Trusted by operators, investors & platforms across the transition
We partner with visionary investors, operating companies, and corporates, to build and execute the strategies that secure the leadership behind every growth milestone.
We work exclusively across energy transition and digital infrastructure markets where the right leadership team determines how quickly businesses scale.
While other search firms are learning the sector, we have been building it.
Partner-led, market-wide, committed. The partner you meet runs the search from brief to placement, with no hand-off and no junior team. Full retained process across all six sectors.
The safe choice has a cost you do not see until it is too late. We do not exist to validate the obvious hire. We exist to find the person who will deliver what you want to become, not a carbon copy of where you have been. Partner-led, sector-built, and uninterested in being the usual option.
PE and VC perspectives on where capital is moving across the energy transition, alongside our full library of whitepapers, surveys and market playbooks.
Explore our insightsWe help investors secure CEOs, Chairs and executive teams capable of scaling portfolio companies through critical growth phases.
We help renewable developers, IPPs, data center platforms and infrastructure businesses hire the leaders required to build, scale and deliver.
Net Zero Search is a partner-led executive search firm working exclusively in the energy transition and digital infrastructure sectors. We place senior leaders for investors, operators and corporates, and every mandate is run start to finish by a Managing Partner, not handed off to a research team.
We work across six sectors (with twelve distinct verticals – see Sectors page): renewable energy and storage (including solar and wind), power and grid, data centers and digital infrastructure, investment and finance, energy transition and industrial decarbonisation, and emerging and clean tech.
Two to four weeks to a first shortlist, on average. We track outcomes too: 98% of our retained searches are filled, not gradually abandoned six months in with an invoice already paid.
Yes. We place CEOs, Chairs and executive teams for private equity and infrastructure investors, mostly at the point where a portfolio company needs to scale fast across North America, UK, Europe, Middle East and APAC.
Retained search means one firm is engaged exclusively, paid in stages, and accountable for the outcome. Contingent means several agencies are racing for the same brief and only get paid if they win, which often produces a low quality service to client and candidate. We only work retained.
A partner-led search firm means the person who wins the mandate is the same person who runs it, end to end. No handover to junior researchers, no name on the pitch deck who then disappears. Every one of our Managing Partners runs their own searches personally, from brief to placement.
