27 Mar, 2024 Increasing diversity at board level By David Hunt This article is almost a year old, but nothing much has seemed to change. With overwhelming evidence showing a diverse team, or board,...
13 Mar, 2024 Fake (anti - climate) news and how to spot them By Wolfgang Kick If you are born in a European country in the 1970s - like me - you might take things like free speech, a free press and the separation of...
04 Mar, 2024 What makes a great COO By David Beeston One of the most in-demand roles amongst Energy Storage and Grid startups and scaleups is the Chief Operating Officer (COO). Many of these...
04 Mar, 2024 Are MBA's worth it? By Stephen Robinson I came across an interesting article via Sifted which discusses why some investors will only back founders with MBAs and it got me...
19 Feb, 2024 The Importance of The Search Kick Off By David Beeston One of the most important stages of our recruitment process is the project kick off meeting. This is our chance for us to really get...
15 Feb, 2024 Europe Vs US: Who Leads the EV Charging Race? By Stephen Robinson In a recent article from Apricum, a strategy consulting and investment banking boutique focused on the energy transition, a look at the...
13 Feb, 2024 My brain hurts reading this stuff!: EY should be wary of joining the cat-and-mouse game of employee monitoring By David Hunt Playing all these games is such a waste of time and energy for both employer and employee. God know what the financial costs of the tools...
09 Feb, 2024 If you wanna be the best, hire the best! By David Beeston Many of my clients come to me for guidance on what package they should be offering for an upcoming leadership hire. I give them my...
06 Feb, 2024 What matters when you get the top job By Wolfgang Kick We have seen it time and again - when high-achieving employees get the first C-level job, they often face a number of challenges. And...
05 Feb, 2024 Plan for Drivers - Accelerating the rollout of EV Charging Infrastructure By Stephen Robinson Last year, the Government announced a number of commitments around accelerating the rollout of EV chargepoints in it's ‘Plan for Drivers’...
09 Jan, 2024 What hybrid working means for sales teams By David Hunt Just as I'm preparing for the Hyperion Executive Search offsite meeting next week, this pops into my inbox! One of the biggest talent...
09 Jan, 2024 Make sure your start-up is "deal ready" By David Beeston Fundraising, the elephant in the room at the moment amongst many of our start-up clients. It seemed the second half of 2023 proved to be...
15 Dec, 2023 Want to raise from family offices? By David Hunt I have written quite often recently about the fundraising environment. There is no doubt that in the second half of 2023 VC funding has...
13 Dec, 2023 TotalEnergies Acquires several Start-ups in the Electricity Business By David Hunt This I find very interesting on a number of levels. Firstly, I was very dismissive earlier in the year when TotalEnergies sold off their...
11 Dec, 2023 Forget IPOs, climate tech investors are chasing a different exit By David Hunt I talk often on my Leaders in Cleantech podcast about how much media, and especially much tech and cleantech media all paint ‘success’...
07 Dec, 2023 Good soft skills makes good C-level candidate for recruiter By Hyperion Executive Search I had a conversation with a potential CFO candidate this week, and within just 15 minutes, it was clear that he was an great fit for the...