Catalyzing Critical Infrastructure and Mineral Development in Frontier Markets
Market-rate impact private equity focused on strategic resource and infrastructure investments.
Inadequate transportation networks, unreliable energy systems, underdeveloped logistics corridors, and raw commodity export dependency trap economies below their productive potential.
By deploying capital into critical infrastructure and local resource refinement, we unlock compounding economic value: communities gain reliable connectivity and energy access, local industries capture more of the value chain, and investors benefit from the returns generated when previously constrained markets begin to function. Impact and return are the same transaction.
Our Guiding Principle
Our Team
Alexander Orta
Managing Partner — Fundraising, Strategy & Operations
Alexander Orta's career spans frontier market development, quantitative risk, and infrastructure finance across three continents. A University of Florida graduate in Business Administration, Alex began his international career as a U.S. Peace Corps Economic Development Specialist in Ukraine, where he partnered with municipal leadership to structure and market industrial assets to foreign investors and co-founded a national capital mobilization platform that secured an approximately 18% increase in sovereign EU funding for regional infrastructure.
Returning to the United States, Alex built a commercial risk management practice at State Farm, advising over 500 SMB clients on complex liability structures and generating more than $3 million in annual recurring premium across the Southeast. He subsequently deepened his quantitative and energy finance capabilities at GE Vernova, where he architected a Python-based Monte Carlo simulation engine for wind fleet risk modeling and redesigned cost-allocation frameworks for field operations. He also completed the PURC/World Bank International Training Program on Utility Regulation and Strategy, with exposure to regulatory cost-of-capital assessment across emerging market energy systems.
Alex holds an MBA and MS in Quantitative Economics from Boston University's Questrom School of Business, with a concentration in infrastructure finance, econometrics, and bilateral governance structures. He was selected for the CERAWeek NextGen Cohort in 2026.
Based in Boston, Massachusetts.
Aibek Sabirov
Managing Partner — Central Asia Regional Lead
Aibek Sabirov brings over a decade of operational and investment experience at the intersection of energy, heavy infrastructure, and capital deployment across Central Asia and Europe. A Kazakh national and engineer by training, he began his career with Eni in Milan, working as a Production Optimization Engineer on both offshore Adriatic and onshore Italian field operations before pivoting to the investment and project management side of the industry.
Returning to Kazakhstan, Aibek joined Samruk-Kazyna — Kazakhstan's sovereign wealth fund — as a Senior Associate in the Oil and Gas Directorate, where he analyzed energy sector investment proposals and collaborated with international investment teams on market and macroeconomic assessments. He subsequently moved into KMG Kashagan B.V., the operating entity for the Kashagan Field in the Caspian Sea — one of the world's most technically complex hydrocarbon megaprojects, developed by a consortium of ExxonMobil, Shell, TotalEnergies, Eni, CNPC, and Inpex. Over nearly four years, he rose from Lead Expert to Head of Subsurface and Growth Projects, before becoming Head of Production Operations and Surveillance. He then joined NCOC (North Caspian Operating Company) as Production Plan Delivery and Support Manager, overseeing the export of 410,000 barrels of oil and 11 million standard cubic meters of gas per day across a 30+ person cross-functional team.
Aibek is currently completing a dual MBA (STEM) and MA in International Relations at Boston University on a Dean's Scholarship, where he also served as a Graduate Research Assistant at the Questrom School of Business. At MSIFS, he leads Central Asia deal origination and operational execution, drawing on deep relationships across Kazakhstan's energy, mining, and institutional investment sectors.
Based in Boston, Massachusets and Almaty, Kazakhstan
Andre “Hassan” Wilson
Managing Partner — Central Africa Regional Lead
Andre Wilson is a GTM specialist and deal architect specializing in revenue generating operations. Before navigating the complexities of Central Asia and Africa, his career began navigating the complexities of government organizations at the City of Atlanta, where he mastered identifying unelected influencers and key decision-makers who control budgets and approvals—skills that unlock stalled projects.
In Kazakhstan, he joined a bootstrapped organization that transformed modest $250 contributions from a diverse pool of 100+ investors into multi-million-dollar bilateral infrastructure initiatives projects. Leveraging high-level relationships with bank owners, politicians, startup founders, and fund managers, he was a key component in an organization that scaled seed capital into high impact deals.
Relocating to Kenya with zero local connections, Andre negotiated a multi-million-dollar construction project within one year—and is now managing it from inception to completion, overseeing project management, marketing, and sales. This "ground zero to high-stakes" execution honed his RevOps, GTM, project management and cross-sector expertise (tech, logistical infrastructure, commodities trading).
Based in Mombasa, Kenya
Stephen Habetz
Managing Partner - Financial Structuring, LP Reporting & Compliance
Stephen Habetz, CFA, is a finance and investment professional with a background in institutional wealth management. He is currently completing his MBA at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business as a Kenneth R. Meyer Fellow, where he focuses on private capital, structured finance, and sustainable investing.
Stephen’s investment career is anchored by five years at Morgan Stanley, where he advised on portfolios exceeding $10MM and oversaw the conversion of more than $500MM in assets into advisory mandates, generating in excess of $5MM in high margin, annually recurring revenue. His work required deep fluency in portfolio construction, risk-adjusted return analysis, and long-duration client relationships.
Stephen held a recent stint at Moelis & Company, supporting M&A and advisory mandates across Clean Tech and Energy Services. His coverage of the energy transition space reflects a broader conviction in the structural tailwinds reshaping global capital allocation toward sustainable infrastructure.
Stephen’s investment acumen extends beyond traditional asset classes. Through the IDEA Center at the University of Notre Dame, he actively advises a portfolio of early-stage ventures, providing strategic guidance on business model validation, go-to-market execution, and capital formation. Founders under his mentorship have secured seed stage funding and entered formal discussions with corporate venture capital.
Stephen holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and Series 7 and Series 66 licenses. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Boston College.
Based in Washington, DC
Contact Us
MSIFS is currently in its capital formation phase. Qualified investors and strategic partners are welcome to request our fund materials or arrange a conversation with the team.