Bespoke Partners Appoints Partner in Go-to-Market Practice
January 21, 2026 – San Diego, CA-headquartered Bespoke Partners has named Liz Moses as partner in the firm’s go-to-market (GTM) practice. “Liz has an exceptional ability to assess and place go-to-market leaders with clarity, rigor, and judgment,” said Tess Fischer, partner and go-to-market practice lead at Bespoke Partners. “She has earned the confidence of investors and management teams through consistent execution and thoughtful partnership, and her promotion to Partner reflects both her individual impact and the continued growth of our GTM practice.”
Ms. Moses has been with Bespoke Partners since 2020 and has been a key contributor to the firm’s CEO practice, most recently serving as vice president while also acting as a go-to-market practice expert. During her tenure, she has completed more than 80 executive placements, including multiple leadership team builds spanning CRO, CMO, COO, and other go-to-market leadership roles.
Since joining Bespoke Partners, Ms. Moses has consistently delivered senior leadership for private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies. She has closed more searches than any recruiter in Bespoke’s history and is a trusted partner to leading firms including STG, Apax Partners, GSV, Thoma Bravo, and Norwest. Prior to joining Bespoke, Ms. Moses was a team leader in the professional services firms segment at Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG), where she supported management consulting firms conducting private equity due diligence. She also spent more than two years working directly with middle-market private equity firms and several leading venture capital firms.
In her expanded role as partner, Ms. Moses will continue working alongside Bespoke’s leadership team to further scale the firm’s go-to-market practice and support private equity sponsors in identifying transformational executive leadership.
“My time at Bespoke has been incredibly meaningful as I’ve partnered with investors, boards, and management teams on some of the most important leadership decisions a company can make,” Ms. Moses said. “Go-to-market leadership is pivotal to value creation, and it’s deeply rewarding to serve as a trusted advisor to private equity sponsors as they identify leaders who can drive lasting impact.”
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.
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Last year, Bespoke Partners launched Calibrator, a scorecarding application accelerating executive search with an AI-powered talent market mapping platform for software and SaaS. Calibrator lets Bespoke’s clients to instantly see the complete talent pool for a given position based on adjustable scorecard parameters. “An executive hiring decision can impact billions of dollars in value creation for a private equity firm,” said Eric Walczykowski, CEO of Bespoke. “Leveraging AI, Calibrator empowers our clients to see and analyze the complete talent market for any executive need, making the right hiring decisions faster with this exclusive information.”
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Contributed by Scott A. Scanlon, Editor-in-Chief and Dale M. Zupsansky, Executive Editor – Hunt Scanlon Media
