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PEOPLE

Advantage

At Tikehau Star Infra, we believe our most compelling advantage is our people. Our team is comprised of individuals with diverse backgrounds and professional experience in finance, construction, engineering, public policy, and operations. This unique blend of talent is valuable when assessing, developing, investing in and managing infrastructure assets.

Our team has worked successfully with many of the major contractors and infrastructure developers on some of the most significant and notable P3 projects in the country. These experiences give Tikehau Star Infra and our project partners a competitive edge and position us to deliver positive results for our clients and investors.

Management & Advisory Team

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Christophe Petit
Co-Founder & President
Prior to founding Tikehau Star Infra, Christophe worked on many of the largest and most notable P3 transactions in the United States and Canada. He served as advisor or lender and worked with the leading industry players that have now become Tikehau Star Infra partners.
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Mark Melson
Managing Director - Chief Investment Officer
As a longtime executive at a leading global property developer and commercial builder involved in several early P3’s in the military housing sector, Mark brings extensive expertise in structuring large, complex commercial deals.
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Jahred Kallop
Executive Director - Investments
Jahred brings significant experience in deal structuring and project financing across various key sectors. Jahred spent several years in the private equity, investment, and consulting industries before joining Tikehau Star Infra.
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Kamil Seidl
Executive Director - Investments
With previous experience working on the finance team for a leading global concessionaire and contractor, Kamil brings strong U.S. and international project finance credentials and a multi-disciplinary engineering background to the Tikehau Star Infra team.
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William A. Marino
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
After several decades of corporate success providing insurance and surety services to the construction industry, Bill founded Tikehau Star Infra, previously known as Star America, based on his vision of creating more opportunities to invest in rebuilding America’s infrastructure.
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Tim Grell
CEO of Tikehau Capital North America LLC & Group Head of North America
Tim Grell has more than 30 years of global experience in the financial services industry in the US and Europe and is head of the North American business for Tikehau Capital based in New York.
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Peter Cirenza
Co-Chief Investment Officer of Tikehau Investment Management / Tikehau Capital’s Chairman of UK, Private Equity, & Tactical Strategies
Peter Cirenza joined Tikehau Capital in 2017. Previously, as a Partner at Goldman Sachs in New York, London and Tokyo, he helped to develop and lead the firm’s proprietary special-situation investment activities.
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Jennifer L. Miller, Esq.
Special Advisor to President
Jennifer brings a wealth of experience in providing legal and compliance services. Prior to joining Tikehau Star Infra, Jennifer practiced corporate and securities law for more than 20 years.

Investment Team

Michael Rueger
Michael Rueger
Director - Investments
Michael joined Tikehau Star Infra in 2014, building on prior experience working in the structured finance – originations team of a large commercial bank.
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Romain Breuil
Director - Investments
Romain joined Tikehau Star Infra in 2016 after working in the project finance division of two large banking and financial services firms.
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Peter Rae
Vice President - Investments
Peter joined Tikehau Star Infra in 2022 from the infrastructure advisory and project finance practice of a Big 4 accounting firm.
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Alessandra Braga Andrade
Vice President - Investments
Alessandra joined Tikehau Star Infra as an Investment Associate in 2022, previously working in the Infrastructure and Project Finance group at Fitch Ratings.
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Zainab Younus
Associate - Investments
Zainab joined Tikehau Star Infra in 2022, after working in the project finance sector providing infrastructure advisory services to public and private sector clients.
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Qianli (James) Men
Associate - Investments
Qianli (James) joined Tikehau Star Infra in 2016 after spending three years working in the private equity audit and consulting divisions at a Big Four accounting firm. James transitioned to the deal team in 2022 as an investment associate.
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Daniel Ioselevich
Analyst
Daniel comes from Columbia Business School where he earned his MBA with a concentration in Finance and Management. Prior to his MBA, Daniel worked as an Analyst at a high yield credit hedge fund and as an Analyst on Guardian Life's Investment and Due Diligence team.

Asset Management Team

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Christopher Frauenberger
Director - Asset Management
Christopher launched his professional life in civil engineering, working in the transportation departments of large global engineering and architectural firms, before joining Tikehau Star Infra's Asset Management team.
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Cody Baira
Associate – Asset Management
Cody joined Tikehau Star Infra in 2021 as an Associate in the Asset Management division. He focuses on investment valuations, performance reporting, and project management.
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Shreya Ghariya
Vice President – Asset Management
Shreya joined Tikehau Star Infra in June 2022 as a Vice President on the Asset Management team.

Business Development Team

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Damien Kolosky
Executive Director - Business Development
Damien joined Tikehau Star Infra in 2022 with more than 23 years of international experience and a deep expertise on the P3 delivery method for infrastructure projects.
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Gregory Davis
Senior Advisor
Gregory Davis is Labor Liaison, Senior Advisor to Tikehau Star Infra, previously known as Star America. Greg was retained in 2020.

Legal, Compliance and Operations

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Leonardo Reubke
Chief Operating Officer TCNA
Leonardo joined TCNA as Chief Operating Officer from Tikehau Capital’s Paris Office where he was Head of Private Equity Fund Operations for Tikehau Capital globally. Mr. Reubke joined Tikehau Capital from PwC where he was a member of the Transaction Services and Audit teams.
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Francis Van Scoy, CPA, CFA, CAIA
Head of Finance TCNA
Francis ``Russ`` brings significant alternative investment expertise to Tikehau Star Infra including audit and taxation, and administration. He has more than a decade of experience in operations, accounting, regulatory, compliance and reporting acumens.
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Amy Bohannon
General Counsel TCNA
Amy Bohannon joined Tikehau Capital in 2021 as US General Counsel. Prior to joining the Group, she spent nine years as Associate General Counsel at J.C. Flowers & Co, a private investment firm dedicated to investing globally in the financial services industry.
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Jackson Murley
Associate General Counsel
Jackson Murley joined Tikehau Capital in 20 23 as Associate General Counsel for Tikehau Capital North America. Prior to this, he worked at Shearman & Sterling LLP where he was a member of the Project Development & Finance group.
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Pedro Araujo
Vice President of Tax
Pedro Araujo joins TCNA as Vice President of Tax from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), where he held several positions, most recently as a Manager in the Global Structuring-Financial Services (GS-FS) practice.
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William Edwards
Chief Compliance Officer
William Edwards joined Tikehau Capital in August 2023, as Chief Compliance Officer and Associate Counsel of North America. Previously, Mr. Edwards served as a Senior Managing Director at Teneo, the global consultancy.

Diversity of Skills

Our team has many decades of collective experience with all aspects of project development and delivery. The following graph showcases these skills and displays collective experience in years.

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*Investments in projects which have a total asset value of more than $10 billion

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