Investment Director, Railpen
Lewis Vanstone is Investment Director in the Real Assets Team at Railpen. Vanstone has 13 years’ infrastructure investment experience across multiple sectors including energy, health, education, transport and utilities. He joined in 2019 and is responsible for the origination, execution and ongoing management of Railpen’s infrastructure investments, focusing on efficient capital deployment and return enhancements. Recent investments include UK battery storage, onshore wind, biomass, EfW and smart metering. Vanstone’s role includes the positions of Deputy Portfolio Manager for the long-term income fund and portfolio manager for the growth infrastructure portfolio, as well as representing Railpen as a Director on investee company boards. He previously worked at PwC in the infrastructure corporate finance team, working on M&A, refinancing and valuations advisory. Vanstone was at SSE in the corporate finance team on the sale of their non-core infrastructure assets. He was previously a Senior Investment Manager at Foresight Group, focusing on energy infrastructure investments in Europe and Australia on behalf of Foresight-managed funds, and in particular the London-listed Foresight Solar Fund. Vanstone is a qualified chartered accountant and holds a first-class honours degree in Business Accounting and Finance from Newcastle University. He also holds the Investment Management Certificate and the Award in Pension Trusteeship.