Net Zero Search is a partner-led executive search firm for private equity and infrastructure investors in the energy transition. We place CEOs, Chairs, NEDs and executive teams to scale portfolio companies across the UK, Europe and North America, with a 98% retained-to-fill rate and a first shortlist in two to four weeks.
Book a Partner CallThe partner who wins your mandate runs it from brief to placement. 100% partner-delivered.
We work only in the energy transition and digital infrastructure, with networks built since 2010.
No researchers taking over after the pitch. The same expert stays on your search throughout.
Every retained mandate carries a placement guarantee, backed by a 98% retained-to-fill rate.
Private equity, infrastructure funds, venture and growth equity, and the family offices and institutional LPs backing direct energy transition & digital infrastructure deals. Different capital structures, different hold periods, different exit expectations, and we work all of them.
Managing Partner, Partner, Investment Director, Managing Director, Principal, VP of Investment, Operating Partner, Capital Formation and Investor Relations. People originating and executing deals, or adding operational value across a portfolio, not the operators running the businesses afterwards. We also place investment & corporate development professionals at platform level.
Both. On the Sell-side we work with investment banks, advisories, and bulge bracket and boutique banks running the M&A and financing processes on transactions across the sector.
Yes. There's often movement between fund and portfolio company, someone spends a few years on the deal team, then moves in-house to run finance for a platform, or the reverse. Platform companies often carry funding structures the fund itself doesn't, project finance, debt, mezzanine, tax equity, and need people in-house who actually understand them. We hold relationships with those specialists on both sides of the table, not just the fund.
North America, UK, Europe, Middle East and APAC. Where the mandate sits, one of our Managing Partners covers it personally.
Two to four weeks to a first shortlist, with 98% of retained searches filled.