Infracapital has announced several new hires, adding four appointments to the asset management team and two further appointments to its growing greenfield team.

On the asset management side, the UK-based investor has added a new managing director. Wael Elkhouly joined the business from Bastion Infrastructure Group in Toronto, where he was a partner and served as head of asset management.

Having over 27 years' experience in infrastructure finance and asset management, Elkhouly also worked at Eiser Infrastructure Partner as head of asset management looking after a $3 billion portfolio of infrastructure assets.

Also joining Infracapital's asset management team are:

• Jamie Hepburn – senior associate
• Manuel Rodríguez Aguilar – senior associates
• Regan Yee – associate

Hepburn joins from EPH Group, where he worked in corporate finance within EP Power Europe division; Rodríguez Aguilar was previously a project finance manager at Cubico Sustainable Investments; and Yee moves to Infracapital from Morgan Stanley’s private equity valuations team.

Meanwhile, two new hires join newly-appointed associate director Verena Rathgeber to further support Infracapital's greenfield strategy. They are:

• Savvass Karatapanis – associate
• Nazli Guran – transaction associate

Karatapanis previously worked at Macquarie Capital, while Guran was an analyst in Credit Suisse's investment banking, EMEA energy, transport and infrastructure group.

Infracapital, the infrastructure equity investment arm of M&G Prudential, invests in both brownfield and greenfield infrastructure across two sets of funds:

• Infracapital Greenfield Partners I
• Infracapital Greenfield Partners II
• Innisfree M&G PPP Fund
• Infracapital Partners II
• Infracapital Partners III

The manager also won the UK government's mandate to build digital infrastructure throughout the country − Digital Infrastructure Investment Partners.