Bespoke Partners and Industra Welcome Dani Pfeiffer as Head of People, HR and Talent Executive Recruiting Practice

Bespoke Partners, the leading executive search firm for private equity portfolio companies, today announced that Dani Pfeiffer has joined the firm as a Partner leading the People and Human Resources Leader recruiting practice serving both software and industrials sector companies.

Dani brings a unique blend of human capital advisory experience with a highly successful track record in recruiting high-impact HR leaders for a wide range of technology and industrial companies.

Dani’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.

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.”

Dani joins from Hunt Club, where she was a Partner leading People and Finance leadership searches for high-growth and sponsor-backed companies. She 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.

“I am excited to join Bespoke as the firm has experienced outsized growth as the leading executive recruiter serving the private equity sector,” Dani 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.”

About Bespoke Partners

Bespoke Partners is the leading executive recruiter for private equity and the largest firm specializing in recruiting for software and SaaS companies in the United States.

Bespoke-recruited executives have orchestrated more than 200 portfolio company exits totaling nearly $600 billion.

Bespoke Partners is Built Different, with a unique firm structure, functional role focus and deep expertise in 28 software subsectors. Bespoke’s data-driven services utilize the Executive Index, a comprehensive AI-powered talent market mapping platform. The Executive Index enables Bespoke to complete searches in less than half the industry average time with a 95% placement success rate.

The firm has placed more than 1,500 top-performing executives into private equity portfolio companies.

Successful searches include CEOs, CFOs, CROs, CMOs, CCOs, CPOs, CTOs, CIOs, CHROs, Board Members, Operating Partners, Vice Presidents and many more.

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