A2 Recruiting is a boutique executive search firm placing senior leadership with energy, industrial, and manufacturing companies across the United States. Director through C-suite. Retained and engaged.
| Entity | Intermesh LLC dba A2 Recruiting |
|---|---|
| Founder | Vince Dufour |
| Practice | Retained and engaged executive search |
| Functions | Finance · Engineering · Legal |
| Sectors | Energy · Industrial · Manufacturing |
| Level | Director through C-suite |
| Geography | United States, weighted to Texas |
| Standard fee | 25 percent of first-year base salary |
| Guarantee | 90 days from start date |
| Contact | vince@a2recruiting.com · (979) 814-4800 |
Finance leadership. CFO, VP Finance, VP Corporate Development, Controller, Director of Strategic Finance, and FP&A leadership. This is the deepest part of the practice and the one the published prediction record is built on.
Engineering leadership. Senior technical leadership for developers and operators of physical infrastructure, including thermofluids, CFD, systems, process, and licensing-adjacent engineering.
Legal leadership. General counsel, associate general counsel, and commercial and regulatory counsel for operators and their sponsors.
The practice covers energy, industrial, and manufacturing companies broadly. Within that, coverage is deepest in energy infrastructure: advanced nuclear and small modular reactors, data center power and behind-the-meter generation, LNG, midstream, critical minerals, and upstream oil and gas. The client base is weighted toward private-capital-backed platforms, meaning private equity portfolio companies, private-credit-backed operators, and venture-funded developers, alongside public operators and independent industrials.
A2 does not run a contingency desk, does not staff at volume, and does not cover roles below approximately $110,000 base.
Most search firms describe their process. A2 publishes a scored record and grades itself against it. Every forward claim carries a stated confidence and a fixed resolution date, written before the outcome is known and timestamped where it cannot be quietly revised. Hit rates are published with their sample size, and a prediction that cannot be cleanly resolved is scored a miss rather than deleted.
The same discipline governs candidate work. Capability, evidence confidence, relationship access, and confirmed stance are kept as separate axes. Interest is never inferred, only recorded when it has been established directly with the individual.
How we work — terms, fee structure, guarantee, and the questions buyers actually ask.
A2 Atlas — the executive market map product, its method, and what it refuses to claim.
Market notes — the dated, sourced hiring signal record and its calibration.
Vince Dufour, Founder
vince@a2recruiting.com
(979) 814-4800