Katie Zorbas, Managing Partner of Private Equity for Brookfield, joined Julie Cooling, Founder and CEO of RIA Channel, at iCapital Connect 2026 to discuss private equity opportunities in the industrial sector.
Brookfield’s private equity strategy focuses on investing in essential products and services within the industrial and service sectors, closely tied to the firm’s broader ecosystem. Zorbas highlights that Brookfield’s key differentiator is its operating approach, emphasizing active management to create value by transforming acquired businesses and supporting them to scale, grow, and potentially pursue an IPO.
Zorbas points to industrials as an area of growing opportunity. She notes that Brookfield views the current environment as part of a fourth industrial revolution driven by automation, digitalization, and AI. While the firm is allocating capital to the power and data centers supporting AI, she emphasizes that a compelling opportunity is in AI use cases, which are the industrial businesses that will implement and benefit from these technologies.
Brookfield is a global asset manager with expertise in private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and renewable power. With over 125 years of experience, Brookfield manages over $1 trillion in assets under management.
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