Paris Fronimos

Senior Director

Location: Victoria

Paris is a Senior Director on the Infrastructure and Renewable Resource  Investments team of the British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (“BCI”). Paris joined BCI in 2017 and provides transaction and board level leadership within BCI’s global energy and utilities portfolio. With $295 billion of gross managed assets as of March 31, 2025, BCI is one of Canada’s largest institutional investors within the global capital markets. 

Based in Victoria, British Columbia, BCI invests in all major asset classes including fixed income, mortgages, public equities, private equity, real estate, infrastructure and renewable resources.  

Paris serves as a member of the Board of Directors or Committee Chair of investee companies including: Cleco, a US electrical utility; Open Grid Europe and NTS, natural gas pipelines in Germany and Brazil respectively; and Emicool, a UAE district cooling business.  

Paris has more than 20 years of experience in the energy and utilities sector, having worked across Canada on environmental and energy policy; greenfield power generation development; district energy; transaction advisory; and operational optimisation including commodity pricing and hedging.  

Paris holds an MBA (specialised in Natural Resources and Energy) from the University of Alberta in Canada and a B.Eng. Honors in Mineral Resources Engineering from the Technical University of Crete, in Greece.