Leaders in Cleantech David Hunt

What’s it all about?
Talent. Jim Collins said, ‘Great vision without great people is irrelevant’. Something I firmly
believe and it’s why I created Hyperion Executive Search, and more recently, along with Stephen
Robinson, and the Fully Charged Show, Fully Charged Recruitment. We talk about Steve’s
background and experience, and delve into some of the talent issues faced by cleantech companies hiring, and by those who want to work in the sector, but don’t currently.

About Stephen Robinson:
Based in Liverpool, Stephen is the Managing Director of Fully Charged Recruitment Ltd. With over a decade of experience hiring in the global energy, automotive and cleantech sectors, Stephen has a wealth of experience building and leading teams across the UK and Middle East. For the past 6
years, Stephen has specifically been driving our growth in the EV and Future Mobility sector,
becoming a ‘go to’ for companies looking to expand their teams across Europe and North America. He now leads Fully Charged Recruitment, building teams across not just emobility but across the clean energy and mobility transitions.

About Fully Charged Recruitment:
Created to help Cleantech companies to find exceptional talent, and exceptional talent to find
awesome Cleantech careers. A partnership between the Hyperion Cleantech Group and the Fully
Charged Show. We have decades of experience in the clean energy and clean mobility sectors, and
a network that is second to none. 

Fully Charged Recruitment helps our clients to recruit roles across all disciplines and job functions in the Mid to Senior sector (Our sister company Hyperion Executive Search hires at C-Suite, VP and
Heads of… Levels). 

We were born of a simple and shared mission. Both Hyperion Cleantech Group and Fully Charged Show share a passion to drive the clean mobility and clean energy transitions. We believe through education and entertainment, and through supporting Cleantech companies to scale, and talented individuals to find impactful, meaningful and important work, we can play our part in these transitions. 

If you are a cleantech company looking to scale and hire outstanding talent, or if you are that talent looking for guidance and the right career opportunity, contact one of the team.

Social links: 
Stephen Robinson on LinkedIn: (4) Stephen Robinson | LinkedIn
Stephen Robinson on Twitter: Stephen Robinson (@HyperionStephen) / Twitter
Fully Charged Recruitment on Linkedin: (4) Fully Charged Recruitment Ltd: Overview | LinkedIn
Fully Charged Recruitment Website: Fully Charged Recruitment
Fully Charged Recruitment on Twitter: Fully Charged Recruitment (@FullyChargedRec) / Twitter
Fully Charged Recruitment on Instagram: Fully Charged Recruitment (@fullychargedrec) • Instagram photos and videos

About Hyperion Executive Search:
Hyperion are a specialist executive search firm working with some of the most innovative cleantech companies in the world, helping to find extraordinary talent to enable their growth and success.

Partnering with leading cleantech VCs, as well as directly with founders and entrepreneurs in the
sector. With our clients we are transforming business and growing a strong and prosperous
cleantech economy. 

If you want to grow your team, or move forward your career, visit www.hyperionsearch.com, or email info@hyperionsearch.com

EPISODE LINKS HERE
Why the energy transition needs an influx of talented people https://youtu.be/zRedkE2ifDw

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What’s it all about?
Flexibility. Not Yoga, but the essential tools to enable the energy transition. Too often renewable assets, energy storage and EV charging at mass are help back due to grid blockages and constraints. Flexibility in the system is required to unlock some of these blockages. We talk grid flexibility, international expansion and the road from PhD to Entrepreneur with Piclo CEO and Co-Founder James Johnston.

About James Johnston: 
James Johnston is the CEO and Co-founder of Piclo, the world’s leading independent grid flexibility marketplace. Prior to Piclo, James spent 3 years researching microgrids at University of Strathclyde. James is also the founder of Solar Sketch, a design company for the solar industry and worked at international engineering firm Arup. James is a published author contributing chapters to Academic Press books on peer-to-peer energy and local flexibility trading.

About Piclo:
Piclo Flex is a leading independent marketplace that brings together Flex Providers with System Operators to procure local flexibility services.

As our energy systems become cleaner, more distributed and diversified in response to the climate crisis, our grids come under more stress and face challenges in maintaining the delicate balance of supply and demand. 

Our marketplace enables technologies such as renewables, batteries and electric vehicles to provide local flexibility to our distribution networks, smoothing out the complex transition to a decarbonised future and delivering low-cost and resilient grids.

Social links:  
James Johnston LinkedIn:  James Johnston | LinkedIn
Piclo on Linkedin:   Overview | LinkedIn
Piclo Website: Piclo — The UK's leading independent marketplace for flexible energy systems.
Piclo on Twitter: (5) Piclo (@PicloEnergy) / Twitter


About Hyperion Executive Search:
Hyperion are a specialist executive search firm working with some of the most innovative cleantech companies in the world, helping to find extraordinary talent to enable their growth and success. Partnering with leading cleantech VCs, as well as directly with founders and entrepreneurs in the sector. With our clients we are transforming business and growing a strong and prosperous cleantech economy.

If you want to grow your team, or move forward your career, visit www.hyperionsearch.com, or email info@hyperionsearch.com 

EPISODE LINKS HERE

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What’s it all about?
Entrepreneurship, Impact, global challenges, technology and being Unreasonable, and an impatient optimist and possibilist!  An action packed conversation with award winning entrepreneur and leading Impact pioneer Daniel Epstein of Unreasonable Group. What does it take to succeed, and what help is out there, and how do we repurpose capitalism. Enjoy the episode.

About Daniel Epstein: 
Daniel Epstein is the CEO and Founder of Unreasonable, an organization dedicated to supporting growth-stage entrepreneurs who are profitably solving global issues. Daniel’s life has been shaped by a fundamental belief that entrepreneurship is the answer to solving some of the problems we face today. 

Recently Daniel was named by Fortune Magazine as one of the World's 50 Greatest Leaders, alongside the likes of Bill Gates & Tim Cook. Daniel was also awarded Inc. Magazine's “30 under 30 entrepreneurs”, and Forbes identified him as one of the “top 30 most impactful entrepreneurs.” He also received the prestigious “Entrepreneur of the World” award along with Richard Branson & the President of Liberia at the Global Entrepreneurship Forum. Beyond his capacities at Unreasonable, Daniel is a frequent keynote speaker, moderator, thought-leader, and advisor.

About Unreasonable:
Unreasonable is an international company – we support a fellowship for growth-stage entrepreneurs, channel exclusive deal flow to investors, and we partner with institutions to discover profit in solving global problems. Since 2015, Unreasonable has partnered with leading, influential partners including Barclays, Nike, and the US Department of State to co-found strategic global initiatives designed to support growth-stage entrepreneurs, whose companies have a social and or environmental impact baked into the DNA of their business model.

Social links:  
Daniel Epstein LinkedIn: (2) Daniel Epstein | LinkedIn 
Unreasonable on Linkedin:  (3) Unreasonable: Overview | LinkedIn
Unreasonable Website: Unreasonable Group
Unreasonable on Twitter: (7) Unreasonable (@unreasonable) / Twitter
Unreasonable on FaceBook: (3) Unreasonable | Facebook
Unreasonable on Instagram: Unreasonable (@unreasonable) • Instagram photos and videos

About Hyperion Executive Search:
Hyperion are a specialist executive search firm working with some of the most innovative cleantech companies in the world, helping to find extraordinary talent to enable their growth and success. Partnering with leading cleantech VCs, as well as directly with founders and entrepreneurs in the sector. With our clients we are transforming business and growing a strong and prosperous cleantech economy.

If you want to grow your team, or move forward your career, visit www.hyperionsearch.com, or email info@hyperionsearch.com 

EPISODE LINKS HERE

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What’s it all about?
Deeptech, Innovation, and creating the ecosystems that drive both forward. My guest, Rubina Singh has a fabulously broad career in cleantech, from a solar engineer to a leader in Deeptech investment. We discuss innovation, barriers, challenges and solutions, deeptech, and diversity and inclusion. Enjoy the episode.

About Rubina Singh: 
Rubina is a pre-seed deeptech fund manager at Octopus Ventures where she focuses on investing in deeptech enabling a sustainable planet. Previously, she established and led the innovation division at British Gas and the net-zero strategy at Centrica Ventures. She started her career as a solar engineer at Fraunhofer, where she headed up Fraunhofer TechBridge, a division dedicated to validating and backing early-stage cleantech. She also holds advisory roles with the European Innovation Council’s deep tech programme and the Solar Impulse Foundation and sits on the board of POWERful Women. 

Rubina has published several technical papers and thought leadership on cleantech innovation in the likes of IEEE and TechCrunch, and has a B.Eng. and M.Eng. in sustainable energy engineering.  She has won three awards for her contribution to the energy sector, including the Innovator Award 2022.

About Octopus Ventures:
At Octopus Ventures we invest in the people, the ideas and the industries that will help change the world. Our investment team is built to specialise in the six areas where we see the most potential for growth and innovation: health, fintech, climate tech, deep tech, consumer and B2B software. Since 2008 we have backed over 130 teams, including Zoopla Property Group, Secret Escapes, Depop and Cazoo. With £2 billion under management and investing over £200 million a year, Octopus Ventures is one of the largest and most active venture investors in Europe.

Social links:  
Rubina Singh LinkedIn:  (2) Rubina Singh, M.Eng. | LinkedIn
Octopus Ventures on Linkedin:  (2) Octopus Ventures: Overview | LinkedIn
Octopus Ventures Website: Home - Octopus Ventures | Venture Capital
Octopus Ventures on Twitter: (20) Octopus Ventures (@OctopusVentures) / Twitter
POWERful Women on Linked In: (2) POWERful Women: Overview | LinkedIn

About Hyperion Executive Search:
Hyperion are a specialist executive search firm working with some of the most innovative cleantech companies in the world, helping to find extraordinary talent to enable their growth and success. Partnering with leading cleantech VCs, as well as directly with founders and entrepreneurs in the sector. With our clients we are transforming business and growing a strong and prosperous cleantech economy.

If you want to grow your team, or move forward your career, visit www.hyperionsearch.com, or email info@hyperionsearch.com 

EPISODE LINKS HERE
Cultivating female talent in energy: Cultivating-Female-Talent-in-Energy_PfW-Bain_April-2022-FINAL_2-1.pdf (powerfulwomen.org.uk)
Female representation in Energy POWERful Women | Female representation at the top of the energy sector: energy leaders Q&A

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What’s it all about?
Direct Air Capture, space geeks, a founders journey, the trials and tribulations of a cleantech CEO, self-awareness, new pastures and ventures, and what it really means to be successful. A fascinating and candid conversation with a founder I’ve known for many years, sharing his journey and his life beyond a cleantech CEO.

About Max Beaumont: 
Max is the founder and strategic adviser to Skytree (www.skytree.eu). Before starting Skytree in 2010 (with zero experience in business until then), he was a system engineer at the European Space Agency working on CO2 removal hardware to maintain air quality for astronauts. Max is British and has a Physics degree. He is a PADI advanced diver, occasionally writes, runs a product development agency (https://numa.studio) and is the proud owner of two dogs.

About The Skytree:
Skytree develops and deploys smart technology that captures atmospheric carbon dioxide. While creating a tool to combat climate change, the company also enables the use or storage of its CO2 to aid societies and businesses around the world 
Stats 
•€8M raised to date
•€25M valuation (Q1 2023)
•Headcount > 30 FTE incl. x4 PhD researchers
•Deals closed with multinationals in Japan, UK, Germany & France
•16 patents
•>20 prototypes
•HQ in Amsterdam with sales offices in US and APAC
•Spin-out from the European Space Agency

Social links:  
The NUMA on Linkedin:  NUMA: Overview | LinkedIn
The Skytree on Linkedin:  Skytree | We're Hiring 🚀: Overview | LinkedIn
The  NUMA Website: Home - Numa Studio
The  Skytree Website: Skytree | Scalable Carbon Removal Solutions
Max Beaumont LinkedIn:  Max Beaumont | LinkedIn

About Hyperion Executive Search:
Hyperion are a specialist executive search firm working with some of the most innovative cleantech companies in the world, helping to find extraordinary talent to enable their growth and success. Partnering with leading cleantech VCs, as well as directly with founders and entrepreneurs in the sector. With our clients we are transforming business and growing a strong and prosperous cleantech economy.

If you want to grow your team, or move forward your career, visit www.hyperionsearch.com, or email info@hyperionsearch.com 

EPISODE LINKS HERE
Max Beaumont on Medium: Max Beaumont – Medium 

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What’s it all about?
Taking people and companies on a sustainability journey, cutting through the misinformation, lies and overwhelming amount of information to help take small collective steps that make a difference. An early internet tech founder with multiple exits, Graham is on a mission to get society to the tipping point of behaviour change to make sustainable living a way of life for all. We talk about his entrepreneurial journey, the rewards and challenges, the desire to keep building and his passion as an environmentalist to help everyone to make difference.

About Graham Hill: 
One of Fast Company's "100 Most Creative People in Business" and featured on the covers of Inc. and Dwell Magazines, Graham is a successful serial entrepreneur and highly sought-after speaker known for his ability to eloquently explain how we can all create a simpler, wealthier, greener and happier planet. 
He has presented at many prestigious conferences around the world, including two main-stage TED Talks that have received 11M+ views, and was the Founder of Treehugger.com 

Graham is the founder and CEO of The Carbonauts. They help Fortune 1000 companies build climate-literate, sustainability enthusiastic cultures via tools such as live, interactive sustainability workshops. 
Their clients include giants such as Amazon, Chanel, News Corp, Toyota, AT&T, Warner Brothers, Discovery, Netflix, Dow Jones, and HarperCollins. 

About The Carbonauts:
On a decades long, multi-company mission to help humanity move into the bright green future.

A natural sequel to TreeHugger.com, The Carbonauts inspires and guides people towards compelling, low-footprint ways of living and working by offering them live, time-efficient zoom courses that make it easy for them to slash their footprints at home and work while saving money and influencing others. 

Clients include Amazon, Chanel, News Corp, Toyota, Zurich Insurance, AT&T, Warner Brothers Discovery, Netflix and many more.

Our goal is to build movements within companies that reach ~25% of the staff at which point the company culture will rapidly mobilize towards drawdown and beyond.

Social links: 
The Carbonauts Twitter:  (21) TheCarbonauts (@WeTheCarbonauts) / Twitter
The Carbonauts Linkedin:  (8) The Carbonauts: Overview | LinkedIn 
The Carbonauts Website: The Carbonauts – Become a Carbonaut!
The Carbonauts Insta: The Carbonauts (@wethecarbonauts) • Instagram photos and videos
Graham Hill LinkedIn:  (8) Graham Hill | LinkedIn

About Hyperion Executive Search:
Hyperion are a specialist executive search firm working with some of the most innovative cleantech companies in the world, helping to find extraordinary talent to enable their growth and success. Partnering with leading cleantech VCs, as well as directly with founders and entrepreneurs in the sector. With our clients we are transforming business and growing a strong and prosperous cleantech economy.

If you want to grow your team, or move forward your career, visit www.hyperionsearch.com, or email info@hyperionsearch.com 

EPISODE LINKS HERE
 Less Stuff, more happiness: Graham Hill: Less stuff, more happiness | TED Talk 
Why I’m a weekday vegetarian: Graham Hill: Why I'm a weekday vegetarian | TED Talk 
Natural Capital: Theory and Practice of Mapping Ecosystem Services Natural Capital: Theory and Practice of Mapping Ecosystem Services : Kareiva, Peter, Tallis, Heather, Ricketts, Taylor H., Daily, Gretchen C., Polasky, Stephen: Amazon.co.uk: Books

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