Biography
Ms. Axter is Managing Director, Head of Asset Management of Ullico Infrastructure Management Company, LLC, (UIMC) which is a UIA subsidiary and a Relying Adviser of UIA. Prior to assuming this role in January 2017, Ms. Axter was an employee of UIA since 2009 as a Managing Director and Vice President of its Infrastructure Investments group. Ms. Axter has over 25 years experience in infrastructure development, principal ownership and project management. Prior to joining UIA, Ms. Axter was a senior member of Deutsche Bank’s alternatives investment group and performed both acquisitions and asset management of infrastructure assets. Ms. Axter was also formerly a senior member of Bechtel Enterprises, the infrastructure finance and development arm of Bechtel Group Inc. In her tenure at Bechtel, Ms. Axter led the redevelopment of one of the first public private partnerships (PPPs) in the U.S., the $150 million light rail and real estate Cascade Station development in Portland, Oregon. Prior to business school, Ms. Axter spent 7 years as a Project Manager and Project Engineer on a range of transport, utility and environmentally-impacted civil construction projects for the Pacific NW division of Granite Construction Company. Ms. Axter holds an M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business, a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Washington, and a registered representative designation from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.