Austin Bristow is a seasoned Senior Recruiter with over 14 years' worth of experience in recruitment across various settings, including a boutique agency, corporate recruitment, and international teams. With a focus on renewable energy, infrastructure, and technology markets, he is well-versed in full-cycle recruitment, specializing in FinTech, SaaS, cybersecurity, data analytics/big data, and subsea and offshore engineering & construction, among other areas. A former Director - Energy & Infrastructure at EarthStream Global and Taylor Hopkinson, he has also held several key senior recruitment roles at Cloudera and BigCommerce. Austin's extensive educational background includes a Bachelor's in Economics and Spanish from Louisiana State University, where he also studied Power Generation, Gas Turbines, Turbine Controls, Solar Power, and Technology Integration at ASME Professional Development, as well as Energy Storage, Battery Storage, Valuation and Economics at ESA Energy Storage Professional Development. He is currently a Sr. Recruiter - North America at Backbase.