Energy · S/07
Energy leadership lives on long timelines, thick regulatory binders, and brutal capital cycles. We hunt operators who've shipped real assets through all three.
Why this sector
Energy companies make multi-decade capital bets in markets that rewrite the rules every administration. The right CFO, COO, or operating partner reads a commodity curve and a FERC docket with the same fluency, and knows how to keep a 60-month project on schedule when steel, labor, and interest rates all move at once. We hunt across the full energy stack — upstream oil and gas, transmission and utilities, grid-scale renewables, and storage — without picking sides. Talon's clients span the transition; the operators we place do too.
What we look for
The energy leaders worth hiring carry both a P&L scar tissue and a regulatory rolodex. We hunt for both, not one or the other.
Direct ownership of capital-intensive project execution — multi-year builds, real milestones, real consequences.
Fluency with the regulatory regime that governs the asset class (FERC, EPA, state PUC, BLM, BOEM).
Track record managing through commodity cycles without losing the team or the balance sheet.
Comfort across the transition — fossil leaders who can stand up renewables, renewables leaders who respect grid reliability.
Project-finance literacy — tax equity, ITC/PTC, PPA negotiation, interconnection queues, lender covenants.
Operational discipline on safety, environmental compliance, and stakeholder relations in field-heavy businesses.
Roles we commonly fill
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Anonymous Case Study
{/* TODO: Gonzalo case study (D14 follow-up) — awaiting client copy for energy placement */} A mid-sized renewables developer had a strong origination team and a stalling project pipeline. Interconnection queues and procurement delays were burning the development budget.
We hunted a VP of Project Development with prior utility-scale solar and storage experience who had navigated CAISO and PJM interconnection queues at three previous companies.
The placement re-sequenced the active pipeline against realistic interconnection timelines and brought two stalled projects to financial close inside 18 months.
Tell us the asset, the regulatory regime, and the seat. We'll hunt the operator who can run all three.
