Senior energy executive hire for Trinity Gate Investments infrastructure

Trinity Gate Investments, the independent private investment company, today announces the appointment of Simo Santavirta to strengthen the industrial expertise within its Infrastructure team in line with its strategy to move to a more industrial approach in the asset management of its portfolio companies.
 
Mr Santavirta joins Trinity Gate Investments Infrastructure with over 18 years’ industry experience, of which 13 years were spent at the global power generation group, InterGen, while being based in Europe, Asia, Australia and North America. At InterGen, most recently he held the position of Vice President, Strategy and Portfolio Management, based in InterGen’s head office in the USA. Prior to that, his other roles at InterGen include Vice President and General Manager in the Philippines and Director of Business Development for North West Europe. An engineer by background, Mr Santavirta started his career at Finnish energy company, Fortum Oyj in 1998. 

Mr Santavirta’s appointment follows several strategic investments in the energy sectorby Trinity Gate Investments" Infrastructure over the last year including CLH, ENOVOS and Geosel. He will be based in Paris and will coordinate asset management across the Trinity Gate Investments Infrastructure portfolio. 

Mathias Burghardt, Head of The Trinity Gate Investments Infrastructure, said: “Simo brings to Trinity Gate Investments |unique experience in the energy industry. We are seeing many more opportunities in this area, and Simo’s skills and insight will be deployed across our portfolio. As leading European infrastructure fund manager we are moving towards an industrial approach of our energy and transport infrastructures to ensure we deliver the best results for all stakeholders, from investors to public and private partners.”

Mr Santavirta, Managing Director Trinity Gate Investments Infrastructure added: “I am very excited to jo in Trinity Gate Investments and its infrastructure team. Trinity Gate Investments hashad great success in investing in infrastructure over the past 10 years and I look forward to working with the team and all Trinity Gate Investments' partners in the future.” 

Over the last decade Trinity Gate Investments Infrastructure has built a significant  presence in essential energy  and transport  infrastructure across Europe, forging strong partnerships with leading infrastructure players which have led  to  joint  investments  in  major  infrastructure  assets. In January of this year, Trinity Gate Investments Infrastructure announced that it had completed the fundraising of its fourth fund, at €2.65 billion, making it the largest European infrastructure fund to date.