Thor Johnsen

Managing Partner at Digital Gravity

Panellist

Thor Johnsen, Managing Partner of Digital Gravity Infrastructure Partners (Digital Gravity), has two decades of experience in infrastructure investing and has built multiple growth infrastructure businesses and led prominent European infrastructure portfolios. Thor is leading on Gravity Edge Datacentres, the £500m metro datacentre JV with BlackRock. Prior to Digital Gravity, Thor was investing on behalf of a family office and a listed investment trust, raising and investing $1.5bn across nine digital infrastructure investments. Through this investment period, Thor helped found and build several leading digital infrastructure businesses including, Aqua Comms (subsea fibre), Ontix Wireless and Verne Global (datacentres), and led on transforming datacentre investments across Europe (Volta, Ficolo, et al..).

Thor's investment career began at Arcapita Limited in 2006, where he ultimately led their European infrastructure strategy, building several growth infrastructure platforms in the power generation (renewables and CCGT), energy storage, and rail freight. During this period, Thor has returned over $2 billion to investors and generated a realised track record of over 25.3% IRR / 2.8x MOIC.

Thor has also held senior investment banking roles at Credit Suisse and BAML, focusing on Infrastructure and Energy Transition. A U.S. Navy Reserves Lieutenant Commander (inactive), Thor holds a J.D. from Georgetown Law, an MBA from Georgetown, and a BA in Economics (and Naval Engineering) from Northwestern University (with honors). He serves on the charitable board of the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps Scholarship Fund.