Bespoke Partners Recruits CEO for Billtrust

March 30, 2026 – San Diego, CA-headquartered Bespoke Partners has recently placed Grant Halloran as the new CEO of EQT Group-backed Billtrust. “We are excited to congratulate Grant Halloran on his new role as chief executive officer at Billtrust,” Bespoke Partners said in a LinkedIn post. “Thank you to EQT Group for placing their trust in Bespoke Partners on this search. Hats off to Katelyn Quaresma, Tess Fischer, Jenny Gray, and Ally Reames who brought disciplined collaboration to identifying a CEO built for the demands of PE-backed software at scale. Wishing Grant continued success as he leads Billtrust through its next phase of value creation.”

“Grant has an incredible track record of helping enterprise software companies scale globally while staying laser-focused on customer outcomes,” said David Post, Billtrust chairman and senior operating advisor with EQT Partners. “His ability to combine strategic vision with operational excellence will accelerate Billtrust’s mission to redefine how finance leaders manage working capital and customer relationships.”

Mr. Halloran is a seasoned enterprise software executive with more than 25 years of leadership experience. Most recently he served as CEO of Planful, where he orchestrated a multi-year transformation that tripled revenue, doubled the customer base and employee count, and solidified its position as a market leader in financial performance management. Prior to Planful, he served in executive leadership roles at Anaplan, Infor, Heavy AI, and Orbis.

“I’m thrilled to join Billtrust to serve this talented team and our thousands of customers across the globe,” said Mr. Halloran. “While complex mid-market and enterprise companies have partnered with us for many years to simplify and streamline converting B2B sales to cash, we are now in the era where AI is augmenting these processes. Billtrust is at the vanguard of innovation in this area, which makes this an even more exciting time to join the company.”

Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Lawrenceville, NJ, Billtrust is a financial technology company that provides cloud-based software and payment solutions designed to automate accounts receivable and B2B payment processes.

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.

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.

Since joining Bespoke Partners in 2015, Ms. Quaresma has placed executives across the C-suite at public and private equity backed companies. With a focus on the finance function, she has worked with firms such as Thoma Bravo, Accel-KKR, Clearlake Capital Roper and Vector Capital in solving for crucial CFO hires. Ms. Quaresma has placed executives at companies like Bomgar, WebPT, Imprivata, T2Solutions, NetDocuments, Corel, CheetahMail, Oversight, Achieve3000, MedeAnalytics, Qognify, and Pluralsight.

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Ms. Fischer brings over 17 years of experience building and managing networks, clients and teams. She serves as a partner with Bespoke and has worked in and around private equity her entire career. In her prior role as a partner at Morgan Samuels, Ms. Fischer led the firm’s software and tech-enabled services practice. She worked closely with private equity funds and their portfolio companies to hire executive talent with a focus on CEO, COO, CFO, chief revenue officer and chief people officer.

Ms. Gray is a senior vice president at Bespoke Partners within the firm’s CEO recruiting practice. She specializes in leading CEO & board searches for our clients across growth equity to buyout with portfolio companies in B2B SaaS. She has also specialized in go-to-market and chief customer officer searches. Ms. Gray has led over 70 successful searches since she joined Bespoke in 2019 and has placed executives across multiple portfolio companies including Thoma Bravo, Insight Partners, Clearlake Capital, K1, PSG and others.

AI-Powered Talent Mapping Platform

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.”

Calibrator is built on the foundation of the Executive Index – a talent market mapping platform for software executives. The Index uses AI-enhanced analytics to parse 53 million rows of executive background data from more than 575,000 sources, providing the first top-down market visibility of its kind. It provides a comprehensive view of the entire talent market of executives in software and SaaS in the United States, totaling nearly 700,000 executives. The application enables candidates to be filtered and prioritized dynamically based on factors including positions held, end-market experience, company growth accomplishments, geography and a variety of highly nuanced criteria.

“Unlike self-reported profiles on LinkedIn, the Executive Index presents validated backgrounds on executives, using AI to cross-reference hundreds of thousands of data sources,” said Mr. Walczykowski. “Now you have true visibility into how executives performed in prior roles and in-depth understanding of their potential to lead your company.”

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Contributed by Scott A. Scanlon, Editor-in-Chief and Dale M. Zupsansky, Executive Editor  – Hunt Scanlon Media