Founded in 1987, CG/LA Infrastructure is a purpose-driven organization that creates long-term value in the world's infrastructure markets.

Our mission is to accelerate infrastructure development in an efficient and effective manner that benefits all key stakeholders - including the local community and the taxpayers, governments, businesses, project originators/owners, and investors.

Creating Great Long-term Assets

CG/LA Infrastructure’s community is global, with a network of over 65,000 infrastructure decision makers covering over 2,300 projects.

60K+  Global reach of infrastructure decision-makers

48%  Number CG/LA partners featured on the Fortune 500

103+ Number CG/LA partners featured on the Fortune 500.

Our team

Our team

Norman F. Anderson

(1987 -2021)

Anand Hemnani

Anand Hemnani

Anand Hemnani

Gordon Arbuckle

Anand Hemnani

Bruno Freitas

John Cuttino

Anand Hemnani

  • Norman F. Anderson is GlobalVIP’s Chief Executive Officer and Chairman & CEO of CG/LA Infrastructure. He oversees the four pillars of CG/LA’s business: Blueprint 2025 2X, including strategic advocacy to double U.S. infrastructure investment; the Leadership Forum platform - including globally, the U.S. and Eurasia, as well as Latin America; GlobalViP, an algorithm- driven tool for infrastructure project owners; and Strategic Advisory, including M&A and both brownfield and greenfield investment opportunities. The National Infrastructure Performance Council, Blueprint 2025’s steering committee, is anchored by founding chairmen Hank Greenberg and David Petraeus. Mr. Anderson is, or has been, a member of various World Economic Forum groups, including the Global Advisory Council on Infrastructure, the Strategic Infrastructure Initiative, and the Advisory Committee on Building Foundations for Transparency. He initiated and co-authored the WEF’s study on Accelerating Infrastructure Delivery (May 2014). For the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee he authored a White Paper on economic statecraft, focused on infrastructure markets worldwide (June 2014). He has taught at Columbia University in New York City, teaching a course on Engineering & Entrepreneurship. He is a partner in CAMG, a pan-Atlantic infrastructure fund. He is a regular contributor to CNBC, Bloomberg, CBC and Fox Business News, discussing the US and global infrastructure markets. Mr. Anderson began his career as a Peace Corps volunteer in Paraguay, serving for a total of five years. He is married to the former Ingrid Sckell, and has two children - Norman Gabriel (32), an attorney at Latham & Watkins; and Janina Victoria (30), a visual artist and professor at Concordia University in Montreal. He speaks four languages, including Portuguese. He has a graduate degree from Harvard University.

  • As a senior partner of Washington DC based, CG/LA Infrastructure and the Strategic Infrastructure Performance Institute, Mr. Hemnani is currently focused on optimizing infrastructure assets across all levels of Government in order to monetize opportunities related to the digitization and electrification. Throughout his 27-year career, Mr. Hemnani has focused on optimizing performance for companies, with a particular focus on Infrastructure, Finance and Capital Goods, bringing with him unique experience of a broad range of Latin American, US, African and Asian markets and industries. As an advisor, he works in all areas of the business value chain, focused on building teams and growing businesses with an eye on companies with a positive environmental impact coupled with long term equity value creation. Mr. Hemnani has conducted extensive development and financing fieldwork and analysis in the capital goods and infrastructure markets, is widely published, and presents in several international conferences. Besides being a renowned advisor, Mr. Hemnani has started and sold two companies and sits on the Boards of four companies across the Trading, Manufacturing, Environmental Recycling, and Packaging industries. Mr. Hemnani also serves on the Board of an Industrial Conglomerate encompassing construction and food industries across Africa and Asia.

    Mr. Hemnani began his career in 1995 at an international trade company and then worked at two NY Investment Banks and a boutique Advisory firm. He is married to Malaika Daryanani Hemnani and has two children, Alma and Arya, both studying in Brazil. Mr. Hemnani is a Brazilian national with Indian roots and is a graduate of Babson College (summa cum laude) and is fluent in English, Portuguese, Spanish and Hindi.

  • 20 years experience in innovation, business architecture and governance, social impact and public policies, was introduced to CG-LA when responsible for the Innovation Unit of the State Secretariat of the Government of São Paulo.

    A Doctoral candidate at Fundação Getúlio Vargas working on a thesis of trust-based governance principles in multistakeholder decision-making processes, he’s also a Master in Business Administration from Ohio University and author of the book ‘Start-Ups - Como Empresas Embrionárias Rumam A Caminhos Milionários’, as well as the managing founder of Torus.consulting and B2F.business, co-founder Dínamo.org.br and board member at {Parças}, Baanko and The Continents University.

    For decades being dedicated to the betterment of society by connecting people, ideas, and ideals, he’s committed himself to a life of unusual and out-of-the-box goals, seeking to overcome challenges by allowing serendipity and collisions to come together in one big purpose-driven swirl. Bruno’s mission is to leave behind a legacy of positive achievements and a network of good friends made along the way.

  • With more than 25 years of experience in trade & investment and transportation, John Cuttino has worked with various governmental, multilateral and non-profit organizations in the U.S., Brazil and Nigeria. He currently serves as Visiting Scholar at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and board member of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Services of Brazil and the Rio de Janeiro Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He opened the first Brazilian offices for the Port of Houston Authority (2006-2018) and the Greater Houston Partnership (2009-2012). John is also a member of the Integrated Logistics Chamber of the Brazilian Foreign Trade Association and the Texan Chamber of Commerce in Brazil. With publications on economic impacts, multimodal transportation and international trade, he completed dual Masters degrees in Public Affairs and Brazilian Studies from the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies both at the University of Texas at Austin. John also graduated with a BA in History from Tufts University.