The Company
Lisa was engaged in a major Executive Search assignment with an innovative independent water provider serving commercial businesses across the UK. The Everflow Group is made up of water retailer, Everflow Water, and the utilities software provider, Everflow Tech. With a mission to “make utilities simple,” Everflow designs its services to save customers time and money, earning an ‘Excellent’ rating for its customer-focused approach.
The challenge
Founded in 2015, Everflow has quickly become a leading water retailer and utilities platform in England and Wales. To support this growth, the board sought an experienced Chief Growth Officer as a key hire for the executive team. This individual would shape and implement the best route to market, providing strategic direction. The role involves creating new growth paths by optimizing resources, maximizing investment impact, and monitoring trends. The Chief Growth Officer oversees Marketing, Sales, Product, and Pricing, with goals to grow water sales, and Tech, and explore future markets and launch into waste management, telecoms and energy..
The solution
- 5-week turnaround
- Approached 59 potential candidates in total
- Throughout the process held weekly progress meetings with the panel
- Created, profiled, and presented a longlist of 5 candidates
The result
In 2022, Lisa identified Everflow ideal Chief Growth officer, and in October 2024, they became CEO of Everflow.
Inquisitive by nature and contagious enthusiasm, they are an imaginative and creative visionary who is a source of inspiration to his people. He likes his teams around him know the objectives and vision of a business, ensuring teams work collaboratively, gaining buy in with stakeholders by getting them excited around being able to transform the customer journey – one of engagement.
A BA (Hons) Marketeer who is passionate, strategic, entrepreneurial, and driven senior leader with the proven ability to transform growth strategies and customer journeys which produce significant business growth, employee engagement and customer advocacy. He has infectious energy, tremendous integrity, and a passion to genuinely champion the customer as well as deliver strong results.
With over 20years experience in large PLC, and more recently been involved in a fast-growing utility sector SME, the candidate is passionate about understanding customer behaviours through data to transform a business through performance, innovation, and lateral thinking. Their aim is to fit all the pieces of the jigsaw together into a complete picture, but for them the jigsaw keeps expanding with the discovery of every new piece.
