The 22-year veteran at the Canadian pension takes the role permanently after being made interim head of infrastructure and natural resources in February after Andrew Claerhout left.
Jamie Richards has been replaced internally by Nigel Aitchison, who previously focused on environmental infrastructure.
The asset manager plans to quickly expand the infrastructure team, which will be based in France.
Scott Lawrence, who has been with the Canadian pension since 2005 and helped launch its infrastructure platform, will replace Cressida Hogg.
Grant Dooley will lead the real estate investment manager’s newly established infrastructure arm as CEO and plans to launch a debut fund by Q3 this year.
Perry Offutt, along with two other hires, will be based in New York as the firm plans to launch a new equity strategy this year.
Both Richard Williams and Paul Bishop have been assigned the newly-created roles from positions as investment directors.
The former Macquarie Capital managing director helped lead the Trump administration’s efforts to reinvest in America’s infrastructure, a plan that has met a series of delays.
Robert-Jan Bakker will join the firm in June, after five-and-a-half years at APG. His appointment mirrors the recent hire of QIC’s Vittorio Lacagnina, who holds the same role for the Americas.
Mark Voccola, a partner at Ares EIF, will become co-head of Ardian Infrastructure US as the French firm raises $550m for its debut Americas fund.
DJ Pandian, the AIIB's CIO, tells us how he's building a 21st century development bank and how it plans to help plug Asia’s $26trn funding gap.
Steven Sonnenstein – who has closed more than $1.4bn in equity commitments – is leaving the Canadian pension on Friday after nearly six years.
The infrastructure and agriculture advisor has poached Andrew Polson from MyState, who will take the helm in May.
Incumbent CEO Craig Meller to step down in 2018 after five years in the role.
The Singapore-based real estate investment manager has made its first senior hire to lead its infrastructure investing activities in Asia.