Yaad Virdee

Director
UK / Infrastructure

Yaad is a Director in 3i’s Infrastructure team in London and joined 3i in November 2014. He is primarily responsible for the origination and execution of deals and the management of assets in the infrastructure sector.

Prior to joining 3i, Yaad worked in the Corporate Finance division of Ernst & Young. Yaad is a chartered accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland and holds a BSc in mathematics from Bristol University.

Felicity Ward

Associate Director
UK / Infrastructure

Felicity is an Associate Director in 3i’s Infrastructure team in London and joined in September 2022. Her primary focus is on debt financing arrangements for the investments across 3i Infrastructure’s portfolio.

Prior to joining 3i, Felicity worked in the energy and infrastructure team at Clifford Chance in London, during which time she advised clients in relation to a range of financing structures and instruments in the sector. 

Felicity is a qualified solicitor and holds a MA in History from The University of Edinburgh.

Phil White

Vice Chair of Infrastructure
UK / Infrastructure

Phil joined 3i in 2007 and is Vice Chair of 3i’s Infrastructure business and a member of 3i’s Investment Committee. From 2014 to 2022 he was Managing Partner, Head of Infrastructure.

Prior to joining 3i, he was Division Director in Macquarie’s Infrastructure Funds business, where he managed investments in the transport sector. Phil has over 20 years of infrastructure investment, advisory and finance experience from earlier roles at Barclays and WestLB.

Phil has an MBA from London Business School.

Richard Widdowson

Director, Portfolio and Operations
UK / Infrastructure

Richard is Director of Portfolio and Operations for 3i’s Infrastructure business and joined in 2016. He manages the operations of the Infrastructure investment team and leads key projects and initiatives across the business. Richard also manages various portfolio management initiatives and supports some of the Investor Relations activity for 3i Infrastructure plc.

Prior to joining 3i, Richard worked at Barclays plc where he held a number of front office senior business partnering roles within the investment bank and a strategy role in Barclays Group.

Richard is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and holds a degree in Economics from Loughborough University.

Lorenz Woelfel

Associate
UK / Infrastructure

Lorenz joined 3i in June 2022 and is an Associate in the Infrastructure team based in London. He is primarily responsible for the origination and execution of deals and the management of assets across the economic infrastructure space.

Prior to joining 3i, Lorenz was an Associate in the Infrastructure Equity team at UBS Asset Management in London, where he also focused on origination and execution of new transactions and the management of existing assets.

Lorenz holds a B.Sc. in Management & Technology from the Technical University of Munich and a M.Sc. in International Finance from HEC Paris.