Bio

Jonathan Stone is a seasoned infrastructure investment professional with over 20 years of experience as a financial advisor, equity sponsor and contractor across multiple sectors and jurisdictions. As a partner at Instar, Jonathan shares responsibility for strategic and business development, and asset management. Jonathan was most recently Managing Director and Co-Head, Energy, Infrastructure, Power & Utilities EMEA at Scotiabank, where he advised such businesses in identifying, marketing, negotiating and executing investment opportunities. He co-founded the Scotia Waterous Infrastructure Finance Team (SWIFT), an internal joint venture to pursue energy infrastructure M&A opportunities such as storage, midstream and LNG. Prior to Scotiabank, Jonathan served as a Vice President of Plenary Group (Canada), leading public-private partnership transactions as a developer and equity investor including eight large-scale projects over $3.0 billion in project value. Jonathan’s prior experience includes serving as Vice President for CIT Energy and Infrastructure, where he led financial advisory mandates for Canadian public-private partnerships across multiple sectors including transportation, light and heavy rail, social infrastructure and power generation. Jonathan currently sits on the Board of Directors for the Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association, an organization of over 270 corporate firms and 1800 individual members dedicated to empowering private capital professionals and advancing leadership in finance. Jonathan holds a Master degree in Business Administration from Cambridge University, a Bachelor of Engineering from McGill University, and the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.