OMERS Infrastructure recruits Blackstone’s Michael Ryder
OMERS Infrastructure recruited Blackstone Group’s Michael Ryder as a senior managing director and head of its Americas team, a person familiar with the matter told PE Hub Canada. Ryder joins OMERS Infrastructure, an investment arm of Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System, after more than three years as a Blackstone senior managing director. He led the midstream energy and oilfield-services strategy of Blackstone Energy Partners. Before then, Ryder was for seven years a managing director at Morgan Stanley Private Equity. OMERS Infrastructure invests in large-scale infrastructure businesses in energy, social infrastructure and transportation, primarily in North America, Europe and Australia. Ryder will oversee the Americas infrastructure operation from OMERS' New York office.
