Future Growth Capital (FGC) has strengthened its investment team with the appointment of Max Gilbert to the newly-created role of infrastructure director.
The independent private markets specialist was formed as a partnership between Phoenix Group and Schroders, to help source UK investment opportunities for the pensions industry.
Gilbert joins from Gravis Capital Management where he was an investment director advising FTSE 250 listed company, GCP Infrastructure Investment, as co-fund manager.
He has eight years’ experience in the infrastructure debt market, having originated and executed transactions across a broad range of sectors including renewable energy, transmission and social housing.
In this new role, Gilbert will be responsible for originating and executing infrastructure deals in line with the risk and return profile of FGC’s multi-private asset UK strategy. He will report into Mike Chappell, head of origination.
Future Growth Capital, head of origination, Mike Chappell says: The rapid growth of private debt and infrastructure offers long-term investors access to resilient, income-generating assets that support national growth. [Gilbert’s] appointment strengthens our ability to capture these opportunities and deliver on Future Growth Capital’s mission to unlock private market investment opportunities for millions of pension savers.”
Gilbert adds: “The opportunity in UK infrastructure debt is expanding rapidly as institutional investors seek stable, income-generating assets with potentially premium yield, and I look forward to working with the team to help access that potential.”
FGC’s multi-private asset UK strategy is the first multi-private asset solution to focus exclusively on the UK opportunity, investing solely in UK businesses and infrastructure and development projects.