May 5, 2026 – San Diego, CA-headquartered Bespoke Partners has expanded with the addition of Alyssa Berardi as a partner in the go-to-market practice. “Alyssa’s combination of executive search experience and data-driven insight makes her an exceptional addition to the Bespoke team,” said Tess Fischer, partner and practice lead of Bespoke Partners’ go-to-market practice. “She brings a modern, data-informed perspective to go-to-market hiring at a wide range of company scales, from growth equity and the middle market through large cap public companies. She will be a valuable partner to investors and leadership teams building high-performing commercial organizations.”
Ms. Berardi brings over a decade of experience in executive search, partnering with many of the world’s most respected companies to hire transformational sales, marketing and customer success leaders. She will serve Bespoke’s core client base of software and SaaS companies with private equity sponsors as well as large scale public companies with an emphasis on go-to-market leadership roles.
Most recently, Ms. Berardi served as vice president of executive intelligence at Censia, where her work sat at the intersection of executive search, data, and technology. She helped organizations bring greater structure and precision to executive hiring by leveraging advanced data and benchmarking to evaluate leadership talent and drive better outcomes at the highest levels.
“Alyssa is known for her insight-driven approach and her focus on building processes that identify potential beyond pedigree, enable more inclusive and transparent hiring, and equip companies to build leadership teams for the future,” Bespoke said.
Ms. Berardi has experience recruiting leaders for the portfolio companies of private equity and venture capital firms including KKR, Apollo Global Management, The Carlyle Group, TPG, Bain Capital, Insight Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Francisco Partners, Blackstone and Genstar Capital. Alyssa also has recruited leaders for some of the world’s most prominent public companies such as Disney, GM, PayPal, Ulta Beauty, Verizon Wireless, Qualcomm, Apple, Uber, Google, Rivian and Pagaya.
“I am thrilled to join Bespoke Partners and be part of a firm that is redefining executive search for private equity-backed companies,” said Ms. Berardi. “Bespoke’s data-driven approach and deep specialization create a powerful platform to help clients build high-performing go-to-market organizations.”
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.
Related: Bespoke Partners Grows Product and Technology Practice
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.
New Launch
Bespoke Partners recently launched Industra Talent Partners to use AI and a best-in-class search methodology to recruit senior leaders for U.S. middle-market industrial companies backed by private equity. “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 Eric Walczykowski, CEO of Bespoke Partners. “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.
Related: Bespoke Partners Adds AI Expert to Board
Contributed by Scott A. Scanlon, Editor-in-Chief and Dale M. Zupsansky, Executive Editor – Hunt Scanlon Media