About Us

Infrata’s Managing Director since 2016, Alonzo Guzman has more than 14 years’ of industry experience. He has advised lenders, investors and sponsors of infrastructure projects all over the world. He has served as a Director at Infrata since the company’s inception.

As a Civil Engineer, Alonzo has undertaken a variety of roles, including Lenders’ Technical Advisor, Procurement Advisor, Project and Programme Manager, and Employer’s Agent. Alonzo has supported the management of PPP procurement internationally, as well as leading a number of LTA transactions across transportation and accommodation sectors.

Alonzo holds a BSc in Civil Engineering, and an MSc in the Management and Implementation of Development Projects from the University of Manchester.

Eimear Connery heads up our Aviation Technical Advisory Services and is also Operations Director. She is a Chartered Civil Engineer with over 18 years' of experience in the industry. She joined Infrata in 2016, from Aecom whom she was with for over 11 years through their legacy companies URS and Scott Wilson, bringing with her, her broad range of airport project experience and skills including master planning, feasibility assessments, due diligence studies, design and monitoring of major infrastructure developments worldwide including on the design of the New Istanbul Airport. Since joining Infrata she has been involved in projects across all infrastructure classes with her main focus in recent years being airports and the aviation industry. Eimear leads our services for both the US$9.5 billion, New Terminal One Project at JFK, which reached financial close in June last year, and the US$1.25 billion expansion project at Jorge Chávez International Airport, Lima which closed in December last year.

Luca Benedini is our Technical Director and Head of T&R at Infrata. He has 25 plus years of experience in the Transport and Energy Infrastructure sectors. He has substantial experience in supporting demand risk based transactions, offering demand and revenue advisory services to developers, investors and banks across Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa. Luca has led projects on various types of tolled transportation infrastructures (roads, bridges, express lanes), and has managed demand forecasts for car parks, pipelines and irrigation water canals.

Prior to joining the consultancy business, Luca worked for ExxonMobil in a variety of commercial and supply optimisation roles both in the downstream and upstream businesses across Europe.

Luca obtained an MA in International Trades in Italy and an MSc in Transport at Imperial College, UK. He is a native Italian speaker and fluent in English and Spanish.

Mauricio is a Civil Engineer with over 20 years experience in the construction industry in Colombia and the UK. Through his experience, Mauricio has had the opportunity to take part on highly complex and challenging infrastructure projects, such as Crossrail in London. He has previously been involved in project management on various transport infrastructure projects in LATAM as an independent consultant, specialising on project, construction and risk management areas.

Jonathan has over 30 years of experience in the aviation sector. He has an extensive track record in the field of traffic forecasting, leading projects covering 225 different airports in more than 50 countries across the world. He also has expertise in the areas of strategy, route development and financial analysis.

Prior to becoming a consultant, Jonathan began his career at British Airways where he spent 7 years with management positions in Strategy, Network Development and Alliances.

Olma is an anthropologist, with an MSc in Environment and Development. She has 20 years' of experience in environmental and social management. She offers a deep knowledge of social, cultural and land matters.

She has worked for large consulting companies in Colombia as a director, project manager and as environmental and social advisor (LSA). She is an expert in due diligence, environmental compliance and asset acquisition processes for the lending bank, private investors and sponsors, with verification of compliance with IFC standards, Equator Principles, IDB safeguards and FDN guidelines.

Steve Wray is a shipping economist with extensive experience in market and financing studies for the port and shipping industries. In Steve's previous role he was responsible for maritime consultancy on a global basis. He has extensive experience in shipping, port and development projects, gained whilst working at Ocean Shipping Consultants and Royal Haskoning-DHV, in the consultancy field. Since becoming a consultant in 2007, he has produced numerous maritime studies related to the container industry and all other major shipping sectors, particularly in the African, Caribbean, Central America, North & South America, Canadian, Middle East, Mediterranean, Black Sea and Baltic regions. Steve is also a regular contributor on the conference circuit having given papers at conferences held in Accra, Odessa, Bilbao, Gdansk, Szczecin, Rostock, Tallinn, Riga, St. Petersburg, Klaipeda, Istanbul, Barcelona, Valencia, Amsterdam, London, Bremerhaven, Doha, Maputo, Dar-es-Salaam, Durban and Antananarivo on a variety of topics related to changes within the shipping industry and forecast predictions for the future developments. Before being recruited by OSC, he worked for more than 19 years with liner shipping companies P&O Containers, P&O Nedlloyd and Maersk Line. Steve has an intimate understanding of the perspective of the port users to analyses in this sector and have first-hand experience of the North European and Mediterranean/Black Sea container feeder markets, as well as Transatlantic, Transpacific and African/Red Sea deep sea and feeder trades.

Brendan is an ESG consultant with over 20 years of experience. He works with investors, lenders and project sponsors across the breadth of infrastructure to ensure that risks and opportunities are fully accounted for, leading to greater value creation.

He works to client-specific briefs and also to international environmental and social standards, including the Equator Principles, the IFC Performance Standards and the EBRD Performance Requirements. He also helps clients to navigate the myriad of regulation and standards emerging in ESG, from the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) and the EU Taxonomy to the Taskforce for Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).

He is a member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment and a Chartered Environmentalist.

Ana Fernández González is a MSc in Civil Engineering (UPM), MBA expert in diverse challenges of construction and transportation business. She has a robust 18 years' history in international Public Private Partnerships and varied infrastructure projects providing end-to-end solutions.

Ana has closely liaised with all the stakeholders involved in the industry and the financing of projects in several countries. From the origination to the commissioning, ramp-up and operational stages and throughout the whole concession period. Ana has also led the deployment of best practices and corporate policies in all portfolio assets.

Antonio is a highly accomplished advisor with over 12 years of experience in the infrastructure and energy sectors. He has successfully led more than 75 asset transactions and financing projects across Europe, the Americas, APAC, the Middle East, and Africa. Currently serving as Technical Director, Antonio leads EMEA technical advisory services for Infrata in the primary market.

His expertise encompasses contract and asset management for large capital projects, concessions, and construction contracts. Antonio specializes in risk management across diverse portfolios, ensuring investment protection and the optimization of returns.

Prior to joining Infrata, Antonio held key commercial and technical roles in strategic projects across the UK. He is a qualified MSc Civil Engineer and holds an MBA from the LSC.

Howard is responsible for Technical Advisory services in North America, led from our Toronto office. Prior to this, he supported in the growth of Infrata’s LatAm team from our Bogota office. He has extensive experience in undertaking Lenders’ and Sponsors’ technical advisory across a number of global project finance markets.

Paul has over 30 years of experience in the global airports sector. He started his career with UK airports operator BAA in the 1990s supporting their strategy, commercial, and operational areas. He has been a consultant to airport operators, investors, lenders, economic regulators and governments since 2008, specialising in particular in traffic forecasting and assessment of airport profitability. Paul joined Infrata earlier in 2025 as a Technical Director.

He has advised at over 150 airports worldwide, ranging from some of the world's largest hubs to small regional airfields, across a range of airports with different governance and regulatory structures, and covering each of the main continents. In particular this has included extensive experience advising at airports in Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. In addition, Paul is a lecturer for Airports Council International in their global AMPAP programme.

Ray Powell is a Chartered Civil Engineer with more than 35 years of project experience in transportation and social infrastructure. Ray has spent over 20 years in the PPP field, providing technical advice to public and private sector clients, including bid management/direction, technical and commercial due diligence for bidding consortia, rating agencies, and lenders.

In addition to working on bid stage due diligence, Ray has worked on monitoring construction and drawdown, operations and lifecycle reviews.

John Gibbon is a Chartered Engineer and a leading transportation consultant. He specialises in railway planning, operations, multi-modal transportation systems, light rail systems, airports, and ports.

John has been involved in the financial modelling of transportation infrastructure, such that it can be reviewed for privatisation, restructuring, or investment from the public or private sector.

Weronika is a Managing Consultant at Infrata and has over 16 years of experience as technical advisor on public private partnership (PPP/P3) transport and social infrastructure projects in Europe, North America, Middle East and Africa covering both primary and secondary market transactions.

Weronika’s versatile experience includes: transaction advisory services for PPP transport projects to grantors, lenders due diligence (including post financial close construction monitoring and operations monitoring), secondary market transactions (buyers and vendors) with due diligence reviews ranging from single asset to large portfolio of assets, pavement asset management, highways maintenance and assessment of lifecycle provisions for long-term road concessions and transport related assets.

Ruth is a MSc Civil Engineer (UPM) and a Certified PPP Professional (APMG). A senior business development, technical & commercial and asset management executive with more than 22 years of experience in the global infrastructure market, she has a proven track record in several sectors and geographies, both as an equity investor and as an independent adviser.

As an equity investor, Ruth brings extensive hands-on experience in large infrastructure projects, both greenfield and brownfield, in all their different phases, including development, financing/refinancing, acquisitions/divestments, and asset management.

As an independent adviser, she has a broad experience acting as LTA to top-tier international financial institutions (including institutional investors and multilaterals) for the financing, refinancing, and monitoring of large infrastructure assets, and also as technical & commercial due diligence adviser to equity investors, industrial and financial, in competitive and bilateral sale processes, both on the buy and sell sides.

Ruth´s expertise comprises business development and technical & commercial and asset management of large and complex infrastructure assets. Before joining Infrata, Ruth has held senior positions in Globalvia and Sener.

Nadine is a Managing Consultant who has been providing traffic and revenue advisory services to Sponsors, Lenders and Investors for tolled infrastructure projects in Europe, Asia and the Americas for over 15 years. Her particular expertise lies in the development and review of network models for the purpose of traffic and revenue forecasting.

Prior to joining Infrata Nadine gained substantial experience as a transport modeller at Mott MacDonald building strategic network models for forecasting traffic on highway and multi-modal transport projects globally.

Nadine holds an MSc in Civil Engineering from the Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany where she specialized in transport planning, railways and highways. She is a native German speaker and fluent in English.

Joe is a Managing Consultant based in London. He has over 10 years of experience in airport advisory specialising in airport due diligence and transaction advisory working with Lenders, Investors, Operators and Governments. He has worked on over 120 airport projects. Prior to joining Infrata, Joe was Aviation Market Sector Lead at Jacobs’ Strategic Consulting unit. He has worked as an independent consultant and previously at Mott MacDonald. Joe holds a MSc in Infrastructure Investment and Finance from UCL.

Mitchell Stirling is a Managing Consultant, with over 15 years of experience in the transport and infrastructure industry. He specialises in strategic forecasting, scenario modelling, and data-driven decision-making. At Heathrow Airport, Mitchell led the delivery of medium-term passenger forecasts and strategic baggage demand modelling to support business planning and capacity development. He also oversaw surface access data strategy and reporting, contributing to sustainable transport planning and policy engagement.

He has studied Applied Statistics (BSc) at the University of Reading and Scenario Planning at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Mitchell is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and is passionate about using data to shape sustainable and efficient transport strategies.

Gabriela is a Principal Consultant on the Technical Advisory team at Infrata. With over 7 years of experience, Gabriela’s career and professional interests include construction planning, supervision and management (cost estimation, scheduling, contract management and contract supervision, among others), as well as due diligence and monitoring of both traditional infrastructure loans (i.e., financing provided by development banks to public sector entities), also project finance transactions in different infrastructure sectors (roads, rail, social infrastructure, among others) and regions (North America, EMEA and LATAM).

Her qualifications include a Civil Engineering and a M.Sc. in Construction Management degrees, obtained at the Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (Ecuador) and National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan), respectively. Gabriela is fluent in English and Spanish.’

Adam has 11 years’ experience in the airport sector, leading the business plan modelling on many airport equity and debt transactions across the globe. He has contributed to projects encompassing over 100 global airports.

Adam specialises in business plan forecasting and supporting analysis including detailed benchmarking studies and airport economic regulation models.

Prior to joining Altitude / Infrata, Adam worked for Macquarie Bank leading analysis on fast paced transactions.

Albert is a Principal Consultant at Infrata in the Aviation, Maritime, and Economics team. Albert has over 5 years of experience in the Transport Consulting sector, with the last two years mostly focused on Maritime and Logistics related projects. He has been involved in greenfield and brownfield projects across Europe, LATAM, Africa, and the Middle East, providing advisory services such as structuring concessions, commercial and technical due diligence, feasibility studies, and supporting the creation of business plans.

He holds a BSc in Civil Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, where he specialized in Transport & Project Management. Albert is fluent in Catalan, Spanish, and English.

Alejandro is a Civil Engineer with over 15 years of experience and postgraduate degrees in roads and Project Management; currently, he is studying a Master's degree in Financial Management. During his professional career, he has been involved in many Infrastructure and road construction projects like 1G, 3G, and 4G Concessions in Colombia, South America.

Assaad Abou Karam serves as a Principal Consultant at Infrata using his expertise as a Chartered Civil Engineer with a double degree from Ecole des Ponts ParisTech and ESIB Lebanon. With over 12 years' of experience in the aviation industry, Assaad’s professional journey include 5 years at Gatwick Airport where he contributed to various infrastructure projects such as the main runway resurfacing, the new Rapid Exit taxiway and the Northern Runway programme. Before his time at Gatwick, Assaad played a key role in two terminal extensions at Paris Orly Airport.

He is fluent in English, French, Spanish and Arabic and brings a comprehensive understanding of airport operations and construction in a live environment.

Cristian Niño is a Sustainability Principal Consultant at Infrata. He is a Sanitary and Environmental Engineer with a Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Barcelona. He has over 20 years of experience in environmental and social management of projects across sectors such as road infrastructure, gas pipelines, ports, solar energy, agribusiness, industry, and telecommunications. Cristian has worked with international consulting firms as a project manager and environmental and social specialist, providing advisory services for lenders, investors, and sponsors. His expertise includes conducting due diligence processes and monitoring project construction and operation on projects in Colombia, Peru, Uruguay, Chile and Argentina. He has extensive knowledge of international standards such as the IFC Performance Standards, the Equator Principles, the IDB Sustainability Framework, and green taxonomy. His native language is Spanish and he is fluent in English.

Erika is an Environmental Engineer and holds a M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering and Project Management from the University of Leeds. She has over 15 years of experience in highways, social infrastructure, water, and air management, Oil & Gas, mining, manufacturing, and energy projects. She is experienced auditor of Environmental, Health and Safety compliance projects under ISO 14001, 9001, 45001 and OSHAS 18001. Also, she is an expert in ESIAs, ESMPs, and H&S assessments, due diligence and monitoring Action Plan under Environmental and Social Performance Standards (IFC), Equator Principles, ICMM standards, SFDR, and/or green taxonomy requirements. Her experience has been mainly in LatAm, Europe and South Africa. Her native language is Spanish and she is fluent in English.

Eva is a Senior Consultant in the T&R team at Infrata with over five years of professional experience in the transport infrastructure field. She has been engaged in diverse projects encompassing demand studies and technical assessments, as well as strategic planning for various transport infrastructures such as roads, rail, ports, and logistics terminals. Throughout her career, she has participated in the analysis of transport and logistics assets, working for the public sector, private investors, lenders, operators, and multilateral institutions. Her experience covers different geographies including Europe, LATAM, Africa & the Middle East.

She is native Spanish and Basque speaker and fluent in English.

Hind is a Principal Consultant with close to 15 years of experience in successfully providing technical advisory services on major capital projects in North America and Africa. She is an Architect by training and holds a MSc Urban Development Planning from University College London. She has led numerous technical advisory mandates on major infrastructure and energy projects, including utilities, land development, highways, rail, transit, and social infrastructure. That included technical due diligence reviews, alternative finance, procurement, P3 delivery, Lenders Technical Advisory and Independent Certifier roles on major projects with CAPEX up to $6.9B

She is fluent in four languages and brings a solid background in client relationship management.

Juan is a Civil Engineer with over 15 years' experience and wide technical knowledge in Project Control. Juan has a degree in Civil Engineering from Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería. He has been involved in different construction projects in Colombia sectors such as, oil & gas and road infrastructure. Juan is a Project Management Specialist with PMP certification, he also has an MBA in General Management. He has led diligence for projects in Colombia, Chile, Peru, Uruguay and Paraguay. Juan's native language is Spanish and he is fluent in English.

Laura has a B.Sc in Civil Engineering and an M.Sc in Project Management from UMECIT. Laura has more than 10 years of experience in the areas of cost and management of large infrastructure projects. Laura is a Principal Consultant at Infrata, and has led diligence across infrastructure assets in Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Uruguay and Chile. Her native language is Spanish and she is fluent in Portuguese and English.

Lisa has over 15 years experience in the aviation industry and is the lead in capital investment and capacity modelling, including developing infrastructure block planning, detailed benchmarking analysis and investment forecasts for many airport equity and debt transactions around the globe. She has contributed to projects at over 50 airports including several recent major transaction studies for airports in Europe.

She graduated in 2009 from the University of Surrey with a First Class Honours degree in English Local History and received an MA in Digital Heritage from the University of Leicester in 2011.

Michael is a Senior consultant on the Aviation and Economics team at Infrata. He provides socioeconomic analysis, traffic forecasting and due diligence services on a wide range of infrastructure projects globally. Prior to joining Infrata, Michael worked as a consultant at an aviation advisory consultancy firm. Michael holds an integrated Masters in Mathematics from the University of Surrey.

Michele has 12 years advising investors, developers, and international financial institutions (EBRD, EIB, ADB) on decarbonisation, climate resilience, and ESG compliance for toll roads, airports, water facilities, and ports across the US, Europe, and Africa. Led engagements with development banks and national governments developing decarbonization roadmaps and sustainable finance frameworks. Provided technical advisory, lifecycle assessments, and cost–benefit analysis for major clients and was a Manager in the UK's Department for Transport reforming rail concessions. Supported M&A due diligence for international infrastructure assets including US toll roads and airports. Michele is a qualified engineer in Italy with a bachelor's in civil engineering and an MSc in international planning from UCL.

Mónica is a Principal Consultant at Infrata based in our office in Bogotá - Colombia. She is a MSc. Civil Engineering and holds an MBA. Mónica has more than 13 years of experience in construction management, supervision, and technical advisory of social, energy and transport infrastructure projects in LatAm, during the due diligence, construction and O&M monitoring.Mónica has held several positions working directly for Concessionaires, EPC Contractors and more recently for a large global investment and asset management company. Mónica has advised Sponsors and Lenders in our most of high-profile transactions in the region, including projects in Colombia, USA, Panama, Peru, Uruguay and Mexico. Her native language is Spanish and she is fluent in English.

Nazeen is a Principal Consultant with over 15 years of experience in maritime research and advisory services. She specialises in providing investors, lenders, and project sponsors with in-depth analysis and insights into the commercial feasibility and operational efficiency of shipping and port services. Holding an MBA with a focus on shipping and port management, Nazeen has led numerous high-impact studies across the Europe, Middle East and Asia. Her expertise spans port throughput forecasting, cost competitiveness, maritime cluster development, competitive advantage modelling, supply and demand analysis, feasibility assessments, benchmarking, and strategic advisory for regulatory policy enhancement.

Nazeen also brings extensive experience in advising public sector maritime authorities, delivering gap analyses and supporting regulatory development initiatives to strengthen sectoral performance and governance.

Sevil is an environmental engineer with 15 years-experiences in environmental and social due diligence (ESDD), environmental and social construction and operation monitoring, environmental, health and safety (EHS) compliance and environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA) studies. She has participated in various ESIA, environmental and social gap analysis, ESDD and environmental and social monitoring studies conducted against host country legislation as well as guidelines of the various international financial institutions such as International Finance Corporation (IFC), European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), European Investment Bank (EIB) and Ex-im Bank etc. She has worked for Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects in the health and transportation sectors and also the private sector energy and manufacturing projects as part of lender environmental and social advisory services. She has an extensive experience and familiarity of project management in Turkey.