Zug, Zug, Switzerland
Recruitment leader with 15 years’ proven success in talent acquisition, organisation builds and international executive search in energy and commodity trading. Comfortable working with senior level candidates and internal clients, including those with a personal budgetary responsibility of over $100bn. Key highlights include: • Leading Talent Acquisition for ArrowResources, an energy and metals commodity trading business, carrying out the full search process to hire CFO & Heads of Trading, Finance, IT, Communications and Marketing, along with international commercial, operations, accounting, shipping and support positions • Building out New Fortress Energy’s brand new multibillion dollar LNG business from employee #6 to #180 • Recruiting project, commercial and operations teams from scratch to help build and run over 100MTPA of global LNG projects Lived and worked in the USA, Canada, UK, EU, Switzerland, and Australia. Thrive in high stakes environments, have a strong work ethic and a genuine enjoyment of my job.
Arco Talent Group is a specialist executive search partner for private equity funds, infrastructure investors, and the operating companies in their portfolios. Its dual-lens model delivers senior talent at both ends of the investment lifecycle - ensuring a continuous leadership and data thread from deal origination to portfolio value creation. As Executive Advisor, Talent Acquisition, I leverage over a decade in international executive search and over five years leading internal talent acquisition for multibillion-dollar infrastructure, energy, and commodity trading firms to advise clients on building high-performance teams in high-impact, time-sensitive environments. I support Arco’s embedded recruitment and RPO solutions, partnering with CHROs and leadership teams to design scalable internal talent acquisition functions. My work also extends to executive search mandates within the Gas & LNG value chain, spanning commercial, technical, and trading disciplines.
Managing Partner and Principal at Rigel Partners Ltd. Leading Rigel Partners' portfolio of senior searches from inception through to success, working with major multinationals to develop their talent pipeline, and building rich global partnerships across the energy value chain. With the confidence and security founded on a legacy of success, we provide partner driven searches, unrestricted access to the best in the market, and investment in building your talent pipeline, underpinned by our core values of integrity, working ethically, and total quality. Some personal successes listed below, always happy to chat about your goals, ambitions, and future. Peace of mind is our business, find out how we can deliver it for yours. Successful retained searches include: • General Manager, Newbuild LNG Plant • SVP Operations, $9bn Project Organisation • VP Projects, $9bn Project Organisation • General Manager, Middle Eastern Drilling Company – building a new organisation from the ground up • VP Construction, $9bn Project Organisation Additional projects successfully undertaken include: • VP, LNG Projects – $100bn budgetary responsibility • VP, LNG Projects – $6bn budgetary responsibility • Senior Project Director – $4bn budgetary responsibility • Operations Director – building and managing the multicultural, multinational, operations department for a newbuild multibillion dollar LNG facility • Engineering and Maintenance Manager – as above, for the engineering and maintenance departments • Director, Production – building and managing the multinational operations team for a newbuild $12bn gas facility • General Manager – responsible for growing, operating and running an established subsea contractor in SE Asia Other projects successfully executed include: • Head & Deputy Head Operations • Production Manager, LNG • Maintenance Manager, LNG • Head, Production Engineering • Head, LNG Process Engineering • Head, Electrical Engineering
Heading up Talent Acquisition for ArrowResources, Arrow Metals and Trading and AOT Energy, hiring in over 13 countries for one of the fastest-growing, integrated commodities groups in the world. ArrowResources is a global commodity trading group active in sourcing, storing, transporting, financing and trading metals, minerals, energy and power. Sole person responsible for all the group’s hiring, from C-Suite and Heads of Trading through to in-country operations personnel. Key achievements & hires include: • Sourced & hired Chief Financial Officer (CFO) • Sourced & hired Head, Metals Derivatives Trading • Heads of Trade Finance, Trade Finance Operations, IT, Marketing & Comms • Developed, started and ran company’s first ever internship program • Saved Arrow over USD840,000 USD in agency spend in first 12 months • Reduced agency spend by 96.7% in 2024, with zero agency spend projected for 2025 • Partnered with CEO, Chief of Staff & C-Suite to develop staffing plans for new major commercial ventures AOT Energy is a global leader in energy trading, covering crude oil and derivatives, renewables, petrochemicals, natural gas, and LNG. Our global business activity is conducted out of trading hubs located in Asia, Europe, Africa and North America, with industry experts covering all aspects of the business ranging from origination, transport, storage, blending, finance to marketing.
New Fortress Energy LLC (NASDAQ:NFE) is a multi-billion dollar, publicly-traded, global energy infrastructure investment company founded to help accelerate the world’s transition to clean energy. We fund, build and operate natural gas infrastructure and logistics to rapidly deliver fully integrated, turnkey energy solutions that enable economic growth, enhance environmental stewardship and transform local industries and communities. Talent Acquisition Consultant carrying out senior and sensitive searches across LNG and hydrogen. Highlights include: • Helping build out the LNG project and operations organisations from top down for our first major liquefaction project, FLNG1 • Leading confidential LNG commercial, marketing & trading searches for the US, London, and internationally • Executive searches for senior leadership positions in the US, UK, Singapore, South Africa, Ireland, Mexico, and Europe • Working with some incredible people in one of the fastest-moving, entrepreneurial energy firms in the world
Contracted to provide Talent Acquisition for one of the largest energy investments in Europe, helping build out the operating organisation as we move from the project phase to operations and expansion. TAP is a new $4.5bn energy infrastructure and logistics business, headquartered in Switzerland and active across Greece, Italy, Albania, and Spain. Developed and executed the recruitment plans, working with the leadership team, key stakeholders, and managing external agencies, to fill the most challenging positions across all areas of TAP’s business. TAP is a key part of the $40bn Southern Gas Corridor, and won Gas Project of the Year at Gastech 2021.