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Quinbrook appoints Brian Restall Global CEO, adds new US leader - InforCapital

Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners promotes Brian Restall to global CEO and brings in former US DOE director Siccardo to head N. America.

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Alvaro de la Maza

Partner at Aninver

Key Takeaways

  • Geography: Australia.

Analysis

Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has unveiled a refreshed executive line-up aimed at accelerating its global growth in the energy-transition sector.

Brian Restall, currently Regional Leader for Australia, will step up to become Quinbrook’s first-ever Global CEO by year-end. The 28-year industry veteran has worked alongside Quinbrook’s founders since 2011 and has steered more than US$20 billion of power-project development and over US$4 billion in asset construction.

About Brian Restall

  • Career highlights: Inaugural CEO of Cape Byron Power, where he turned around two biomass-fuelled plants in New South Wales. Earlier, he was Business Development Manager at Drax Group plc, helping develop one of the world’s largest baseload renewable facilities.
  • Roles at Quinbrook: Managing Director, Australian Regional Leader, Global Investment Committee member and Chair of the Global Procurement Committee.
  • Board positions: Chair of Energy Locals and Energy Trade, Australian retailers focused on clean and affordable power.
  • Flagship projects: Key architect of the Gemini solar-plus-storage project (Nevada) and Australia’s Supernode battery initiative.

Strengthening the U.S. presence, Giulia Siccardo joins as Managing Director and Regional Leader for North America. Siccardo previously ran the U.S. Department of Energy’s Manufacturing & Energy Supply Chains office, directing multi-billion-dollar investments in clean-energy infrastructure.

Founding partners David Scaysbrook and Rory Quinlan said the leadership expansion positions Quinbrook to capitalise on surging global demand for renewable generation, battery storage and green-fuel infrastructure. The firm’s pipeline now exceeds 22 GW of capacity across solar, wind, storage and flexible-grid solutions in the UK, U.S. and Australia.

Quinbrook will continue targeting value-add and impact-driven opportunities that accelerate the transition to net-zero, leveraging its new management structure to scale projects and capital formation worldwide.