20 years of experience in debt structuring, advisory, project finance and debt placement in the Americas. Prior to joining ING, Willem worked for ABN AMRO in Europe, Mexico and New York. He has been based in New York since 2001. Willem holds an MSc degree in Business Engineering from the Technical University of Twente, in the Netherlands.
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