Executive Committee

Relevant Skills, Experience and Contribution

Ben has over 20 years of experience in the infrastructure sector across principal investing, fund management, and corporate finance. Ben has extensive financial, strategic and operational experience at senior management and board levels. He has experience in leading international investment and fund management businesses, including across PPP, Renewable Energy projects, Core and Core-plus economic infrastructure businesses. Ben has invested and managed infrastructure portfolios across a range of sectors, including transport, energy, utilities, telecommunications, leasing, healthcare and social infrastructure.

Current External Appointments

• Non-executive director of Ambac Assurance UK Limited

Previous External Appointments

• Global head of infrastructure and managing partner at InfraRed Capital Partners, managing an infrastructure business with over US$9 billion of assets under management, and responsibility for managing teams in Europe, North America, Latin America and Australia
• Managing partner of 3i Group plc’s Infrastructure business. Responsible for leading origination and strategic development. Member of board of 3i Infrastructure plc
• Member of 3i Group plc’s Executive Committee and its Investment Committees for Infrastructure, Private Equity and Debt Management
• Group strategy director for 3i Group plc
• Corporate finance at Goldman Sachs, Greenhill and Morgan Stanley

Relevant Skills, Experience and Contribution

Rob is a qualified chartered accountant, with over 20 years’ experience in senior financial leadership roles and has significant experience as a listed company finance director, having led Arrow Global Group Plc through its successful IPO.  He has also been instrumental in strategic restructuring, has led multi-million pound transactions, and managed several finance teams. 

Current External Appointments

• Non-executive Director of Praetura Group Ltd, and Praetura Debt Services Ltd, a regulated intermediary holding company

Previous External Appointments

• Chief Financial Officer of Praetura Group Limited between April 2019 and December 2020
• Group Chief Financial Officer of Arrow Global Group Plc between September 2011 and January 2018 
• Finance Director and Company Secretary of Leeds Bradford Airport between 2008 and 2011
• Finance Director of Alfred McAlpine Infrastructure Services between 2005 and 2007
• Chief Financial Officer of Servisair-Globeground, Manchester between 2002 and 2005

Justin is Co-Head of PPP and Greenfield Projects across all John Laing’s regions.  Previously Justin was responsible for the Group’s activities in Asia Pacific. Justin joined John Laing in 2011 when the Group first established an investment team in the region. In 2014 he took over responsibility for the Group’s primary investment activities. In 2018, Justin was appointed Regional Managing Director.

Justin is an infrastructure development professional with over 20 years’ experience in infrastructure investment. Prior to joining John Laing, Justin held senior positions with ABN AMRO, Babcock & Brown and KPMG Corporate Finance focussed on the infrastructure sector. Justin graduated with Bachelor of Commerce (Hons in Finance) from the University of Melbourne in 1995.

Ariam is Group Human Resources Director of John Laing Group plc. She joined the company from Winton Capital in November 2020. Prior to that she has served as Vice President of Global Leadership and Diversity at Goldman Sachs, Senior HR Business Partner at Google and has a decade of experience in consulting at Accenture.

Ariam holds a degree in Political Science and International Development from Queen’s University, Canada.

Warren is Chief Strategy Officer. He joined the company from 3i Group plc where he served as Strategy Director since 2012. Prior to that, Warren spent five years with Rothschild as Assistant Director. The early years of his career were spent with Deloitte.

Warren holds degrees in Statistics, Economics and Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley.

Anthony is Co-Head of PPP and Greenfield Projects across all John Laing’s regions.

Anthony has 20 years’ experience in Infrastructure Investment in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Anthony joined John Laing in 2005 and during this time has been based in London and Sydney where he successfully led John Laing’s entry into the Australia PPP market prior to relocating to the USA in 2014.  Prior to joining John Laing, Anthony qualified as a Chartered Certified Accountant and gained 8 years’ experience with KPMG and Grant Thornton. Anthony is on the board of The Association for the Improvement of American Infrastructure. 

Clare has extensive governance and listed company experience.  Previously, she was Head of London and Group Company Secretary for Cable & Wireless Communications plc, having been appointed as Company Secretary post the demerger of Cable & Wireless plc in 2010. Prior to that she was the Company Secretary of the Cable & Wireless Communications Operating Board and Project Director for the Cable & Wireless demerger. She was also the Head of Tax for Energis.

Mark is Managing Director, Group – Investments & Portfolio of John Laing Group plc. He joined John Laing in April 2007. He was previously Chief Risk Officer and a Managing Director in the Group’s Primary Investment business. He has served on the Group Investment Committee since 2015.

Mark previously worked for international contractors in the design, construction, financing and maintenance of infrastructure projects including ALSTOM (10-years) and United Group (4-years).

Mark holds Bachelor of Engineer and Bachelor of Science degrees (UNSW), a Master of Commerce (UNSW) and a Masters of Applied Finance (Macquarie University). He is a Senior Certified Finance and Treasury Professional (FTA) and a member of Engineers Australia.

Alex has over 20 years of experience as a finance lawyer, investment banker and infrastructure investor. He has worked on deals in Asia, Australia, UK/Europe, North America and Latin America. Alex joined John Laing in 2008 where his initial focus was on real estate and rail projects. He then moved on to head up various functions including Project Finance, New Markets, Strategy, and Partnerships. Most recently he set up the Latin American business for John Laing.

Prior to John Laing, Alex was a Director in the infrastructure team at CIBC World Markets in London. He also worked at various investment banks and law firms in Singapore and Malaysia. Alex is on the Board of the British-Colombia Chamber of Commerce.