Joseph W. Ferrigno

Mr. Joseph Ferrigno is Managing Partner of AMCG.
He has been a leader and pioneer in the investment management and banking businesses in the Asia region since 1984.
Mr. Ferrigno has been principally involved with private equity/mezzanine fund management and with the development and financing of infrastructure, energy, telecom and Internet businesses while at Lehman Brothers, Ferrigno & Associates, the Bechtel Group and Prudential Financial of the United States.
Earlier, he was with the Chase Manhattan Bank and Bankers Trust Company in New York and London after earning a B.Sc.
in Economics from the Wharton School.
In 1990, Mr. Ferrigno initiated the establishment of a specialist infrastructure private equity fund management company owned by Ferrigno & Associates, Peregrine Capital, the Asian Development Bank, the International Finance Corporation, Frank Russell & Co. and the Soros Group.
It launched and managed the US$780 million Asian Infrastructure Fund and the US$160 million Asia Telecom Fund, the first of their kind.
In 1996, Mr. Ferrigno initiated and co-founded Prudential Asia Infrastructure Investors Limited (PAII) with Prudential Financial of the U.S and in 1997 led the launch of the first Mezzanine Capital fund in Asia, the US$ 246 million Asian Infrastructure Mezzanine Capital Fund, for which Prudential Financial acted as Sponsor and the Asian Development Bank is a Core Investor.
He was Chairman of its Investment Committee.
AIMCF is fully invested in companies active in the power, telecom, internet and transportation industries located in China, India, Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines.
In March 2002, PAII was purchased by Darby Overseas Investments Ltd., a specialist Latin American emerging markets investment management firm based in Washington, D.C., which was purchased by Franklin Resources, Inc. in October 2003.
Mr. Ferrigno resigned from Darby in July 2003.