Meet the team

Ralph Cho

Co-Head of Power & Infrastructure US, EU and UK

Ralph Cho is Co-Head of Power & Infrastructure at Investec in New York and is responsible for leading Investec’s Americas energy banking and capital markets platform.

Ralph has over 20 years of experience in project finance focusing on independent power, renewable energy, midstream, and other energy infrastructure. He is a capital markets professional with deep relationships across a variety of investor classes including commercial and investment banks, finance companies, ‘grey market’ lenders, life insurance companies and, most recently, Asian capital providers.

Ralph has a strong track record of successfully leading syndications of complex transactions for over $100 billion of loans for high profile sponsors including ArcLight, Ares, Carlyle Group, Caithness Energy and Morgan Stanley Infrastructure (MSIP).

Michael Pantelogianis

Co-Head of Power & Infrastructure US, EU and UK

Michael Pantelogianis is Co-Head of Investec’s Power & Infrastructure group in North America. He has spent the last 26 years banking independent power and renewable energy companies. At Investec, Mr. Pantelogianis is responsible for the originations platform that leverages the bank’s core product strengths: lending across an asset’s capital structure and capital markets distributions. Sponsors involved in recently closed transactions include, amongst others, Carlyle Group, Morgan Stanley Infrastructure, LS Power, Rockland Capital, Ares Management, and Sunrun Inc.

Michael Alerhand

Power & Infrastructure Finance

Michael joined Investec’s North American Power & Infrastructure Finance team in April 2020. He most recently worked at Morgan Stanley in their project finance team, and prior, at PJ Solomon in their Infrastructure and Power Advisory team. His experience includes both Debt and M&A Advisory, and he has worked across several infrastructure, power, and energy sub-sectors. 

Hans Beekmans

Power & Infrastructure Finance

Hans joined Investec’s Power & Infrastructure Finance team in 2019 as a senior banker and leads Investec’s origination activity in the midstream oil & gas sector for North America. Prior to joining Investec, Hans was a senior banker within ING’s midstream oil & gas team, where he led over $10 billion of transactions in the mid -and downstream oil & gas sectors in the Americas region. Hans brings over 13 years of industry experience that is spread across pipeline, storage, export terminal, gathering & processing, and petrochemical assets.

Joy Chung

Power & Infrastructure Finance

Joy joined the North American Power & Infrastructure Finance team in July 2021 to support Investec’s syndication efforts. Prior to joining Investec, Joy interned at China Merchants Bank with the Structured Finance team in New York.

Sebastian Fasanello

Power & Infrastructure Finance

Sebastian joined the North American Power & Infrastructure Finance team in March 2021. Prior to joining Investec, Sebastian worked at Stout Risius Ross as a Valuations Analyst in the Business Valuation and Financial Opinions Division.

Eric Hong

Power & Infrastructure Finance

Eric joined the North American Power & Infrastructure Finance team in November 2021. Prior to joining Investec, Eric worked as an Investment Banking Analyst at SLATE Partners, where he supported execution of mergers and acquisitions in the broader industrials sector.

Sean G. Kulkarni

Power & Infrastructure Finance

At Investec we offer bespoke and innovative financing solutions, enviable speed of execution, and world-class service at each stage of the investment cycle. As Legal Counsel on the Power & Infrastructure Finance (PIF) and Fund Finance (FF) teams in North America, I help develop and optimize our financing products so as to manage and mitigate risk, streamline the closing and eventual portfolio management processes, ensure flexibility where desired in anticipation of new market opportunities, and ultimately enhance our clients’ core business objectives. From the kickoff and initial structuring phase through closing, operation and final maturity or refinancing, I work seamlessly with our PIF and FF teams across jurisdictions to deliver the highest quality product and service to our clients, with a premium focus on cost efficiency and accelerated timing.

Valeria Lombardi

Power & Infrastructure Finance

Valeria joined the North American Power & Infrastructure Finance team in 2021 to support Investec’s syndication efforts. She brings over 9 years of structuring, execution and debt capital markets experience mostly across the energy and infrastructure space. Prior to joining Investec, Valeria was a part of Intesa Sanpaolo’s structured finance Americas team in New York.

Fred Petit

Power & Infrastructure Finance

Fred joined Investec’s Power & Infrastructure Finance team in 2019  as a senior banker with a focus on originating, structuring and executing project financings in the energy and infrastructure sectors and brings over 13 years of experience in the banking industry. Prior to joining Investec, Fred was a Director within Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank’s Energy & Infrastructure Group, where he originated and executed structured finance transactions ranging from $120 million to $12 billion in the North American conventional power, renewables, oil & gas, and petrochemical sectors. Fred started his banking career in Crédit Agricole's Counterparty Risk Analysis department where he was in charge of performing in-depth credit analyses of U.S and Latin American corporates as well as structured finance transactions.

Sam Sloman

Power & Infrastructure Finance

Sam joined Investec’s Power & Infrastructure Finance team in 2021. Prior to joining Investec, Sam was a Sustainable Investing Fellow at Morgan Stanley in New York and worked for over five years for the Swire Group, a British conglomerate based in Hong Kong. Sam recently completed his Master's in Public Administration at Columbia University, majoring in energy and finance, and holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Cambridge.