Cleantech Group Announces Major Global Search Alliance
Cleantech Search™ forms a strategic alliance with mosaic Global Executive Search expanding its search capabilities into Europe, Asia and Asia Pacific
San Francisco and London – January 7, 2008 - The Cleantech Group™ announced today that its executive search business, Cleantech Search™ has established a strategic partnership with mosaic Global Executive Search.
This means that Cleantech Search is able to offer its clients an international executive search service as the mosaic footprint is truly global with Gillamor Stephens in Europe, Braithwaite Steiner Pretty in Asia Pacific as well as Mainstay Partners in Boston and LGES in San Francisco in the US.
Ray Fortney, Managing Partner, Cleantech Search, commented “To date, our executive search activity has been North American–centric. By partnering with mosaic Global Executive Search, we now have the reach to support the rapid global growth of the cleantech sector. Further, over the past year we have had the opportunity to work with mosaic on several highly successful global searches. We have developed a strong working relationship and respect for their capabilities in the cleantech sector.”
Steve Lavelle from Gillamor Stephens, the European Partner of mosaic adds, “Over the last year, we’ve seen cleantech rapidly emerge as a significant sector within the technology marketplace. Europe is leading the way with exciting early stage companies joining the ranks of longer-established organizations applying high technology to energy efficiency and improved environmental impact. We are pleased to be part of Cleantech Group’s efforts to accelerate the growth of clean technologies globally.”
About Cleantech Group™, LLC
The Cleantech Group™ LLC provides insight, opportunities and builds relationships that catalyze and accelerate market adoption and commercialization of clean technologies globally. The Cleantech Group™ family of companies founded the cleantech investment category and through its membership services brings together investors, executives, thought leaders, policy makers, and entrepreneurs to facilitate the growth of cleantech globally through its business units; the Cleantech Network®, Cleantech Advisors™, Cleantech Indices™, Cleantech Search™, Cleantech China™, Cleantech India™ and Cleantech Europe™. Since introducing cleantech as a successful investment category in 2002, the efforts of the Cleantech Group™ companies have spawned a new investment class with an annual growth rate exceeding 50%, with more than $4.1 billion in venture capital invested in North America, Europe and China in 2006. Go to www.cleantech.com and www.mosaicexecutive.com for more information.
About mosaic global executive search
mosaic is a global executive search partnership with a difference. A synergistic combination of leading regional search firms, we specialise in working with high growth technology companies as they expand to a global footprint, as well as providing a truly global search capability
