Isela Bahena

Managing Director, Infrastructure Investments at Nuveen Real Assets and Infrastructure

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Isela Bahena brings over twenty years of investment and portfolio management experience across a variety of sectors and asset classes. She leads deal teams that originate, structure, and invest across the infrastructure spectrum including renewable, digital infrastructure, transportation, and energy transition assets. She led the infrastructure portfolio’s largest transportation asset on behalf of TIAA and a consortium of international institutional investors. Today, Ms. Bahena serves on several boards for investments in Europe and North America including toll roads, digital communications, and energy infrastructure sectors and holds several LP advisory roles.

Ms. Bahena’s previous experience includes investing across the capital structure and through various structures, which include private equity funds, co-investments, mezzanine, and private placement debt. Before joining TIAA-CREF in 2004, Ms. Bahena was responsible for public finance and general middle-market lending and underwriting at Bank of America.

Ms. Bahena holds a Bachelors of Science in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Masters in Business Administration from the Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.