02 Oct, 2024 Hiring a NED can transform your business By Stephen Robinson Having supported a number of start-ups in hiring Non-Executive Directors (NEDs) over the last few years, I've witnessed first-hand the...
19 Sep, 2024 Amazon’s Return to Office: Outdated and Out of Touch By David Hunt Amazon’s recent decision to mandate a full-time return to the office for employees has sparked a lot of criticism, with many viewing it...
18 Sep, 2024 Job hunting in a challenging market By Stephen Robinson I came across this insightful article on Sifted from Sequoia's VP of talent Zoe Hewitt that discusses the challenges of the current tech...
16 Sep, 2024 Private Equity’s Top Value Lever: Outside Talent/hires into portfolio companies By David Hunt This is interesting. We've certainly been involved in many projects where VC investors have instigated a change of CEO or other...
11 Sep, 2024 Should companies let staff do what they want? By David Hunt I spoke at a Cleantech start-up/investor event in Berlin not so long ago and was asked what are the key factors behind a high performing...
09 Sep, 2024 Out of a job but not ready for the golf course: how about joining a board? By David Hunt The article focuses more on corporate executives, but I am frequently approached by executives from the start-up/scale-up world who are...
05 Sep, 2024 ‘A big win and a clear comeback’: industry reacts to CfD AR6 results By Ross Hoare The latest Contracts for Difference results are undoubtedly a success for the UK renewables industry. 131 renewable energy project...
03 Sep, 2024 Four questions for every manager to ask themselves By David Hunt In case you dont' have access to the Economist I'll list the full four questions below. Significantly though, they are all related to...
02 Sep, 2024 Jobhunters flood recruiters with AI-generated CVs (at all levels, as if hiring wasn't hard enough) By David Hunt I wasn't at all surprised to read this in the FT this morning. ChatGPT cover notes and CV's have been a blight for some time, and I...
28 Aug, 2024 Nothing CEO's RTO policy. Have we gone back in time?! By David Beeston For a moment, I thought we'd gone back in time after reading this article. The CEO of a smartphone startup making the accusation that...
21 Aug, 2024 Reliability and Profitability in EV Charging By Stephen Robinson Since 2016, I've been at the forefront of the eMobility revolution, witnessing first-hand the industry's remarkable transformation from a...
21 Aug, 2024 The challenge of mass scaling in the battery sector...even for Northvolt! By David Beeston This news of Northvolt winding down it's lithium-metal R&D subsidiary, Cuberg, in California and shifting R&D to Sweden, is a real blow...