Our Sectors
Power & Infrastructure
Executive search and leadership advisory for organisations powering critical infrastructure and energy systems
Supporting organisations across Power & Infrastructure where leadership decisions shape delivery, resilience, and long-term growth
Across energy, utilities, transport, and infrastructure, we've helped organisations appoint leaders who deliver complex projects and long-term growth.
Reliable and affordable energy is fundamental to economic growth, social development, and quality of life. Across emerging and growth markets, organisations are leap-frogging traditional approaches, pioneering new technologies, and developing innovative business models to meet demand. The pressure to commission both baseload generation and utility-scale clean power, while managing the transition to more sustainable energy systems, is placing new demand on leadership at every level.
We've spent two decades finding, assessing, and placing senior leaders for energy and infrastructure businesses across emerging and growth markets.
Our work spans Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution, Renewable Energy, Utilities, Energy Infrastructure, and Access-to-Energy platforms.
Leadership and functional expertise
We support leadership appointments across Power & Infrastructure, including:
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Executive leadership and governance
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Operations and asset management
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Technical and engineering leadership
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Projects and infrastructure delivery
- Strategy and energy transition
- Finance and investment
- Commercial and external relations
- Sustainability, ESG and impact
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Explore our experience, approach and recent assignments across power and infrastructure organisations.
Meet our Power & Infrastructure specialists
Our Power & Infrastructure team combines deep sector knowledge with a rigorous, hands-on search approach.
Rather than handing searches between teams, the same consultants work with you throughout the process, developing a thorough understanding of your organisation, projects, stakeholders, and long-term objectives.
Tim Co-Leads Millar Cameron’s Power & Infrastructure Practice and has over 25 years of experience in executive search, with extensive expertise across the power, infrastructure and construction, technology and telecoms, and professional services sectors. He has worked with a wide range of clients in the UK and Europe and, over the past 15 years, across Africa, where he has led assignments throughout the continent.
He has completed a broad range of executive and non-executive searches, including appointments for African utilities, senior finance and commercial roles in listed software and telecoms businesses, investment professionals for private equity and development finance institutions, and project and programme directors for leading construction companies and infrastructure asset owners.
Before moving into executive search, Tim spent 10 years in the British Army as an officer in the Royal Engineers. Much of this time was focused on officer recruitment, assessment and leadership development, and he concluded his service as an instructor at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
He holds an MA in Political Economics from the University of Aberdeen.
"It’s hugely rewarding to see our clients grow under the direction of the leaders we place with them, especially in the power sector where their efforts impact the prosperity of so many."
Justin Wharton
Partner
- justin.wharton@millarcameron.com
- Phone
- +44 2038 000 423
- Justin Wharton
Justin is Co-Lead of Millar Cameron’s Power & Infrastructure Practice. He has more than 18 years of experience in executive search, leadership recruitment, and talent advisory, with a focus on renewable energy, power, infrastructure, mining, sustainability, and impact investing.
He works closely with investors, developers, operators, and advisory firms to build and strengthen the leadership teams driving Africa's energy transition, delivering senior executive and non-executive searches and assembling start-up teams for new ventures and platforms. He has also supported multinational businesses as they expand into Africa and the Middle East.
Before moving into executive search, Justin spent 15 years in sales and marketing roles within manufacturing and design businesses. He holds a BA in Geography from the University of Newcastle.
"Searching for future leaders and top-level talent in Africa is a privilege requiring tenacity, creativity, and humility."
Why organisations choose Millar Cameron
We support Power & Infrastructure organisations delivering complex projects, managing critical assets, and building the systems that underpin growth and development.
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Deep Power & Infrastructure sector expertise
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Global reach with strong regional networks
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Access to hard-to-reach leadership talent
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Same consultants throughout the search
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Focus on long-term fit and success
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Rigorous assessment and insight beyond CVs
I felt you immersed yourself in my shoes - absorbed what we needed and then helped us find the talent that was necessary. With bigger firms, you feel like one client among many. With Millar Cameron, I felt they had the time and space to really hear me. They punched above their weight in all areas, with strong results to show.
Our partnership with Millar Cameron has consistently delivered exceptional leadership talent that is driving transformational organization impact. They don't just fill roles, they invest time understanding our strategic direction and culture. What sets Millar Cameron apart is their collaborative, flexible approach, and genuine commitment to finding the right fit, not just the fastest placement. Their responsiveness and ability to work within our existing processes has made them trusted advisors in our leadership development strategy.
Two things differentiated Millar Cameron from other search firms. First, from the outset they invested time to deeply understand our organisation and our needs. These conversations helped shape our own thinking, and the resulting brief for the role was better than anything we could have written ourselves. Second, their candidate research and due diligence was exceptional. We were expecting a list of great candidates with CVs. What we received was a detailed, comprehensive summary of each candidate that aided and accelerated our search process.
Our team had a great experience working with Millar Cameron through a challenging search. They are knowledgeable about the market, provided strong candidates and led a very smooth process from end to end. We've just filled the role and we're already looking to engage Millar Cameron on another upcoming search.
I wholeheartedly recommend Millar Cameron for their great level of service. We were provided with excellent communication, attention to detail, knowledge and support throughout the recruitment process. Millar Cameron delivered on their promises, and working with their highly professional team was truly a pleasure.
Millar Cameron connected us with outstanding local talent in two African markets - individuals we likely would never have discovered on our own. Their deep understanding of the leadership landscape across mission-driven institutions and sectors was invaluable. The process was seamless from start to finish, and the quality of candidates was excellent. We would gladly work with them again.
We have worked with Millar Cameron on several occasions for senior expert roles, group, and executive-level positions. We engaged with them on an executive search process to support our hire of a Group General Counsel & Head Corporate Affairs. They provided a strong partnership for the search, demonstrating extensive market knowledge and key process management.
We all receive countless messages from recruitment agencies on LinkedIn, but one in particular truly caught my attention. I decided to reply, and from that moment on, everything moved forward in an exceptionally smooth and professional way. The process was clear, efficient, and refreshingly human. That is how I met Millar Cameron, an encounter that became a key turning point in the success of my career.
The Millar Cameron team not only identified exceptional candidates from a range of (often unique) backgrounds, but were also able to pre-empt the strengths and concerns we would see in each candidate, and act as a thought partner throughout the decision making process.
Millar Cameron efficiently sourced a shortlist of excellent candidates whose profiles were closely aligned with our requirements, and played a critical role in the onboarding of the preferred individual.
Millar Cameron always acted professionally and were able to swiftly identify talent and successfully represent Pula through this search whilst also ensuring the candidates were both well briefed and had a positive candidate experience. On the basis of this engagement, I’d have no hesitation in recommending Millar Cameron as a strategic recruitment partner.
We are happy to find professionals who understand the kind of work we are doing. Millar Cameron’s professionalism was evident in managing the candidates through the process.
IFU had a mandate to nominate two board members as part of its investments and decided to go for external NEDs. We selected Millar Cameron due to a combination of reputation and relationship. The process of working with Millar Cameron was overall very professional, the communication was fluent, and the consultants were always very responsive. I would be extremely happy to work with Millar Cameron again.
Outsourcing to Millar Cameron became an easy decision for us here at Fisher & Paykel Healthcare. We found them to be incredibly responsive, knowledgeable, thorough and professional. They clearly outlined their recruitment strategy, methodologies and delivered within the agreed timeframes.
I really, really appreciate the work you and your team are doing in recruitment support. It’s been a while since I worked with a recruitment consultant as efficient, hands on, timely, professional..…all good things. I now don’t have to think about following up with you or your team to ensure work is being done, it’s a refreshing experience. Thank you!
Our confidence in Millar Cameron’s executive search capabilities and their intricate understanding of the local dynamics through their Kenya office has led us to engage with them on several other searches. We would highly recommend them to any organisation looking to find senior and engaged business leaders across sub-Saharan Africa.
Delivering critical infrastructure
Leadership in Power & Infrastructure demands technical expertise, commercial judgement, and the ability to deliver at scale, We help identify leaders who can:
Deliver
Complex projects safely and efficiently
Balance
Technical expertise with commercial discipline
Navigate
Regulation and stakeholder complexity
Lead
Infrastructure growth and transformation
Manage
Risk across critical operations
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The transition to resilient energy systems
Case studies & insights
Explore examples of how organisations have partnered with Millar Cameron, and our sector insights.
A trusted partner for Power & Infrastructure leaders
If you're seeking a trusted Power & Infrastructure executive search partner, we would be delighted to support you.