Investment Adviser
Sequoia Economic Infrastructure Income Fund is advised by Sequoia Investment Management Company (SIMCo), a specialist in infrastructure debt investment and management. Its seasoned directors each have 20-30 years or more of senior-level experience in origination and advisory, asset management, credit analysis and risk management
The management team is supported by a team of experienced credit professionals, consisting of executive directors, vice presidents, associates and analysts.
Randall Sandstrom
Randall Sandstrom has over 30 years of experience in the capital markets and a broad range of expertise in the international and domestic credit markets and infrastructure debt markets. Mr. Sandstrom managed US$6 billion notional in global high yield and investment grade bonds, leveraged loans, ABS and money market securities in a credit fund, several CDOs and a cash portfolio. Jurisdictions included Europe, North America, the UK and Asia Pacific. His prior roles included member of the Board of Directors at LCF Rothschild and MD of Structured Finance, and Head of Euro Credit Market Strategy at Morgan Stanley. Earlier in his career, Mr. Sandstrom was a hard asset Credit Analyst with CS First Boston covering energy & transportation. He made the “Institutional Investor’s” All-America Research Team in his second full year.
Dolf Kohnhorst
Dolf Kohnhorst has over 37 years of experience in investment banking, debt capital markets and project finance commercial lending. He was Head of Société Générale’s Financial Institutions Group covering UK, Irish, Benelux and Scandinavian banks, insurance companies, pension funds and investment management companies. Prior to that Mr. Kohnhorst spent 16 year with Morgan Stanley heading the Benelux and Scandinavian sales teams and DCM Structured Solutions. Earlier in his career he gained experience in commercial lending to the shipping, construction and project finance sectors.
Steve Cook
Steve Cook has over 20 years of infrastructure experience and brings to the firm strong structuring and credit analysis skills. Prior to Sequoia he was European Head of Whole Business Securitisation and CMBS, and Co-Head of Infrastructure Finance at UBS. Before that he was the Head of European Corporate Securitisation at Morgan Stanley. Mr. Cook has been involved in a wide variety of infrastructure projects in the UK and across Europe as a lender, arranger and adviser.
Anurag Gupta
Anurag Gupta is Chief Risk Officer at Sequoia Investment Management Company. He has primary responsibility for the risk management and compliance of Sequoia’s infrastructure debt funds. He additionally oversees finance, administration and operations at Sequoia. He has over 20 years of experience in project finance, infrastructure investment and appraisal, risk management, M&A, and financial advisory.
Matt Dimond
Matt Dimond is Head of Client Capital at Sequoia Investment Management Company, joining the team in 2022. He has primary responsibility for working with both existing and new investors in the firm’s products and for evaluating and proposing new strategies for clients.
Over the last decade, Mr Dimond has focused on product development and capital-raising in the two key areas of real asset investments – infrastructure and real estate, and has previously worked in senior roles at InfraRed Capital Partners and Swiss Life. He has led product launches and international client-facing activities for both private and public markets structures, such as the TRIG listed renewable energy fund and new private vehicles for Swiss Life’s Pan-European real estate range. Earlier in his career, Mr Dimond worked across Europe and Asia in investment banking roles at UBS Warburg and Macquarie, based in London, Hong Kong and Tokyo, during which time he advised clients on international M&A and equity capital-raising, and he also spent eight years in M&A and principal investments with GE Capital.
Georgi Teofilov
Georgi joined Sequoia in 2015. Prior to that he gathered investment experience at an AIM-listed private equity fund and developed his advisory skills at KPMG. At Sequoia he has analysed and executed investments in power, utilities, renewables, waste to energy, sub-sea communications and shipping. Georgi holds an MBA from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, a postgraduate diploma in Infrastructure Investment and Finance from University College London and passed all three levels of the CFA Program in 2005.