Vittorio Lacagnina will join the Swiss firm in June after spending more than three years at the Australian fund manager and establishing its NY office.
Wendy Norris will now oversee private equity and property alongside infra and timberland amid a restructuring at Australia’s sovereign wealth fund.
Heidi Crebo-Rediker helped draft legislation that would have established a national infra bank and served as chief economist under Hillary Clinton’s State Department.
The advisory firm has hired industry veteran John Casola to head the infrastructure finance division at its new Toronto office.
The US fund manager has sent a team of operations and management experts to help the transition of Equis Energy to its ownership as the acquisition was closed last month.
The emerging markets firm has halted fundraising and capital deployment as Arif Naqvi hands over leadership to two co-heads.
Justin Mallis, who worked with a number of credit funds in his former role, becomes global head of project management at his new employer.
Andrew Claerhout spent 13 years at the Canadian pension and the last four-and-a-half as head of its C$18.9bn infrastructure programme.
André Bourbonnais, who oversaw a major strategy shift at Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment Board, will join the global asset manager in Q2.
Wallace Henderson and Sebastian Sherman are the final two senior members hired to drive the group’s nascent infrastructure unit.
Sang-Hyun Yoo, former global alternatives head of Korea’s National Pension Service, joins Mirae Asset Daewoo as head of private equity.
Guillermo Marroquin, whose responsibilities involved marketing ag funds at the Australian firm, will lead real assets efforts in North America at the placement agent.
Roderick Gadsby, hired from Stormharbour, will serve as a managing director in Northleaf’s London office.
Michael Ryder, who previously worked for Blackstone Energy Partners, will help the Canadian pension seek opportunities in the energy sector.
The move comes as the firm closes its $5bn acquisition of Equis Energy alongside PSP Investments and China Investment Corporation.