Management Team

Navaid has specialized in investing and developing infrastructure assets in the agricultural, energy and metal sectors around the world over the last 20 years. In particular, he has specialized in emerging and mature markets infrastructure assets with investments in companies in Africa, U.S. and Mexico. Navaid also leads a commodities trading company that physically traded grain, energy and metal commodities internationally, transacting with leading global companies such as Grupo Mexico, Cargill, Glencore, Trafigura and Bunge, among others.

Navaid has been directly involved in the development and operation as an owner and/or partner of the following infrastructure assets: 1) IFG Port Holdings Ltd, an Export Grain Terminal in Lake Charles, Louisiana; 2) Grain Bulk Handlers Ltd, an Import Grain Terminal in Mombasa, Kenya; 3) Grain Industries Ltd, a Flour Mill in Mombasa, Kenya; 3) Mbaraki Bulk Terminal Ltd, a Diesel Storage Terminal in Mombasa, Kenya; 4) Tradiverse Corp., a Commodities Trading Firm based in New York with offices in Mexico, Kenya and Uganda. The African grain assets in Mombasa, Kenya were sold to a sovereign wealth fund at an 8x return on investment after a 10-year hold.

Navaid holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Brandeis University, a law degree (Juris Doctor (J.D.)) from the University of Florida College of Law and a Masters in Tax Law (LLM) from New York University School of Law. Navaid is a member in good standing of the New York Bar and the Florida Bar. Navaid was previously a Structured Finance and Tax Lawyer at Clifford Chance and Thatcher Proffitt & Wood in New York.

Gil has substantial experience in the purchase and sale of commodities like copper and cobalt from emerging markets. As the Sr. VP & General Counsel of Cobham Capital, a commodities trading company, Gil supervised the buying, hedging, and/or selling of copper and cobalt from Mexico, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and/or Zambia to international commodity buyers like Concord Resources and Hyosung.

Gil also has substantial experience in the financing of large infrastructure projects. As special outside counsel to Grupo Mexico, one of the largest copper mining companies in the world, Gil negotiated and supervised the financing for the construction and acquisition of two of Grupo Mexico’s most important energy transition projects: the Caridad 500MW combined cycle gas-fired power plants in the State of Sonora, Mexico and the Retiro 74MW wind farm in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico.

Gil also has experience in the acquisition, financing and management of mining assets. As a lawyer for Stikeman Elliott in London, one of the premier Canadian law firms, Gil represented the Leviev Group in the acquisition and financing of gold mines in Kazakhstan and in Siberia, Russia. As special outside counsel to Grupo Mexico, Gil supervised the outside consultants advising on the global management reorganization of the mining operations of the company, including the management reorganization of the operations of Asarco, Grupo Mexico’s Arizona based mining U.S. subsidiary.

Gil holds Bachelor’s degree in Economics from McGill University, a Master’s degree in Economics from the Colegio de Mexico, in Mexico City, and a law degree (Juris Doctor (J.D.)) from the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law in New York. Gil is a member in good standing of the New York Bar.

Nasir is a senior investment professional, with over 25 years’ experience of advising, investing & managing investments in alternative investment asset classes, with a key focus on the infrastructure asset class.

Nasir was Head of Direct Investments at Abu Dhabi Investment Company (Invest AD), owned by the Government of Abu Dhabi, covering infrastructure, private equity and real estate. At Invest AD, Nasir led the sale of Queen Alia International Airport (QAIA), Jordan, in a deal worth over $0.5 billion. He was also a key member of the original investment team that was awarded the $1 billion+ BOT concession for QAIA, as well originating, executing and subsequently exiting a $350 million wastewater PPP project in Bahrain (Muharraq STP Project), and also overseeing a district cooling concession company in Abu Dhabi (Industrial City Cooling Company). During his time at Invest AD, Nasir was also extensively involved in the establishment of a new infrastructure fund, in a JV with UBS, the Swiss banking group, leading bid teams on number of opportunities in energy, utilities, transport and social infrastructure. Nasir also held board positions on companies operating in logistics (Ekol Logistics, Turkey), vehicle leasing (Massar Solutions, UAE), telecoms engineering (Mobiserve, Middle East/South Asia) and commercial real estate (e.g. Capital Tower, UAE).

After leaving Invest AD in 2019, Nasir was a Senior Director at Ernst & Young (EY) in Dubai, in their Infrastructure Advisory & Project Finance team. During his time at EY, he originated mandates such as: review of infrastructure investment opportunities across Middle East, North Africa & Turkey for a large global investor/developer; M&A advisory for an investor consortium for the $0.6 billion privatization of flour mills in Saudi Arabia (SAGO Second Milling Company); healthcare market assessment across Middle East & Africa for a large global investor; project financing support for a UAE based developer on a new power plant project in Africa.

Prior to Invest AD, Nasir was a Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) specializing in infrastructure/PPPs and corporate finance mandates, initially based in London and then relocating in 2003 to Dubai to develop the firm’s infrastructure finance & PPP advisory practice in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean region. Whilst at PwC, he led the sell-side (government) advisory team on the award-winning $800 million Cyprus Airports BOT Concession, as well as PPP projects such as a wastewater network scheme in Saudi Arabia (Riyadh Wastewater), a port re-development in Cyprus, amongst others, as well as advising on the establishment of two regional infrastructure funds.

More recently, Nasir was Investment Advisor to Chairman of the Roads & Transport Authority – Government of Dubai, where amongst other responsibilities, he provided oversight of the $1 billion IPO of Dubai’s road tolling system (Salik).

Kyeong is a project development professional with over 45 years’ experience in the agricultural, industrial, power and water sectors. He previously headed a construction department at a major EPC contractor (LG Engineering) and has acted as a lead project and business development director for utility companies (Thames Water, United Utilities), investors and developers (Samsung Engineering, ACWA Power) across the globe.

Kyeong gained agricultural project development experience with Tate & Lyle Technical Services /Booker Tate in Africa, designing & constructing 1,885 ha surface irrigated sugarcane fields and on drip-irrigated coffee estates. Further experiences involved working as the project control manager, EPC contractor (Tate & Lyle) to ICI Explosives, on a propellent plant in Thailand, managing multi-discipline subcontractors. Broader EPC experience involved acting as an advisor, initially, then as the head of construction department for LG Engineering based in Korea, with responsibility for resourcing, recruiting, and staffing & identifying subcontractors and putting forward constructability plan to support all international hydrocarbon projects being bid and constructed. Lead from Korea to reside & complete in Wales a taskforce team of 15 staff as GPM for the fast-track LG Electronics Wales Europe Phase 1 FDI, an electronics assembly plant, utilizing the UK based consultants, managing contractor and subcontractors.

Work with Thames Water International involved 4 continents, working on water & wastewater projects including, a successful Yongin WWTP in Korea, the largest Korean PPP BTO procurement of $400m with Samsung Engineering. Subsequently Kyeong joined Samsung Engineering in Seoul and later in UAE, where Kyeong led the successful WWTP bids such as on ICAD2 Industrial WWTP BTO in UAE and the Bahrain Muharraq WWTP PPP with United Utilities. With ACWA Power, the last project Kyeong led was the Dubai Hassyan Clean Coal Project 1,200 MW IPP which was won by ACWA Power.

Kyeong’s most recent experience includes JV bidding and winning a solar 300MW PV IPP renewable project in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Kyeong is a longstanding member of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management and currently sits on the advisory board of Nesma Renewable Energy.

Antonin Beurrier has over 25 years of experience in the Mining and Metallurgical industry, having served as Head of Northern Europe for Michelin Mining and Trucks division, Head of Asia for Sandvik Mining and Construction, and member of the global executive teams of Xstrata (Nickel, Cobalt) and later Vale Base Metals ( Nickel, Cobalt and Copper).

Antonin’s areas of expertise cover the entire industrial value chain from science material, large greenfield and brownfield industrial projects and operations, international marketing and trade finance.

He is currently the founder and main sponsor of Electro Mobility Materials Europe(EMME), a 350M€ greenfield Nickel refinery in Europe. Prior to EMME, his most recent achievement consisted of the major restructuring of one of the world’s largest Nickel and Cobalt asset in Asia Pacific to become the supplier of choice of premium supply chains of the electrical vehicle market. Antonin put a strong emphasis on ESG standards and the decarbonization of industrial processes, with the launch of a giga solar farm (150 hectares of solar panels and batteries) with Totalenergies.

Antonin is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale d’Administration, in France and Columbia Business School, Executive program in Strategy, Finance and Management, in New York, USA.

Ross holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from the University of California, a Masters of Arts in Business and Organizational Security Management from Websters University, a Masters of Science in Adult Education from Kansas State University and a Masters of Science in National Security Policy and Resource Strategy from the Eisenhower School at the National War College. He is also a graduate of the FBI Academy, and received professional certification from the University of St Andrews (Scotland) Centre for the Study of Terrorism.

Ross was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit (x3), and Bronze Star (x3). Ross was also awarded the Key to the City of London.

After service in the Air Force, Stan led major corporations in the private sector. He served as CEO of Northrop Grumman Japan and CTO and Vice President of Technology, Engineering, and Manufacturing for the Defense Systems sector. Prior to Northrop Grumman, Stan was a leader in McKinsey and Company’s aerospace and defense practice in Los Angeles and London.

Stan is also a Fellow at the Tower Center at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, focusing on national security and economic policy. He has written perspectives on business activities and international collaboration in the defense, space, and energy sectors that have been published in the Nikkei, Space News, War on the Rocks, and Japan’s Defense Technology Foundation Journal. Stan is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy with a bachelor’s degree in Astronautical Engineering, where he was the top graduate in his major.