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Apr 26, 2023 • 44min

Leaders in Cleantech #118 - Zena Everett

What’s it all about?Company culture, high performing teams and leadership. I speak with long time friend and collaborator Zena Everett about these topic and more as we dig into our personal and client experiences in this field for many years. It ended up a fluid and hopefully very valuable conversation. I look forward to your feedback.About Zena Everett: Leadership Coach and in-demand Speaker Zena Everett is the author of Mind Flip, Take the Fear out of Your Career and the award winning, best-selling Crazy Busy Cure.Originally a recruitment entrepreneur, Zena sold her business in 2007 then studied an MSc in Career Management and Coaching.  She then took further post-graduate qualifications in psychological coaching and leadership with neuroscience (MIT Sloan Business School).   She has coached on the Executive MBA Programme at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School and is a member of the Associate Faculty at Henley Business School.Zena is a regular speaker on Crazy Busyness and Leadership for the London Business Forum.Social links:  Zena Everett on LinkedIn: Zena Everett MSc | LinkedIn Zena Everett on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ZenaEverett1?s=20 Zena Everett Website: https://www.zenaeverett.com/ 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 HEREThe Crazy Busy Cure: https://www.zenaeverett.com/the-crazy-busy-cure/Mind Flip: https://www.zenaeverett.com/book/The One Thing   The One Thing, Essentialism The Disciplined Pursuit Of Less 2 Books Collection Set: Amazon.co.uk: Gary Keller, Greg McKeown: 9789123777822: Books Follow us online, write a review (please) or subscribeI'm very keen to hear feedback on the podcast and my guests, and to hear your suggestions for future guests or topics. Contact via the website, or Twitter. If you do enjoy the podcast, please 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 Follow us online, write a review (please) or subscribeI'm very keen to hear feedback on the podcast and my guests, and to hear your suggestions for future guests or topics. Contact via the website, or Twitter. If you do enjoy the podcast, please write a review on iTunes, or your usual podcast platform, and tell your cleantech friends about us. That would be much appreciated.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-hunt-cleantech/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidHsearch Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidhuntcleantech/Also follow our podcast handles to stay up to date. LinkedIn: ...
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Apr 19, 2023 • 41min

Leaders in Cleantech #117 - Lindsey Higgins – Pale Blue Dot

What’s it all about?Impact! Climate science, behaviour change, story telling and combating FUD!  I loved this conversation with climate scientist Dr Lindsey Higgins. Bringing her talents, passion, and education to bear at one of the leading seed impact VCs, Pale Blue Dot, Lindsey shares her journey, her insights and her cats ears for an inspiring and entertaining conversation.About Lindsey Higgins: Lindsey Higgins is a climate scientist and communications specialist from Buffalo, New York, USA. She received her PhD from Stockholm University in Physical Geography, where her research focused on human-environment interactions around climate change and freshwater resources. Today, Lindsey is Head of Climate Insights at the early-stage venture capital firm Pale blue dot in Sweden. Her work focuses on understanding the science behind climate tech innovations to help guide investment strategies and decisions, and she is passionate about bridging gaps between research and the entrepreneurial world. In 2022, Lindsey was named one of the nine people who mattered in European climate tech by Sifted.About Pale blue dot: Pale blue dot is a €87M seed-stage venture capital firm, investing in climate tech startups that reduce and reverse the climate crisis and help us prepare for a new world. Pale blue dot is based in Malmö, Sweden, and invests in early stage companies in Europe and the US.Social links:  Lindsey Higgins on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lhigg/ Lindsey Higgins on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thelindscape  Pale blue dot on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/palebluedotvcclimate/  Pale blue dot on Twitter: https://twitter.com/palebluedotvc Pale blue dot Website: https://paleblue.vc/ 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 HERESceptical Science- Explaining climate change sciencAbout 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 Follow us online, write a review (please) or subscribeI'm very keen to hear feedback on the podcast and my guests, and to hear your suggestions for future guests or topics. Contact via the website, or Twitter. If you do enjoy the podcast, please write a review on iTunes, or your usual podcast platform, and tell your cleantech friends about us. That would be much appreciated.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-hunt-cleantech/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidHsearch Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidhuntcleantech/Also follow our podcast handles to stay up to date. LinkedIn: ...
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Mar 29, 2023 • 43min

Leaders In Cleantech #116 - Dr Nicholas Hawker & Dr Robert Trezona - First Light Fusion

What’s it all about?Cheap, abundant, low carbon energy. Looking at a Deeptech that has huge and literally game-changing capabilities. There has been much excitement, investment, and some key milestones in Nuclear Fusion in the last year. This week I have not one, but two guests, a Fusion founder and CEO, Dr Nick Hawker, and his investor, Dr Robert Trezona of Kiko Ventures. This is such an exciting space, and things are happening now that give rise to great optimism we can achieve Fusion power within a couple of decades. In the meantime, let’s get as much solar and wind in the ground as we can, but here could be cheap, abundant, safe, baseload.About Nicholas Hawker: Nicholas is the Co-founder and CEO of First Light Fusion. Nick’s research into fusion began in 2007 as part of his Master’s thesis, where he worked at the University of Oxford with Yiannis Ventikos. This work continued into a DPhil, where he performed hydrodynamic simulations of shock-driven cavity collapse. These simulations showed that cavity collapse leads to inertial confinement of the gas inside the cavity and revealed that extreme states of matter could be reached, possibly entering the regime for fusion. To explore the concept of energy generation via this process, Nick and Yiannis co-founded First Light Fusion Ltd in 2011. Nick also spent three years tutoring at Lady Margaret Hall during his studies. After finishing his DPhil in 2012, Nick joined First Light Fusion as CEO and CTO, and continues to oversee the technical vision of the company.About First Light Fusion: First Light Fusion was founded by Professor Yiannis Ventikos, Head of the Mechanical EngineeringDepartment at University College, London, and Dr Nicholas Hawker, formerly an Engineering lecturer at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.The company was spun out from the University of Oxford in July 2011, with seed capital from IP Group plc,Parkwalk Advisors Ltd and private investors. Invesco and OSI provided follow-on capital.The business has grown from a research-focused university project to a fully-fledged company that has developed not only a strategy for how to make fusion energy work, but also a sustainable business model based on the technology.The team comprises experts in relevant scientific and engineering fields plus the management experience necessary to adAbout 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 Follow us online, write a review (please) or subscribeI'm very keen to hear feedback on the podcast and my guests, and to hear your suggestions for future guests or topics. Contact via the website, or Twitter. If you do enjoy the podcast, please write a review on iTunes, or your usual podcast platform, and tell your cleantech friends about us. That would be much appreciated.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-hunt-cleantech/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidHsearch Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidhuntcleantech/Also follow our podcast handles to stay up to date. LinkedIn: ...
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Mar 15, 2023 • 42min

Leaders in Cleantech #115 - Stephen Robinson - Fully Charged Recruitment

What’s it all about?Talent. Jim Collins said, ‘Great vision without great people is irrelevant’. Something I firmlybelieve and it’s why I created Hyperion Executive Search, and more recently, along with StephenRobinson, and the Fully Charged Show, Fully Charged Recruitment. We talk about Steve’sbackground 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 6years, 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 findawesome Cleantech careers. A partnership between the Hyperion Cleantech Group and the FullyCharged Show. We have decades of experience in the clean energy and clean mobility sectors, anda 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 andHeads 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 | LinkedInStephen RobinsoAbout 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 Follow us online, write a review (please) or subscribeI'm very keen to hear feedback on the podcast and my guests, and to hear your suggestions for future guests or topics. Contact via the website, or Twitter. If you do enjoy the podcast, please write a review on iTunes, or your usual podcast platform, and tell your cleantech friends about us. That would be much appreciated.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-hunt-cleantech/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidHsearch Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidhuntcleantech/Also follow our podcast handles to stay up to date. LinkedIn: ...
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Mar 8, 2023 • 43min

Leaders in Cleantech #114 - James Johnston - Piclo

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 | LinkedInPiclo on Linkedin:   Overview | LinkedInPiclo Website: Piclo — The UK's leading independent marketplace for flexible energy systems.Piclo on Twitter: (5) Piclo (@PicloEnergy) / TwitterAbout 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 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 Follow us online, write a review (please) or subscribeI'm very keen to hear feedback on the podcast and my guests, and to hear your suggestions for future guests or topics. Contact via the website, or Twitter. If you do enjoy the podcast, please write a review on iTunes, or your usual podcast platform, and tell your cleantech friends about us. That would be much appreciated.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-hunt-cleantech/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidHsearch Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidhuntcleantech/Also follow our podcast handles to stay up to date. LinkedIn: ...
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Mar 1, 2023 • 43min

Leaders in Cleantech #113 - Daniel Epstein – Unreasonable

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 | LinkedInUnreasonable Website: Unreasonable GroupUnreasonable on Twitter: (7) Unreasonable (@unreasonable) / TwitterUnreasonable on FaceBook: (3) Unreasonable | FacebookUnreasonable on Instagram: Unreasonable (@unreasonable) • Instagram photos and videosAbout Hyperion Executive Search:Hyperion are a specialist executive search firm working with some of the most innovative cleantech companies in the world, hAbout 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 Follow us online, write a review (please) or subscribeI'm very keen to hear feedback on the podcast and my guests, and to hear your suggestions for future guests or topics. Contact via the website, or Twitter. If you do enjoy the podcast, please write a review on iTunes, or your usual podcast platform, and tell your cleantech friends about us. That would be much appreciated.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-hunt-cleantech/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidHsearch Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidhuntcleantech/Also follow our podcast handles to stay up to date. LinkedIn: ...
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Feb 21, 2023 • 40min

Leaders in Cleantech #112 - Rubina Singh – Octopus Ventures

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. | LinkedInOctopus Ventures on Linkedin:  (2) Octopus Ventures: Overview | LinkedInOctopus Ventures Website: Home - Octopus Ventures | Venture CapitalOctopus Ventures on Twitter: (20) Octopus Ventures (@OctopusVentures) / TwitterPOWERful Women on Linked In: (2) POWERful Women: Overview | LinkedInAbout 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 extraAbout 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 Follow us online, write a review (please) or subscribeI'm very keen to hear feedback on the podcast and my guests, and to hear your suggestions for future guests or topics. Contact via the website, or Twitter. If you do enjoy the podcast, please write a review on iTunes, or your usual podcast platform, and tell your cleantech friends about us. That would be much appreciated.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-hunt-cleantech/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidHsearch Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidhuntcleantech/Also follow our podcast handles to stay up to date. LinkedIn: ...
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Feb 1, 2023 • 50min

Leaders in Cleantech #111 - Max Beaumont - SkyTree

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 AgencySocial links:  The NUMA on Linkedin:  NUMA: Overview | LinkedInThe Skytree on Linkedin:  Skytree | We're Hiring 🚀: Overview | LinkedInThe  NUMA Website: Home - Numa StudioThe  Skytree Website: Skytree | Scalable Carbon Removal SolutionsMax Beaumont LinkedIn:  Max Beaumont | LinkedInAbout 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 HEREMax Beaumont on Medium: Max Beaumont – Medium Follow us online, write a review (pleasAbout 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 Follow us online, write a review (please) or subscribeI'm very keen to hear feedback on the podcast and my guests, and to hear your suggestions for future guests or topics. Contact via the website, or Twitter. If you do enjoy the podcast, please write a review on iTunes, or your usual podcast platform, and tell your cleantech friends about us. That would be much appreciated.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-hunt-cleantech/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidHsearch Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidhuntcleantech/Also follow our podcast handles to stay up to date. LinkedIn: ...
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Jan 17, 2023 • 41min

Leaders in Cleantech #110 - Graham Hill - The Carbonauts

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) / TwitterThe Carbonauts Linkedin:  (8) The Carbonauts: Overview | LinkedIn The Carbonauts Website: The Carbonauts – Become a Carbonaut!The CarboAbout 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 Follow us online, write a review (please) or subscribeI'm very keen to hear feedback on the podcast and my guests, and to hear your suggestions for future guests or topics. Contact via the website, or Twitter. If you do enjoy the podcast, please write a review on iTunes, or your usual podcast platform, and tell your cleantech friends about us. That would be much appreciated.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-hunt-cleantech/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidHsearch Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidhuntcleantech/Also follow our podcast handles to stay up to date. LinkedIn: ...
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Jan 11, 2023 • 50min

Leaders in Cleantech #109 - Yaron Ben Nun – Nostromo Energy

What’s it all about?Solving some of our biggest issues in the C&I (Commercial and Industrial) sectors. Buildings use SO much energy, electricity, heat and of course cooling. As climate change increases tempretures, more cooling is needed, creating a negative feedback loop. My guest today addresses this and many other energy and emissions problems, using……Water. And a great lesson, sometimes we all need a direct and maybe not so friendly piece of advice to put us back on track. A great entrepreneur and technology story. I hope you enjoy the episode.About Yaron Ben Nun: Yaron Ben Nun is Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Nostromo Energy, where his vision for reducing carbon emissions by decarbonizing buildings led to the development of Nostromo’s  novel IceBrick™ energy storage technology. Yaron has led the company through its pre-seed capital funding, to winning a $500,000 grant and two-year product development sponsorship from Shell Plc’s GameChanger Clean-Energy Accelerator, to the company’s first commercial deployment of its IceBrick™ technology at med tech company Medinol’s Jerusalem headquarters, to building a pipeline of projects in the U.S. and globally. As CTO, Yaron leads the overall vision and strategic development of Nostromo’s technology and product development, with the goal of making the IceBrick™ an industry standard and playing a key role in the emerging behind-the-meter energy storage arena.Previously, Yaron served as the Head of Innovation at Lightapp Technology (now ZIRA),  an industrial analytics software company for operational excellence in energy management. Yaron also held a marketing position at a cleantech heat-pump technology company Phoebus Energy. Earlier in his career, Yaron served as a combat pilot, flying an A4 Skyhawk in the Israeli Air Force.About Nostromo Energy:Nostromo Energy provides a sustainable energy storage solution for commercial and industrial buildings that reduces carbon emissions and energy costs and increases reliability. Nostromo’s clean, safe and highly efficient IceBrick™ solution transforms how buildings use energy for cooling. This solution stores energy during off-peak or surplus solar energy hours, so it can be used for cooling during peak demand hours. Founded in 2017, Nostromo is publicly listed in the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.Social linkAbout 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 Follow us online, write a review (please) or subscribeI'm very keen to hear feedback on the podcast and my guests, and to hear your suggestions for future guests or topics. Contact via the website, or Twitter. If you do enjoy the podcast, please write a review on iTunes, or your usual podcast platform, and tell your cleantech friends about us. That would be much appreciated.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-hunt-cleantech/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidHsearch Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidhuntcleantech/Also follow our podcast handles to stay up to date. LinkedIn: ...

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