Barry Gold

Managing Director
Specializes in investment strategy and performance improvement
Clients across power, energy, transport, water, and other infrastructure sectors
New York
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Barry Gold is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal in New York. He specializes in investment strategy and performance improvement for infrastructure private equity investments.

With more than three decades of experience in infrastructure private equity investing, debt financing, and financial advisory in power, energy, transport, water, and other infrastructure sectors, Mr. Gold led 18 major infrastructure and energy investments from 2006 to 2024, aggregating around $1.5 billion of equity value. Prior to that, he led the financings for infrastructure assets, public–private partnerships, project financings, and advisory assignments in excess of $30 billion of transaction value. 

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Gold spent three years with Marathon Capital Partners, the asset management affiliate of Marathon Capital, a leading advisor in clean energy, infrastructure, and technology, where he served as Senior Managing Partner. 

Previously, Mr. Gold was the Head of Infrastructure Investment at ORIX, with Starwood Energy Infrastructure Fund, Co-Founder and Co-Head of The Carlyle Group’s Infrastructure fund, Co-Head of Citigroup’s Structured and Infrastructure Finance group, Chief Development Officer at Airport Group International, and Head of Asian Project Finance at Lehman Brothers. 

Mr. Gold earned a bachelor’s degree in computer applications and an MBA in finance from New York University. He has been on the boards of eight private equity portfolio companies and the boards of the Grand Teton National Park Foundation and the Storm Trysail Foundation (which promotes safety and education related to offshore sailing). Mr. Gold was an Editor of the Journal of Structured Finance. He was an adjunct professor of finance at New York University’s Stern Graduate School of Business, teaching a course on infrastructure and project finance, and he currently gives an annual lecture at the University of Chicago Law School on infrastructure policy and finance. 

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