ABOUT US
GIA's Unique Business Model
Global Impact Assets, LLC ("GIA") is a global diversified financial services organization focused on sustainable prosperity. Our vehicle to effect this change is financing high-impact infrastructure projects across burgeoning global markets.
Through our financing, we empower communities with essential infrastructure - transportation, energy, telecommunications, water, and waste management.
But we go beyond. We invest in the pillars of society, fostering progress in housing, healthcare, education, justice, sports, and entertainment. We are more than a financial entity; we're a conduit for abundance, sourced from institutional investors, channeled into transformative social and environmental initiatives.
By creating realistic impact programs, we will not only know if we are doing the project right, but also if we are doing the right project.
Weaving abundance for all, revolutionizing finance, enriching lives, respecting the environment.
Our Vision
GIA’s vision is to leverage infrastructure to catalyze human and environmental prosperity. We utilize the most effective financial structures to create an impact far larger than our input. Accuracy on where to go, what to do and how to do it to achieve abundance for all. Benefit is the degree of impact that we create, cost is volume of Investment in infrastructure.
We demonstrate that impact investment is the best way of developing infrastructure by creating projects that are financially and impactfully viable to all stakeholders, we can change the way business is conducted. Competitive terms, lowest risk and highest impact.
Our Mission
GIA’s mission is to finance revolutionary socially and environmentally holistic infrastructure in partnership with forward-thinking stakeholders.
We apply the principles of impact ("ESG") investment to deploy infrastructure.
Our Brand
GIA seeks to draw inspiration from the sociable weaverbird, which is known for its exceptional building skills. This bird constructs intricate nesting structures, which are the largest built by any bird, providing shelter for hundreds of birds and other species in different climatic conditions. GIA aims to embody this same level of resilience and inclusivity in its approach to foster and bring communities together.
Camilo Salomon
Chairman & CEO
With a remarkable 35-year career dedicated to innovating within global infrastructure investment, Camilo stands as a visionary, beacon of impact investment, fostering an environment of abundance for diversified communities.
For more than three decades, Camilo honed his craft as an investment banker, specializing in architecting long-term capital structures for infrastructure projects within emerging markets. His expansive portfolio boasts a spectrum of asset classes, from transportation and logistics to telecommunications, utilities, energy, oil & gas, mining & industrial sectors. Furthermore, his expertise extends to social infrastructure, encompassing health, education, justice, social housing, and sports & entertainment.
By masterfully weaving together interdisciplinary tools such as selective stakeholder involvement, strategic risk management, credit enhancement instruments, and financial guarantees engineering, Camilo defied convention. He continuously uncovered investment opportunities teeming with the growth potential characteristic of emerging markets, but with notably reduced risk.
The past decade has seen Camilo, through GIA, pivot towards a revolutionary approach: impact investment. This innovative strategy is driven by the firm belief that infrastructure investment should serve a dual purpose—generating economic gain and fostering social and environmental prosperity.
Leveraging his extensive background, Camilo has redefined financial structures to maximize the impact on the communities served, transforming traditional business models. The mantra is simple yet profound: minimal cost and maximum impact. This efficiency of impact embodies the success of his vision and marks a promising pathway forward, not only for the investment world but also for the broader realm of global prosperity.
GIA´s
Pillars
What makes us who we are, is our commitment to a rigorous four-pillar program. Combining collaboration and bold foundations, we aim to reach a wider audience and enlarge our pool of potential capital providers.
ESG Strategy
GIA Impact LLC, elevates communities with comprehensive impact programs, focusing on doing the right projects for redefined success.
Risk Management
GIA Risk, LLC Manages investment risks opportunities, fostering growth in emerging markets and ensuring financial security for stakeholders.
Project Finance
GIA Structure, LLC excels in aligning capital with impactful projects through deep investor relationships, making informed investment commitments.
Project Management
GIA Project, LLC offers all-inclusive project management from initiation to completion, optimizing resources and timelines with strategic partnerships.
Strategic
Partners
Our commitment is to deliver exceptional outcomes across all our projects. This we achieve by forging synergistic collaborations with world-class strategic partners.
Capabilities
A robust infrastructure is pivotal in confronting global challenges — sustainable population growth, environmental resilience, poverty reduction, access to essential resources and economic growth. It serves as a gateway to abundance.
Connectivity
- Digital Inclusion
- Fixed
- IoT
- Mobile
- Satellite
Energy
- Biomass
- Distribution
- Eolic
- Hydroelectric
- PV Solar
- Thermal
- Transmission
- Waste-to-energy
Natural resources
- Base Metals
- Precious Metals
- Smelting & Refinement
Oil & Gas
- Downstream
- LNG
- Midstream
- Upstream
Social Infrastructure
- Education
- Healthcare
- Justice
- Social Housing
- Sports & Entertainment
Transportation
- Airports
- Logistics centers
- Ports
- Public transit
- Railroads
- Roads
Waste Management
- Combustion
- Digestion
- Incineration
- Recovery and recycling
Water
- Industrial water
- Irrigation districts
- Tunnels, conveyance, collection, & distribution
- Wastewater treatment & reuse
- Watershed & ecosystem management
Transportation
- Airports
- Logistics centers
- Ports
- Public transit
- Railroads
- Roads
