Guest Spotlight: Andrejka Bernatova
In this clip, Andrejka Bernatova introduces her global background spanning investment banking, private equity, sovereign wealth investing, and executive leadership across energy and infrastructure.
She shares how experience at Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, Blackstone, and Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund shaped her perspective, and how that journey led to building both a SPAC franchise and a private investment platform.
This is the kind of operator-level experience shaping the next generation of energy and infrastructure investments.
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Mike B: Everyone. Mike Blanks here with the SPAC podcast. Today I'm joined with by, uh, Andraka. Berna. Tova. Andre, how are you doing? Why don't you give us a couple minutes about yourself?
Andrejka B: So, Andraka, Berna, Tova, uh, uh, over 20 years of experience in, uh, energy, infrastructure, power, and I guess now digital assets. Um, have, uh, spent some time as an investment banker.
I was at Credit Suisse in New York and Morgan Stanley in Houston. Uh, I was also an investor at, uh, Blackstone in New York, uh, investing globally and, uh, at UBA Development Company, which is one of the sovereign wealth funds of the government of Abu Dhabi. Then I was based in Abu Dhabi. Um, out of there, I mostly invested actually in renewable energy globally, and, um, spent, uh, quite a while as an operator, CFO and CEO at a number of companies, uh, was backed by private equity funds, large family offices, institutions like, uh, NGP.
Energy spectrum, Tailwater, uh, energy impact partners. And, um, and I also, um, uh, just started a, about five years ago, a platform called Dynamics. We have two platforms. We have a SPAC franchise and we have separately a private, uh, investment franchise.
Founder, CEO, Chairman, Managing Partner
Andrejka Bernatova is Founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of a publicly traded company, Dynamix Corporation (NASDAQ: DYNX), focused on acquisitions in the energy, infrastructure, and oil and gas industries. She is a seasoned investor and operator who has raised over $35B globally across sectors spanning oil & gas, water, midstream, and clean power.
Prior to Dynamix, she held CFO roles at leading water and power infra firms like Goodnight Midstream and Enchanted Rock, served as CEO of ESGEN (which merged with Florida’s largest residential solar installer to form ZEO Energy), and held investing roles at Blackstone and Mubadala. She currently leads Dynamix Capital Partners, an energy and infrastructure-focused private investment platform.
Earlier in her career, Andrejka served as CFO of Enchanted Rock Energy, Goodnight Midstream, and Core Midstream (which she co-founded), and held finance leadership roles at PennTex Midstream Partners (NYSE: PTXP). She also worked in investment banking at Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse, and held investment roles at The Blackstone Group, Mubadala / Masdar Clean Energy in the UAE, and the World Bank. Andrejka holds an A.B. in Government with a Citation in Spanish from Harvard University.