Our financing offers our Indigenous Nation partners the opportunity to negotiate better terms by having access to the capital required to finance their share of the capital investment in the infrastructure project while accelerating project development time and cash flow.
Our solutions are insured to mitigate development risk for Indigenous Nations protecting their community’s capital and preserving their economic wealth.
Canada and its provinces are being forced to accelerate the development of major natural resource and infrastructure projects.
Indigenous Nations and communities have an opportunity to play a meaningful role in the development of these projects and generate significant long-term economic benefits for their communities by obtaining meaningful ownership in projects with enduring value for their communities.
There is growing appetite amongst government, business, and the public to create strong, long-term partnerships with Indigenous Nations to accelerate economic development and drive greater prosperity for their communities and for the benefit of all Canadians.
Projects with proven development partners involving long term contracts with credit-worthy counter-parties across a broad range of sectors
Hydro
Power
Biomass
Energy
Solar
Power
Hydro
Power
Biomass
Energy
Solar
Power
Our expertise makes us well positioned to offer unique solutions that increase access to capital at competitive rates while protecting community capital investments against development risk.
Our team brings together experience in founding and managing both finance and insurance businesses in North America and Europe while leading the development of Indigenous Nations community based projects.
We have long-standing relationships with global private equity and asset managers and insurers in both North America and Europe along with current and former government representatives responsible for the development and allocation of federal and provincial incentive programs designed to foster Indigenous Nations’ investments in infrastructure projects.
Jim’s expertise is strategic advisory, alternative asset management, and establishing cross-border insurance and financial structures across Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe, and the Caribbean. Over a 40-year career spanning private equity, public markets, alternative investments, and complex, bespoke structures, he has built a distinguished track record of guiding corporate strategy and advising ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) families. He is currently a Partner of Generation Three Family Partners, an international multi-family office, and serves as Managing Director of Penturn & Company Limited, a London-based strategic advisory firm.
Throughout his career, Jim has scaled high-value financial platforms and directed complex corporate operations. Serving as Chair of the Strategic Advisory Committee for a private European-based natural gas exploration and production firm, he guided strategic financial planning and substantial institutional capital raises. As President of multiple specialized financial services and investment holding companies, he orchestrated the administration, structuring, and deployment of large portfolios of commercial loans and diversified investments. Jim has served as a director and Board Chair for multiple publicly traded companies on the TSX and TSX-V, actively leading executive, audit, governance, and compensation committees.
Through Two Rivers, Jim leverages his deep expertise in structured finance, international risk management, and insurance captives—including his extensive experience forming and managing captives in Barbados and Bermuda—to design robust asset-protection frameworks and strategic financing vehicles that safeguard capital for infrastructure initiatives.
Jim holds a B.A. degree with Honours in Political Economy from the University of Toronto.
John’s expertise is creating and managing unique insured finance solutions for clients in new and/or underserved markets. He co-founded BridgePoint Financial Services Inc. in August 2005. BridgePoint is the leading provider of specialized financial services for the Canadian legal services market. Beginning in 2022, BridgePoint has significantly expanded its business by providing an insured finance solution for Canadian First Nations’ treaty claims.
Since 2012, John led the development of new financing and indemnity products in Europe and the Caribbean with significant experience forming and managing insurance captives in Barbados, Bermuda and Guernsey. John has applied his experience within the finance and insurance industries to design and implement large-scale remediation programs for legal and regulatory claims. In 2021, John was retained by the UK government to develop a recovery strategy for one of the largest mass contract schemes in Europe.
Through Two Rivers, John and the management team are developing a proprietary insured finance solution for Indigenous Nations that will enable them to fund their equity interests in infrastructure projects while protecting their capital against project / development risk.
John holds a B.Comm. degree (University of Toronto), an LL.B. degree (Queen’s University) and is a CFA.
Garrett’s expertise is Indigenous governance, regulatory processes, and facilitating Indigenous participation in major projects. An Indigenous leader based who calls the Muskotew Sakahikan Enowuk territory home in Alberta, he has advised First Nations and Métis governments for more than 20 years, on some of the most complex files in Canada. In 2014, he founded BlueDot Consulting, advising Indigenous governments and industry on governance and economic development.
Since 2018, in addition to serving First Nations governments, Garrett has held senior roles with the Métis Nation of Alberta, now the Otipemisiwak Métis Government. As Director of Consultation, he built a province-wide Consultation Department and led regulatory hearings that set precedents for the recognition of Métis rights in Alberta. As Senior Director of Self-Government, he led the development of Alberta’s first Métis Constitution and the largest Indigenous self-government ratification vote in Canadian history (96.9% approval), and in 2023 was appointed inaugural Chair of the Otipemisiwak Métis Government. Early in his career Garrett served as the youngest serving chief elected official in Alberta, as Reeve of Northern Sunrise County and as a Board Director of New Water Ltd., a regional public water utility developed in co-ownership with a First Nation government.
Garrett serves on the Board of Governors of MaKami College and the Council of the College of Alberta Psychologists. In 2023, he received the Okimâw 7 Teachings Award for Wisdom, honouring Indigenous men who embody the Sacred Grandfather Teachings.
A co-founder of Two Rivers, Garrett supports the firm’s Indigenous community relations. He brings long-standing relationships with Indigenous governments, industry and public agencies, and a practitioner’s understanding of how Nations decide on equity ownership in major infrastructure projects, in a way that meets each community’s unique needs.
Managing Partner, Mark Weisdorf Associates
Mark is Investment Committee chair of Zurich-based Swiss pension plan cooperative, IST3 Infrastruktur Global; Senior Advisor to Seraya Partners based in Singapore; and chair of Investment Committee and Board of Palisade Infrastructure Americas, based in NYC. In addition to strategic consulting services, since 2015, Mark has facilitated over $5 billion of renewable energy, decarbonization, digital, FttH, energy transition, transportation and other infrastructure investments and financings. In 2019, with Mark as Investment Committee chair, IST3 IG, together with a Canadian partner, each acquired 30% equity interests, with seven Indigenous Communities acquiring a total 40% equity interest in the Alberta Power Line, a 500km 500kV transmission line from Edmonton to Fort McMurray, for $1.7billion, including $1.4billion of debt.
As Global CIO & CEO based in NYC, Mark established JPMorgan’s Infrastructure Investments platform in 2005 growing it to $10 billion AUM by 2014. Prior to 2004, Mark was Head of Private Markets at the CPP Investment Board in Toronto, where he developed and implemented Private Equity, Venture, Real Estate and Infrastructure investment strategies, and established strategic partnerships, totaling $7 billion.
Through his consulting firm, Mark Weisdorf Associates, Mark focuses on private market infrastructure investment strategies. Past strategic consulting clients include Actis Power, Arjun Infrastructure Partners, Brookfield Asset Management, Global Infrastructure Partners, Hydrogen Equity Partners, Investment Management Corporation of Ontario, IST Investment Foundations, JCM Power, Macquarie Capital, National Treasury Management Agency of Ireland, Ontario Pension Board, Partners Group, and Teck Resources Limited.
Mark holds a B.Comm degree (University of Toronto), and is a CPA, CA, CFA and CBV.
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