Executive Search
Core, retained
C-suite, board and senior leadership appointments across the data centre and digital infrastructure ecosystem. Confidential by default.
How executive search worksMission critical talent. Tier IV standards.
Global executive search for digital infrastructure, covering every leadership hire from land and power to live operations.
Grid access, community consent and talent: three constraints hold back the build-out. We solve the third, finding the leaders who take capacity from land to live and the people who run the business around it.
Land to live.
Every hire in between.
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01 / 06
Site & Power
Land, grid and energy secured before anything is drawn.
Site & Power roles -
02 / 06
Design
Electrical, mechanical and cooling design, now built for AI densities.
Design roles -
03 / 06
Construction
Programmes that put capacity in the ground on time.
Construction roles -
04 / 06
Commissioning
The handover stage where delays cost the most.
Commissioning roles -
05 / 06
Operations
Running critical environments without a single interruption.
Operations roles -
06 / 06
AI & GPU
High-density, liquid-cooled capacity, and the people who build, run and sell it.
AI infrastructure roles
And the business around the build.
Capacity only creates value when someone sells it, finances it and runs the company around it. We recruit those leaders too.
- C-Suite & Board
- Executive Leadership
- Sales & Go-to-Market
- Product & GPU Services
- Strategy & M&A
- Finance
- Technology & IT
- HR & People
- Legal & Compliance
- Commercial & Procurement
- PMO & Transformation
- Marketing
Global coverage.
One search team.
Senior digital infrastructure leaders move between markets, and so do we. We run searches across the UK and Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia Pacific, from regional hubs in the UAE and Singapore.
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UK & Europe
Coverage across the UK and Europe
UK, Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, Nordics, Spain, Italy
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North America
Coverage across the US and Canada
Northern Virginia, Texas, Arizona, Ohio, Toronto, Montreal
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Middle East & GCC
Regional hub in the UAE
UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait
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Asia Pacific
Regional hub in Singapore
Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, India, Japan, Indonesia, Thailand
AI infrastructure.
End to end.
GPU and AI roles are the most contested hires in the market. We search the whole stack, from the power feed to the people who sell the compute.
Explore AI infrastructure-
Leadership
CEO, COO and CTO, AI infrastructure platforms, CFO and capital markets, Board and non-executive directors
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Commercial
VP Sales, GPU cloud, Head of AI partnerships, Capacity and pricing leadership
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Platform & Product
Head of GPU cloud product, AI platform engineering leadership, Capacity planning
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GPU Cluster
Head of GPU infrastructure, Cluster deployment and operations, HPC and AI network architecture
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Build & Commission
AI campus programme directors, Heads of commissioning and IST, Construction and package leadership
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High-Density Design
Liquid cooling and direct-to-chip leads, High-density MEP design, Thermal engineering
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Power & Site
Power and grid strategy, Energy procurement, Land and site acquisition
Everyone building
the world's compute.
The data centre market no longer belongs to one type of company. Hyperscalers, cloud platforms, telecommunications operators, AI specialists, developers and investors are all competing for the same scarce leaders. We recruit for every one of them.
- Hyperscalers & Cloud Platforms adding gigawatts a year, hiring everything from regional build-out teams to global operations leadership.
- AI & GPU Cloud Neoclouds and AI infrastructure providers standing up GPU capacity at speed, with liquid cooling at the core.
- Telecommunications & Digital Infrastructure Telecommunications operators moving into data centres, sovereign AI and GPU-as-a-service, plus the fibre, subsea and edge networks that connect them.
- Colocation & Wholesale Retail, wholesale and build-to-suit providers scaling campuses into new markets.
- Developers & Investors Development platforms, infrastructure funds and sovereign-backed vehicles building and buying capacity.
- Engineering & Supply Chain Design firms, contractors and OEMs across power, cooling and critical equipment.
The build-out is outrunning its workforce.
Capital and capacity are arriving faster than the people who can deliver and run them. The gap is widest at senior level.
$6.7T
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- Capital needed globally for AI and traditional data centre capacity through 2030.
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- McKinsey, 2025
2 in 3
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- Operators say they struggle to hire or retain qualified staff.
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- Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey, 2025
76%
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- Share of AI server deployments that are liquid cooled in 2026, up from 15% in 2024.
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- Goldman Sachs, 2025
How we work.
Retained executive search and Director-level appointments are our core. Interim, SOW and talent mapping are there when a programme needs them.
- Specialist Search Core, Director & Head of Director and Head of appointments across delivery, engineering, operations and corporate functions. This is where we spend most of our time.
- Interim & Statement of Work Interim & SOW Mid-to-senior interim leaders and scarce technical specialists who close delivery gaps fast, on contract or SOW.
- Talent Mapping Intelligence Market maps, compensation benchmarks and org design for new market entry, a new service line or a multi-site ramp-up.
Notes from the build-out.
Two infrastructures, one shortage
Traditional data centres and AI-ready, liquid-cooled facilities draw on different talent pools. Both are short, and the gap is widest at senior level.
Riot signs a $28bn AI lab lease and Google commits $17bn in Wyoming as US voters back data centre limits in 40 of 41 ballot measures
- North America: Voters backed data centre limits in 40 of 41 local ballot measures, but capital kept moving: Riot Platforms leased its 910MW Corsicana campus to an unnamed frontier AI lab for about $28bn, and Google committed $17bn to its first Wyoming campus.
- Asia Pacific: Google pledged $15bn for new Malaysian campuses in 2027 and 2028, and Goodman and Digital Realty bid about A$715m for up to 9.9% of NEXTDC.
- Middle East & GCC: HUMAIN signed up to SAR 2.5bn ($667m) of GPU and power financing with Saudi Arabia's National Infrastructure Fund, and a Mubbadrah-led consortium announced a 400MW, $3bn AI campus in Oman.
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