SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Bespoke Partners, a leading provider of retained executive search and leadership advisory services for private equity backed software companies, today announced the firm achieved 266% revenue growth over the past three years.

“No other firm has made such an unequivocal commitment to partnering with its clients to cut the risk of hiring the wrong C-suite leader”

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The firm closed out 2022 with record revenue and winning its 1,000th executive search engagement, as demand surged for its unique C-suite recruiting and leadership advisory services.

“Talent is the critical factor in achieving an investment thesis,” said Eric Walczykowski, Bespoke’s Chief Executive Officer. “Our clients know that the right leadership team is essential for timely execution on value creation plans. We’re proud to be their trusted partners in identifying and addressing key leadership needs across their portfolios.”

Additional key milestones achieved by Bespoke Partners over the last 12 months include:

• • • Receiving a strategic investment from AEA Growth to drive further growth and expansion.
    • Laying the groundwork for the recently announced office in San Francisco, enhancing the firm’s nationwide presence with its fourth regional location.
    • Growing to nearly 100 employees and rounding out the firm’s executive team with a new Chief Financial Officer, Chief People Officer, and Chief Marketing Officer.
    • Aligning the company’s services into focused functional role practices, including CEO, CFO, Go-to-Market, Talent Leaders and Technology Leaders.
    • Tapping firm founder Kristie Nova to lead the firm’s CEO practice.

Bespoke further captured attention in the industry in 2022 by launching its unique Two-Year Guarantee on executive placements. Placements conducted utilizing the firm’s FIT Profile leadership assessment service will now be guaranteed for two years, doubling the industry standard.

“No other firm has made such an unequivocal commitment to partnering with its clients to cut the risk of hiring the wrong C-suite leader,” Eric said. “The Two-Year Guarantee is our pledge to our clients to empower them to achieve excellence in human capital.”

Throughout 2022, the firm monitored and analyzed thousands of datapoints related to the trends and economic factors affecting private equity talent.

The result is the recently published Private Equity Talent Benchmark Report 2023, the industry’s first analysis shedding light on executive compensation trends, upleveling practices, turnover trends, and related data. Private equity professionals and portfolio company executives can get a complimentary copy here: www.bespokepartners.com/private-equity-talent-report/

About Bespoke Partners

Bespoke Partners is a leading firm focused exclusively on executive recruiting and leadership advisory services for private equity backed software companies.

More than 90% of the most active private equity software investors in the US have relied on Bespoke for leadership recruiting and advisory. Bespoke transformed leadership at portfolio companies achieving buyout transactions totaling more than $25 billion in 2021 alone.

Bespoke’s unique, data-driven services complete searches in typically half the industry average time with a 99% placement success rate.

The firm partners with more than 70 top tier private equity firms, providing human capital services that accelerate execution of value creation plans, cut the risk of mis-hiring, and empower leadership to achieve the investment thesis.

Visit www.bespokepartners.com to learn more.

FIT Profile and Search 2.0 are trademarks of Bespoke Partners.

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Bespoke Partners, a leading provider of retained executive search and leadership advisory services for private equity backed software companies, announced today that it has opened a San Francisco office to enhance its West Coast presence in the United States.

“The new office will position us to expand our signature white-glove service for our clients based in the Bay Area”

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The new regional office will enable the company to further boost the quality of its uniquely tailored executive recruiting and leadership advisory services for private equity backed software and SaaS companies.

“The new office will position us to expand our signature white-glove service for our clients based in the Bay Area,” said Eric Walczykowski, Bespoke’s Chief Executive Officer. “Responsiveness and tailored engagement are our hallmarks and we are raising our services to a new level of efficiency for an unmatched client experience.”

Bespoke Partners is headquartered in San Diego and operates other regional offices in Austin, Texas, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The opening of the new location takes place as Bespoke released the industry’s first talent market trend analysis: the inaugural edition of the Private Equity Talent Benchmark Report. The report provides insights into the talent market for private equity portfolio companies, including compensation trends, executive turnover and upleveling trends, and much more. Complimentary copies can be requested at: www.bespokepartners.com/private-equity-talent-report/.

Central to the growth driving Bespoke’s expansion is its Search 2.0™ process, which significantly cuts search time and results in higher executive placement success rates. It features:

• Advanced Scorecarding – tailoring a search to specific company needs and its value creation plan for achieving the investment thesis.
• Deep Validation™ – the industry’s most in-depth backchannel reference checking to yield unparalleled insight into a candidate’s background and skills.
• FIT Profile™ – a holistic view of a candidate’s potential for success in the company, team and role.

Bespoke also recently announced a Two-Year Guarantee on executive placements that utilizes its FIT Profile assessment service. Learn more here: http://www.bespokepartners.com/2YG/

About Bespoke Partners

Bespoke Partners is a leading firm focused exclusively on executive recruiting and leadership advisory services for private equity backed software companies.

More than 90% of the most active private equity software investors in the US have relied on Bespoke for leadership recruiting and advisory. Bespoke transformed leadership at portfolio companies achieving buyout transactions totaling more than $25 billion in 2021 alone.

Bespoke’s unique, data-driven services complete searches in typically half the industry average time with a 99% placement success rate.

The firm partners with more than 70 top tier private equity firms, providing human capital services that accelerate execution of value creation plans, cut the risk of mis-hiring, and empower leadership to achieve the investment thesis.

Visit www.bespokepartners.com to learn more.

FIT Profile and Search 2.0 are trademarks of Bespoke Partners.

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Bespoke Partners, a leading provider of retained executive search and leadership advisory services for private equity backed software companies, today released the private equity industry’s first talent benchmark report focusing on key leadership trends in the sector.

“In our work with top tier private equity firm clients, we learned how hard it can be to benchmark your portfolio company talent and be sure your team is the best it can be”

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Available today, the Private Equity Talent Benchmark Report 2023 analyzes trends in the executive talent market based on Bespoke’s work with hundreds of private equity backed software and SaaS portfolio companies and thousands of senior executives. Private equity professionals and portfolio company executives can get a complimentary copy here: www.bespokepartners.com/private-equity-talent-report/

“In our work with top-tier private equity firm clients, we learned how hard it is to benchmark your portfolio company talent and be sure your team is the best it can be,” said Eric Walczykowski, Bespoke’s Chief Executive Officer. “We’re solving that problem with this new report. We’ve captured a decade of learnings in executive placement and leadership advisory projects and are making that knowledge available today.”

The report is the first of an ongoing series that will explore trends in the leadership talent market for private equity. The inaugural edition covers:

• Compensation trends and benchmarks, including which roles are leading the way to the $500,000 per year cash compensation milestone.
• Macro events shaping supply and demand of leadership talent in private equity software and SaaS and how the tight talent market was affected in 2022.
• Leader turnover trends across the sector and in specific functional areas, including when each leadership team member is likely to change based on deal timing and other factors.
• C-suite and senior manager trends and which roles are being “leveled up” based on company stage.
• Emerging C-suite leadership roles and their impact on a portfolio company and its execution on value creation.

Visit www.bespokepartners.com to learn more.

About Bespoke Partners

Bespoke Partners is a leading firm focused exclusively on executive recruiting and leadership advisory services for private equity backed software companies.

More than 90% of the most active private equity software investors in the US have relied on Bespoke for leadership recruiting and advisory. Bespoke transformed leadership at portfolio companies achieving buyout transactions totaling more than $25 billion in 2021 alone.

Bespoke’s unique, data-driven services complete searches in typically half the industry average time with a 99% placement success rate.

The firm partners with more than 70 top tier private equity firms, providing human capital services that accelerate execution of value creation plans, cut the risk of mis-hiring, and empower leadership to achieve the investment thesis.