Northleaf Capital Partners

Andrea Di Nisio is Managing Director of Business Development for EMEA at Northleaf Capital Partners. He has over 25 years of experience in asset management, working with private banks, wealth managers, family offices, and institutional investors across Europe. His background includes private equity fundraising and the management of client relationships.

James Cowan is Vice Chair, Global Private Markets at Northleaf Capital Partners, where he supports the distribution of the firm's infrastructure, private equity, and private credit strategies to retail, private wealth, and asset management advisors and investors. He previously spent over 20 years at Macquarie Group in New York and Toronto, focusing on the infrastructure sector and most recently serving as CEO and President of MAM Americas Inc., where he managed two private infrastructure funds totaling US$2.2 billion. His earlier experience includes roles at TD Securities and Hambros Bank in government and infrastructure finance, as well as work in insolvency and restructuring, and he currently serves as a board member at the Building Ontario Fund.

Jared Waldron is Co-Head of Infrastructure at Northleaf Capital Partners, where he oversees the firm's global infrastructure investment program, including strategy, origination, execution, portfolio management, and investor relations. He serves on Northleaf's infrastructure Investment Committees and its Executive Committee. The platform focuses on core and core-plus middle market infrastructure equity investments primarily in North America, across sectors including digital infrastructure, energy transition, and transportation.

Jeff Pentland is a Senior Associate at Canal Ventures, Ltd., the corporate venture capital arm of BIPROGY, where he focuses on seed and early-stage investments and fund of funds activity in Japan. He completed a graduate degree at the Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University, in March 2014 and joined Nihon Unisys (now BIPROGY) in April 2014, before being seconded to Canal Ventures in November 2022. His background includes software engineering.

Luke D'Alves is Managing Director, Product Specialist Infrastructure at Northleaf Capital Partners. He previously joined McMorgan & Company in 2021 as Managing Director, Infrastructure Private Equity, where he led the firm's infrastructure initiatives, including managing the McMorgan Infrastructure Fund I and coordinating fundraising and management for Fund II. Before that, he spent 15 years at OMERS Infrastructure, most recently as Director, Strategic Partnerships, overseeing third-party relationships and the co-investment strategy after earlier work on the global transaction team across the energy, utilities, and transportation sectors.

Michael Bowman is a Managing Director at Northleaf Capital Partners. He works in private equity investment, focusing on capital raising within the Canadian wealth and advisor channel.

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Robert Smith is CEO of Mercuria Holdings Co., Ltd. He began his career at the Development Bank of Japan, where he worked on nuclear cycle projects, the introduction of the Independent Power Producer system, structured finance schemes including early asset securitization and project finance deals, and the establishment of Japan's PFI system; in 2001 he joined the World Bank as a Senior Private Sector Specialist handling the privatization of state-owned enterprises in four African countries. He returned to Tokyo in 2004 to lead the creation of Mercuria Investment, became CEO in 2008, oversaw the 2013 listing of Spring REIT in Hong Kong and the firm's 2016 listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and following the group's 2021 reorganization into a holding company structure now heads Mercuria Holdings.

Sanja Cvetinovic is Vice President, Portfolio Strategy & Analytics at Northleaf Capital Partners, where she leads a team responsible for systems management, data pipelines and integration, and reporting and analytics for the firm's Private Credit program. Her work spans the flow of information from fund administrators and portfolio companies through to LP reporting, credit monitoring, and executive dashboards, and includes portfolio construction, risk management, analytics, and research supporting the investment teams.

Fernanda Alves is a Product Owner at Trellis.org, where she works on technology for nonprofits focused on fundraising and donor engagement, spanning product strategy, user experience, and agile delivery. Her technical background includes CRM systems, PHP, WordPress, MariaDB, and Linux. She also teaches programming to high school students and participates in initiatives supporting diversity in the tech sector through panels, mentorship, and community outreach.

Joined Canal Ventures, BIPROGY's CVC, in 2020. Previously worked in upstream consulting and new business development at BIPROGY and was stationed in Silicon Valley from 2015 to 2020 promoting collaboration with local startups.

Serves as Representative Director and President of Aizawa Asset Management; has appeared on the Aoba-BBT program.

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Carina Doshi is Director of Private Equity Investor Relations at Northleaf Capital Partners. Her background in financial services includes strategy, late-stage direct investing, corporate development, and investment banking, with experience in relationship management, investment diligence, and business performance analysis. She holds an MBA from Harvard and is based in Toronto, having previously lived in Boston, Mumbai, New York, San Francisco, and Washington, DC.

Tom Cooledge is Program Manager at the University of Victoria Innovation Centre, where he designs and leads entrepreneurial programs that support founders from early idea through growth. He has supported hundreds of ventures as part of a team whose work has contributed to more than 600 jobs created and over $100M in capital raised. His background includes exercise physiology, nutrition coaching, and business, and he is developing a concept called The Village, a combined coworking, childcare, and wellness space.

Alex Eby is a Managing Director of Business Development for the EMEA region at Northleaf Capital Partners. He has more than 25 years of experience in asset management, with a focus on the European private wealth sector, including private banks, wealth managers, and family offices, as well as work with institutional investors. His background includes private equity fundraising and client relationship management.

Jeremy Brock is Vice President, Portfolio Strategy & Analytics at Northleaf Capital Partners, where he leads a team responsible for systems management, data pipelines, integration, and reporting across the firm's Private Credit program. His work spans the flow of information from fund administrators and portfolio companies through to LP reporting, credit monitoring, and executive dashboards. He is involved in portfolio construction, risk management, analytics, and research supporting the firm's investment teams.

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Thiago Carreiro is Vice President of Risk Management at Northleaf Capital Partners. He has more than 20 years of experience in risk management, compliance, and internal audit across large and small financial institutions, working in both first and second lines of defence. His background includes establishing risk management and compliance programs and managing teams.

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Executive Officer heading Mercuria's China business.