Wren House Taps BlackRock Veteran Torres to Lead US Expansion

Investment firm Wren House Infrastructure has hired BlackRock Inc. veteran Martin Torres to lead a push to expand in the US.

Torres was head of the Americas for BlackRock’s global climate infrastructure equity business. He will head Wren House’s New York office, its first outside London, and drive the growth of the firm’s new platform in the country, according to a statement Friday.

Wren House, an arm of sovereign wealth fund Kuwait Investment Authority, is hiring Citigroup Inc. banker Emmanuel Gionakis in London as it seeks to boost its investment capabilities in the digital space, it said in the ...