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Access to the Best Leadership Talent Before You Need It

by Eric Walczykowski​

  • Eric

It’s no secret that talent is the critical value creation lever for private equity firms. Hiring the best leaders for your portfolio companies is a make-or-break proposition.

But keeping track of the leaders who might be a fit for your portfolio company is a daunting job.

Every week, dozens of the most qualified leaders come on the market or leave it as they find new roles.

Others start planning an exit from their current role and begin considering their next challenge.

Still others at junior levels may achieve some amazing results and prove that they are ready to step up to the C-suite.

As we noted in our Private Equity Talent Benchmarking Report, the talent market has been especially fluid and volatile for the past couple of years. Private equity and venture capital firms have raised record funds and deals have skyrocketed, dramatically increasing demand for qualified leadership.

Tracking the many changes and developments in leadership for software and SaaS companies is the core of a new service from Bespoke Partners: the Strategic Resourcing Service, or SRS.

SRS logoSolve Your Next Search Before It Starts

How SRS will solve your next search before it starts:

  • The SRS team works with you  to identify roles and types of leaders you anticipate needing throughout the lifecycle of a deal. Whether you are in due diligence process or a portfolio company in the hold period, our team can recognize patterns of needs across various potential and existing portfolio companies.
  • Roles can be CEOs, CFOs, CROs, CMOs, CCSOs, CTOs, CPOs, CHROs, CISOs, Presidents, Board Members, Operating Partners and many more.
  • Our world-class team of researchers and recruiters will vet and validate a slate of actionable candidates based on the identified needs.
  • On a monthly or quarterly frequency, we deliver slates of actionable leaders.
  • You choose the promising candidates and we set up the introductions to kick off your interviewing process.

Now you have unmatched, real-time visibility into the talent market for your most pressing leadership needs.

You can learn which leaders are soon to come on the market, getting a critical early lead in hiring them for your portfolio companies.

You can see “step-up” candidates who are ready to move into the C-suite and produce outsized results for your portfolio company.

Turnkey Access to the Best Network

The SRS draws from our unmatched network of seasoned software and SaaS executives. We have built that network over a decade of working with thousands of candidates and 90% of the most active private equity software and SaaS investors.

Our turnkey approach means we effectively manage the talent network for you, tracking the leaders who matter most. With SRS, you will solve your next search before it starts.

Visit www.bespokepartners.com/SRS/ to learn more and get started today. 

Authored by:

  • Eric
    Chief Executive Officer

    Eric is passionate about building high-performing teams that value doing their best, working together, overcoming adversity and learning.

    As a proven growth executive, Eric has served as CEO, President, Board Member, Investor and Advisor for technology companies that achieved over $4.5B in successful exits.

    Eric brings to Bespoke Partners significant professional services experience from Deloitte and Andersen, as well as the high-growth client executive perspective for private equity-backed technology companies.

    Eric earned an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a BS in Business from Fresno State University.