Board of Directors

John Stanhope – Independent chair

John’s experience has covered many areas including infrastructure, finance, treasury, taxation, risk management and assurance, investor relations, corporate security and investigations, directorships on various boards of Telstra Corporation’s national and international subsidiary companies, and membership of industry and government committees.

Leisel Moorhead – QIC

Leisel joined QIC Infrastructure in January 2008. Leisel leads the asset management function across the QIC portfolio including environmental, social and governance matters for the QIC portfolio assets.

Stasha Prnjatovic – OMERS Infrastructure

Stasha is a Managing Director for OMERS Infrastructure and in this role she leads asset management efforts in the Asia-Pacific region. In addition to sitting on the Board of PoM, Stasha also sits on the board of Transgrid and Waveconn.

Simon Palagyi – OMERS Infrastructure

Simon is a Managing Director for OMERS Infrastructure. He joined OMERS in May 2017, and is responsible for a range of infrastructure investment origination and asset management activities in Australia. In addition to PoM’s Board of Directors, Simon also sits on the Board of the Transgrid Asset Trust.  He previously served as a director on the Board of LifeLabs Management Inc., Canada’s largest community laboratory business.

James White – Future Fund

James is a Director in Future Fund’s Infrastructure and Timberland team.  James joined Future Fund in 2010 and has been involved in the investment and management of the infrastructure and timberland portfolio, including representing Future Fund on the boards of a number of portfolio companies.

Robert Nicholson – Future Fund

Robert has worked extensively in the infrastructure and energy fields. His experience includes mergers and acquisitions, equity capital markets, funds management, greenfield projects, risk and governance. He is a director of Alinta Energy Pty Ltd, Electro Optic Systems Holdings Ltd, European Australian Business Council, and Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute. He is a Senior Advisor with Herbert Smith Freehills, where he served as a partner for 28 years and as a board member and chair.

Russell Smith – Global Infrastructure Partners Australia Fund

Russell is a Partner at GIP, having joined the firm in 2015. He is a member of the GIPA Investment Committee and based in Brisbane. Russell is an experienced transport infrastructure executive with an engineering degree, an M.B.A. specializing in strategic management and over 30 years’ experience in the transport infrastructure sector. His initial career was spent on the provision of advisory services for the transport industry in the Asia Pacific, before moving into the direct acquisition of port and rail assets for Babcock & Brown, Prime Infrastructure and Brookfield whilst based in London. Returning to Australia in 2010, Russell was the CEO of the newly privatised Port of Brisbane until 2015, before joining GIP and leading the acquisitions of Pacific National and Port of Melbourne.

Veeral Kanji – Global Infrastructure Partners Australia Fund

Veeral joined GIP at its inception in 2006 at GIP’s London office and has worked on a number of GIP’s investments throughout his time in London and since transferring to GIP’s Sydney office in 2015.

Robert Stewart – Global Infrastructure Partners Australia Fund

Robert is a Partner and the Managing Partner of GIP Australia, having joined the firm in 2015. Prior to joining GIP, Robert was the Chief Executive Officer of Credit Suisse in Australia and from 2000 to 2013 he was the head of the Australia Investment Banking Division. Robert began his career as a chartered accountant with Ernst and Whinney (a predecessor to Ernst and Young). Robert holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.

Ana Bessonova – QIC

Ana is a Principal in QIC’s Infrastructure team. Since joining QIC in 2017, she has been involved in QIC’s investments and asset management across Australia and Northern America. From 2018 to 2021, Ana was based in QIC’s New York office focusing on QIC’s infrastructure investments in Northern America.

Paul Hosri – OMERS Infrastructure

Paul is a Director for OMERS Infrastructure. He joined OMERS in 2017 and is currently focused on the pursuit and management of investments in high quality infrastructure assets in Australia. Between 2017 and 2021, Paul was based in London focusing on OMERS Infrastructure’s investments across Europe.

Anika McManus – Global Infrastructure Partners Australia Fund

Anika joined GIP in February 2024 as ESG Principal for Asia Pacific. Her experience includes various directorships and a diverse range of senior leadership roles across sustainability, government relations, safety, environment, strategy development, communications, indigenous relations, leadership coaching, cultural change and workplace relations in various industry sectors including Resources, FMCG, Industry Associations, Aerospace and Not-For-Profit.