Who We Are

Brendan Duval

Chief Executive Officer & Founder

Brendan Duval is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Glenfarne Group with over 28 years of experience in global infrastructure. Mr. Duval is responsible for the strategic direction of the firm. He leads a management team with over $20 billion of transactional experience and also maintains the role as an active executive chairman and CEO for its operating entities.

Since founding Glenfarne Group, Mr. Duval has led the company toward significant growth raising more than $4 billion of capital since 2015 and successfully completing 15 mergers and acquisitions over the same time period.

Prior to his current leadership position, Mr. Duval had a long career at Macquarie Group, from 1998 to 2011. He helped launch the North and South American business for Macquarie’s infrastructure franchise in 2000. He served as a Senior Managing Director of Macquarie Capital in New York from 2007 to 2011 and was a founding member of Macquarie Capital’s U.S. Management Committee. Mr. Duval is also the former CEO of a number of Macquarie’s direct investment infrastructure businesses. Mr. Duval holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Focus Robotics) and a Bachelor of Commerce (Major in Accounting, Minor in Economics), both from the Australian National University. He completed a number of his Robotics electives at The Pennsylvania State University in preparation for his senior thesis on robotic control.

Vlad Bluzer

Partner

Vlad Bluzer serves as a Partner at Glenfarne Group. Mr. Bluzer joined Glenfarne Group in 2011 and initially led the firm’s project financing efforts during which he was promoted to Managing Director. He then moved on to launch Glenfarne’s Gas and LNG business – where he currently serves as Co-President, overseeing core projects like Texas LNG, a four million tonnes per annum LNG liquefied export terminal to be constructed in the Port of Brownsville, Texas, and a subsidiary of Glenfarne.

Mr. Bluzer has more than 22 years of experience in principal investing and project financing. Prior to his current position, Mr. Bluzer was an Associate Director at National Australia Bank’s Hong Kong and Shanghai offices, responsible for investment banking and funding solutions across Asia Pacific, having been instrumental in building the bank’s advisory and principal investing capabilities in the region. Before relocating to Asia, Mr. Bluzer had a successful career with National Australia Bank’s Project Finance team based in Sydney, Australia, where he focused on the provision of non-recourse project financing for projects from all major industry sectors. Mr. Bluzer holds a B.S. in Actuarial Sciences from the University of New South Wales.

Bryan Murphy

Partner and President

Bryan Murphy serves as Partner and President for Glenfarne Group.  He joined the firm in 2013 to lead legal activities as General Counsel and was then promoted to Managing Director. In 2020, Bryan was named President of EnfraGen, a developer, owner and operator of specialized sustainable and renewable power and grid stability assets in Latin America, jointly owned by Glenfarne. Under his leadership there has been tremendous growth in the company’s capabilities in Chile and Colombia and, most recently, the expansion of EnfraGen’s Central America business with the acquisition of six assets in Panama and Costa Rica.

Mr. Murphy has more than 21 years of experience in infrastructure investment, law, engineering, asset management and project development. Prior to his leadership position, Mr. Murphy was an attorney at Vinson & Elkins LLP, representing clients in the financing, acquisition and development of energy and infrastructure projects in the Americas. Mr. Murphy has also held positions with Goldman Sachs, Leydig, Voit & Meyer and E3 Consulting. Early in his career, Mr. Murphy worked as an engineer, including as an independent engineer advising on power asset transactions. Mr. Murphy has a B.S. in mechanical engineering, an M.A. in Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies, and a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin.

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Enrique Reus Jimeno

Chief Financial Officer and Managing Director

Enrique Reus Jimeno serves as Chief Financial Officer of all of Glenfarne Group’s family of companies. Since joining Glenfarne Group in 2015, he has built and led a finance and accounting team that has successfully overseen the Company’s significant growth through acquisitions and greenfield developments from one asset to more than 40 today.

Mr. Reus has over 21 years of professional financial and accounting experience. Prior to his current leadership position, Mr. Reus worked at leading global infrastructure and services operator, Ferrovial S.A., from 2008 to 2015. While there he spent almost 5 years as Deputy CFO of the U.S. Ferrovial subsidiary Webber, LLC. Prior to that, Mr. Reus worked at Ernst & Young’s Madrid office from 2005 to 2008, as an auditor within the construction and infrastructure group. Mr. Reus holds a B.D. in Business Administration from Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Jorge Hoyos

Managing Director

Jorge Hoyos serves as a Managing Director at Glenfarne Group. He joined Glenfarne as an MBA intern in 2016 and permanently joined the investment team in 2017. He has played a key role in the significant growth of the company’s power business, EnfraGen, LLC (“EnfraGen”) a developer, owner and operator of specialized sustainable and renewable power and grad stability assets, jointly owned by Glenfarne. He played a pivotal role in EnfraGen’s entry into Colombia in 2019, and led the acquisition of assets across Latin America, as well as the company’s refinancing activities over the course of his time on the team. His work as head of strategy, financing, and M&A was a key contributor of a compounded annual growth in EnfraGen’s EBITDA in excess of 50% since he joined. His work in those areas will continue as Managing Director.

He has more than 14 years of experience as a principal investor across the infrastructure and energy sectors. Before joining Glenfarne Group, Jorge worked at Trafigura where he participated in the development of a $1 billion novel multimodal logistics transportation project in Colombia. Prior to that, he worked in Corficolombiana (principal investment arm of Colombia’s largest financial conglomerate). He holds a B.A. from Universidad de los Andes and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Jorge is a native Spanish speaker.

Scott Meller

Head of Capital Formation

scott.meller@glenfarne.com
Scott Meller, CFA, serves as Head of Capital Formation at Glenfarne Group. Mr. Meller leads Glenfarne’s institutional fundraising and investor relations activities, supporting the firm’s capital formation strategy across its energy and infrastructure platforms.

Mr. Meller has more than 12 years of capital formation experience. Prior to joining Glenfarne, he worked at Actis, part of General Atlantic, where he served as Director and Head of North America for the Investor Solutions Group. In that position, he led capital raising efforts across energy, infrastructure, and real estate strategies and managed relationships with institutional investors including public and corporate pension plans, insurance companies, asset managers, endowments, foundations, and family offices. Prior to Actis, he spent seven years at Brookfield Asset Management in the Private Funds Group, where he raised capital across the firm’s private fund strategies, including infrastructure, real estate, private equity, growth equity, and credit. Earlier in his career, he worked in investment banking and financial advisory at Evercore Partners and Deloitte Financial Advisory Services, where he supported private capital fundraises, M&A advisory assignments, and valuation and transaction related analysis. Mr. Meller holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (“CFA”) designation. He earned a Master of Accountancy in Business Valuation from Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Vanderbilt University.