PowerHub - Martyn Bassett Associates

Now was time to find a COO who could lead the business through its next phase.

“It was a very smooth process as Martyn Bassett Associates did a lot of heavy lifting ahead of time. They were reliable, responsive, and presented us with high quality candidates.”

– Etienne Lecompte, CEO

The Search

PowerHub (a subsidiary BayWa r.e.) needed a COO to lead the business through its next growth phase – integrating into the parent company while building the operational foundation to enable scale and growth across all parts of the business..

The Client

PowerHub is a B2B SaaS company whose solutions enable renewable energy asset management. PowerHub was founded in Toronto and was acquired by Munich based BayWa r.e. in 2019.

The Hire

Over 20 years of employment experience, all of which was in the enterprise software/tech industry. Their experiences included business/people leadership in multiple roles: General Management, Operations, Product Management and Engineering. They also had M&A experience including leading the integration of a past employer into an acquiring company based overseas.

Since joining, the candidate was hands-on setting up the product management process which helped to improve the deployment process and was promoted to CEO in July 2023.

The Search Statistics

Number of days to the first round of resumes: 9
Number of candidates considered: 5
Number of candidates interviewed: 3
Number of business days to complete the search: 37

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