Head of IT for Tier-1 backed Energy Tech Unicorn

A fast-scaling renewable energy company backed by Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, and Capital One, was operating with a disjointed IT department, lacking core infrastructure like procurement practices, SOPs, and internal systems leadership. After more than three months of unsuccessful searching, the organization remained without a senior IT leader to bring order and scalability to its operations.

We were brought in to turn the search around. We ran a fast-paced, national executive search targeting IT leaders with deep infrastructure, compliance, and enterprise systems expertise particularly those with experience building internal IT from the ground up in scaling or PE-backed environments. Within 20 days, we had surfaced and engaged a set of high-fit candidates with the experience and leadership style needed to stabilize and mature IT operations. Our shortlist enabled the client to make fast, confident hiring decisions.

The client hired a Head of IT who is now actively transforming internal IT establishing procurement processes, implementing SOPs, Compliance (SOC 2, ISO 20071) and elevating operational discipline across the company. The hire immediately stabilized a chaotic function and is playing a key role in enabling the next stage of scale.