Ashley Blows – managing director of infrastructure at Natixis in London – has today (13 March) announced his departure from the bank after almost 15 years.

Blows said he is “taking a break” before embarking on a portfolio career in the infrastructure sector, and will continue to be based in the UK.

He has said that he is open to “non-executive directorships, investment committee positions, advisory assignments or working on bespoke projects”.

Blows specialises in the PPP projects market and has over 30 years’ banking experience. He was most recently MD, financial sponsor coverage - infrastructure at the investment bank, under which he headed up coverage for infrastructure fund managers. Before that he was MD transport & environment, which encompassed Natixis' PPP and social infrastructure activities.

He was appointed global head of infrastructure in 2011 in a wide-ranging shakeup of the global project finance operations – and joined the bank in 2008 from Depfa where he was global head of infrastructure equity.