“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door!”
Rudy Haddad
About Rudy
Over 22 years of international leadership across European wind services, North American energy infrastructure, and industrial services. Much of that career was spent at GE, where Rudy led turnarounds in the renewables business and built operational muscle across hypergrowth and restructuring cycles. A mechanical engineer with an MBA from London Business School, he later founded Consulenza Capital, a deal origination and advisory practice focused on the European mid-market.
As an angel investor with York Angel Investors (Toronto), he successfully backed and helped scale an early-stage startup through to its acquisition by a global player. Based in Paris and operating fluently across North America and EMEA in five languages, he now moves from advising and originating to building and leading the platform himself.
Vision
Building the leading independent technical infrastructure services platform in Western Europe, anchored in wind operations and maintenance and extending into adjacent technical disciplines. The European wind services market is large, growing, and structurally fragmented, with an ageing installed fleet and a repowering cycle only beginning. The opportunity is to consolidate carefully, professionalise without homogenising, and preserve the technical culture that makes independent operators valuable in the first place.
Mission
Acquire a founder-owned platform company in European wind services or adjacent technical infrastructure across France and grow it through disciplined buy-and-build acquisitions and organic value creation. The focus is on commercial excellence, technician retention, and integrating bolt-ons that turn a single-service provider into a full-lifecycle partner. Deliberate investment in leadership and governance protects the culture through what is, for many employees, the first ownership change in a generation.
Impact
Rudy's operational track record is defined by a particular combination: the ability to sit inside a large industrial business, diagnose what is slowing it down, and reset the commercial and operational discipline that gets it moving again. Advisory work and angel investing with York Angel Investors has added a sharp view of which founder-led businesses in industrial services actually have the bones to scale into platforms…and how to prepare an SME for a successful strategic exit. As a CEO-in-Residence, the ambition is to bring that operator-plus-originator combination to bear on a single company and build a European platform whose reputation for reliability makes it the natural home for founder businesses looking for continuity rather than an exit that erases them.
Expertise
P&L Management, Renewables & Energy Services Operations, Turnaround Management, Operational Excellence, Commercial Leadership, M&A Origination & Private Equity Advisory, Angel Investing & Strategic Exits, Buy-and-Build Strategy, Field Service Organisations, Cross-Border Leadership across EMEA and North America, AI-Driven Operational Optimization (U of Toronto). Proven ability to combine the discipline of a large-cap operator with the origination instincts of a private equity advisor, translated into the fragmented world of European industrial services.