Financing Committee

Johan Oelofse

Johan Oelofse is Head of Project Finance and Founder of Operation Water, and Managing Director and Founder of Capital Lite Finance (Pty) Limited - a company that advises and arranges finance for infrastructure projects across the African continent. Johan specializes in innovative structuring techniques, which is often required to mitigate risks to secure finance for projects in Africa. Representative completed projects include a bulk water treatment plant in Sudan, water and sanitation projects in Seychelles, and rural electrification projects in Ghana. The financing structure he created for the bulk water treatment plant in Sudan won Euromoney’s Trade Finance Deal of the Year award in 2008 and is the structure used by Operation Water.

Johan has over 30 years of experience in assessing and executing infrastructure projects on the African continent. He has worked for ABSA Bank, Nedbank Africa, Nedcor Investment Bank, and Societe Generale in South Africa as well as Credit Guarantee Insurance Corporation of Africa Limited where he was responsible for their projects division.

David Nastro

David Nastro joined Morgan Stanley in 1992 and is Head of the Global Power & Utility Group. The Global Power & Utility Group works with the Firm’s electric, gas, water and clean energy clients on mergers and acquisitions, strategic advisory assignments and public and private capital markets transactions. He has worked in both Hong Kong and New York on a range of corporate finance and advisory assignments for domestic clients, multinational conglomerates and local governments.

David has been actively involved in many of the industry’s leading mergers and acquisitions, including the following recent transactions: Duke Energy’s minority stake sale in its renewables business to John Hancock, Aqua America’s acquisition of Peoples Gas from SteelRiver, the sale of ITC Holdings to Fortis, Teco Energy’s sale to Emera, Duke Energy’s sale of its Midwest Generation assets, Teco Energy’s acquisition of New Mexico Gas, Dominion’s sale of selected merchant generation assets, National Fuel Gas’ defense against Activist Shareholders, Duke Energy’s spin-off of Spectra Energy, RWE’s acquisition of American Water Works, UIL’s acquisition of Iberdrola’s Gas LDCs, and the formation of Pantellos Corporation (the utility industry’s B2B procurement exchange). He has also worked with several sovereign and local governments, public power and municipal utilities in evaluating privatization alternatives and other strategic assignments.

David has worked on several high-profile equity and debt financing transactions. He was recently involved in equity and equity-linked offerings for: Duke Energy, Dominion Resources, Consolidated Edison, Southern Company, Xcel Energy, Entergy Corporation, UIL Corporation, Teco Energy, CMS Energy, Hawaiian Electric, PG&E Corp., and American Water. In addition, he also worked on multiple public and private investment grade debt, high yield, securitization and project finance transactions.

David received a B.A. in Political Science (with honors) from Amherst College and a Masters degree in International Relations (with distinction) from Cambridge University. David has also been a Board member at Water For People and Freedom House, serving as Treasurer and chairing the Finance Committee at both organizations.

George Andreozzi

George Andreozzi serves as Senior Vice President, Department Head of the Government, Education and Non-Profit Lending with TD Bank in New York City. As a result of the financial crisis, George was a founding team member of the Lending division with the aim of helping NYC and its Non Profit Institutions meet their liquidity needs. Since 2008, George and his team have provided $3 billion+ in credit facilities for social impact projects and missions.

George joined TD Bank in 2002 and started several new lines of business, also including Regional Commercial Lending, Middle Market Commercial Lending, and Retail Stores (17 locations). Prior to his tenure at TD Bank, George worked in commercial banking with Fleet Bank and Republic National Bank of New York.

George received a BA from East Stroudsburg University and currently serves as a on the Advisory Boards for Brooklyn Arts Council, Incarnation Children's Center, The Shield Institute, and Friends of Urban Resource Institute.

Barry Schiffman

Barry Schiffman is a Partner, Senior Advisor and board member to Mandala Capital. Mandala is the only institutional private equity fund manager that invests exclusively in the food supply and agribusiness sector in India and South Asia. Prior to joining Mandala, Barry worked with a private family office where he was the co-founder of Next Frontier Capital, an emerging markets private equity firm. While at Next Frontier, he focused on technology and natural resources transactions in the CIS and Africa, and co-founded Viewdle, a facial recognition software company. Barry served as Viewdle’s COO and General Counsel, and was a member of its Board of Directors; Viewdle was acquired by Google. He has also served as a board member and General Counsel of The Frayman Group, and has served on the boards of numerous privately held companies in which he has been an active and engaged investor. Barry began his career as an attorney for Bracewell and Giuliani, and has also worked for Fulbright and Jaworski. He graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University with a degree in government, received a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center, and is a member of the New York State bar. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Moise Safra Center in New York, and is the Founder and Chairman of the Algemeiner Editor’s Club. Barry is a supporter of the Virunga Fund in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Mugie Conservancy in Kenya.

Yogesh Mago

Yogesh Mago is Founder and President of Operation Water. He is also a Senior Advisor to Ospraie Ag Science LLC, the venture arm of Ospraie Management LLC, a commodities investment firm. Yogesh serves on the Board of Directors of Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc., a NASDAQ-listed company which discovers, develops, and promotes sustainable bioprotection and plant health solutions. In addition, he is on the Advisory Board of Girl Rising, the nonprofit organization behind the worldwide social action campaign for girls' education and empowerment.

Previously, Yogesh was a Senior Investment Analyst at hedge funds, Ospraie Management LLC and Merchants' Gate Capital LP. In those roles, he sourced and oversaw portfolio investments across five continents in a variety of industries, including agriculture, travel, consumer, transportation, industrials, and real estate. He has over 15 years of experience in fundamental, public and private equity investing globally.

Yogesh began his career as an investment banker at The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. in New York City. He graduated magna cum laude from the NYU Stern School of Business Undergraduate College, with concentrations in finance and international business.

Marco Di Girolamo

Marco Di Girolamo serves as a Senior Vice President at Brookfield Asset Management, a global alternative asset manager with $285 billion AUM, focused on investing in real assets across real estate, infrastructure, renewable power and private equity. Marco manages institutional, financial service, and family office partner (LPs) relationships across Canada for Brookfield.

Before joining Brookfield, Marco advised family offices as a Director/Portfolio Manager for UBS's Private Bank. In this role, he managed discretionary client portfolios on an absolute return basis and ran business development activities. Prior to this role, Marco consulted technology companies in Silicon Valley with Gartner.

In 2006, Marco co-founded Terra Firma, a registered Canadian charity, which has partnered with Operation Water to build water infrastructure projects in developing communities in emerging economies.

Marco completed his MBA with distinction at the Ivey School of Business at Western University in Ontario, Canada, and received a Bachelor of Commerce in Finance at the University of Ottawa.