Tony joined the SEIT Board of Directors as Chairman in December 2018.

He has over 40 years of experience as an infrastructure investment professional, having started his career as a structural engineer with Ove Arup and Partners in 1983. In 1994 he joined John Laing plc to review and make equity investments in infrastructure projects both in the UK and abroad and then in 2006 he joined HSBC Specialist Investments to be the fund manager for HSBC Infrastructure Company Limited (now HICL Infrastructure plc). In 2011, Tony was part of the senior management team that bought HSBC Specialist Investments from HSBC, renaming it InfraRed Capital Partners.

Tony was a managing partner and a senior member of the infrastructure management team at InfraRed Capital Partners until June 2018, during which time he oversaw the successful launch of The Renewables Infrastructure Group on the London Stock Exchange.

Tony is currently the Independent Non-Executive Chairman of abrdn European Logistics Income plc and a Non-Executive Director of Foresight Solar Fund.

Tony has a master’s degree in engineering from the University of Cambridge, and is an Associate Chartered Management Accountant (“ACMA”).