Dave Sandor has been involved in capital markets and financial structuring since 2004, most recently at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong. Dave has spent the last two years focussed on the security token space and the application of blockchain technology to traditional financial markets, fundraising and investment. Dave is Co-founder & CEO of Allinfra.
Led by a team of infrastructure, financing and technology experts, Allinfra is helping to deliver unlisted infrastructure exposure in a liquid, low-cost form that will change the way infrastructure is financed and traded. Powered by Ethereum blockchain technology, Allinfra aims to bring access, choice and liquidity to unlisted infrastructure and environmental assets, changing how individuals and institutions own and trade these assets and delivering asset owners an alternative source of financing.
Understanding the Allinfra Platform
We’ve built a platform that we hope allows a broader spectrum of investors to access infrastructure investment directly, and on the flipside, allow those that require financing for infrastructure to tap into a broader pool of investors…By giving direct access, by putting the investor as close as possible to the underlying asset, stripping out intermediaries, we hope to be able to pass on a greater share of the returns from the asset to the ultimate investor.
The Team Behind Allinfra
The team has broad experience across capital markets, financial structuring, infrastructure asset management, infrastructure finance and technology. A couple of years ago, we saw that there was a gap in the infrastructure market, particularly in unlisted infrastructure, where the group as a whole has some expertise…We saw that through blockchain technology there was going to be a way to make that market more efficient…We put the right people together around the problem, and we’ve worked on that over the last couple of years to come up with a solution.
A Global Need for New Infrastructure Investment Paradigms
I think globally we need to explore other methods of financing infrastructure. We need to introduce a broad pool of investors to be able to invest in infrastructure directly. We know that there’s infrastructure spending shortfall globally over the next 20 to 30 years, or at least that’s what’s forecast, and if we’re going to break that we need additional sources of financing, we need creative sources of financing.
How Communities Can Benefit
If you think about infrastructure in a community, getting returns from that infrastructure from a financial perspective is fantastic, but there may be other reasons why you want to invest in that infrastructure. Maybe it’s going to improve your quality of life, maybe it’s going to make a difference to real estate values, and so forth. There are other factors that may come into why you want to back infrastructure in your local community, your local state, your local city, that is different to what a third-party institutional fund may look at.
How Blockchain Makes Allinfra Possible
For us, Blockchain is a method of delivery. We use something called the Ethereum blockchain, which is a programmable, general purpose blockchain. It’s a platform for smart contracts and decentralized applications. Basically, we create something that is a token on that blockchain, and that token represents an economic or ownership interest in an underlying asset. It is something that you can hold and possess on your own as an owner. You can basically control that asset yourself, control that token yourself, and it’s easy to trade.
Download full transcript (PDF): Dave Sandor on The Infra Blog
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