Chief Investment Officer

The Chief Investment Officer leads capital strategy, structured investment, and portfolio construction for the platform. The CIO owns the full capital stack: equity capital raising, debt raising, bank and institutional lender relationships, commercial structuring, and investor relations. This is a senior executive role reporting to the CEO, working alongside the founding team, and central to funding the company's development pipeline and its path to the public markets.

Key Responsibilities

Capital Formation and Equity Raising

• Design and execute the company's capital raising strategy across pre-IPO equity rounds, structured equity, and convertible instruments

• Lead fundraising processes end to end: positioning, materials, investor targeting, negotiation, and closing

• Manage relationships with institutional investors, family offices, sovereign capital, and strategic investors

Debt Raising and Lender Relationships

• Build and own relationships with commercial banks, institutional debt providers, private credit funds, and infrastructure lenders

• Structure and raise debt at both corporate and project level: construction financing, term debt, credit facilities, and asset-backed structures

• Optimize cost of capital and covenant packages across the portfolio

Structured Investment and Commercial Structuring

• Design SPVs, project-level vehicles, and bespoke financing structures for campus development and acquisitions • Structure commercial agreements (offtake, leases, equipment financing) to maximize financeability and support project-level leverage

• Evaluate and structure innovative financing instruments where they lower cost of capital or broaden the investor base Portfolio Construction and Investment Discipline

• Build and manage the investment framework across the multi-gigawatt campus pipeline: capital allocation, underwriting standards, and return targets

• Oversee financial modeling, valuation, and investment committee processes

• Prioritize deployment across sites, technologies, and business lines based on risk-adjusted returns

Investor Relations

• Own ongoing communication with equity and debt investors: reporting, updates, and governance

• Prepare the company for public-market scrutiny: institutional-grade reporting, guidance discipline, and analyst readiness

Qualifications

• 15+ years in capital markets, infrastructure private equity, project finance, or investment banking, with significant time in a principal or senior capital-raising role

• Demonstrated track record raising institutional equity and debt at scale (multi-hundred-million to billion-dollar transactions)

• Deep, active relationships with banks, institutional debt providers, private credit funds, and infrastructure investors

• Experience structuring project-level and asset-backed financings; energy, power, or digital infrastructure strongly preferred

• Familiarity with pre-IPO capital markets preparation and public-company financial discipline

• Exceptional negotiation, modeling oversight, and executive communication skills

• Comfort operating in a fast-moving founder-led environment with high ownership and accountability

Compensation

Competitive executive compensation including equity participation, commensurate with experience and track record.