Team Investment

Location Middle East/Oman

Andy RymerInvestment Director

Andy is an Investment Director at Equitix, based in Oman with Equitix’s Rakiza fund, a JV with local partners Oman Infrastructure Investment Management and a mandate to develop and invest in infrastructure projects in Oman and Saudi Arabia.

Andy has over 27 years’ experience working on major infrastructure projects. Since joining Equitix in January 2008, Andy has successfully led numerous bids in the UK, Irish, and Oman greenfield PFI/PPP market. Andy has successfully achieved FC on a DBFO logistics facility for the import and wholesale processing of fruit and vegetables in Oman.

Andy was responsible for the Irish Community Nursing (CNU) project, which achieved FC Q4 2022, and the Irish Social Housing Bundle 2 Project which was successfully handed over into operations in H2 2021. Other successes include winning and closing the Gwynt-y-Mor and Humber Gateway Offshore wind transmission (OFTOs), Inverness College and Brunswick Social Housing.

Andy was SPV board Director on our Manchester and Nottingham LIFT Co’s, and Development manager on NHS Lanarkshire’s Primary Care and Cambridgeshire BSF, successfully developing both projects from bidding to Preferred Bidder and achieving Financial Close.

Previously at Laing O’Rourke, he was Project Leader, responsible for the delivery of a number of projects based at Heathrow T5 & T3, and Ascot Racecourse. Andy also worked for Norwest Holst (Vinci) in the UK, and before that worked in Hong Kong. He has a BEng (Honours) degree in Civil Engineering and is a Chartered Engineer (MICE).