Bespoke Partners Appoints Leader of People and HR Practice
June 19, 2026 – San Diego, CA-headquartered Bespoke Partners recently named Dani Pfeiffer as a partner leading the people and human resources leader recruiting practice serving both software and industrials sector companies. She will lead dedicated recruiting teams on searches for talent executives for private equity portfolio companies for the software and SaaS clients served by Bespoke Partners and industrial clients served by Industra Talent Partners, Bespoke’s affiliate.
“HR and people leaders are mission critical for execution of the value creation plan for a sponsor-backed company,” said Eric Walczykowski, CEO of Bespoke Partners and Industra. “Dani offers clients a rare combination of strategic human capital insight, private equity sector experience, and deep expertise in recruiting transformational talent leaders.”
Ms. Pfeiffer brings a unique blend of human capital advisory experience with a successful track record in recruiting high-impact HR leaders for a wide range of technology and industrial companies. She joins the firm from Hunt Club, where she was a partner leading people and finance leadership searches for high-growth and sponsor-backed companies. Ms. Pfeiffer began her career in consulting and private equity, including 11 years at Deloitte, where she advised global organizations on finance and HR transformation. She also held roles at Advent International and Fidelity Investments, and built and led the finance executive search practice at Epitome, partnering with companies on critical CFO and broader executive hires.
Ms. Pfeiffer’s leadership will build on Bespoke’s track record of 61 successful HR and people executive placements, including CHROs, chief people officers, and vice presidents of human resources. “I am excited to join Bespoke as the firm has experienced outsized growth as the leading executive recruiter serving the private equity sector,” Ms. Pfeiffer said. “Talent leaders are increasingly essential for achieving a sponsor’s investment thesis and we understand how to assess that value creation expertise better than any other firm.”
Bespoke Partners is an executive search and leadership advisory firm dedicated to partnering with top private equity firms, including Francisco Partners, Clearlake Capital, WCAS, Insight Partners, GI Partners, General Atlantic, CVC Capital Partners, and TA Associates, among many others, to recruit software talent and assess and evaluate teams at every stage of the investment lifecycle, from growth equity to buyout. Bespoke Partners is headquartered in San Diego, and operates other regional offices in Austin, TX, and Philadelphia.
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The search firm has completed over 1,000 searches since its inception a decade ago. Its expertise includes all C-level searches across multiple functional domains, including financial officers, HR and people, marketing and technology, as well as board of directors and internal private equity operating partner searches. The firm’s expanding leadership advisory platform includes organizational due diligence as well as executive assessment and coaching. Successful searches include CEOs, CFOs, CROs, CMOs, CPOs, CTOs, CIOs, CHROs, board members, operating partners, vice presidents and many more. Bespoke-placed executives have orchestrated exits and more than 425 acquisitions by their companies, generating more than $145 billion in value.
Industra Talent Partners
“Industrial companies are perfect candidates for private equity to produce outsized returns. But portfolio company leadership is the critical factor in executing on value creation plans,” said Mr. Walczykowski. “Before Industra, sponsors had to rely on generalist firms with no real understanding of how to recognize and recruit those leaders for industrial companies. Today that all changes with Industra, the sector’s first search practice optimized for faster searches with better outcomes for private equity.”
“Industrials is one of the largest and most essential segments of the global economy, yet private equity sponsors are facing a leadership gap,” said Jared Moriarty, partner and Industra Talent Partners lead. “Industra solves these challenges by combining deep private equity expertise with an AI-augmented, tech-enabled search process. Our clients gain unmatched talent insights and access to leaders who deliver sustained value creation.”
Industra partners with private equity sponsors and portfolio company leadership teams to recruit CEOs, presidents, CFOs, COOs, CROs/CCOs, CHROs/CPOs, CMOs, CTOs, CIOs, and other EVP/SVP/VP functional leaders aligned to value creation plans and operating realities.
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Contributed by Scott A. Scanlon, Editor-in-Chief and Dale M. Zupsansky, Executive Editor – Hunt Scanlon Media
