Members of the Board

Barbara Weber is the Founding Partner of B Capital Partners.

Barbara has over 25 years of infrastructure investment, private equity as well as project finance experience gained at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, PolyTechnos Venture and, since 2003 with B Capital Partners. Beforehand, she worked for the Private Sector Development Group of the World Bank. Barbara is a Member of the Board at B Capital Partners AG as well as of various of its portfolio companies. She is and has been on the Investment Committees of Palisade’s Real Assets Fund and the Impact Fund. Before, she served as Non-Executive Director for the London Pension Fund Authorities (LPFA). Further, Barbara was key in setting up IST3, an infrastructure investment platform for Swiss pension funds, as well as its Investment Committee, of which she also was part for several years. She is a prolific author and has written four books on infrastructure investments, the latest one being "Infrastructure as an Asset Class. Second Edition" (2016). Barbara wrote her Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard University and University of St. Gallen. She holds an MSc in Business & Operations Research from Warwick University and a post-graduate degree in International Relations from Mannheim University.

Paolo is a Managing Partner of B Capital Partners.

He has an extensive background in the private equity and infrastructure industry.

During his 30-years international career, Paolo initially implemented growth strategies and turnarounds while working as a management consultant at McKinsey and ATKearney for 5 years each. As corporate manager he worked predominantly in infrastructure-related industries. In addition, he was an investment director focusing on infrastructure both at Babcock & Brown and Hideal Partners.

Paolo is an expert in investment valuation and portfolio management techniques, as well as in general corporate finance. While managing large, partially distressed assets, he has developed a strong hands-on approach and result oriented mindset, especially with respect to understanding the business viability of asset. His main areas of infrastructure expertise are renewable energy generation and transmission as well as transportation.

Paolo holds a degree in business administration from both Bocconi University of Milan and the University of Cologne.

Konstantin is a Managing Partner of B Capital Partners.

Konstantin has 20 years of direct investment experience, both in private equity and for the last 10 years exclusively in infrastructure. In addition, Konstantin was an entrepreneur in the renewables/cleantech industry as a founder of an innovative biogas technology company.

Prior to that, he was a partner at a German mid-market private equity fund, focusing on the clean energy and manufacturing sector. He has significant corporate finance experience and worked at a US-based investment bank where he specialised in semiconductor and semiconductor capital equipment transactions.

He holds a Master in Economics from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and an MBA from the University of Chicago.