Vivek Gupta, co-founder of Equicap Asia which is delivering InfraCo Asia’s South Asia Developer Services Program, has built a career in infrastructure literally from the ground up. With an eye for detail, and an obsession for thorough process, Vivek shares his views on what makes complex projects succeed.

“I believe Myanmar has the potential to leap-frog the challenges that often come with rapid development,” says Yanis Boudjouher.The co-Founder and Director of Infra Capital Myanmar (ICM), Yanis believes InfraCo Asia has a crucial role to play in Myanmar – one of the last frontier markets in Asia.

The majority of the Singapore-headquartered InfraCo Asia team recently assembled in Hanoi, preparing to make the almost four-hour journey to Vietnam’s picturesque Lao Cai Province. A spacious, modern highway leads to Lao Cai—a symbol of the region’s growth.

John Walker, Executive Chairman of Infrastructure, Utilities and Renewables Asia for Macquarie Capital and Chairman of Macquarie Group, Korea, stepped into his new role with InfraCo Asia because, he says, the big-picture potential of this relatively young company, is panoramic.

GuarantCo, like InfraCo Asia, is a facility of the London-based Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG), and it too has a mandate focused on facilitating infrastructure investment in low-income regions. Chris Vermont is the Managing Director of GuarantCo at Frontier Markets Fund Managers, and he sees very clearly the collective impact being made through the work of InfraCo Asia and GurantCo in South and South East Asia.

Ids Groenhout has over 50 years of experience working in infrastructure, so it is intriguing that he singles out InfraCo Asia’s Coc San Hydro Power Project in Lao Cai Province, Vietnam, as a highlight of his professional life.

Nhu Quynh Ta is General Director of Lao Cai Renewable Energy, the project company responsible for running the InfraCo Asia-supported Coc San Hydro Power Project. She shares what it's like to be one of the first women to take a lead role in Vietnam's hydro power sector.