Executive Search & Advisory · Energy & Infrastructure

Leadership is the lever.

Principal-led search for investors and the platforms they back. Delivered at pace, with uncompromised rigour.

UK & Europe
The Thesis

Models don't build platforms. Operators do.

Real platform value isn't built in financial models. It takes high calibre leadership to turn your value creation plan from thesis to reality.

Behind every scaled platform is a team of Operators who got the calls right. Behind every successful exit are the leaders who made decisions when it mattered.

We know where to find them, and how to attract them.

— Josh Foulkes, Founder
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Retention at twelve months across every mandate we've executed.
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Typical time from mandate to accepted offer.
Platforms across our mandates
Apatura
Bring Energy
Conrad Energy
Fidra
Flexitricity
GMT Energy
Velox Power
Vital Energi
Capabilities

Two sides. One plan.

Portfolio Company
Executive Leadership

Retained executive search for C and C-1 leadership at infrastructure and PE-backed platforms, where value creation is at the root of every mandate.

  • Chief Executive & Chief Operating Officers
  • Chief Commercial & Chief Financial Officers
  • Critical operating & functional leadership
  • Coordinated platform build programmes
Fund Side
Asset & Portfolio Management

The fund-side value creation engine. The teams that steward the assets and turn thesis into realised returns across the hold.

  • Heads of Asset Management
  • Portfolio & Asset Directors
  • Operating partners & value creation leads
  • Market mapping & leadership assessment
Whichever side you sit on, the question is the same: who carries the value creation plan.
How We Work

A search, run like diligence.

You wouldn't commit capital to an asset without underwriting it. We don't put a leader in front of you without the same discipline: a defined process, weekly steering, and evidence at every stage. Six weeks, mandate to shortlist. An accepted offer around day sixty.

Offer accepted · ~Day 60
Day 100
StrategyWeek 1
ResearchWeeks 1–2
EngagementWeeks 2–4
AssessmentWeeks 4–6
ShortlistWeek 6
LandingTo Day 100
Phase 01 · Week 1
Strategy

We start with the strategy, not the CV pile. The investment thesis, the value creation plan, and what this role has to deliver against it. Your story and proposition get the same attention, because the best Operators are diligencing you too.

Week 1
Strategy

We start with the strategy, not the CV pile. The thesis, the plan, and what the role must deliver. Your story gets the same attention, because the best Operators are diligencing you too.

Weeks 1–2
Research

A full map of the market, not a database search. Who runs the relevant assets, who has scaled before, and who is reachable.

Weeks 2–4
Engagement

A structured multi-channel approach to leaders who are not looking. Weekly steering calls keep you inside the search, not waiting on it.

Weeks 4–6
Assessment

Competency interviews and validated psychometrics, interpreted by people who know the sector. Evidence, not gut feel.

Week 6
Shortlist

A shortlist with comparative evidence behind every name. You interview with the full picture, then we run the offer to acceptance.

To Day 100
Landing

Onboarding and a 100-day plan. The mandate isn't done at the offer. It's done when the plan is moving.

Where We Focus

Where leadership decides the outcome.

Power Generation

Merchant exposure, route to market and the pace of build. The platforms that win are led by operators who can price risk and still move first.

Storage & Grid

Revenue stacks shift faster than build programmes. Leadership here is the difference between an optimised asset and a stranded one.

Utilities

Regulated returns reward operational discipline. The best teams sweat the asset base and still find the growth.

Digital

Demand is compounding faster than capacity can be built. Leadership decides who delivers at pace without dropping availability.

Social Infrastructure

Long-dated contracts and public accountability. Steady hands protect the returns here. Strong ones improve them.

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