Speaker Profile

Bertrand Guiot is the Head of Real Assets & Investment Banking, South East Asia, and Head of Infrastructure Funds Coverage, Asia Pacific, for Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking. Bertrand has been with Natixis CIB for close to a decade, in various roles. Prior to his current appointment, Bertrand served as the Senior Country Manager for Natixis Canada Branch for two and a half years. Before this, he was the Head of Infrastructure, Asia Pacific, based in Hong Kong, overseeing all of the bank’s investment banking, financing and advisory activities pertaining to the infrastructure sector across the region. Before relocating to Hong-Kong in 2017, Bertrand led finance activities for Natixis CIB in Australia across multiple segments: greenfield infrastructure, privatizations, telecom assets and renewable energy projects. Prior to joining Natixis CIB, Bertrand was with Dexia, where he coordinated PPPs in the infrastructure sector and arranged corporate acquisition financing in the telecom sector, before being appointed to lead the company’s project finance activities in Canada. Before Dexia, Bertrand spent 14 years in various business development/ strategy/ finance roles in large IT/telecommunication companies such as British Telecom and Cable and Wireless in Europe, leading global teams and managing outsourcing/acquisition deals through to completion. Bertrand holds a master’s degree in Finance from ESC Lille, France.