People

ONE PUBLIC PARTNER. A SMALL DESK.

Saba Sadiq leads the firm. Mara, Jonah, and Priya run upstream search, people operations, and research.

Partner

Saba Sadiq

Partner

Saba Sadiq is the public partner of Energy Recruiting. She joined in 2022 as a recruiting consultant focused on oil and gas new talent, and became partner in 2023, responsible for business development, the professional community, and events for job seekers and employers. She is a petroleum engineer by training, with an applied petroleum engineering technology diploma and an ABET-accredited petroleum engineering degree, plus field and consulting experience across drilling, completions, reservoir surveillance, and facilities. She also practices as a project engineer in Houston. This profile uses her public record and does not invent a separate chief-executive biography.

Search lead, upstream

Mara Ellison

Search lead, upstream

Mara leads the upstream search seat on a four-person desk. ten years around drilling contractors and a private Permian operator, then a move to search.

People and candidate desk

Jonah Hale

People and candidate desk

Jonah is a people-operations profile. On a recruiting desk this seat keeps candidate care, scheduling, and the firm's own hiring in one place, so a superintendent is not left waiting on a calendar and a new coordinator is not onboarded by accident.

Research lead

Priya Nandakumar

Research lead

Priya is a research profile. She maps who actually owns a facilities or power scope inside an operator, then writes the two-line reason a person belongs on a slate.