Slate Asset Management recently hired Jan Greenshaw, an investment associate, to support the continued growth of the firm’s Slate’s Cities & Communities Impact Infrastructure Strategy.
The Cities & Communities Impact Infrastructure Strategy is focused on investments that advance the global energy transition and enable cities and communities to reach their carbon-emission reduction goals.
Greenshaw joins Slate from Queensland Investment Corp., where he worked on the global infrastructure team.
In other news, Slate has completed a £50 million ($63 million) investment in Eider VF, a U.K.-based vertical farming business, via the Cities & Communities Impact Infrastructure Strategy. Founded in 2016, EVF is a vertical farming business based in Birmingham, England, that develops farms growing leafy produce to be sold to the U.K. mass market. EVF’s products are grown in standard warehouses that are augmented to house vertical farms, using standard indu