Renewable Energy
Platforms, investment teams and new business lines.
Work shaped by leading the recruitment strategy behind several portfolio company team builds in renewable energy, where the platform and the team are created at the same time.
Where we specialise
The parts of this market we know.
Renewable Energy Platforms
Standing up a platform from investment case to operating company: the first leadership appointments, the governance around them and the sequence in which they arrive.
- Platform chief executive
- Chief financial officer
- Development director
- Head of construction and delivery
Scaling Investment Teams
Growing an investment team as the mandate widens by technology, geography or ticket size, without diluting underwriting discipline.
- Investment directors and principals
- Origination
- Asset management
- Technical due diligence
Building New Business Lines
New capability inside an existing business: storage, hydrogen, repowering or a new market entry that the current team was not built to deliver.
- Business line leadership
- Commercial and offtake
- Regulatory and grid strategy
- Partnerships and joint ventures
Sustainability
Sustainability and transition capability that carries commercial accountability rather than sitting alongside it as reporting.
- Head of sustainability
- ESG and impact
- Reporting and assurance
- Transition strategy
We work beyond these markets where the leadership question fits our experience, particularly in technology, industrials and investor-backed businesses. If your sector is not listed, the first conversation will establish quickly whether we are the right firm for it.
Sector context
Renewable energy combines infrastructure capital with development risk and an operating business. The leadership requirement changes as a platform moves from origination to construction to operation, and organisations frequently appoint for the stage they are leaving rather than the one they are entering.
Talent challenges
- Leadership built for development being asked to run operations
- Competition for the same small pool of technical and commercial leaders
- Compensation expectations set by infrastructure funds rather than by operators
- Geographic spread against a UK-centred candidate market
Leadership requirements
- Platform and operating company leadership
- Investment and asset management leadership
- Development, construction and technical leadership
- Commercial, offtake and regulatory leadership
Renewable Energy
Platforms, investment teams and new business lines.
Market dynamics
Supply is tight and defined by stage experience. The people who have taken a platform from first close to operation are few, well known to each other, and usually recruited on the strength of the investment case rather than the package.
Relevant services
Work in this market
Partnership over transaction
Let us talk about the decision ahead.
Tell us about the business question you are considering. We will tell you plainly whether we can help.