Harnessing Fractional Expertise in the Energy Transition and Low Carbon Industry.

Business: VC-owned Carbon data company

Challenge: Build a product offer for carbon trading & investing community, to build upon the success in compliance entities in chemicals & energy industry.

Solution: Fractional Product Manager to refine market segmentation, targeting and product positioning, set up distribution partnerships and tools to encourage adoption.

Business: PE-owned renewables developer

Challenge: Develop global expansion strategy balancing across market dynamics (interest rates, price, demand/ supply, FX and geopolitical risk) and shareholder growth expectations

Solution: Fractional CFO Advisor to revise business plan, agree with stakeholders, create a new organisation model and implement it.

Business: PE-owned renewables developer

Challenge: Implement ERP across Head Office and project entities for financial controls

Solution: Supported the ERP roll-out programme with fractional specialists in business design and programme leadership.

Business: PE-owned renewables developer

Challenge: Improve international project controls across cost, timeline, documentation and reporting dimensions

Solution: Within 7 days, connected Head of Department to multiple specialists with 1-20 years of international experience in upstream energy and renewables project control.

Business: VC-owned B2B renewable energy supply & trading company

Challenge: Set up financial, risk management and operations function for PPA, wholesale trading and customer supply operations, learning from 2021 market crash

Solution: Within 7 days, connected the CEO to multiple specialists with experience in finance, operations, middle office and risk management in power supply & trading businesses.

Business: PE-owned renewables developer

Challenge: Set up development entities in multiple countries of northern Europe

Solution: Within 7 days, connected business head to a Fractional Chief People Officer in a multi-step engagement -- starting with market entry strategy (from acquihire to organic talent pipeline), expanding to the full set of recruitment, retention and engagement strategies.

Business: PE-owned renewables developer

Challenge: Set-up international treasury operations (people, process, systems, bank relationships) to transition operations from an external provider in a time-bound fashion with strong controls.

Solution: Within 7 days, connected Head of Department to multiple specialists with domain experience in international treasury management. Built an interim team to operate the process either side of the transition. Some specialists were converted to permanent team members over time.

Business: VC-owned Carbon data company

Challenge: Improve predictive power using machine learning for their demand, supply and price forecasting models in compliance carbon markets on US West Coast.

Solution: Connected multiple PhD specialists to the business, some with specific experience in energy transition and low-carbon models. The selected specialist worked with the business over a period of 3 months to create the model architecture and the first iteration of the forecasting models. These were handed over to the BAU modelling team for further improvement.