CIM Group, LLC (Infrastructure)

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Jason Vassiliades

Managing Director, Investments

Jason Vassiliades is a Managing Director on the Infrastructure Investments team at CIM Group. In this capacity, he supports the growth of CIM’s infrastructure platform. Prior to joining CIM, Mr. Vassiliades served as Managing Director at Duration Capital, a transportation infrastructure investment firm founded in 2024 as a spin-out from Oaktree Capital. At Oaktree, he held several key positions overseeing various infrastructure programs. He also founded the Transportation Innovation Group at Oaktree, which invested in and partnered with infrastructure-related technology companies. Mr. Vassiliades earned a Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

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Robert Dupree

Principal, Co-Head of Investments Group and Co-Head of Infrastructure

Robert Dupree is a Principal in the Investments group, Co-Head of the Investments group and Co-Head of Infrastructure & Impact. In these roles, he leads a team focused on the composition, operations and investment priorities of CIM’s funds as well as the sourcing of investment opportunities. Prior to joining CIM Group in 2015, Mr. Dupree was a Senior Vice President at Oaktree Capital Management. Mr. Dupree earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Babson College and a Master of Business Administration degree from Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Jennifer Gandin

Principal, Co-Head of Infrastructure & Impact

Jennifer Gandin is a Principal in the Investments group and Co-Head of Infrastructure & Impact. She is actively involved in the investment management process across CIM’s platforms and serves on CIM’s Investment Committee. Additionally, Ms. Gandin represents CIM on the boards of SkyPower Global, Bolder Industries and IENTC. Prior to joining CIM in 2003, Ms. Gandin worked in roles at various other private equity and investment firms. Ms. Gandin earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master of Business Administration degree from Columbia Business School.

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Kyle Hatzes

Managing Director, Investments

Kyle Hatzes serves as a Managing Director on the Investments team at CIM Group®, where he sources equity and credit investment opportunities in infrastructure that help drive financial and environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) performance. Prior to joining CIM, Mr. Hatzes worked as an investment banker in the structured finance and principal lending group at Deutsche Bank, where he focused on project finance, secured corporate and mezzanine lending, special situations and capital markets for power and infrastructure companies in the Americas. He also spent two years at the New York City Economic Development Corporation during the Bloomberg administration, as project manager and transactions analyst for the group’s Development and Real Estate Transactions teams, respectively. Mr. Hatzes earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from New York University.

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