Ara Partners (Ara), a private equity and infrastructure firm that specialises in industrial decarbonisation investments, has appointed Teresa O’Flynn as a partner and co-lead of the firm’s infrastructure strategy.
Further expanding the firm’s infrastructure team, Gearóid Maher has joined as a Principal. O’Flynn and Maher are both based in Ara’s Dublin, Ireland office.
O’Flynn joins Ara from BlackRock, where she held several senior investment and executive roles across the firm’s Alternatives investment platform. She has more than twenty years of sustainable investing expertise with extensive renewable power energy infrastructure experience, both in the fund management sector and at the operating company level. Maher joins Ara from Legal & General Capital in London and has more than eleven years of experience in clean energy investment and infrastructure project development.
Maher joined Legal & General Capital in 2016 as part of a new clean energy team established to invest L&G plc’s own balance sheet into the sector. Most recently, he was an investment director on the team and led on strategy development, origination, execution, and management of equity investments in clean energy infrastructure projects and funds and growth stage decarbonisation focused companies.
