Henry Wacher

Partner, Energy and Commodities at Highbridge Partners

Greater London, England, United Kingdom

About

Henry is responsible for overseeing and managing a number of Highbridge Partners Global Client relationships, across EMEA, Asia-Pacific and The Americas. Prior to co-founding Highbridge Partners, Henry worked at Principal Search Partners, where he was mandated to expand the company’s global client footprint, successfully establishing new relationships with a broad section of Global Commodity Trading, Corporate and Financial Services clients. He possesses significant experience of working with clients looking to either establish and build new commercial or trading ventures, or with more mature businesses looking to enhance or upgrade their existing commercial platforms. Throughout his career, Henry has built an extensive global placement track record and client network across the oil major, physical trade house, utility, corporate, investment bank, alternatives, as well as downstream commodity, refining and logistics sectors. Due to the nature of his work with Executive and Board Level clients, he has also been mandated on a significant number of Global Consulting Projects, regularly advising clients on key topics such as compensation model redesign, organisational structure, competitor benchmarking, new market entry, talent retention, HR process improvement and diversity enhancement. [email protected] +44 7572 380 898

Experience

  • Partner, Energy and Commodities at Highbridge Partners Ltd
    Jul 2019 - Present · 7 yrs

    Henry is Co-Founding Partner and responsible for overseeing and managing a number of Highbridge Partners Global Client relationships, across EMEA, Asia-Pacific and The Americas. Prior to co-founding Highbridge Partners, Henry worked at Principal Search Partners, where he was mandated to expand the company’s global client footprint, successfully establishing new relationships with a broad section of Global Commodity Trading, Corporate and Financial Services clients. He possesses significant experience of working with clients looking to either establish and build new commercial or trading ventures, or with more mature businesses looking to enhance or upgrade their existing commercial platforms. Throughout his career, Henry has built an extensive global placement track record and client network across the oil major, physical trade house, utility, corporate, investment bank, alternatives, as well as downstream commodity, refining and logistics sectors. Due to the nature of his work with Executive and Board Level clients, he has also been mandated on a significant number of Global Consulting Projects, regularly advising clients on key topics such as compensation model redesign, organisational structure, competitor benchmarking, new market entry, talent retention, HR process improvement and diversity enhancement.

  • Energy and Commodity Headhunter at Principal Search
    2007 - Jul 2019 · 12 yrs 7 mos

    Henry was a Senior Consultant within the Energy and Commodities practice at Principal Search, responsible for originating and executing searches across Commodity trading, sales, origination, structuring, fundamental and quantitative analytics and commodity linked financing, spanning Europe, US, Asia and the Middle East. Focus was both across physical and financial commodity markets, spanning the full commodity spectrum including Oil & Refined Products, Base & Precious Metals, Natural Gas, LNG, Uk & Continental European Power, Emissions, Coal, Freight, Ags & Softs, and Exotics & Commodity Index products. Additionally, he possessed an in-depth knowledge of both Upstream, Mid-Stream and Downstream energy sectors, with experience of identifying and hiring executives across the full C-Suite spectrum.

  • Consultant - Investment Banking Division at Robert Walters
    2004 - 2007 · 3 yrs