Leaders in Cleantech

What’s it all about? 

Geothermal. How big is the opportunity to exploit this renewable resource for heating, cooling and for power generation? Where are the hot spots (excuse the pun), what are the business models and use cases? How can we use heat to cool a warming world! This and all things Geothermal. 

About Alexander Helling:

As CEO, Alexander is in charge of Baseload Capital’s investments and overall portfolio performance. He has extensive experience in international project finance as well as founding, operating, and running companies. Alexanders key competence lies in equity and debt finance having spent more than 20 years of raising capital and structuring corporate debt and project finance structures for projects and companies. He is motivated by working with companies that have a higher purpose like the energy transition and how we can speed the transition up by new technologies, smart funding solutions and motivated teams.

About Baseload Capital 
Baseload Capital is a specialized investment entity that leads partnerships to scale up geothermal power deployment worldwide. Geothermal power comes from the Earth’s inner core and provides a fossil-free, stable, 24/7 available baseload for electricity and heating and cooling. We work with like-minded investors to fund geothermal energy projects and tap into the planet’s largest renewable energy source that lies right beneath our feet. 

We establish operating companies in global locations, which comprise the Baseload Power organization. They partner with local communities and power providers to commission, permit and build Baseload Capital-funded geothermal power plants. 
Together we dream of a planet in balance with resilient societies that run on renewable energy.
We will be part of this transition by leading partnerships to scale up geothermal project development.

Social links:  
Alexander Helling on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-helling-177140a/
Baseload Capital on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/baseload-cap/
Baseload Capital website: https://www.baseloadcap.com/


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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 [email protected] 

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00:00:00 - I

What’s it all about?
The A-Bomb- No not that one. Why does no one talk about Adaptation? Of course we should and must keep working on inventing, scaling and investing in technologies that combat climate change, and help prevent the worst outcomes, but we’re already well down the path of negative climate feedback loops. We have to talk about, and invest in technologies that help mitigate the worst of what is already happening, and what’s to come. Floods, water shortages, food disruption, climate refugees and extreme weather events. They are here, we can’t ignore it.  
About Ulrich Seitz:
Entrepreneurial and purpose driven business leader with 15+ years of experience in clean-tech and sustainability. Thereof 10 years as venture capital investor, managing director and board member of various growth companies to reduce CO2 emissions and deliver financial returns with proven track record and impact. Co-Founder of several deep tech companies in the cleantech and semiconductor industry. Set up the corp. venture investor BayWa r.e. Energy Ventures GmbH and managing it for 6 years. Currently active as advisor for cleanech investors on the topics of climate adaptaton and portfolio management.

Social links:  
Ulrich Seitz on LinkedIn: (2) Ulrich Seitz | LinkedIn     
BayWa r.e. Energy Ventures on LinkedIn: (2) BayWa r.e. Energy Ventures: Overview | LinkedIn 
BayWa r.e. Energy Ventures website: BayWa r.e. Energy Ventures GmbH (baywa-re.com)
(3) Oxfordshire Greentech: Overview | LinkedIn

Episode Links:
Climate Adaptation Climate Adaptation | United Nations
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 [email protected] 

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Chapters: 

00:00:00 - Introduction to Ulrich Seitz
00:03:09 - The Fear of Admitting Failure in Climate Adaptation
00:06:54 - Unknowns in Climate Change Adaptation
00:10:28 - Positive impact of the oil and gas industry
00:13:58 - Challenges in Managing Water Resources
00:17:13 - Impact on Poor Rural Areas
00:20:50 - The Importance of Helping Others
00:24:10 - Opportunities in the European Ecosystem
00:27:35 - Directing Entrepreneurial Activity towards Climate Adaptation

What’s it all about?
Innovation and University spin-outs! In particular we look at the UK scene and support in the Oxford, Cambridge, London triangle. I had a great conversation with CEO of Oxfordshire Greentech, Hannah Scott about the support and challenges and opportunities facing founders, universities and the ecosystems that support them. Enjoy the episode.

About Hannah Scott:
Hannah Scott is the Co-Founder and CEO of business network Oxfordshire Greentech, which aims to grow and support the county’s low-carbon economy. Hannah leads the organisation in managing and engaging Oxfordshire Greentech’s members, connecting them with funding, identifying new customers, technologies and business expertise as well as facilitating scale-up innovation. She also works with key institutions across Oxfordshire to advocate for more ambition around net zero in strategies for the county.
Since launching Oxfordshire Greentech in 2019, Hannah has led the team in delivering numerous successful events, commercial opportunities, and projects for an ever-growing community of over 100 members.

About Climate Tech Supercluster/Oxfordshire Greentech: 
Climate Tech Supercluster is an ecosystem of talent, technology and investment across the UK, France, Belgium and the Netherlands. Co-founded by Oxfordshire Greentech, Cambridge Cleantech and Liminal, Climate Tech Supercluster’s mission is to showcase, develop and scale climate-critical technologies by bringing together innovators, investors and institutions across the region and globally.
Oxfordshire Greentech is a business network supporting the growth of the low-carbon sector in Oxfordshire. Started as part of the OxFutures programme, a £3.2m project to boost low carbon economic development in Oxfordshire, it was supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and run through a collaborative partnership between the Low Carbon Hub, Cherwell District Council, Bioregional, Oxford City Council, the University of Oxford, and Oxford Brookes University. Now a separate entity, we’ve been flourishing as our own network since March 2020. 
Social links:  
Hannah Scott on LinkedIn: Hannah Scott | LinkedIn     
Climate Tech Supercluster on LinkedIn: Climate Tech Supercluster: Overview | LinkedIn
Climate Tech Supercluster website: ClimateTech SuperCluster
Oxfordshire Greentech on LinkedIn: (3) Oxfordshire Greentech: Overview | LinkedIn


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 [email protected] 

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What’s it all about?
A seamless e-mobility experience!  From Phd to Founder, solving some of the key technical aspects of a fully integrated user experience for changing at all scales, public, fleet, residential and all of these combined. We talk company culture, talent, hiring better than yourself, motivation on dark days, optimism for the future, fundraising, expansion and much more besides. Enjoy the episode.
About Marc Multin:
Marc is the CEO and visionary force behind Switch, a deep-tech company in founded in 2020 to reshape the EV charging landscape. Armed with over 13 years of experience in the EV industry and a PhD in Computer Science, he has become a global authority in EV communication standards. Switch has forged an innovative, vertically integrated solution encompassing the cutting-edge EV charger OS, Josev, and the transformative Switch cloud platform. As a co-author of ISO 15118, Marc has trained over 100 companies worldwide on this future-proof technology.

About Switch: 
Switch is a fast-growing deep tech and knowledge company offering the only future-proof and backwards-compatible EV charging system on the market. The combined Switch system is set to heal the globally fragmented ecosystem across locations and operators. It brings unmatched customer convenience and the potential to increase revenue with Plug & Charge, Vehicle-to-Grid and Advanced Diagnostics. Its vertically integrated architecture helps EV charging businesses improve customer retention, match the reliability of fueling stations and exceed them in return on investment. The company, based in London, is a team of 35+ with a growing list of high-profile clients which includes charge point OEMs and charging networks. Founded in 2020 by Dr Marc Mültin, a world-renowned leader in the communication standards that underpin the global EV charging ecosystem.
Social links:  
Marc Multin on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcmueltin/    
Switch on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/switch-ev/  
Switch website: https://www.switch-ev.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 [email protected] 

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Chapters:
00:00:00 - Introduction to Hyperion Cleantech Group
00:02:25 - From PhD to Self-Employment
00:04:58 - The Birth of the Switch Idea
00:07:31 - Initial Steps and Funding of the Business
00:10:19 - Building a Core Team and Company Culture
00:12:51 - Fostering Open Communication

Christoph Berger - vilisto


What’s it all about?
Renewable Heat, as we’ve featured recently, so often the elephant in the room. Addressing the needs of decarbonising heat is critical to the clean energy transition. In this episode we address heating and inefficiency in commercial and public buildings as I speak to CEO and Founder of Vilisto, Christophe Berger. Having recently raised a £5m they are focused on scaling to bring their solutions to a wider audience.

About Christoph Berger:
Christoph Berger is Co-Founder and CEO of vilisto. During his studies of Energy Systems at the TU Hamburg and UC Berkeley, Christoph first came into contact with the topic of heat management. His scientific research focused on evaluating and implementing methods of predicting future energy demand in buildings. He soon realised that especially non-residential buildings are often heated inefficiently and that the solutions available on the market were not able to comfortably solve this challenge. Backed up by the results of his study and based on his expertise in energy systems, Christoph then founded vilisto in 2016 with co-founders Christian Brase and Lasse Stehnken.

About vilisto: 
vilisto digitizes the heat management of non-residential buildings and in turn helps companies and public clients reduce their heating costs and CO₂ emissions by up to 32%. At the heart of their digital heat management solution is the intelligent thermostats with an integrated, patented presence detection and learning algorithms that automatically manages the individual room temperature. In addition, a connected online platform allows for a central and efficient management of property portfolios. So far vilisto has optimized a wide range of customer buildings across the DACH-region with convincing savings results and won prestigious awards like the German Innovation Prize for Climate and Environment, demonstrating an essential path that realizes both – the ecological and the economic dimension of a sustainable energy transition.

Social links:  
Christoph Berger on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christoph-berger/ 
vilisto on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vilisto/ 
vilisto website: https://www.vilisto.de/ 


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 [email protected] 

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Chapters:

0:00 |  | Introduction
0:31 |  | Christoph’s Background
3:04 |  | How early did the journe

Helen Czerski

What’s it all about?
Letting lose my inner nerd! I’ve known Helen for some time, known in a loose sense, we shared a panel session at a Fully Charged event some years ago, and I’ve watched with enthusiasm much of her TV and Fully Charged presenting, When I saw she’d written a book about a gigantic solar powered machine, I needed to know more! But seriously, the topic of how our planet works has held my interest and curiosity since I was a child. Helen’s latest book, ‘The Blue Machine’ was a must read, and inviting her to the podcast to share more really is me indulging that inner nerd, and hopefully yours too. Enjoy the episode.

About Helen Czerski: 
Helen was born in Manchester. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University College London. As a physicist, she studies the bubbles generated by breaking waves in the ocean to understand their influence on weather and climate. 

Helen has been a regular presenter of BBC TV science documentaries since 2011. She also hosts the Ocean Matters podcast, is part of the Cosmic Shambles network, and is one of the presenters for the Fully Charged Show. She has been a science columnist for the Wall Street Journal since 2017 and she is the author of the bestselling Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life, Bubbles: A Ladybird Expert Book, and Blue Machine: how the ocean works.



Social links:  
Helen Czerski on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helen-czerski-045b956/  
Helen Czerski on Twitter: https://twitter.com/helenczerski   
Helen Czerski on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/helen_czerski/ 
Helen Czerski Website: https://www.helenczerski.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 [email protected] 


Episode Links:
Blue Machine: Blue Machine by Helen Czerski | Waterstones 
The fascinating physics of everyday life TedX The fascinating physics of everyday life | Helen Czerski - YouTube

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Chapters: 

0:00 | Introduction
0:51 | What Helen enjoys the most out of all her endeavours
6:33 | Helen’s book Blue Machine
18:49 | The importance of the polar regions
22:18 | Harnessing the power of the ocean
29:22 | Helen’s background
32:33 | Making science more accessible
35:59 | How can we be better for the planet
47:25 | Most remote place Helen’s ever been
47:25 | Orca insights
51:22 | Science

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 [email protected] 

Chapters:

0:00 | Introduction to Jo-Jo
0:27 | Jo-Jo's journey to founding Electron
5:49 | The evolution of Electron
14:47 | Implications & complications of owning a business in the UK
18:23 | Jo-Jo's thoughts on the energy transition
26:58 | Time and use tariffs
30:36 | Diversity within the clean energy sector
38:06 | 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 [email protected] 


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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 [email protected] 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, the
mobility 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 people
and letting go.

About Tore Harritshøj:
Tore is an experienced Chief Executive Officer of Spirii, with a demonstrated success in the utilities
solutions industry. Skilled in People and Change Management, Design Thinking & Innovation,
Business Development within Mobility, Life Cycle management, Energy solutions, and Wind & Solar
Energy production. Professional International board experience with a MS focused in Econ from
Copenhagen 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 transition
towards sustainable transportation by offering innovative, agile, and end-user oriented e-mobility
charging solutions build on their evergreen platform.
Spirii enables you to easily deploy and scale a bespoke commercial EV-charging solution – backed
by 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/

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Chapters:

0:00 - Introduction to Tore and his journey into founding Spirii
9:51 - How charging infrastructure has developed
14:39 - The model and routes to market
17:43 - Early adopters of the solution
26:30 - The next stage
29:40 - Entrepreneurship challenges
37:42 - Future predictions