As part of the strategy to expand its geographical footprint, Morrison has recruited Vincent Gerritsen into its London office to head up the build out of its European private markets investment team. Gerritsen brings 20 years’ experience in infrastructure principal investing, investment management and M&A.
“We are very pleased to be bringing Vincent on board to grow our European investment portfolio and capabilities as part of implementing the roll out of our proven investment themes and strategy to other geographies and assist our clients with diversifying their portfolios. Further additions to the team are expected over the coming period,” according to Marko Bogoievski, Chief Executive Officer at Morrison & Co.
The initial focus will be on extending themes such as decarbonisation, data connectivity, ageing population and social infrastructure into Europe. These investments typically centre around partnering with management teams to drive growth and include less competed greenfield and early stage investments. In addition, a number of Morrison & Co’s mandates are open to European investments towards the core end of the spectrum.
Throughout his career, Gerritsen has taken various lead roles in sourcing, executing and managing both core and growth infrastructure investments across a broad range of sectors in Europe. He has developed a number of bespoke partnerships with corporates and was non-executive and advisory board member for a range of different infrastructure companies, including in the telecommunication infrastructure, renewable energy, utility, midstream and social infrastructure sectors.
Prior to joining Morrison & Co, Gerritsen was partner at a European mid-market infrastructure fund manager with a diversified sector strategy, focusing on sourcing and growing infrastructure platform businesses, and played a key role in building a successful fund management business with over EUR 1 billion capital under management. Before that, he was a senior investment manager infrastructure at PGGM, the Netherlands-based EUR 185 billion pension fund investment manager, with a multi-billion infrastructure allocation. In that position he played a lead role in developing and executing the direct infrastructure investment strategy, predominantly focusing on larger European core investments.