Sectors | Investors and platform partners

Executive search for infrastructure investors and the data centre platforms they back.

Funds and sovereign investors need operators they can trust with a build. I find the platform CEOs, CFOs and heads of development.

Seats like these open quietly. Open to a move? Talk to me in confidence.

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The seats

  • Platform CEO, COO and managing director
  • CFO and head of project finance for data centre and power platforms
  • Head of development and origination
  • Operating partners and portfolio leadership for infrastructure funds
  • Non-executive and board seats with delivery or power experience
  • Leadership for joint ventures between foreign operators and Gulf partners

What is driving hiring, and the timelines

  • The spend keeps rising. Evercore and Bank of America model hyperscaler capex above USD 1tn in 2027 (via Yahoo Finance).
  • Gulf platforms are looking for partners. HUMAIN, backed by PIF, targets 1.9 GW by 2030 and 6.6 GW by 2034 and has sought a US data centre equity partner (DatacenterDynamics).
  • Power decides value. With new grid taking 5 to 15 years, the leaders who can secure and deliver power are the scarcest people on a platform (IEA, World Energy Investment 2025).

How investors use me

One search, or a map across the portfolio: who can run a platform, finance a campus or deliver power. Confidential by default.

Retained search. A fee on signing, a shortlist date in writing, the balance on the start date, a six-month replacement. The terms

Brief me on a investors and platform partners seat

The more you tell me, the more useful my first reply. I'll come back within one working day.

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Seats I search for in this family

  • Platform CEO, COO and managing director
  • CFO and head of project finance for data centre and power platforms
  • Head of development and origination
  • Operating partners and portfolio leadership for infrastructure funds
  • Non-executive and board seats with delivery or power experience
  • Leadership for joint ventures between foreign operators and Gulf partners

Most of these searches are confidential and never advertised. Published ones are on the careers page.

What they pay

Pay for these seats is not published anywhere I trust. Ask for a confidential market check and I'll tell you what I see for your seat.

How a confidential conversation works

  • A call, not a form. What you run today, what you would move for, and what you would not.
  • Nothing shared without your say-so. Your profile goes to a client only with your permission for that one role.
  • The real package, in writing, before you interview: base, housing, schooling, bonus and relocation.
  • The move handled: notice, visas and family questions, into or out of the Gulf.
  • You never pay a fee.

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I read every profile myself. If a investors and platform partners seat fits, I'll call you; if not, I'll keep you in mind, only with your permission.

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