Leaders in Cleantech

What’s it all about?Flexibility, curtailment and how to use software, as well as new infrastructure to create the resilient, flexible, fit for purpose grid we need now and for the future. We also talk co-founding a company at 21, the challenges and opportunities this brings, building teams, culture, and how an English Literature graduate falls in love with energy and builds a cleantech business. About Jo-Jo Hubbard:Jo-Jo started her energy career in cleantech financing and investment, specialising in solar, wind and batteries. She spent 2 years at McKinsey focusing on digital transformation before co-founding Electron. As well as being Co-Founder and CEO of Electron, Jo-Jo also acts as: A UK Government advisor on Net Zero (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-holds-first-net-zero-council)A UK regulator advisor on network regulations (https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/docs/2021/01/biogs_updated_for_ed2_final_1.pdf)A member of the National Grid Technology Advisory Council (https://www.nationalgrideso.com/what-we-do/our-people/esos-stakeholder-groups/eso-technology-advisory-council-tac)About Electron: Electron is a tech start-up which enables grid operators, local energy markets and distributed energy assets to unlock value in decarbonising energy systems, believing that energy systems need digitally optimised marketplaces to deliver net zero in a cost efficient and resilient way for generators, operators and consumers.Social links:  Jo-Jo Hubbard on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jo-jo-hubbard-76bb7723/ Electron on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/electron-platform/ Electron website: https://electron.net/ About Hyperion Executive Search:Hyperion are a specialist executive search firm working with some of the most innovative cleantech companies in the world, helping to find extraordinary talent to enable their growth and success. Partnering with leading cleantech VCs, as well as directly with founders and entrepreneurs in the sector. With our clients we are transforming business and growing a strong and prosperous cleantech economy.If you want to grow your team, or move forward your career, visit www.hyperionsearch.com, or email info@hyperionsearch.com Chapters:0:00 | Introduction to Jo-Jo0:27 | Jo-Jo's journey to founding Electron5:49 | The evolution of Electron14:47 | Implications & complications of owning a business in the UK18:23 | Jo-Jo's thoughts on the energy transition26:58 | Time and use tariffs30:36 | Diversity within the clean energy sector38:06 | What has Jo-Jo learned as an entrepreneur?41:22 | Closing words

What’s it all about?The often overlooked issue of renewable heat. I take dive into the world of solar thermal with Hyperion client Naked Energy. Co-founder and CEO Christophe Williams has a great founder story too, from inventors genes to global advertising exec, to cleantech founder. Christophe shares about the Cinderella story of solar thermal, and well as the trials and tribulations of founding and scaling a tech business.About Christophe Williams:Christophe is the CEO and Co-Founder at Naked Energy. Prior to that, Christophe has been connected to the renewable energy industry for generations. His first inspiration was his grandfather Peter Williams who worked with renowned engineer Stephen Salter in the 1970s to develop 'the oscillating duck', a form of oscillating wave technology generating clean electricity. Christophe previously worked as a senior creative executive in the advertising industry for over fifteen years, gaining many awards from prestigious organisations such as ‘Creative Circle’ and ‘Clio’. He has worked with major blue-chip clients and global brands such as Microsoft, Barclays, BMW, Sony and also directly with a number of UK government bodies, including DEFRA and the Central Office of Information on high profile advertising campaigns on sustainability.About Naked Energy: Naked Energy is a British design and engineering business, leading the global innovation in solar heat and solar PVT. Naked Energy’s mission is to change energy for good, by decarbonising heat, the largest global energy end use in buildings across the world. Naked Energy’s high energy density solutions are capable of decarbonising heat cost-effectively and with limited space; its solar PVT technology delivers up to 3.5 times the carbon savings per m2 in comparison to conventional solar PV.Social links:  Christophe Williams on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophe-williams-3b12102b/ Christophe Williams on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Xtophe_Williams Naked Energy on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/naked-energy-limited/ Naked Energy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NakedEnergyLtd Naked Energy website: http://www.nakedenergy.com/ About Hyperion Executive Search:Hyperion are a specialist executive search firm working with some of the most innovative cleantech companies in the world, helping to find extraordinary talent to enable their growth and success. Partnering with leading cleantech VCs, as well as directly with founders and entrepreneurs in the sector. With our clients we are transforming business and growing a strong and prosperous cleantech economy.If you want to grow your team, or move forward your career, visit www.hyperionsearch.com, or email info@hyperionsearch.com Episode links:Follow us online, write a review (please) or subscribeI'm very keen to hear feedback on the podcast and my guests, and to hear your suggestions for future guests or topics. Contact via the website, or Twitter. If you do enjoy the podcast, please write a review on iTunes, or your usual podcast platform, and tell your cleantech friends about us. That would be much appreciated.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-hunt-cleantech/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidHsearch Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DavidHuntCleantechGuideInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidhuntcleantech/Also follow our podcast handles to stay up to date. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/leaders-in-cleantech-podcast/ Twitter https://twitter.com/CleantechleaderInstagram: Leaders in Cleantech Podcast (@leadersincleantech.podcast) | Instagram Website: https://leadersincleantech.com/ 

What’s it all about? Batteries, smart use of second life batteries. There is of course so much demand for new batteries, and that won’t go away, but soon we have a lot of batteries too useful to recycle just yet, but not useful for electric vehicles of first use cases. Entrepreneur and founder, Jorgon Erdal shares his vision and experience building a business to take advantage of this opportunity, and to play a large and important role in the energy transition. We also delve into his background and the importance of proactively building company culture. About Jørgen Erdal: As the Co-founder & CEO of Evyon, Jørgen is fully devoted to maximizing the value of every Battery, by converting a growing volume of discarded batteries into high-quality battery energy storage systems. With his passion to create a positive impact on the planet, Jørgen and his team at Evyon are in a leading position to reach their ambition of becoming the European leader in reused batteries in 2025. Jørgen is also a Co-founder of Protect Our Winters's branch in Norway, a worldwide NGO working to raise awareness of climate change within the winter sports community. As an ex-BCG consultant specializing in renewable energy strategy, financing, operating models, and more, he supported some of Europe's largest energy companies to succeed in the energy transition. During his time at BCG, Jørgen was also the main driver of the local and regional sustainability activities of BCG as a company. Jørgen holds a Master's Degree of Science in Electrical Energy Engineering from The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and ETH Zürich. Jørgen's master's thesis was to develop a stochastic optimization algorithm for how to operate a residential battery system in order to maximize its value under different tariff structures. About Evyon:  Evyon is a Norwegian Antler portfolio company founded in 2020 by Jørgen Erdal and Radu Achihai. Evyon exists to enable maximum value generation from second-life batteries by repurposing them in a safe, data-driven, and cost-effective way. Evyon’s proprietary hardware and Battery Cloud ecosystem enable the conversion of EV batteries into high-quality, affordable, and plug-and-play battery energy storage systems. Towards 2030, the amount of discarded EV batteries is estimated to grow to more than 200 GWh per year - the equivalent of more than 3 million EVs. Most of these are expected to be fully functional with less than 80% remaining capacity that can live on for 10+ years in a second life if you are able to identify them, repurpose them and operate them in an efficient and safe manner. This is exactly what Evyon is developing. Social links:  Jørgen Erdal on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jserdal/ Evyon on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/evyon/ Evyon website: https://www.evyon.com/ About Hyperion Executive Search: Hyperion are a specialist executive search firm working with some of the most innovative cleantech companies in the world, helping to find extraordinary talent to enable their growth and success. Partnering with leading cleantech VCs, as well as directly with founders and entrepreneurs in the sector. With our clients we are transforming business and growing a strong and prosperous cleantech economy. If you want to grow your team, or move forward your career, visit www.hyperionsearch.com, or email info@hyperionsearch.com Follow us online, write a review (please) or subscribe I'm very keen to hear feedback on the podcast and my guests, and to hear your suggestions for future guests or topics. Contact via the website, or Twitter. If you do enjoy the podcast, please write a review on iTunes, or your usual podcast platform, and tell your cleantech friends about us. That would be much appreciated. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-hunt-cleantech/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidHsearch Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DavidHuntCleantechGuide Instagram: https://www.instagram.

What’s it all about?Seamlessly easy EV charging and the evolution to a full stack of revenues and grid services, themobility transition supporting the energy transition. Also, the challenges and motivations of a co-founder CEO, and his own transition from corporate to start up life, the importance of good peopleand letting go.About Tore Harritshøj:Tore is an experienced Chief Executive Officer of Spirii, with a demonstrated success in the utilitiessolutions industry. Skilled in People and Change Management, Design Thinking & Innovation,Business Development within Mobility, Life Cycle management, Energy solutions, and Wind & SolarEnergy production. Professional International board experience with a MS focused in Econ fromCopenhagen University and international management schools.Driving a wide range of innovative subsidiaries and partnerships within sustainable solutions(Refarmed, Racell, Geoop, Spectro Inlets, Grøngas, Sønderjysk Biogas, Limfjorden Biogas).About Spirii: Leading the charge toward simpler, smarter eMobility. Spirii enables an accelerated transitiontowards sustainable transportation by offering innovative, agile, and end-user oriented e-mobilitycharging solutions build on their evergreen platform.Spirii enables you to easily deploy and scale a bespoke commercial EV-charging solution – backedby a cloud platform with a continuously-developing feature suite.Social links: Tore Harritshøj on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/%F0%9F%8C%8E-tore-harritsh%C3%B8j-b02b394/overlay/contact-info/Spirii on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/spirii/Spirii website: http://www.spirii.com/About Hyperion Executive Search:Hyperion are a specialist executive search firm working with some of the most innovative cleantechcompanies in the world, helping to find extraordinary talent to enable their growth and success.Partnering with leading cleantech VCs, as well as directly with founders and entrepreneurs in thesector. With our clients we are transforming business and growing a strong and prosperouscleantech economy.If you want to grow your team, or move forward your career, visit www.hyperionsearch.com, oremail info@hyperionsearch.comFollow us online, write a review (please) or subscribeI'm very keen to hear feedback on the podcast and my guests, and to hear your suggestions forfuture guests or topics. Contact via the website, or Twitter.If you do enjoy the podcast, please write a review on iTunes, or your usual podcast platform, andtell your cleantech friends about us. That would be much appreciated.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-hunt-cleantech/Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidHsearchFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DavidHuntCleantechGuideInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidhuntcleantech/Also follow our podcast handles to stay up to date.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/leaders-in-cleantech-podcast/Twitter https://twitter.com/CleantechleaderInstagram: Leaders in Cleantech Podcast (@leadersincleantech.podcast) | InstagramWebsite: https://leadersincleantech.com/Chapters:0:00 - Introduction to Tore and his journey into founding Spirii9:51 - How charging infrastructure has developed 14:39 - The model and routes to market17:43 - Early adopters of the solution26:30 - The next stage29:40 - Entrepreneurship challenges37:42 - Future predictions

What’s it all about?Sodium metal batteries have hit the headlines of late, with major announcements from BYD and CATL for use in electric vehicles. I speak to CCO or LiNa, a UK start-up developing Sodium batteries for stationary storage, now beyond TRL6 and making good traction. We talk tech, but also the journey of Will Tope, from O&G to Cleantech, from global corporate to small start-up. Enjoy the episode.About William Tope:Will is the Chief Commercial Officer at LiNa Energy, with over 10 years of global experience in the energy industry, working across oil and gas business development, corporate strategy, and power trading where he focused on grid-scale batteries. Will leads the planning, development, and implementation of strategies to commercialize and scale-up LiNa Energy’s technology, forming partnerships with customers in target storage markets and with manufacturing partners. Will has a Masters in Chemical Engineering from the University of Bath.About LiNa Energy: At LiNa Energy, we are leading the charge to develop and commercialise high-performance solid state sodium batteries, with a focus on the renewable energy storage market. Our battery technology is built around proven technology based on 1980s sodium chemistry, with modern materials science and advancements in fuel cell ceramics. As well as improving standards in safety, performance, and sustainability, we can commercialise faster by reducing lab development time and lowering the cost of deployment. Materials are abundant and thanks to our patented design, our batteries are ideal for mass manufacture.All of which means less risk to investors, partners and customers. Today, we are well on our way to offering a market-ready solution and are seeking additional partners to help us stress test the product and leverage the opportunity. Our strategy is to target fast-growing economies, such as India, where the performance challenges around lithium are more acute and the potential to make a difference quickly is greatest.Social links:  William Tope on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamtope/ LiNa Energy on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lina-energy/ LiNa Energy website: http://lina.energy/ About Hyperion Executive Search:Hyperion are a specialist executive search firm working with some of the most innovative cleantech companies in the world, helping to find extraordinary talent to enable their growth and success. Partnering with leading cleantech VCs, as well as directly with founders and entrepreneurs in the sector. With our clients we are transforming business and growing a strong and prosperous cleantech economy.If you want to grow your team, or move forward your career, visit www.hyperionsearch.com, or email info@hyperionsearch.com Episode links:Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX Amazon.com: Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX (Audible Audio Edition): Eric Berger, Rob Shapiro, William Collins: Books  Follow us online, write a review (please) or subscribeI'm very keen to hear feedback on the podcast and my guests, and to hear your suggestions for future guests or topics. Contact via the website, or Twitter. If you do enjoy the podcast, please write a review on iTunes, or your usual podcast platform, and tell your cleantech friends about us. That would be much appreciated.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-hunt-cleantech/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidHsearch Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DavidHuntCleantechGuideInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidhuntcleantech/Also follow our podcast handles to stay up to date. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/leaders-in-cleantech-podcast/ Twitter https://twitter.com/CleantechleaderIns

What’s it all about?Entrepreneurship, and the journey of failures. Uri Levine is the founder of not one, but two Unicorns, Waze and Moovit. He continues to be an active entrepreneur and investor, but his passion to help create more start-up success stories, and to support entrepreneurs led him to write ‘Fall in love with the problem, not the solution’. According to Steve Wozniak (Apple co-founder) it’s the ‘bible’ for entrepreneurs, I’d have to say it’s indispensable, especially for B2C and App founders, but for anyone building, or thinking of building a business. I caught up with Uri prior to an investor event in Prague. I hope you enjoy the episode.About Uri Levine: Uri is a passionate serial entrepreneur and disruptor. He co-founded Waze, the world’s largest driving traffic and navigation app, in 2007. The app, nowadays used by more than 750 million drivers around the globe, was acquired by Google in June of 2013 for $1.1 billion. Another achievement he is proud of is Moovit, ‘Waze for public transportation’, where he was the first board member and an investor. Moovit, which is used by more than 750 million individuals worldwide, was acquired by Intel for $1 Billion in 2020.Since Waze’s acquisition, Uri is actively pursuing his dream to create significant value for large audiences through the series of startups he founded. His vision is specifically intended to disrupt inefficient markets and improve under-functioning services, focus on solving ‘BIG problems’, saving consumers time and money while empowering them.Committed to spreading entrepreneurial thinking, it was only natural for Uri to take the next step with writing the book, “Fall In Love with the Problem – Not the Solution, a Handbook for entrepreneurs”In line with his vision, Uri dedicates significant time to public speaking engagements to audience around world, inspiring them through the lens of entrepreneurship and disruption, speaking of contemporary revolutions of markets and startups. Uri’s presentations rely heavily on his entrepreneurial and personal experiences with the intention to benefit people from the lessons he has learned and look back on both success and failures he has witnessed along his path.Uri is also motivated to encourage the next generation of thinkers and innovators and leads an academic workshop entitled “How to Build a Startup”, aimed at undergraduate and graduate level business students.Social links:  Uri Levine on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/uri-levine-85389/ Uri Levine on Twitter: https://twitter.com/urilevine1?lang=en   Uri Levine on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIWE3QJfJ98Hf9jD7oXXYZw Uri Levine Website: https://urilevine.com/ About Hyperion Executive Search:Hyperion are a specialist executive search firm working with some of the most innovative cleantech companies in the world, helping to find extraordinary talent to enable their growth and success. Partnering with leading cleantech VCs, as well as directly with founders and entrepreneurs in the sector. With our clients we are transforming business and growing a strong and prosperous cleantech economy.If you want to grow your team, or move forward your career, visit www.hyperionsearch.com, or email info@hyperionsearch.com EPISODE LINKS Fall In Love with the Problem, Not the Solution - A Handbook for Entrepreneurs:https://urilevine.com/book/ Follow us online, write a review (please) or subscribeI'm very keen to hear feedback on the podcast and my guests, and to hear your suggestions for future guests or topics. Contact via the website, or Twitter. If you do enjoy the podcast, please write a review on iTunes, or your usual podcast platform, and tell your cleantech friends about us. That would be much appreciated.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-hunt-cl

What’s it all about?Innovation and Intraprenuership! How can large organisations be disruptive, innovative and avoid the challenges of inertia that so often exist in corporations. Domenico has been doing this for many years, in more than one corporation. Danfoss are hugely active in the energy efficiency in buildings and industry, as well as the electrification on transport. Being a founder isn’t for everyone, but you can still be creative and disruptive, and work in a corporate environment, if the company has the right mindset.About Domenico Traverso:Passionate leader, entrepreneur at heart, outgoing by nature. On a mission to be ahead of the pack and outperform the competition. Sparking innovative thinking and driving cultural change. Track record of sustainable business transformations, turnarounds, profitable growth, and scaling innovation from various international leadership positions.At Danfoss, he is responsible for Editron, a global business changing the way the world moves with electric and hybrid powertrain systems, and the Incubation Division, a portfolio of 6 high-tech and high-potential global business units, developing innovative solutions for electrification, autonomous driving, digital hydraulics.Co-founder of Leadership Challenges, a podcast series debating how the working landscape is transforming with professionals from globally leading organizations and institutions.Domenico lives in Hamburg, Germany, and he has three children.About Danfoss: Danfoss engineers solutions that increase machine productivity, reduce emissions, lower energy consumption, and enable electrification.Our solutions are used in such areas as refrigeration, air conditioning, heating, power conversion, motor control, industrial machinery, automotive, marine, and off- and on-highway equipment. We also provide solutions for renewable energy, such as solar and wind power, as well as district-energy infrastructure for cities.Our innovative engineering dates back to 1933. Danfoss is family-owned, employing more than 42,000 people, serving customers in more than 100 countries through a global footprint of 95 factories.Social links:  Domenico Traverso on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/domenicotraverso/  Domenico Traverso Podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/leadershipchallenges Danfoss on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/danfoss/ Danfoss on Instagram: www.instagram.com/danfoss_group Danfoss on Twitter: www.twitter.com/Danfoss Danfoss on Facebook: www.facebook.com/Danfoss Danfoss website: http://www.danfoss.com/ About Hyperion Executive Search:Hyperion are a specialist executive search firm working with some of the most innovative cleantech companies in the world, helping to find extraordinary talent to enable their growth and success. Partnering with leading cleantech VCs, as well as directly with founders and entrepreneurs in the sector. With our clients we are transforming business and growing a strong and prosperous cleantech economy.If you want to grow your team, or move forward your career, visit www.hyperionsearch.com, or email info@hyperionsearch.com EPISODE LINKS HERE Follow us online, write a review (please) or subscribeI'm very keen to hear feedback on the podcast and my guests, and to hear your suggestions for future guests or topics. Contact via the website, or Twitter. If you do enjoy the podcast, please write a review on iTunes, or your usual podcast platform, and tell your cleantech friends about us. That would be much appreciated.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-hunt-cleantech/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidHsearch Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DavidHuntCleantechGuideInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidhuntcleantech/Chapters:0:00 - Introduction to Dom

What’s it all about?Company culture, high performing teams and leadership. I speak with long time friend and collaborator Zena Everett about these topic and more as we dig into our personal and client experiences in this field for many years. It ended up a fluid and hopefully very valuable conversation. I look forward to your feedback.About Zena Everett: Leadership Coach and in-demand Speaker Zena Everett is the author of Mind Flip, Take the Fear out of Your Career and the award winning, best-selling Crazy Busy Cure.Originally a recruitment entrepreneur, Zena sold her business in 2007 then studied an MSc in Career Management and Coaching.  She then took further post-graduate qualifications in psychological coaching and leadership with neuroscience (MIT Sloan Business School).   She has coached on the Executive MBA Programme at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School and is a member of the Associate Faculty at Henley Business School.Zena is a regular speaker on Crazy Busyness and Leadership for the London Business Forum.Social links:  Zena Everett on LinkedIn: Zena Everett MSc | LinkedIn Zena Everett on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ZenaEverett1?s=20 Zena Everett Website: https://www.zenaeverett.com/ About Hyperion Executive Search:Hyperion are a specialist executive search firm working with some of the most innovative cleantech companies in the world, helping to find extraordinary talent to enable their growth and success. Partnering with leading cleantech VCs, as well as directly with founders and entrepreneurs in the sector. With our clients we are transforming business and growing a strong and prosperous cleantech economy.If you want to grow your team, or move forward your career, visit www.hyperionsearch.com, or email info@hyperionsearch.com EPISODE LINKS HEREThe Crazy Busy Cure: https://www.zenaeverett.com/the-crazy-busy-cure/Mind Flip: https://www.zenaeverett.com/book/The One Thing   The One Thing, Essentialism The Disciplined Pursuit Of Less 2 Books Collection Set: Amazon.co.uk: Gary Keller, Greg McKeown: 9789123777822: Books Follow us online, write a review (please) or subscribeI'm very keen to hear feedback on the podcast and my guests, and to hear your suggestions for future guests or topics. Contact via the website, or Twitter. If you do enjoy the podcast, please write a review on iTunes, or your usual podcast platform, and tell your cleantech friends about us. That would be much appreciated.Twitter https://twitter.com/CleantechleaderFacebook https://www.facebook.com/DavidHuntCleantechGuideInstagram https://www.instagram.com/davidhuntcleantech/

What’s it all about?Impact! Climate science, behaviour change, story telling and combating FUD!  I loved this conversation with climate scientist Dr Lindsey Higgins. Bringing her talents, passion, and education to bear at one of the leading seed impact VCs, Pale Blue Dot, Lindsey shares her journey, her insights and her cats ears for an inspiring and entertaining conversation.About Lindsey Higgins: Lindsey Higgins is a climate scientist and communications specialist from Buffalo, New York, USA. She received her PhD from Stockholm University in Physical Geography, where her research focused on human-environment interactions around climate change and freshwater resources. Today, Lindsey is Head of Climate Insights at the early-stage venture capital firm Pale blue dot in Sweden. Her work focuses on understanding the science behind climate tech innovations to help guide investment strategies and decisions, and she is passionate about bridging gaps between research and the entrepreneurial world. In 2022, Lindsey was named one of the nine people who mattered in European climate tech by Sifted.About Pale blue dot: Pale blue dot is a €87M seed-stage venture capital firm, investing in climate tech startups that reduce and reverse the climate crisis and help us prepare for a new world. Pale blue dot is based in Malmö, Sweden, and invests in early stage companies in Europe and the US.Social links:  Lindsey Higgins on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lhigg/ Lindsey Higgins on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thelindscape  Pale blue dot on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/palebluedotvcclimate/  Pale blue dot on Twitter: https://twitter.com/palebluedotvc Pale blue dot Website: https://paleblue.vc/ About Hyperion Executive Search:Hyperion are a specialist executive search firm working with some of the most innovative cleantech companies in the world, helping to find extraordinary talent to enable their growth and success. Partnering with leading cleantech VCs, as well as directly with founders and entrepreneurs in the sector. With our clients we are transforming business and growing a strong and prosperous cleantech economy.If you want to grow your team, or move forward your career, visit www.hyperionsearch.com, or email info@hyperionsearch.com EPISODE LINKS HERESceptical Science- Explaining climate change science & rebutting global warming misinformation, Global Warming and Climate Change skepticism examined (skepticalscience.com)Acumen Academy Acumen Academy Follow us online, write a review (please) or subscribeI'm very keen to hear feedback on the podcast and my guests, and to hear your suggestions for future guests or topics. Contact via the website, or Twitter. If you do enjoy the podcast, please write a review on iTunes, or your usual podcast platform, and tell your cleantech friends about us. That would be much appreciated.Twitter https://twitter.com/CleantechleaderFacebook https://www.facebook.com/DavidHuntCleantechGuideInstagram https://www.instagram.com/davidhuntcleantech/Chapters:00:00 - Introduction04:48 - Working within a VC fund and engaging with the VC community08:00 - Steering the areas where the fund should be looking14:04 - Communication & behaviours17:42 - How can we address the confusions that stop people acting?20:29 - VC's reluctance to talk about adaptation24:02 - Which technologies can make the biggest impact?26:28 - Diversity30:37 - How can we get people interested in climate science & cleantech?35:21 - Storytelling for change38:47 - How optimistic are we?

What’s it all about?Cheap, abundant, low carbon energy. Looking at a Deeptech that has huge and literally game-changing capabilities. There has been much excitement, investment, and some key milestones in Nuclear Fusion in the last year. This week I have not one, but two guests, a Fusion founder and CEO, Dr Nick Hawker, and his investor, Dr Robert Trezona of Kiko Ventures. This is such an exciting space, and things are happening now that give rise to great optimism we can achieve Fusion power within a couple of decades. In the meantime, let’s get as much solar and wind in the ground as we can, but here could be cheap, abundant, safe, baseload.About Nicholas Hawker: Nicholas is the Co-founder and CEO of First Light Fusion. Nick’s research into fusion began in 2007 as part of his Master’s thesis, where he worked at the University of Oxford with Yiannis Ventikos. This work continued into a DPhil, where he performed hydrodynamic simulations of shock-driven cavity collapse. These simulations showed that cavity collapse leads to inertial confinement of the gas inside the cavity and revealed that extreme states of matter could be reached, possibly entering the regime for fusion. To explore the concept of energy generation via this process, Nick and Yiannis co-founded First Light Fusion Ltd in 2011. Nick also spent three years tutoring at Lady Margaret Hall during his studies. After finishing his DPhil in 2012, Nick joined First Light Fusion as CEO and CTO, and continues to oversee the technical vision of the company.About First Light Fusion: First Light Fusion was founded by Professor Yiannis Ventikos, Head of the Mechanical EngineeringDepartment at University College, London, and Dr Nicholas Hawker, formerly an Engineering lecturer at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.The company was spun out from the University of Oxford in July 2011, with seed capital from IP Group plc,Parkwalk Advisors Ltd and private investors. Invesco and OSI provided follow-on capital.The business has grown from a research-focused university project to a fully-fledged company that has developed not only a strategy for how to make fusion energy work, but also a sustainable business model based on the technology.The team comprises experts in relevant scientific and engineering fields plus the management experience necessary to address the challenges which lie ahead. The company has been able to attract a world class advisory board, meaning it can benefit from decades of relevant experience to help it streamline the path towards realising its visionSocial links:  Nicholas Hawker on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-hawker-58a4ab75/  Nicholas Hawker on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FLF_Nick Nicholas Hawker Blog: Nick's Blog – A blog by Nick Hawker – First Light Fusion founder and CEOFirst Light Fusion on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/first-light-fusion/ First Light Fusion Website: https://t.co/j9WD61jKLM   About Robert Trezona: Rob is the Founding Partner of Kiko Ventures, a £400m climate tech VC headquartered in London. Rob joined IP Group in 2011 to set up its cleantech division, and it has since become the leading early-stage cleantech VC in the UK. Rob has been in venture for over 15 years, starting his investment career at the Carbon Trust, where he was Head of R&D. Prior to Carbon Trust, he was a strategy consultant at McKinsey, and he continues to partner with McKinsey’s Sustainability Practice in his investment&