InfraRed Capital Partners has appointed Gianluca Minella as head of infrastructure research, a newly created role within InfraRed’s Capital Formation Group.
Minella joins from ADIA, the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, where he was head of portfolio strategy and research across private and listed infrastructure equity, debt, and funds.
Minella will lead InfraRed’s research function, providing deep insights and analysis across the evolving infrastructure asset class for the investment community. He also will support InfraRed’s investment platform with independent macro and market analysis, as ADIA seeks to identify value in existing and new investment opportunities, and will contribute to the development of new products and strategies.
Before his role at ADIA, Minella was head of infrastructure research at DWS for eight years, where he built the infrastructure research team. Minella also spent several years working for ratings agencies, including Fitch Ratin