Business Activities

BUSINESS ACTIVITIES

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.”

I’ve founded and scaled companies. I’ve founded and failed companies. I’ve worked with some of the great cleantech success stories, their founders, VC’s and leadership teams. I’ve learned a lot. I have grey hair and wrinkles! My passion is to use these experiences, these lessons, to accelerate the clean energy and mobility transitions, working with entrepreneurs, founders, Investors and industry Thought Leaders to create opportunities, jobs and a better environment and society.

I also have a passion for talent, and believe the key to the success of any business is having the right people in the right place, at the right time. For this reason I’ve focused on building and buying executive search and recruitment businesses that serve the cleantech sector globally.

I’m open to hear about opportunities for

  • Business owners looking to sell their business
  • JV and Partnerships
  • NED/Board Advisor roles
  • Mentoring
  • Scale up support
  • Speaking

Hyperion Executive Search Ltd. I’m proud to lead the amazing team at Hyperion Executive Search. We work throughout EMEA and North America, with amazing start-ups and scale-ups, helping to hire outstanding leadership teams, and strategically important hires at Board, C-Suite, VP and Executive Level. Our clients come from across the Cleantech sector, including Energy Storage, Future Mobility, Smart cities, Renewable energy and Smart Buildings. We’ve helped some of the best known and most innovative cleantech companies to scale.

DH Cleantech Ltd

Providing advisory, strategy and fundraising support to cleantech companies to support their growth and/or internationalisation. Utilising my extensive network of industry leaders, VC’s, CVCs and institutional investors to help bring clarity and speed to high growth companies and entrepreneurs.

I also channel key note speaking, moderating and media requests and activities through DH Cleantech Ltd.

Rockstart.

I’m proud and excited to be a Mentor for the Rockstart Cleantech Accelerator and VC. Rockstart are empowering founders to drive positive change in a world that seriously needs more sustainability. Creating a better food system, transforming the energy business, developing promising technologies.

I’m proud to be an Advisor and Mentor for the global cleantech accelerator, Plug and Play. Plug and Play’s core objective is to catalyze technological advancement. Over the past 12 years, they have built the largest innovation platform on the planet, bringing together startups, investors, and blue chip corporations. They are now active in 22 locations globally, including U.S., China, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Singapore, Indonesia, and Mexico.

We are experts in facilitating meaningful introductions, investing in startups, and bringing together key stakeholders into one world-changing network.

I love supporting the growth of cleantech companies globally. The Canadian cleantech sector is booming, and I’m delighted to be a Mentor for Foresight. Foresight is a Canadian cleantech ecosystem builder and accelerator. They help drive the growth, commercialization, and adoption of clean technologies, developed by small to medium-sized enterprises (SME). They focus on scaling technology that will help governments and industry meet progressive climate targets and fully transition to a green economy.

I’m delighted to be an Advisor and Mentor for the Greentech Alliance. The Greentech Alliance is a community of Greentech companies from all over the world which connects the members to top tier VCs, media and experts.

For the last decade the movement to create solutions in the fight against climate change has reshaped the world and given humanity an opportunity to use the power of community and technology to shape a vision of a sustainable future. We built the Greentech Alliance to connect the stakeholders who are true to this vision and who work tirelessly for our planet and its communities.

EcoLogo Investments. I’ve seen the awesome work ecoligo do from the earliest days, having met Martin Baart at an event in Berlin. ecoligo enables businesses in emerging markets to use clean energy. With fully financed solar-as-a-service and energy efficiency-as-a-service solutions, ecoligo makes it easy for businesses to go green and lower their energy costs. Projects are funded through crowdinvesting, enabling impact-driven individuals to fight the climate crisis with their investments. I’m delighted to be an Ambassador for ecoligo investments.

Cleantech Heroes.

This is an awesome campaign I’m proud to have initiated alongside a couple of passionate cleantech freinds.

Cleantech Heroes is an initiative of Life Size Media, Hyperion Executive Search and Inven Capital that is providing free individual consultations to enable cleantech companies to realise their full potential.

Collectively, the teams behind Cleantech Heroes have the experience and knowledge to accelerate these companies towards their commercial goals.

 

 

Discover Cleantech.

I’m a regular columnist for Discover Cleantech Magazine.

David is an inspiring business leader, a captivating speaker, and a true champion of the clean tech sector. If you are in need of recruiting senior leaders, or looking for mentoring and adding value to a start-up, founding team, or investor Group as an independent NED or Board Advisor, look no further.

Rick Snyder- Business Coach, Author of Decisive Intuition