ATLAS Infrastructure has built a team with deep infrastructure experience covering both listed and unlisted markets, valuation, asset management,  and asset operations.
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The investment team has been developed around the principle of sector expertise.  Each of our Partners leads the research effort for a sector or sectors in which they have a particular expertise.  

ROD CHISHOLM
​Partner
​Rod is a founding Partner of ATLAS, based in our Sydney office. Rod has over 19 years' experience in the infrastructure and telecoms sectors. Prior to developing the ATLAS business, Rod worked for RARE Infrastructure for eight years as the Head of Tailored Portfolio Strategies. Whilst at RARE, Rod was a member of the Investment Committee which managed a tailored portfolio for the firm's largest client. He was Head of Research from 2009 to 2012 and was responsible for the development and implementation of a range of systems and processes at the inception of the RARE business in 2006. Prior to this Rod was Head of pan-European fixed line networks and satellites research at HSBC in London.

DAVID BENTLEY
​Partner
David is a founding Partner of ATLAS, based in London. He has over 17 years’ experience in the infrastructure sector. Prior to developing the ATLAS business, David worked with Rod Chisholm at RARE Infrastructure in Sydney for over two years. David previously worked at the Future Fund (Australian Government Sovereign Wealth Fund) as an Investment Manager in its Infrastructure team. As part of this role David oversaw the Future Fund's investment in listed infrastructure and was responsible for managing a number of the Fund's unlisted infrastructure assets and pooled funds. Prior to this David worked for Deutsche Bank and PwC in infrastructure, utilities and natural resources M&A.

MATTHEW LORBACK
​Partner
Matt is a Partner of ATLAS, based in Sydney. He has over 14 years’ experience in the infrastructure sector. Prior to joining ATLAS, Matt worked at Hastings Funds Management for more than ten years.  At Hastings, Matt was a member of the Investment Committee and served in a variety of roles including Portfolio Manager of TIF and the Airport Sector Lead in the asset management team. Matt represented investors on the boards of, among others, Perth Airport, Port of Newcastle, Queensland Airports Limited and North Queensland Airports. Prior to joining Hastings, Matt was a senior executive in Corporate Finance (Valuations) at KPMG where he specialised in the valuation of infrastructure assets.

PETER HYDE
​Partner
Peter is a Partner of ATLAS, based in London. He brings 30 years’ experience in the infrastructure and transport sector. Prior to joining ATLAS, Peter was the CEO of EasyBus, the bus company associated with the EasyJet business. From 2010 to 2013 Peter was a Board Member and Head of Research at Liberum Capital, where he also researched pan European transport stocks. Prior to joining Liberum, Peter was a Managing Director at Credit Suisse where he held a variety of roles including Research Analyst/Team Leader - European Transport, Co-Head of UK Corporate Broking, Member of the European Equities Management Committee and lead of the Pan European equities transport team. From 1986 to 1996 Peter was with Kleinwort Benson Securities where he was the lead utilities research analyst and Head of Research.​

DAVID MCGREGOR
Partner
David is a Partner of ATLAS, based in Sydney. He has 11 years’ experience in the listed infrastructure securities sector. Before joining ATLAS, David worked for RARE Infrastructure where he was responsible for analysis of a range of infrastructure and utilities securities in ATLAS's investment universe. David previously worked for Macquarie Capital Securities as a Research Analyst in their Australian Infrastructure & Utilities team, which was ranked #1 by the Peter Lee survey for the years between 2012 and 2014,​ inclusive.​

CHARLES KIRWAN-TAYLOR
Executive Chairman
​Charles spent more than 25 years in investment banking, working with JP Morgan, Kleinwort Benson, BZW and Credit Suisse, both in London and in New York. He ran the Equity Capital Markets departments at both Kleinwort Benson and BZW (until it was acquired by Credit Suisse) and at Credit Suisse he became Head of Equity Capital Markets in Europe and a member of the bank’s European Investment Banking Committee, as well as chairman of the firm’s European Equity Valuation Committee (the bank’s equity underwriting committee in Europe) and of its Corporate Broking business. Whilst at Credit Suisse he oversaw and executed some of the largest equity capital markets transactions undertaken at that time, in both the public and the private sectors.
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Charles left banking in 2006 to set up a hedge fund business and later joined RAB Capital plc, a London listed hedge fund management company, where he became Chief Investment Officer and, later, CEO, helping the company navigate a troubled period through the financial crisis. In 2012 he joined the corporate intelligence company, Hakluyt, where he worked for a number of investor clients in the infrastructure sector and in 2015 he joined Gatwick Airport Limited as its Director for Corporate Affairs and Sustainability and a member of the Executive Board. 
Identifying and constantly reflecting and living a core set of firm values is crucial for our long term sustainability and to ensure the stability and cohesiveness of the ATLAS Infrastructure team.

MICHAL RYDZKOWSKI
Principal
Michal has over 10 years’ experience in investment, including 7 years specifically in unlisted infrastructure investment. Michal was formerly a Senior Associate with Global Infrastructure Partners where he worked on a number of transactions including the acquisition of Gatwick Airport. From 2005 to 2007 Michal worked with Dresdner Kleinwort in its Power and Utilities M&A Advisory team.

AMANDA XIE
Principal
Amanda has spent her 10 year career in funds management with a focus on real assets.  Most recently, Amanda was the Head of Operations for the Actis' Africa real estate business, based in London. She had responsibility for the asset management of commercial properties and client management of co-investors and other limited partners. Prior to that, Amanda worked for the Future Fund, Australia's sovereign wealth fund, in the Infrastructure team. There she worked on the acquisition, divestment and monitoring of a global portfolio and, in particular, utility and transport assets. Amanda has also previously worked for Willis Towers Watson as an asset consultant. ​

JANIE SHI
Principal
Janie held roles in the Infrastructure Advisory team at PwC and in the Investment Banking (Energy & Resources) team at BNP Paribas before joining ATLAS at its inception. Janie has been involved in originating and executing structured finance and acquisition finance transactions for major infrastructure and energy projects, with experiences in transactional structuring, credit assessment, financial modelling, and portfolio management.  She also has experience in providing strategic, commercial and financial advice to government and private sector on significant infrastructure and capital projects. Prior to this, Janie was working at ANZ Institutional Bank, responsible for managing a portfolio of corporate and institutional clients. Janie joined ATLAS as an Associate covering rail, communications and renewables and was promoted to Principal in 2019.​
The value of the ATLAS business lies in the cohesion of the team and the consistency and integrity of the investment process, rather than the cult of one or two individuals.  In this way, the ATLAS business has a level of long-term resilience and sustainability, with alignment of staff to ensure that all members of the team are focused on and dedicated to the long-term success of the business and to providing the best service to our clients.

CLINTON JOYNER
Chief Operating Officer
Clinton has around 20 years' experience and initially consulted to ATLAS for 9 months whilst assisting with the design and implementation of its global operating model. Prior to joining ATLAS, Clinton was the founder and Director of Sea Analytics, a private consulting firm founded in 2013 that provided specialist operational, compliance and technology solutions to investment firms. Other roles previously held by Clinton include COO of BCS Capital (a start-up market neutral fund), Senior Manager at Ellerston Capital (Packer Family hedge fund) and various senior roles at IAG Asset Management. Clinton graduated from University of Technology, Sydney with a Master of Business in Finance (Funds Management) and holds a graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment from Finsia.

CARL CHAMBERS
Chief Compliance Officer
​Carl Chambers has joined ATLAS Infrastructure from Thomson Reuters where he was a Compliance Director and Head of Advisory. Carl brings a wealth of regulatory expertise to the team and has over 15 years’ experience providing  compliance oversight for a number of global financial institutions covering a wide range of product areas such as Corporate Finance, Investment Research, Sales & Trading across a broad portfolio of financial instruments such as derivatives, fixed income, equities, financial benchmarks.