Sashen Guneratna

Executive Vice President, Public Infrastructure at Canada Infrastructure Bank

Speaker

Sashen Guneratna is a senior infrastructure finance leader with deep experience delivering large-scale investments across several different asset types. As Executive Vice President, Public Infrastructure, he leads a team focused on investments with contracted revenue streams that deliver stable, yearoveryear impacts for Canadians, in areas including power transmission, non-emitting generation, energy storage, trade and transportation, investments to enable housing and digital infrastructure.

During his tenure at the CIB, Sashen has been responsible for the $10B+ clean power and broadband priority sectors, leading investments across the country in renewable power, transmission, energy storage and district energy, including spearheading the CIB’s investment in Canada’s first small modular reactor and the organization’s first interprovincial transmission and equity investment.

Sashen brings more than 25 years of banking and advisory experience across multiple sectors and jurisdictions. Prior to joining the CIB, he was a Partner in PwC’s Capital Projects and Infrastructure group, with a focus on power and utilities, water and wastewater, and Indigenous-led projects. Sashen previously worked in debt capital markets and project finance advisory at National Bank Financial and power and utilities lending at Scotia Capital.

He holds an MBA and BBA from the Schulich School of Business, an ICD.D designation from Rotman, and serves on the board of Wasoqonatl Transmission Inc.