Palisade hires Investment Manager

Palisade Investment Partners (Palisade), a specialist manager of Australian unlisted infrastructure, has appointed Karen Gould as an investment manager, effective August 2016.

Her appointment comes prior to the launch of Palisade's Renewable Energy Fund (PREF).

Prior to joining Palisade, Gould was an associate director at Macquarie in London where she focused on principal investments and asset management in renewable energy projects (including solar, wind, biomass and waste to energy). Before this, she was a director at the Australian Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency and also spent four years as a commercial lawyer in the Baker & McKenzie global climate change and renewables practice, after commencing her career as a graduate engineer at CH2M Hill.

Palisade has also appointed Michael Reynolds as an investment manager, effective August 2016.

Commenting on the new appointments, managing director & CEO of Palisade, Roger Lloyd, said: "Karen and Michael are highly experienced investment professionals who will complement the existing team. Palisade has intentionally sought to build out the investment team to ensure we have a group of diverse, independent thinkers focussed on assessing risk from multiple perspectives and that we have sufficient capacity to deliver on investor expectations."