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The Team: Geographic Expansion
Sports agency The Team (formerly Wasserman) opened a new 2,800 sq ft office in Mexico City to serve as a client hub and regional growth springboard for South American football
Source: Inside World Football
The leadership read
The Team's expansion resets where the leadership need sits in Cleantech & Renewables. Standing up a new market rewards operators with local networks and a record of building from scratch. The 12-to-18-month read across Americas favours country and commercial leadership hired close to the ground.
Market context: MitchelLake's Talent Market Index sits at 100.4 (Neutral), down 1.1 on the prior month; Americas hiring signal is running easing (-1.8pts).
The Team: 1 signal in the last 90 days — below the Cleantech & Renewables median of 2 across 39 tracked companies.
Market entry — the MitchelLake playbook
When a company expands into a new market, the first leadership hires decide whether it lands. A selection of market entries we've run:
Market entry · Oceania
Square
Executive Search Fintech
Market entry
Dropbox
Executive Search for SaaS
Market entry · Asia
Deliveroo
Executive Search in ASEAN
Market entry · Oceania
SurveyMonkey
Managing Director APAC (first hire in region) / Country Manager
Market entry · Asia
LivePerson
Director ASEAN (first hire in region); also Head of Presales APAC
Market entry · Oceania
Etsy
Managing Director, Australia + Asia (MD APAC)
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From the MitchelLake archive
More signals across Cleantech & Renewables
Geographic Expansion · Americas
Kempower →Kempower and PowerUp America opened the first of 12 planned DC fast charging stations in the Southeast, starting with Manchester, Kentucky.
Geographic Expansion · Americas
Hitachi Energy →Hitachi Energy broke ground on a major expansion of its South Boston, Virginia campus to build the largest power transformer factory in the US, targeting the AI power and electric grid modernization market
Geographic Expansion · Americas
Centrica →Centrica Plc is pursuing expansion of LNG purchases and trading activities in the US market, signaling strategic shift to diversify energy supplies and capitalize on US LNG availability amid geopolitical tensions.
Geographic Expansion · Americas
Enphase Energy →Enphase Energy expanded PowerMatch technology rollout across multiple geographic markets including North America, Central America, and Caribbean regions.
Geographic Expansion · Americas
Drax Group plc →Wood pellets company driving renewable energy growth across North America, Europe & Asia-Pacific markets
Ma Activity · Americas
RWE →RWE signed a $1.2 billion deal with the Trump administration to abandon offshore wind lease claims in New York, California, and Louisiana, including the 3+ GW Community Offshore Wind project in the New York Bight.
Where this lands in our work
- Cross-Border Expansion →
The peak executive-hiring window opens 12–18 months after an expansion commitment.
- Executive Search — Americas →
Our Americas practice runs the searches behind signals like this one.
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