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Lighthouse Infrastructure's senior management team possesses significant expertise in the management of infrastructure assets and investment in listed and unlisted infrastructure securities.

Mitch King

Director - BBus(Acc), ACA, F Finsia

Mitch is a recognised leader in the Global infrastructure investment market and possesses over 20 years experience in infrastructure funds management and investment. Mitch's early corporate career spanned chartered accounting, corporate advisory and merchant banking.

More recently, Mitch gained significant expertise during approximately nine years with Hastings Funds Management, one of Australia's leading infrastructure fund managers.

During his time at Hastings Funds Management, Mitch took on a variety of senior roles (as a director of Hastings Funds Management and as Chief Operating Officer of the ASX-listed Australian Infrastructure Fund (ASX code: AIX).

During this period, Mitch built AIX into one of Australia's leading listed transport infrastructure funds with a market capitalisation of over $1,000 million. Direct responsibilities included managing infrastructure assets , undertaking debt and equity capital raisings from both institutional and retail investor markets, and executing often large and complex transactions, including:

  • Hoctief Airport Capital: completing a capital raising in March 2005 for AIX to acquire a 40% interest, leading to AIX holding investments in airports located in Athens, Dusseldorf, Hamburg and Sydney.
  • Gold Coast Airport: completing a placement in November 2004 to fund AIX's purchase of a 47% stake.
  • Australian Pacific Airport Corporation: completing a acquisition of the Melbourne and Launceston airports in December 2003.
  • Successful public takeover of Infratil Australia in 2000.

Mitch's role required him to serve on the boards of many of AIX's investee companies and as a result, he held multiple directorships on some of Australia's most significant infrastructure assets, including:

  • Interlink Roads (M5 motorway in south-western Sydney)
  • Statewide Roads (M4 motorway in western Sydney)
  • NT Airports (Chairman) (comprising Darwin, Alice Springs and Tennant Creek airports)
  • Port of Portland (Chairman) (bulk Port in western Victoria)
  • Australia Pacific Airport Corporation (Melbourne and Launceston Airports)
  • Docklands Stadium (now Telstra Dome in Melbourne)


Clinton Wood

Director - BE Mining (Hons), MBA

Clinton is a globally recognised leader in the infrastructure market. Clinton headed Australian Infrastructure research for Deutsche Bank for seven years, most recently as a Director. During his time in this role, he was consistently ranked as one of the top 5 infrastructure analysts by his peers, and was voted Number 2 by the Wall Street Survey.

Clinton's infrastructure experience began in his earliest days as a senior executive with some of Australia's leading gold mining groups, where his responsibilities spread across areas including project and production engineering. Later, he worked as a senior executive within the merchant banking sector where he provided advice to various companies on mergers and acquisitions, equity issues, corporate restructuring and valuation. This work included detailed financial modeling and the undertaking of due diligence exercises.

Prior to joining Lighthouse Infrastructure, Clinton worked with Deutsche Bank, initially as a Resources Analyst, where he undertook analysis and research of Australian middle ranking gold stocks, then metal stocks, which included detailed financial modeling and analysis.