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The New Math: The $1 billion Leadership Decision in Private Equity
In Part 2 of our year-in-review series, Eric Walczykowski, CEO of Bespoke Partners, is joined again by Adam Boone, Chief Commercial Officer, to move from reflection to results.
2025 in Review: Leadership, Speed, and Value Creation in PE
In this year-end discussion, Eric Walczykowski, CEO of Bespoke Partners, is joined by Adam Boone, Chief Commercial Officer, to reflect on what 2025 revealed about the executive talent market.
2026 CFO Talent Outlook: Navigating the Tightest Market in Years
Eric and Marie explore the forces defining CFO hiring in 2026, including reduced candidate mobility, sharper value creation expectations, and shifting location requirements that are reshaping competitiveness across the market.
CFO Talent Is Harder to Land: What Sponsors Need to Know
Eric Walczykowski sits down with Katelyn Quaresma, Head of our Finance Practice, about the forces driving one of the tightest CFO and VP Finance markets in recent years.
The Power of Partnership: Building Consistency Across the PE Ecosystem
In this episode of Tailored Talent, CEO Eric Walczykowski sits down with Matt Sommi, Head of Private Equity Partnerships at Bespoke Partners, to discuss how his team creates alignment and continuity across multiple funds.
Inside Bespoke Partners’ Executive Index: How AI is Transforming Search
What happens when data science meets the art of executive search? In this episode of Tailored Talent, Bespoke Partners CEO Eric Walczykowski sits down with Bruno Kern, Research Operations Manager and Executive Index evangelist, to discuss how artificial intelligence is reshaping the fundamentals of research, recruiting, and client delivery.
PE’s Road to Reset: Rate Cut, Exits Reopening, Talent Market Impact Part II
Part 1 set the stage: rate cuts, exits reopening across IPOs, sponsor to sponsor, and strategic sales, plus a backlog of nearly 12,500 portfolio assets that will keep the executive market tight. Part 2 goes deeper into what that means for sponsors right now.
PE’s Road to Reset: Rate Cut, Exits Reopening, Talent Market Impact Part I
Our newly released 2H2025 Software & SaaS Talent Market Update details these shifts — from rising compensation and rebounding equity values to early-stage C-suite buildouts and historically low turnover. In this episode of Tailored Talent, Bespoke Partners CEO Eric Walczykowski and CCO Adam Boone unpack the implications of the report.
The CFO Evolution: Expanding Scopes, Market Pressures, & Rising Compensation
Join Eric Walczykowski, CEO of Bespoke Partners, as he sits down with Lisa Gordon, partner in Bespoke’s CFO practice, to discuss the current state and future of the CFO market in private equity-backed software companies. Learn what top-tier CFO candidates are looking for in today’s market and understand why the private equity-backed software CFO market…