A diversified investment platform for infrastructure.

Investment platforms

One master brand. Multiple engines of growth.

Each sleeve is underwritten on its own returns — and designed to create demand, offtake, or optionality for the rest of the platform.

CIP Energy

Energy is the foundation.

Renewables, geothermal, hydro, solar, storage, gas and transition, and transmission. Energy is not necessarily the endpoint. It can be the starting point for an entire economic ecosystem.

CIP AI

Compute and sovereign intelligence.

AI data centers are high-value load. They turn reliable power into durable offtake — and can anchor new energy, manufacturing, and industrial ecosystems around the same site.

CIP Infrastructure

Land, sites, and digital infrastructure.

Strategic land becomes embedded optionality when power, fiber, transport, and policy align. Sites can become multi-decade platforms for generation, sovereign compute, and logistics.

CIP Supply

Own the bottlenecks that enable scale.

Power equipment, generation kit, high-density cooling, compute, engineering, and critical logistics — selective ownership inside the supply chain, not only as a customer of it.

Offices and reach

Head office in Abu Dhabi. A corridor into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Head office in Abu Dhabi. Intended regulatory home: Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), United Arab Emirates. Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is an explicit focus for the platform. Other cities below are corridors of attention — not headquarters.

• Head office

  Abu Dhabi

  United Arab Emirates. Intended regulatory home: Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM). No street address is published on this website.

• Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

  Riyadh

  An explicit presence for work aligned with the Kingdom’s economic and infrastructure agenda.

New York

United States · Corridor for capital, AI, and energy

London

Europe · Energy transition and advanced industry

Singapore

Asia · Manufacturing, compute, and regional access

• Central Asia

  Energy-rich development corridors

• Select emerging markets

  High-conviction infrastructure

Leadership

Founding partners.

Three Co-GPs. Platform, executive, and investment committees.

1. 01

   Gregory J. Trilford

   Co-GP, Founding Partner & Chairman, Capital Infrastructure Partners

   Gregory is Co-General Partner, Founding Partner and Chairman of Capital Infrastructure Partners, providing overarching strategic leadership, institutional positioning and top-level governance direction across the platform.

   With more than four decades of international executive and board-level experience, Gregory has built a career at the intersection of global industry, sovereign relationships, infrastructure, aviation, logistics, supply chains, food security and capital. His experience includes senior leadership and advisory roles connected to major global corporations, sovereign institutions and strategic investment platforms across the Middle East, Europe, Asia, Oceania, Africa, the Americas and other international markets.

   At Capital Infrastructure Partners, Gregory's role is principally strategic: shaping the long-term direction of the platform, developing relationships with sovereign and institutional capital, supporting anchor-partner engagement, and ensuring that the platform is positioned with the credibility, governance discipline and institutional perspective required to operate at scale.

   He brings particular depth in working across complex cross-border environments, connecting capital with strategic opportunities and aligning commercial interests with long-horizon national and economic priorities. His relationships across sovereign, institutional and corporate networks provide Capital Infrastructure Partners with access to decision-makers, strategic partners and opportunities across its global markets.

   Gregory's investment philosophy is grounded in ownership, patience and integration. He believes enduring value is created when capital, infrastructure, energy, technology, industry and supply chains are considered as interconnected systems rather than isolated investments.

   As Chairman, he provides the strategic lens that connects CIP's investment engines and helps ensure that individual opportunities contribute not only to attractive standalone returns, but also to the broader platform's resilience, scale and future optionality.

   Building systems. Connecting markets. Creating enduring value.

2. 02

   Marco Elli

   Co-GP, Founding partner and Chairman of the Executive Committee.

   Marco Elli is a highly analytical, versatile, and forward-thinking financial leader with a distinguished track record in designing and executing robust financial strategies that enhance organisational performance, strengthen governance, and drive sustainable value creation across international markets. Known for his ability to blend rigorous quantitative insight with pragmatic executive judgment, Marco consistently delivers financial architectures that support efficiency, resilience, and customer-centric growth.

   With decades of senior leadership experience, Marco has served as CFO and CEO within globally recognised organisations including Impregilo, Ducati, and Ferrero, where he shaped financial transformation programmes, optimised capital structures, and led complex cross-border operations. His executive journey extends across Europe and Asia, and he currently holds Director and CEO roles for Pirelli Indonesia and Pirelli APAC, overseeing strategic expansion, operational excellence, and financial stewardship across one of the world’s most dynamic regions.

   A committed academic and lifelong learner, Marco is also a Professor of Economics at the University of Ferrara (Italy), where he contributes to the development of future leaders through research-driven, real-world economic and financial frameworks. His intellectual curiosity and analytical depth have enabled him to design advanced quantitative risk-management models applied across multiple sectors, strengthening organisational decision-making and long-term planning.

   Marco’s career is defined by his ability to excel in dynamic, multicultural environments. He played a pivotal role in expanding Ducati’s footprint in China, navigating regulatory, commercial, and operational complexities to unlock new market potential. His leadership style is grounded in clarity, discipline, and innovation—qualities that have earned him trust at board level and across global executive teams.

   He brings a rare combination of strategic foresight, financial precision, and operational breadth to building resilient, high-performance investment platforms that deliver measurable impact and enduring value.

   Marco is fluent in Chinese, Japanese, Italian and English, among other languages, and resides in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

3. 03

   Paul Calatayud

   Co-GP, Founding partner and Chairman of the Investment Committee.

   Co-GP, Founding partner and Chairman of the Investment Committee. Chairs investment decision-making, leads evaluation and diligence, and guides portfolio construction across AI, compute, energy, and technology strategies. Contributes strategically at platform level and directly on investment evaluation, origination, diligence and deployment, particularly across AI infrastructure, compute, data centres, energy and the associated technology ecosystem.