Iceotope appoints Chief Financial Officer
Upscale Partners is thrilled to announce another major hire at Iceotope with the appointment of Simon Jesenko as Chief Financial Officer. ...
CASE STUDY: CHIEF COMMERCIAL OFFICER (US) 🇺🇸
Iceotope is a pioneering leader in precision liquid cooling solutions for data centres, from the cloud to the edge. The company works with some of the world’s biggest organisations and is scaling fast to meet the growing demand from hyper-scalers. Its multi-award-winning, environmentally efficient technology is helping the data centre industry in its transition towards the achievement of net zero emissions. Background Following a successful series B funding round, Iceotope was ready to further accelerate its plans and drive revenue growth through licensing its technology and, ultimately, build value in the organisation. A critical component of the company’s success would be the ability to commercialise its technology through the development of relationships with new and existing cloud customers, as well as expanding its impressive global strategic partner network. Headquartered in the UK and with a rapidly growing presence in North America, Iceotope had identified a need for a US-based Chief Commercial Officer who would...
Case Study: Chief Operations Officer
Indra Renewable Technologies, one of the UK’s fastest growing electric vehicle charging manufacturers, spun out of OVO Energy in 2021. It now has support from investors including the Clean Growth Fund and Gulf Oil. Background The business is scaling rapidly to meet the ever-increasing demand for its offering, amidst the exponential growth of the EV market. To facilitate this, Indra required a highly experienced COO to develop a resilient manufacturing and supply chain strategy, and lead the ramp-up in production in line with forecasted demand and business growth objectives. Search Having previously worked with the newly appointed CEO, we were asked to support Indra on this key appointment and conducted an in-depth search, targeting exceptional operational leaders from electronics manufacturing companies. Our shortlist comprised a range of candidates from leading consumer electronics firms. Each individual had successfully led scale-ups; establishing new geographical regions, bringing new products to market, and/or rapidly growing SMEs. The appointed candidate was...
Richard Ormandy joins Evolito as Director of Operations
Evolito, the world-leading pioneer of electric motors for the aerospace industry, has appointed Richard Ormandy as Director of Operations, with the support of Upscale Partners. Richard brings a wealth of experience in leading the scale-up of aerospace manufacturing operations and bringing new products to market, with a track record of working with leading organisations such as BAE, Airbus, and Leonardo. This marks the latest of several key appointments Evolito has made to its leadership team, in partnership with Upscale Partners. Richard joins Mukesh Patel as Chief Engineer, Simon Wright as Director of Programme Management, and James Wilby as Head of IT. Upscale Partners is committed to supporting companies in the transition towards net zero and a more sustainable future. Click here to read more about our experience in this space....
James Wilby joins Evolito as Head of IT
Upscale Partners is excited to announce that we have supported Evolito, the world-leading pioneer of electric motors for aerospace industry, with the appointment of James Wilby as Head of IT. James joins from Cauldwell Marine, where he was IT Director and, in addition to his startup experience, he brings a track record in IT leadership roles for large automotive and engineering organisations including GKN, JLR, and RLC. Upscale Partners is partnering with Evolito to build their leadership team and this marks the third key appointment, joining Mukesh Patel as Chief Engineer and Simon Wright as Director of Programme Management. For another example of our Engineering leadership appointments, please see Chris Woolley, Engineering Director at YASA....