Aug 23, 2024 Keeping a cohesive team as you scale-up! By David Beeston Love this piece from Sifted. In the rapid world of scaling your startup, ensuring cohesion between your Old Guard “OG” and New Guard “NG”...
Jul 16, 2024 Growth is great, but don't forget about Retention By David Beeston As an executive search firm, naturally our focus is on recruitment of great new talent, but that doesn't mean the process ends when the...
Jun 28, 2024 Founders, here's how to help your startup's old guard and new guard get along By David Hunt Communication, Communication, Communication. Clarity and transparity. These are the keys to great company culture, and what great leaders...
May 08, 2024 How employers can break down generational echo chambers at work By David Hunt We've always been strong advocates of the multiple benefits of a diverse team and workforce. Typically though most people consider, or...
Apr 03, 2024 Promotions at an early-stage startup — am I asking for too much? (probably) By David Hunt Another interesting article from the team at Sifted. I find this a little amusing, if you want a ladder to climb, join a corporate, or...
Mar 27, 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,...
Feb 22, 2024 Battery Recycling. The Numbers Don't Lie! By David Beeston Those in the battery sector will have seen the news that battery recycling scale-up, Ascend Elements, has landed $162M investment to...
Feb 13, 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...
Jan 26, 2024 Do you have Big Rocks? If not, maybe it's time! By David Beeston I start every morning with some reading time, whether it be Energy Storage market news, current affairs, or wider business and finance...
Jan 17, 2024 Hyperion assemble! (To the Peak District) By David Beeston What links Liverpool, Karachi, Munich and Barcelona… well the Hyperion team, of course!As I write this, sat at our company off-site, I'm...
Jan 12, 2024 The right charging in the right place By Stephen Robinson From Carrots to Kilowatts, from today you will be able to purchase groceries and electrons as UK Supermarket Sainsbury’s has today...
Jan 09, 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...
Jan 09, 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...
Dec 06, 2023 Key Traits That Our Clients Seek in Clean Tech CFO Candidates in 2023 By Hyperion Executive Search 2023 is nearly over, and I want to share the key traits that our clients were seeking in clean tech CFO candidates this year. I found...
Nov 29, 2023 Casting the net for solar recruits By David Hunt Since I founded my solar EPC back in 2007, it has been a challenge to hire great solar talents. That is one of the reasons why, when...
Nov 27, 2023 Build a team with the GSD factor! By David Beeston This past week I've met with some energy storage start-up leaders who shared some of the challenges they're facing right now - product...