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Data Centres Private Equity Europe
1st October, 2026
Hilton London Tower BridgeLondon, UK

Laurentiu Prodan
Senior Director, Investments at CVC DIF
Speaker

Profile

Laurentiu Prodan is currently a Senior Director with CVC DIF Capital Partners, an infrastructure private equity fund manager created in 2005 with circa €23bn of investments which has a number of core, core-plus & value-add funds implementing, inter alia, “Build-to-Core” and “Buy-and-Grow” strategies with a strong pipeline of investments offering long-term contracted or regulated income streams, stable and predictable cash flows, and attractive risk-adjusted returns. CVC DIF is the infrastructure investment strategy of CVC Capital Partners – one of the world's leading private equity firms with circa €209bn assets under management.

Laurentiu has more than a decade of experience which spans Infrastructure, TMT and Business Services, either from a buy-side and/or sell-side perspective, and over time has been involved in numerous acquisitions, disposals, debt (high yield, large capex facilities, refis) and equity offerings, IPOs and take private transactions. Laurentiu graduated with a Bachelor’s and Master of Informatics in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning degree with First Class Honours and received the Class Medal from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

Agenda Sessions

  • The European data centre investment thesis: Why now and what’s next?

    08:45