The Executive Handoff In Clean Energy with Peter Toomey and Jeremy Wodakow
Welcome to Season 5, Episode 8 of Better Than We Found It, the go-to podcast for sustainable leadership and purpose-driven business practices.
This episode is a little different, we're joined by two executive leaders from the same organisation. Peter Toomey, Chief Development Officer, and Jeremy Wodakow, Chief Commercial Officer of Cypress Creek Energy, one of the most high-profile renewable energy businesses in the United States. Between them, their teams make up roughly three-quarters of the company. Their backgrounds couldn't be more different.
Peter came up through renewable energy credits and project development (and once commercially ran the largest fossil fuel plant in New York City), while Jeremy spent his early career structuring complex commodities on the trading floors of Goldman Sachs and Axpo. Yet they now sit fifteen feet apart, running a powerhouse together.
In this episode, we explore:
- How two very different career paths, finance and development converge to run one organisation
- Leading technical teams when you're not the subject-matter expert
- The unvarnished reality of the handoff between project development and operations
- Building culture, psychological safety and accountability across a geographically scattered team
- Why the energy market's seismic shift toward AI and data centres is rewriting what customers actually need
Whether you're stepping into your first executive seat, leading people who know more than you do, or trying to keep an entrepreneurial spirit alive inside a scaling business, this conversation is full of practical, hard-won insight.
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