Ben Loomes

Ben joined John Laing as Chief Executive Officer in May 2020. He was most recently Head of Infrastructure and Managing Partner at InfraRed Capital Partners from 2017 to 2019. At InfraRed, Ben was responsible for managing a global infrastructure investment business with over US$9 billion of assets under management, largely in greenfield and operational PPP and renewable energy projects. This included responsibility for managing investments and teams in Europe, North America, Latin America and Australia.

Prior to this, Ben spent five years at 3i Group plc where he was Managing Partner of 3i Group plc’s Infrastructure business and previously Group Strategy Director. Ben was also a member 3i Group plc’s Executive Committee and its Investment Committees for Infrastructure, Private Equity and Debt Management. In his role as Managing Partner of Infrastructure, Ben was responsible for the management, origination activities and strategic development of 3i’s Infrastructure business and led the relationship with the Board of 3i Infrastructure plc, a FTSE 250 company.

Ben began his career at Goldman Sachs in the Energy & Power investment banking team.

Ben holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University. Ben completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.