Mads Skovgaard Andersen

Mads Skovgaard-Andersen is Chief Executive Officer at Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, where CIP’s current organization page lists him on the Executive Committee alongside Chief Operating Officer Martin Neubert and Global Head of Investor Relations Annabel Wiscarson. CIP’s Flagship Funds page also identifies him as “CEO and Partner - Flagship Funds lead.”

Before becoming CEO, Skovgaard-Andersen was publicly described by CIP and LinkedIn posts as a Partner, Chief Investment Officer, and head of CIP’s flagship funds. In that role he was associated with CI V, CIP’s fifth flagship fund, which surpassed its EUR 12 billion target in March 2025 and focuses on large-scale energy infrastructure across low-risk OECD markets in Europe, North America, and Asia Pacific.

Earlier in his career, he worked at DONG Energy, now Ørsted. A 2014 DONG Energy interview described him as based in London and serving as Asset Portfolio Director for a portfolio of UK offshore wind farms, with profit-and-loss responsibility for wind assets and commercial management of partnerships, business cases, risks, opportunities, and offshore transmission divestments. UK Companies House records also show him serving as a director of multiple DONG/Ørsted-related UK wind companies during 2013-2017.

Skovgaard-Andersen’s prior background includes legal and finance work: The Org reports that before DONG Energy he was an attorney-at-law at Kromann Reumert, specializing in M&A and banking and finance, and served as an external associate professor at the University of Copenhagen’s Faculty of Law. His LinkedIn profile lists INSEAD executive education in 2017 and awards including Jyllands-Posten’s “Top 50 executive talents in Denmark” in March 2014 and Berlingske Business Magazine’s “Talent 100” in April 2013.

• CIP’s flagship strategy is infrastructure-scale, not angel or seed-stage venture investing. The firm invests in regulated and long-term contracted energy infrastructure intended to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns, stable and predictable cash flows, and low correlation to the business cycle.
• CIP emphasizes a greenfield value-creation model: entering projects early, then de-risking and optimizing them before construction to capture the “greenfield premium.”
• CI V focuses on greenfield investments in large-scale energy infrastructure, diversified across technologies such as contracted offshore wind, energy storage, onshore wind, and solar in low-risk OECD countries.
• Sector fit is specific: CIP says its funds invest in offshore and onshore wind, solar PV, biomass and energy-from-waste, transmission and distribution, reserve capacity, storage, advanced bioenergy, and Power-to-X.
• Skovgaard-Andersen’s own public comments emphasize scale, energy independence, and risk-adjusted returns. On CIP’s 2026 acquisition of Ørsted’s European onshore business, he said the portfolio would “accelerate the deployment of renewable energy and strengthen Europe’s energy independence while delivering strong, risk-adjusted returns to our investors.”
• CIP’s project approach values execution capability and local delivery. In Taiwan, Skovgaard-Andersen highlighted projects completed ahead of schedule, local-content requirements, local growth and jobs, and healthy stable returns for investors.