Cleantech Leadership Solutions - - specific domain expertise

Cleantech Leadership Solutions is the cleantech search practice of Leadership Group Executive Search (LGES). Established over eight years ago, Cleantech Leadership Solutions recently expanded its capabilities in 2009 with the addition of Cleantech Search, the former executive search business of the Cleantech Group™ LLC. The Cleantech Group, formerly the Cleantech Venture Network, pioneered clean technology as an investment category in 2002.

What is cleantech?  Cleantech is a word which has become a significant part of everyday discussions and news.  However, cleantech is far more than a global warming initiative or technologies to improve energy independence or waste cleanup.  It is the creation of new technologies which are designed to fundamentally alter and improve business performance while providing solutions to global environmental and natural resource challenges.

New clean and energy efficient technologies provide the promise to improve the utilization of critical resources, significantly reducing or eliminating negative environmental impact.  Simply put, these new clean technologies improve the quality of all life!  

However, like all emerging technologies, clean technology companies must find the best highly qualified executives that they can attract; executives whose education and experience are appropriate to the required roles.  Both human capital and financial capital are essential for success. 

Each member of Cleantech Leadership Solutions is uniquely qualified by both education and operational experience to understand the relevant technologies and the required core competencies of the executives needed to drive significant success.  Our practice members have relevant technical and managerial experience necessary to serve the alternative energy, smart grid, agriculture, land management, water, transportation, biochemistry, biofuels, and environmental remediation sectors in the most effective way.  Our search experience addresses all levels and functions in the managerial and executive suite. 

Working as an exclusive, retained partner, Cleantech Leadership Solutions offers a close, collaborative working arrangement with proven results.

• We successfully conclude the majority of our searches within 60 days.
• We keep our concurrent searches to a minimum to provide maximum focus on our client’s needs.
• We offer fixed-fee pricing to provide our clients with cost predictability.
• We have conducted over 450 executive searches in the past ten years.
• We primarily engage in high-end C-level or VP/GM-level placements.
• We work with both mature and emerging growth companies.
• Our partnership with the Cleantech Group provides us valuable access to the latest research and analysis in the cleantech sector. 

At LGES, we emphasize that it takes an expert to find an expert and experience to find a leader.  At Cleantech Leadership Solutions, we reinforce this with our education and clean technology expertise and our actual executive experience in specific cleantech sectors.  We also reinforce this with our in-depth assessment of candidates: technical, managerial and leadership style.  A unique combination our clients value very highly.

Please see our Partners’ bios to understand their unique qualifications for this highly specialized area.

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