Teresa is a Founding Partner and Co-Head of Ara Partners Infrastructure Investment platform. Ara Partners, founded in 2017, specializes in industrial decarbonization investing and targeting middle-market investments across the industrial & manufacturing, chemicals & materials, energy efficiency & green fuels and food & agriculture sectors.
Teresa has more than twenty years of sustainable investing expertise with extensive renewable power energy infrastructure experience. Prior to Ara, Teresa held several senior roles at BlackRock including being a founder of BlackRock’s Global Renewable Power Infrastructure platform and Global Head of Sustainable Investing for BlackRock’s $300bn+ Alternatives business. Prior to BlackRock she worked for some of the world’s pioneering wind development companies including Airtricity. She started her career at Arthur Andersen.