3i Infrastructure plc has named Chris Rowland as strategy director. Chris is currently a Director at PwC and part of the Financial Decisions & Analysis team. Prior to this, he spent four years at Lend Lease Europe where he established, and subsequently led, the Corporate Finance team.

Bernardo joins 3i on 12 October 2015 as a Partner and will focus on origination and execution of new investments across Europe, principally economic infrastructure businesses. Bernardo was most recently a Partner at Antin Infrastructure which manages funds investing in infrastructure opportunities across Europe. Prior to Antin, Bernardo was Managing Director, Head of Acquisitions for Deutsche Bank's European infrastructure fund.

His prior experience was in utilities, as Head of M&A at Energias de Portugal, and in infrastructure advisory with UBS and Citigroup. James joins 3i in January 2016 as CFO in planned succession to Stephen Halliwell. James is currently a divisional finance head in Legal & General Investment Management.

James has been with Legal & General Investment Management since 1997 in a variety of finance roles including as Finance Director of LGV Capital, Legal & General's private equity business. In addition, 3i's Infrastructure investment team has been bolstered recently with new hires Adrien Delmotte and Paolo Bergamelli as Associates in Paris and London respectively. Adrien joined 3i from Societe Generale and Paolo joined from UBS.