Ed graduated with First Class Honours and a Dean’s commendation in Civil Engineering in 2018. Ed has 6 years of experience in the infrastructure sector, supporting the execution of Rock’s UK transactions and the subsequent growth of the German platform. Ed gained further experience in a financial advisory role (Stifel Europe), working on transactions in the wider transport and infrastructure sector.

Fiona joined Rock’s origination team in May 2024. Prior to Rock, Fiona completed the graduate training scheme at M7 Real Estate and then worked as a debt analyst, managing over €400m of debt across numerous UK and European funds.

Fiona has passed Level I CFA.

Andreas is working closely with the Rock Rail origination team, primarily on supporting the due diligence process for funders and equity investors. Current focus is on developing an expanded role for European Investment Bank sourced funding in support of Rock Rail’s expansion into Europe.

Andreas is an independent consultant specialising in infrastructure /project finance. His close association with Rock Rail dates back to September 2014 when Rock was still in its formative stages. He has over 35 years of experience managing the realisation of major infrastructure, power, petroleum, mining and PPP projects. In addition to Rock Rail, his senior rail experience includes: the West Coast Mainline upgrade project, rail franchise bids, the Thameslink project, Sydney Metro and advising the EU Commission on implementing TENS, the trans-European rail project for Europe.

Prior to working with Rock, Andreas had senior roles in the investment banking and in management consulting. His career includes senior infrastructure/ project finance lending roles with SecPac, EBC, Amro and with Mitsubishi Bank where he headed up the Infrastructure Finance team. After completing a doctorate at the University of Sussex, Andreas worked as a management consultant at McKinsey, moving on to develop PFI projects at Serco and subsequently to the EIB, as a Principal Advisor, advising on PPP policy and funding guidance for EU member states.

Natalia started working with Rock in March 2020 as commercial project manager. She will be working with the Rock Rail team focussed on the development of opportunities in the Australian market as well as initially supporting the German market team.

Prior to Rock Rail, Natalia had a 17-year career with Abellio Group, with key experience in the rail franchise bidding function, as lead financial modeller and rolling stock and operations finance analyst.

At Abellio, Natalia was most recently involved in the winning East Anglia and West Midlands bids, where she supported on new fleet procurement and contractual arrangements with the funders, manufacturers and maintainers.

Natalia was project manager for the East Anglia Class 720 Aventra fleet, taking responsibility for daily project management, coordination of engineering and operations teams, and commercial and stakeholder management. Being ‘embedded’ in this project at the Bombardier Derby site, she developed practical knowledge of production, quality and design process and contributed to the operator’s roll-out strategy for the new fleet.

Natalia also provided commercial and analytical support to the Joint Project Manager for the new build of Rock Rail’s class 745/755 fleet for East Anglia.