Finding an Ecological Restoration Expert to fill Critical Board Position

Client engages Apex Leaders to recruit a board member

L2 Capital, a family office with decades of experience investing in and growing lower middle market companies, came to us to find a board member for their recently acquired portfolio company, Ecotone, Inc.

Uncovering board search goals and candidate requirements

To gain a comprehensive understanding of the goals, company, current board members, and expertise needs, our team met with Ecotone’s CEO and L2’s management team. We learned that Ecotone is an end-to-end solution for ecological restoration services to state and local governments, private corporations, public/private partnerships, and nonprofit organizations, primarily in the Mid-Atlantic region. And identified the goal of placing a board member that could:

• Identify and develop new business opportunities.
• Build and execute geographic expansion plans.
• Develop strategies for new services within the ecological restoration services space.

To advance Ecotone, the ideal candidate must have extensive experience in governmental environmental policy, a solid ecological background, prior experience in geographic and service expansion, knowledge of the various funding environments, and the development of strategic plans for raising capital and accessing funding.

Recruiting and interviewing an ecological restoration expert

With the criteria as the guide, our team got to work on conducting project-specific research and mapping all relevant talent. From there, they custom recruited and rigorously vetted several potential candidates. The vetting process not only dives into the candidate’s experience and accomplishments but also digs into their communication, collaboration, and leadership styles to give the leadership teams insight into the candidate’s personality.