Tobey Susan Collins

Tobey Collins is Managing Director of Structured Finance | Energy. In nearly 20 years in the power sector, Tobey’s transactional experience has spanned both the financing and sponsor sides of the negotiating table. She has worked in conventional and renewable energy as well as power distribution and transmission, both in the U.S. and across the Latin American region.

Prior to joining Astris in 2013, Tobey spent ten years leading transactional finance teams as a sponsor/owner of electricity assets. As Chief Financial Officer at AES Gener, Chile’s second largest generator with over 4,000 MW of installed capacity, Tobey led debt and equity capital raising activities of approximately $2 billion to support an aggressive expansion plan. As Managing Director of Restructuring at the AES Corporation, Tobey worked out and refinanced close to $3 billion of troubled debt at AES assets principally in Brazil as well as the Dominican Republic and Colombia. Tobey has also held senior finance roles at Lanco Solar in the US photovoltaic sector and Verdeo Group in the carbon trading space.

Before switching to the sponsor side, Tobey worked as a project finance banker and advisor. She worked for the Private Sector Department of the Inter-American Development Bank as an Investment Officer. She had previously worked in ABN AMRO Bank’s Project Finance team based in Caracas, Venezuela and in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She began her international project finance career at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC).

Tobey graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a B.A. in Government and holds a masters degree from the Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service.

Tobey is fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

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Jean-Marie Boudet

Jean-Marie has joined Astris in January 2019 as Managing Director & Chief Operating Officer.

He has a wide experience of financial markets, combined with a specific expertise in infrastructure finance, both acquired through various positions in European financial institutions and the French public sector.

Jean-Marie worked on France’s first wave of PPP’s at the French Ministry of Infrastructure back in the mid-90’s, where he acted as delegate of the contracting public authority – central or local governments – on the construction and maintenance of large public buildings (hospitals / courts / universities) in the Paris region. He moved to Aéroports de Paris in 1997 and worked there as project director for the expansion of the Roissy-CDG airport until 2001.

Jean-Marie then worked in Dexia’s project finance group for 4 years, where he led the origination and execution of advisory and debt arranging mandates on infrastructure projects, with a specific focus on transport (airports, toll-roads, light rail). He then moved to Dublin, as a General Manager of the local branch, to manage the bank’s project finance and utilities bond portfolio. There, he was notably responsible for the successful synthetic securitization of a € 3bn portfolio of infrastructure and utilities wrapped bonds. By the end of 2008, as the financial crisis intensified, Jean-Marie was asked to take over the market risk function of the entire Dexia group, at the time a € 300bn+ balance sheet.

Jean-Marie left Dexia to join LCH as Chief Risk Officer in 2012. LCH, a subsidiary of the London Stock Exchange Group, offers clearing services globally for a full range of financial products including equities, rates and credit. Jean-Marie led a team of 30 risk professionals in charge of the risk strategy, policies and models, as well as the monitoring and mitigation of risks across the firm. He was also the firm’s key point of contact with French, EU and US regulators. As one of the two principals - alongside the CEO - he also oversaw the general support and control functions of the firm.

Jean-Marie holds a graduate degree in Mathematics from Ecole Polytechnique (Paris), as well as a master degree in Civil Engineering and Economy of Transport from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. He also holds  an MBA from “Collège des Ingénieurs”.

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Santiago Pardo

Santiago joined the Astris team in February 2016 as Managing Director. During his more than 20 years of experience he has developed a unique blend of experience encompassing both the corporate as well as banking perspectives, with a very strong expertise in project finance, debt/capital markets, M&A, project development and private equity. His industry expertise spans the oil & gas (pipelines, LNG, E&P), infrastructure (ports, toll roads), power (generation and transmission) and mining sectors.

Mr. Pardo began his career at Citibank Colombia in 1991, moving to New York in 1997 where he worked for 11 years at Citi’s Infrastructure and Energy Finance Group. From 2002 to 2008 he was the Director leading the team originating and executing transactions in Latin America, reporting directly to the global head of Infrastructure and Energy Finance. During this time, he was directly responsible for closing over 20 transactions in 12 different countries in the Americas, raising over USD 8 billion in funding from multiple sources (banks, international and local capital markets, ECAs and official agencies).

He moved back to Colombia in 2008, where he transitioned into the corporate side, serving as Project Finance Director for Reficar and Managing Director for Infrastructure and Energy of Abacus Capital, a local asset manager. Most recently (2014-2016), he served as CFO of La Luna Resources, an E&P company developing conventional and unconventional resources in Colombia. Prior to this (2011-2014), he was CFO of TGI, the largest natural gas pipeline company in Colombia. For these last two roles, he was selected as CFO by major private equity investors backing these companies and was responsible for corporate finance, investor relations, accounting, treasury, financial planning, M&A and new business development. He personally led the refinancing of TGI’s USD 1,125 million debt in the international capital markets, and assisted CVCI in their successful exit of this investment for USD 880 million.

Mr. Pardo holds an MBA (with distinction) from the Johnson School at Cornell University, as well as B.S. in economics from Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá.

He is fluent in both English and Spanish and conversational in Portuguese.

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Romain Papassian

Romain Papassian joined Astris in 2005 and worked on several transportation projects, including toll roads and mass transportation systems, prior to being reassigned within the Dexia Group where he spent three years until rejoining Astris in 2009. At Dexia, Mr. Papassian was in particular responsible for the origination, structuring and placement of infrastructure credits in Europe, with a focus on project finance and regulated corporates such as toll road operators, water and electricity utilities. Romain Papassian has been directly involved in the arranging and placement of more than USD 5 billion of debt in Europe and Latin America. At Astris, Romain Papassian has been involved in a variety of projects in Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Colombia and the Caribbean, with a specific focus on capital markets, securitization and agency financings. More recently, Romain led the teams behind the financing of the Kingston Container Terminal (Jamaica, 2016 - advising CMA CGM), the successful bid for the award of Via 40 (Colombia, 2016 - advising VINCI Concessions and Conconcreto), and the closing of the financing of Cerro Dominador (Chile, 2018 - advising EIG), LatAm first CSP plant, for which Romain had a central role on the structuring and syndication of c. US$ 1bn of financing. 

Mr. Papassian holds a BS/MS in infrastructure planning and finance from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (ENPC, 2007) in Paris. He is fluent in French, English and Spanish, and conversant in Portuguese. 

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Arnaud Germain

Arnaud joined Astris in July 2009 as Associate. Prior to joining Astris, Arnaud worked for French utility Electricité de France (EDF) in South East Asia where he was in charge of financial modeling and contract review in connection with several hydro and gas-fired power generation projects . With Astris, Arnaud has been involved in a number of M&A deals in the solar sector in France, working either as sell or buy side advisor to project developers and equity investors. 

Arnaud holds a bachelor degree in finance, and a MS in International Affairs from French ESLSCA. He is fluent in French and English, and conversant in German.

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Gonzalo Ruiz de Angulo

Gonzalo Ruiz de Angulo is Director of Structured Finance, Head of the Madrid Office. During his 15 years of professional experience, Gonzalo originated and executed domestic and cross-border Investment Banking transactions (including Project Finance, Project Bonds, Corporate Lending, M&A, LBOs, Restructurings, Recapitalizations or Treasury) in excess of US$25 bn (corresponding to more than 80 transactions globally), with a wide range of leading North American, Latin American, Asian and European public and private clients, across multiple sectors, including: conventional and renewable energy, power transmission, oil & gas, mining, water treatment, water transportation, waste to energy and PPP.

Prior to joining Astris in 2018, Gonzalo spent more than eleven years at BBVA leading origination and execution teams as structuring bank and financial advisor globally. Most recent position was Managing Director - Global Head of Energy Project Finance, and formerly was Head of Power Latam and Head of Renewables EMEA.

Gonzalo has also 3 years of experience on the developer side, at Enel Unión Fenosa Renovables, within the Finance Department, are that he headed. He Structured and restructured Project Finance deals and corporate financing in Spain and Portugal in the renewable energy field, for €600 million.

Gonzalo has a BD in Business Administration from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He is native in Spanish and fluent in English.

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Hugo Virag

Mr. Hugo Virag has 18-year of M&A & project finance experience, most recently as Managing Director of the Infrastructure Group of StormHarbour in Asia-Pacific, a global and independent investment bank. Between 2007 and 2010, Hugo was senior manager of an infrastructure private equity fund sponsored by French Caisse des Depots et Consignations among other European financial institutions. Hugo started his career practicing law with the corporate and asset finance practice of international law firm Hogan Lovells  (1999 - 2005). 

Hugo has an extensive experience as principal, developer, financial and legal advisor across Asia-Pacific and Europe. His experience spans across real asset financing, with a specific focus on infrastructure/ transportation, power and renewable energy sectors, as well as downstream Oil & Gas. At StormHarbour, Mr. Virag was in particular responsible for the origination, structuring and placement of primary greenfield projects and secondary buy-sale transactions in the infrastructure sector, having been directly involved in connection with over USD 10bn of M&A and project finance advisory mandates across Asia-Pacific, and as such has acted as (i) co-lead advisor on the structuring of a USD 5bn refinery/petrochemical complex and associated marine infrastructure in Vietnam, for which a USD 40m ECA-backed development financing has been secured, (ii) originator and lead advisor on the successful placementto a Japanese investor of a AUD 50M senior debt financing tranche related to an Australian desalination plant, (iii) originator and lead placement advisor for the Asia-Pacific region in connection with the completed divestments of equity participations in two high profiletransportation assets in Europe and USA, or (iv) co-advisor on the structuring and arrangement of the winning bid for the construction of a portfolio of solar farms in Thailand. 

Hugo has received an MBA from the ESSEC & Mannheim Business Schools. He also graduated from the Law Schools of University of Virginia (USA) and University of Paris-La Sorbonne (France). Hugo is the co-President of the Energy and Infrastructure Committee of the French Chamber of Commerce of Singapore.

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Daniel Uzueli

Daniel Uzueli joined Astris in 2013 as Director based in São Paulo, coordinating Astris’ activities in Brazil. Daniel has over 15 years of experience in the Brazilian infrastructure industry.

Daniel began his career with the project finance team at Banco Votorantim (1998-2002). He then worked as an independent consultant and as Senior Strategic Manager at Alcoa (2002-2005), prior to joining Rio Bravo Infrastructure as a Senior Partner in 2005.

During his career, Daniel has been able to advise project developers in both M&A and project finance transactions. Daniel has had a lead role in securing financings for projects in a wide range of sectors including transportation (roads, subways, ports), power (thermal, wind, cogeneration, transmission lines, large hydro), sanitation, and accommodation PPPs (e.g World Cup Stadium PPP and Olympic Park PPP), among others.

At Rio Bravo, Daniel advised project sponsors in the context of several high profile tenders in Brazil, including the largest hydro projects (e.g the USD 15bn Belo Monte project, or the USD 5bn Jirau project), and participated in the preliminary studies of the USD 20bn RJ-SP High Speed Train.

Daniel holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of São Paulo (Escola Politécnica) and a post-graduate degree in Business Administration by FGV - Fundação Getúlio Vargas, São Paulo. Since 2009, Daniel has been an instructor in the Project Finance program for MBA students at FIA - Fundação Instituto de Administração in São Paulo.

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Nicolas Le Clerc

Nicolas Le Clerc is a managing director based in Singapore and co-head of APAC.

Nicolas has over 22 years of experience advising on energy and infrastructure projects in Asia-Pacific on project development and financing, competitive tenders, project and debt restructuring, as well as M&A transactions. He has also acted as lead arranger on numerous landmark energy sector financing transactions in Southeast Asia. Finally, Nicolas was also involved with the inception of a credit fund dedicated to renewable energy. 

Prior to joining Astris Finance in 2023, Nicolas worked with several investment and universal banks, as well with a credit fund manager based in Singapore, Hong Kong and the Philippines.

Nicolas Le Clerc graduated from Sciences Po Paris in Economics and Finance and holds a Master of Science degree in Finance from George Washington University.