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Falcon Brook Search Expands to New York – Welcoming Industry Veteran Ben Max to Lead U.S. Growth
Falcon Brook Search is thrilled to announce the opening of its New York office, another major milestone in our global growth journey and a powerful step forward in serving the North American energy...
Power Trading Mother
Yunji Schuster is a Vattenfall power trader working in Hamburg. Vattenfall is a European energy company, which for more than 100 years has electrified industries, supplied energy to people’s homes and modernised how we live. With 20,000 employees and operations...
Managing growth in an age of employee empowerment
Since 2019, Jeroen Strating has been responsible for developing ExxonMobil’s Budapest operations into a fast-growing global business centre that drives efficiencies, performance and innovation. We caught up with Jeroen to discuss workplace culture and leadership as...
Will Energy Organisations Stem the Tide of “The Great Resignation”?
What is “The Great Resignation?” Anthony Klutz, professor, and psychologist at Texas A&M, coined the phrase last May during an interview with Bloomberg to describe the exodus of people resigning from roles due to new thinking about how and why we work. “The...
ESG and the energy transition are over-riding recruitment requirements
Corporate Social Responsibility (CRI) was once a differentiator for asset managers, investment companies and corporates. Only a few companies addressed it and it very rarely featured in any aspect of recruitment.
Today ESG / CRI permeates every department and function, and it is a routine part of every search and appointment at every level.
Ethnic minority candidates follow a different career path
Expanding the ethnic minority talent pool means hiring people from different backgrounds, with applicants don’t always fit the hiring criteria, may need to get visa sponsorship and don’t understand how to navigate the jobs market.
The interconnection between diversity and sustainability
Prior to co-founding the Aspuna Group, Maria-Yassin Jah was a senior market strategist with a leading commodities business, at the time Europe's largest physical commodity trader, having worked as a market expert and analyst. Falcon Brook spoke to Maria-Yassin about...
The risk of rumour during a turbulent trading cycle
“Bonkers” has become the standard description for the current level of market volatility that we are all grappling with. Every day, my contacts share stories of extraordinary trades and unprecedented losses…
From school to front office: how ethnic minority candidates face subtle discrimination
Every company Falcon Brook works with wants to increase diversity, equity and inclusion. Our clients are committed to change and believe greater representation can make true impact. Achieving a better employee balance is difficult. This October, we are marking Black...
Becoming fusion capable – interview with Richard Dinan
Nuclear fusion has the potential to provide almost endless clean fuel and the potential for new types of innovation. Its practical application continues to be elusive though there are signs that the first reactor – ITER – may be close to delivering viable power.
Green hydrogen value chains chart the road to net zero
The announcement by the International Energy Association that coal, gas and oil production must stop now to hit the net zero target by 2050 is a stark reminder that setting ambitious targets is the easy part of decarbonising energy. There is strong appetite for...