Macquarie International Infrastructure Fund appoints two independent directors

The Board chose Alexander Ribaroff and Philip Jackson – two highly experienced finance professionals.

Macquarie International Infrastructure Fund announced the appointment of Alexander Ribaroff and Philip Jackson as independent directors.

Mr Ribaroff, 63, has more than 40 years of investment, fund and risk management experience. He is currently chief executive officer of Lodestar Risk Management, a private company that provides software products to measure and report quantitative risk factors in investment portfolios.

Previously, Mr Ribaroff was the CEO/chief investment officer and risk manager of Concordia Advisors (Bermuda), with responsibility for over US$2 billion under management. He founded the Concordia hedge fund business in 1993 with the establishment of Concordia Capital, a British Virgin Islands company, and served as the trading advisor to the company.

Meanwhile, Mr Jackson, 54, has more than 30 years of corporate finance experience specialising in infrastructure, utilities and energy.

Mr Jackson spent a large part of this time with JPMorgan and its pre-merger counterparts, Robert Fleming and Jardine Fleming. He was responsible for the Energy and Infrastructure teams in Asia from 1993 and was based in Singapore for seven years, according to a Macquarie International Infrastructure Fund report.

Mr Jackson was founder and CEO of the Asian Infrastructure and Related Resources Opportunity Fund (AIRROF) from 2007 to 2010, a US$859 million JPMorgan-managed fund. During this time, he was also a member of JPMorgan’s Global Real Assets Management Committee, co-head of Asian Real Assets Asset Management and JPMorgan Asset Management’s Asian Management Committee. From 2006 to 2007, Mr Jackson was head of JPMorgan’s Infrastructure Banking Group, where he led the initiative to link JPMorgan’s advisory capabilities to direct equity investment and third party funds to participate in Asian infrastructure projects. From 2000 to 2006, Mr Jackson held various senior roles within JPMorgan including COO of Investment Banking Coverage, Asia Pacific and head of general industries, Asia Pacific.

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