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Eric Walczykowski​

Optimizing Portfolio Company Leadership to Manage Through Turbulent Times

By Eric Walczykowski​ | September 1, 2022

As the world responds to a possible recession, geopolitical conflicts, and supply-chain disruptions, private equity portfolio companies must prepare for the economic downturns that can hamper growth strategies.

Reduced investor risk tolerance, depressed company valuations, and longer hold times to achieve investment thesis are on the horizon for firms that don’t proactively fortify their businesses.

Behavioral Assessments Accelerate Leadership Transformation

By Eric Walczykowski​ | July 9, 2022

What causes leaders to fail? The reasons are seemingly endless: lack of experience, poor communication, a misguided reliance on outdated strategies, and misaligned goals, among many more.

Five Strategies for Winning High-Impact Talent in a Tight Executive Market

By Eric Walczykowski​ | January 27, 2022

Our Stellar Team and Search 2.0 Drive Bespoke Partners to New Heights

By Eric Walczykowski​ | January 18, 2022

Transformative CEOs: What types of chief executives are leading today’s private equity portfolio companies?

By Eric Walczykowski​ | December 14, 2021

by December 14, 2021,Executive Search Perhaps no other role has more impact than the CEO for empowering a portfolio company to achieve the investment thesis of its private equity backers.  That’s why we’re constantly engaged with our private equity clients to identify and recruit CEOs who know how to execute on value creation plans for…

Strategic HR: Using Concrete Data and Focused Actions to Measure Organizational Strength

By Eric Walczykowski​ | November 19, 2021

Search 2.0: Impact of the Science of Search

By Eric Walczykowski​ | November 4, 2021

If you are refreshing or rebooting the leadership of the portfolio company, then time is of the essence. The new leaders need to be on board and driving hard as early as possible if the company will achieve the investment thesis.

Eric Walczykowski​

Eric Walczykowski​

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.