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The Manager

The Investment Manager is Triple Point Investment Manager LLP (“Triple Point”). Triple Point is the place where people, purpose and profit meet.

Since 2004, Triple Point has been unlocking investment opportunities which make a difference across five distinct investment strategies: Social Housing, Energy, Digital Infrastructure, Private Credit and Venture. Each strategy helps to solve a problem society faces, and each one creates opportunities.

Triple Point manages over £3 billion of private, institutional, and public capital and benefits from a diverse team of over 200 employees, with a rich mix of skills. Working together to make a difference.

The Digital Infrastructure Team

Our team has a proven track record of over US$300 billion infrastructure transactions experience, alongside in-depth relationships with our well-connected, deeply knowledgeable network of digital infrastructure industry experts.

We are 100% focused on the provision of digital infrastructure integrated with green and cleaner power in line with UN Sustainable Development Goal 9: “Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialisation and foster innovation”.

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Ben Beaton
Fund Manager
Ben is the Co-Managing Partner of Triple Point and Fund Manager for D9. He was instrumental in establishing D9 and has taken an active role in the development of Triple Point’s digital infrastructure team. Ben joined Triple Point in 2007 and was appointed Co-Managing Partner of Triple Point in 2016.
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Arnaud Jaguin
Investment Director
Arnaud has over 15 years’ experience in telecoms and digital infrastructure, with a strong focus on fibre and wireless networks. He leads the team on investment analysis, portfolio management and strategy, and engages actively with investors. Arnaud sits on the Boards of Aqua Comms, Verne Global, Host Ireland and Arqiva.
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Martin Letrilliart
Investment Associate
Martin is an Associate on the Digital Infrastructure Investment Team. During his time at D9 he has worked on the acquisition of Verne Global (£231m), EMIC-1 (£50m), Volta Data Centres (£45m) and SeaEdge UK1 (£15m) and leads on the fund’s bi-annual valuation process. Martin joined Triple Point in 2018.
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Amber Reid
Investment Associate
Amber joined Triple Point in August 2021 as an Investment Associate in the Digital 9 Infrastructure team. During her time at D9, Amber has worked on the acquisition of Verne Global (£231m) and Host Ireland (£51m) and leads on the portfolio management of both entities. Amber is also a Board Observer for Host Ireland.
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Colin Wallace
Investment Associate
Colin joined Triple Point in October 2021 as an Investment Associate. In his role at D9, Colin has worked on the acquisitions of Ficolo (£114m) and works on portfolio management for Ficolo and Aqua Comms. He has focussed on evaluating new investment opportunities across all four digital infrastructure subsectors.
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Robbie Chinn
Investment Analyst
Robbie joined Triple Point in September 2022 as an Investment Analyst in the Digital 9 Infrastructure Team. Robbie has focussed primarily on evaluating terrestrial fibre and fixed wireless pipeline opportunities and has recently taken over coverage of D9’s latest portfolio acquisition, Arqiva. 
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Isobel Gunn-Brown
Chief Financial Officer
Isobel is ACCA qualified and has over 30 years’ experience in the financial services sector. She acts as CFO for D9 where she leads the financial reporting.
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Lindsay Smart
Head of Sustainability
Lindsay has over 15 years of finance industry experience alongside formal training in sustainable business practice. She has previously led the development of an award-winning sustainability and impact assessment tool, in addition to advising companies and investors on their approach to sustainability integration.
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Joseph Bush
ESG Analyst
Joseph is responsible for assessing the ESG performance of pipeline companies and driving forwards data collection and performance improvements in the portfolio. He previously worked with a range of corporates and private equity firms as a sustainability consultant and has prior experience working in sustainable supply chains.
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Khairul Aziz
Fund Accountant
Khairul is the Fund Accountant for D9. He previously worked in Social Housing (REIT) and Leasing and Lending teams, coming from audit background where he has over 20 years’ experience in audit, accountancy and corporate taxation. Khairul holds a BA (Hons) Accounting and also a fellow of ACCA.
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Seif Borin
Legal Counsel
Seif joined Triple Point in 2021 and is a Legal Counsel for D9. Seif was an associate at an international law firm and advised financial institutions, banks and sponsors on their project financing arrangements in the energy and infrastructure sectors, and spent a year in Paris working on a variety of project finance transactions.
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Eleanor Kerr
Senior Marketing Manager
Ellie is the Senior Marketing Manager at Triple Point and is responsible for all digital infrastructure marketing activities. Ellie has extensive experience across both digital and traditional channels, her responsibilities include team management, digital and brand strategy, paid media campaigns and website management.
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Alan Harper
Operating Partner
Alan spent 12 years at Vodafone Plc, as Group Strategy Director, he led c.$200bn of acquisitions. Alan co-founded and was CEO at Eaton Towers, a leading tower company, which was acquired by American Tower for c.$1.9bn in 2019.
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Ed McCormack
Operating Partner
Ed spent eight years at FLAG Telecom, as CEO, he led the development of c.52,000km global portfolio of subsea fibre. He is currently also a senior adviser to Ciena, a telecoms equipment supplied with market capitalisation of over $8bn.
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Steve Andrews
Operating Partner
Steve was an Executive at BT plc for 25 years, including as President of Global Carrier business, he was responsible for managing BT's Network Operations across 125 countries and was a member of BT Group Capital Investment Committee. Previously he was Chairman of PE backed Azzurri Communications until its successful exit in 2016.
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Simon Beresford-Wylie
Operating Partner
Simon was the CEO of Arqiva and led the sale of Arqiva's telecoms division for c.$2bn, as well as the Indoor Networks portfolio sale to Wireless Infrastructure Group (WIG), a 3i Infrastructure company. Simon was previously VP at Network's Business Unit of Samsung Electronics and founding CEO of Nokia Siemens Networks.
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Nigel Bayliff
Operating Partner
Nigel Bayliff, CEO of Aqua Comms, has over 30 years experience within the global submarine cable industry. He serves as Vice-Chairman of the United Nations Joint Task Force, examining disaster mitigation and climate information from global undersea cable assets.
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Seppo Ihalainen
Operating Partner
Seppo Ihalainen is CEO and co-founder of Ficolo Ltd. Seppo has built Ficolo into an internationally acclaimed data center partner. He has more than 20 years of experience in the ICT-sector. He worked as Head of Technology at TDC Finland, and has wide international experience working for UNDP and Seven Networks.
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Dominic Ward
Operating Partner
Dominic Ward joined Verne Global’s management team in 2015. Prior that he ran direct investments at the Wellcome Trust, one of the company's previous shareholders. He began his career at Jones Lang LaSalle Corporate Finance and later co-founded Lepe Partners, a technology investment and advisory firm.
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David Russell
Operating Partner
David is Chief Executive for Host Ireland Business Broadband, joining as Head of Sales in 2016 before becoming Chief Executive in 2018. He led the sales of Host Ireland Business Broadband to Digital 9 in 2022. Previously, David held positions in The Dixons Group and started a bonded logistics company in his native Northern Ireland.