Roger is the Founding Partner of Real Assets. Over the last 20+ years, he has built an excellent track record managing infrastructure investments for global institutional investors (Pensions, SWFs, Insurance Companies). Prior to Real Assets, Roger was the CEO of GCM Investments UK, the European affiliate of GCM Grosvenor, a global asset manager with $60Bn+ AuM. Roger was previously a Partner and Managing Director at CFIG, part of Credit Suisse Asset Management, where he setup their infrastructure managed accounts platform in Europe. Roger has led investments in Renewables, Utilities, Social Infra, Telecoms and Enabling Technologies.

Prior to his investment career, Roger worked in financial risk management and software technology and holds an MBA from Columbia University NY and a Bachelor of Engineering from the American University of Beirut.

Ram is a seasoned investor with more than 20 years of professional experience. Prior to joining Real Assets, he was a senior member of the Energy & Infrastructure team at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co LP. He joined KKR in April 2009 as one of the founding members of its newly created global Infrastructure investment platform and was responsible for leading a number of its investments over the next 9+ years in the EMEA region, primarily across the Energy, Utilities, Transportation and Telecommunication infrastructure sectors.

Prior to joining KKR, Ram worked in Goldman Sachs for close to seven years. He started his career there in the Mergers & Acquisitions team, then moved to the Leveraged & Structured finance team and subsequently was one of the founding team members of Goldman Sachs’ global Infrastructure investment platform. He holds B.E. (Mechanical) and M.Sc. (Economics) degrees from BITS, Pilani (India), and an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (India).

John has more than 19 years of investment advisory and CFO experience across several sectors including Renewable Energy and Infrastructure. Prior to joining Real Assets, John ran his own advisory business focusing on Corporate Finance and M&A. Prior to that, John was an Investment Manager at a large Family Office where he help them invest over $500m in New Energy and Environmental Infrastructure and took on Board responsibilities across the portfolio of investments.

Prior to this John spent over 3 years managing high net worth equity portfolios for Custom House Capital where he also led investment research.

John has a First Class Honours degree in Electronic Engineering, Post-grad in Business Administration, holds the CFA designation and is a CIMA Qualified Accountant.

Romeish Bala

Partner

Romeish has over 15 years of experience across infrastructure private equity, private credit, and principal investment underwriting and distribution. Prior to founding Arvant Partners and joining RAIM, he was Global Head of Infrastructure Private Equity Underwriting & Distribution at KKR, where he helped scale KKR’s Infrastructure platform from approximately $4 billion in a single strategy to more than $50 billion of AUM across five strategies. He was also a founding member of KKR’s broader Private Equity Underwriting & Distribution business, underwriting investments on behalf of KKR’s proprietary capital.

Prior to KKR, Romeish worked at J.P. Morgan across credit, structured products, M&A and leveraged finance. He holds an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and is a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

Vicky has over 18 years of experience in infrastructure investing. Prior to joining Real Assets Investment Management, she was a Managing Director of the investment team at Dalmore Capital, a mid-market UK core infrastructure fund manager. Prior to Dalmore, Vicky was a Principal at Corsair Capital’s infrastructure team, with responsibilities for their European infrastructure investments. She has investment and asset management expertise across a wide range of infrastructure verticals, including transportation, environmental infrastructure, utilities and energy transition. During her time at Dalmore and Corsair she held wide ranging board roles as a lead shareholder representative, including directorships at Cory Group, Kelda Holdings, Itinere Infraestructuras and DP World Australia.

Vicky read BSc Economics at University College London.