This is our team
Managing partners

Martin Heimes
Founding Partner
m.heimes@ventusventures.com
+49 40 22 65 923 70

Hans Joern Rieks
Founding Partner
hj.rieks@cic-europe.eu
+49 172 6670483
Martin Heimes – Curriculum Vitae
Martin Heimes has over 20 years of expertise from various high management positions. From 2007 - 2011 he was Finance Director at Siemens Fujitsu Computers. In 2007 Martin Heimes moved to Vestas Central Europe (CEU), where he was a member of the Management Board until 2011 and a supervisory board member of various Vestas country organizations. In 2011, the path to independence followed with the foundation of VentusVentures GmbH - today VentusVentures Holding GmbH.
Martin Heimes is co-founder and managing partner of Connected Infrastructure Capital GmbH, founded in 2018.
Hans Joern Rieks – Curriculum Vitae
Hans Joern Rieks has been successfully active in the wind industry business for over 25 years. He draws his extensive expertise in various high management positions, including from 1995 -1999 as CEO & President – Vestas American Wind Technology Inc. and from 1999-2013 as CEO – Vestas Central Europe A/S and member of the Executive Board – Vestas Wind Systems A/S.
After a stopover as interim CEO at Global Energy Services SA, Hans Joern Rieks joined Siemens Wind Power A/S in 2014 as CEO UNA and held the position of CEO EMEA – Siemens AG-Wind Power Division / SIEMENS Gamesa Renewable Energy GmbH from 2015 – 2019.
Hans Joern Rieks is co-founder and Managing Partner of CIC GmbH, founded in 2018.
Project Acquisition and Financing

Christian Liebel
Investment Director
c.liebel@cic-europe.eu
+49 175 5897947

Bente Farshim
Senior Associate
b.farshim@cic-europe.eu
+49 151 16008807

Jonas Petersen
Associate
J.Petersen@cic-europe.eu
+49 152 34 63 48 84
Christian Liebel – Curriculum Vitae
Since 2008 Christian Liebel has held various key management positions. His last position was Managing Director at Momentum Deutschland GmbH.
He entered the wind industry in 2003 as Customer Relations Manager at NEG Micon. After the merger with Vestas Wind Systems A/S, Liebel laid the first foundations for the successful development of a sales and service organisation in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union in the position of Area Sales Manager for Vestas.
Bente Farshim – Curriculum Vitae
Bente Farshim has been working for the corporate group since April 2018. Initially as a Research Consultant at bizz energy Research. In April 2019, she became part of the wind and solar division which is managed by CIC since March 2020 as Senior Project Manager. Bente Farshim completed her bachelor’s degree in Energy and Environmental Management (B.Eng.) at the University of Applied Sciences Flensburg in 2015, followed by a master’s degree in International Industrial Engineering and Management (M.Sc.) from 10/2015 at the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg.
Asset Management

Lena Schleyer
CFO
l.schleyer@cic-europe.eu
+49 170 2259645

Marie Louise Rieks
Commercial Project Manager
ml.rieks@cic-europe.eu
+49 152 34634882

Sabrina Tolle
Commercial Project Manager
s.tolle@cic-europe.eu
+49 151 20966647
Lena Schleyer – Curriculum Vitae
Lena Schleyer joined CIC in October 2020. As CFO she is responsible for asset management as well as commercial optimization during the construction and operation phase of the wind energy and photovoltaic portfolio in Germany and abroad.
Lena Schleyer studied at the University of Karlsruhe and the Ecole de Management Lyon and graduated in 2007 with a degree in industrial engineering. After her studies, Lena Schleyer initially worked for Siemens' internal strategy consulting department, then moved to Siemens Wind Power (later SiemensGamesa) in 2012, where she worked for more than ten years in various areas and functions, most recently as Head of Commercial Sales Eastern Europe and DACH.
Marie Louise Rieks – Curriculum Vitae
Marie Louise Rieks joined the company in June 2020, initially as Project Manager in Business Administration at VentusVentures Holding. In January 2021, she moved to Connected Infrastructure Capital, where she works as a Commercial Project Manager in Asset Management.
After graduating from high school in 2014, Marie Louise Rieks completed several internships at Vestas Central Europe, WKN and VR Bank Schleswig-Flensburg, among others. From 2016 to 2020, Marie Louise Rieks worked for the wind farm and substation management company WEB Andresen, where she completed a shortened commercial apprenticeship. Marie Louise Rieks worked in the commercial management of wind farms, in human resources and in marketing & event management.
Sabrina Tolle – Curriculum Vitae
Sabrina Tolle joined CIC in September 2020 as Junior Project Manager in the Project Acquisition and Financing team. In March 2022 she moved to Asset Management as Commercial Project Manager with focus on Controlling. She completed her studies of economics at Leibniz University in Hanover with a Master of Science in Accounting & Taxation in 2019. Besides her studies, Sabrina worked i.a. for several years in the controlling department of a management consultancy and completed internships at a well-known auditing company (PwC) as well as in the controlling of a large service company.
Investor Relations
Martin Heimes – Curriculum Vitae
Martin Heimes has over 20 years of expertise from various high management positions. From 2007 – 2011 he was Finance Director at Siemens Fujitsu Computers. In 2007 Martin Heimes moved to Vestas Central Europe (CEU), where he was a member of the Management Board until 2011 and a supervisory board member of various Vestas country organizations. In 2011, the path to independence followed with the foundation of VentusVentures GmbH – today VentusVentures Holding GmbH.
Martin Heimes is co-founder and managing partner of Connected Infrastructure Capital GmbH, founded in 2018.
Project Development, EPC, Technical Management
Legal Counsel
Management- & Teamassistant
Officemanagement

Tamara Barfknecht
Management- & Teamassistant
Officemanagement
t.barfknecht@cic-europe.eu
+49 152 34634887