Ines Tovo

Ines Tovo is a Managing Director with Blackstone Credit & Insurance in New York. Blackstone says she is involved in the origination and execution of investments in the infrastructure and energy transition sectors.

Before joining Blackstone Credit, Tovo worked at Orion Energy Partners, now Orion Infrastructure Capital / OIC. Blackstone describes her as a founding member of Orion’s investment team, responsible for sourcing and executing investments in environmental infrastructure and energy. OIC was founded in 2015 and later rebranded from Orion Energy Partners to Orion Infrastructure Capital in 2022.

Earlier in her career, Tovo worked at Energy Capital Partners, focused on special-situation credit opportunities in energy and infrastructure, and at AlpInvest Partners, a private equity asset manager. She began her career in J.P. Morgan’s Leveraged Finance Group, working on high-yield and term-loan financings in the energy sector.

Tovo received a BA in Economics from Washington and Lee University, graduating cum laude. Her LinkedIn profile lists Washington and Lee University for 2007–2011 and shows Blackstone as her current employer.

• Blackstone identifies Tovo’s current work as infrastructure and energy-transition investment origination and execution within Blackstone Credit.
• Blackstone Credit & Insurance says it invests across credit markets and targets sectors with strong fundamentals, including private corporate credit, liquid credit, infrastructure and asset-based credit, and real estate credit.
• Within Infrastructure and Asset Based Credit, Blackstone states that it invests in “energy transition and climate solutions, essential infrastructure and loans backed by diversified financial and physical collateral.”
• Blackstone’s Sustainable Resources Credit Platform focuses on renewable energy companies and companies supporting the energy transition, including renewable electricity generation and storage, decarbonized transportation, green financings, sustainability-linked loans, residential solar and home efficiency, and other energy infrastructure investments.
• Her prior Orion/OIC work maps to flexible capital for infrastructure businesses. OIC describes its approach as “for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs,” providing customized credit, equity, and growth capital solutions to help middle-market businesses scale and deploy sustainable infrastructure.
• The available sources do not support the stub characterization of Tovo as a seed-stage angel investor.