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Bespoke Launches AI-Driven Dynamic Scorecard Accelerating Executive Search
SAN DIEGO, June 23, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bespoke Partners, the leading executive search firm for private equity portfolio companies, today announced the launch of Calibrator, a dynamic scorecarding application accelerating executive search with the industry's first AI-powered talent market mapping platform for software and SaaS.
Calibrator allows Bespoke's clients to instantly see the complete talent pool for a given role based on adjustable scorecard parameters, accelerating discovery of candidates who fit a company's leadership needs.
"An executive hiring decision can impact billions of dollars in value creation for a private equity firm," said Eric Walczykowski, Bespoke CEO. "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, Bespoke's new AI-powered dynamic scorecarding application, is built on the foundation of the Executive Index - the industry's most comprehensive talent market mapping platform for software executives.
Through real-time collaboration, clients can visually explore the talent landscape in Calibrator and adjust search criteria alongside Bespoke's experts, accelerating hiring decisions and ensuring precise alignment with leadership needs.
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 new dynamic scorecarding 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," Eric said. "Now you have true visibility into how executives performed in prior roles and in-depth understanding of their potential to lead your company."
Benefits of Calibrator and the Executive Index include:
Complete, top-down view of the talent market, providing on average 50% larger talent pools compared to haphazard, bottom-up candidate discovery that other firms use.
Cutting 2 or more weeks from a typical search process.
Reducing time to build a 100-candidate pool for a search by 44%.
Automating identification of backchannel reference contacts.
Identifying candidates based on flight times from specific airports.
90% accuracy rate, meaning the vast majority of candidates surfaced by the Index are scorecard matches.
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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, creating more than $200 billion in value for their private capital sponsors.
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-augmented 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, CPOs, CTOs, CIOs, CHROs, Board Members, Operating Partners, Vice Presidents and many more.
Learn more at www.Bespokepartners.Com.
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When Louis Vuitton Tries To Make You Change Your Brand Name - BBC
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Lawrence and Victoria Osborne spent £15,000 on legal fees fighting a trademark dispute
A small garden supply business called L V Bespoke recently won its fight to keep its name against the French luxury fashion house Louis Vuitton. Experts say such cases have increased "hugely" in the past 18 months as major brands seek to protect their intellectual property. But what actually happens when a multi-national firm comes knocking at your door?
Before the Covid-19 pandemic, Victoria Osborne ran a holiday letting business and her husband Lawrence worked in construction.
"When the pandemic arrived, both of our incomes were wiped out literally overnight," says Mrs Osborne.
Amid what she describes as a "mad panic" the couple, who were renovating their home in Reepham, near Norwich, focused on their garden and began growing their own food while former boat builder Mr Osborne tried his hand at making metal plant supports.
The supports turned out well. So well, in fact, the couple wondered if others would be willing to pay for them. They were.
The business grew from selling the supports on Gumtree and at car boot sales to being featured by the Royal Horticultural Society.
The couple had named the business using their own first initials, and L V Bespoke was born.
Three months after the Osbornes sought to register their trademark they were contacted by lawyers for Louis Vuitton
But when the application to register the L V Bespoke trademark was made public, Louis Vuitton Malletier objected in March 2022 via lawyers in London claiming the trademark impinged on its intellectual property.
"We were very shocked and surprised," says Mrs Osborne. "We thought it was a practical joke by one of our friends.
"It was just ludicrous to think they had the rights to the letters "L" and "V" and there was no comparison to be made between our goods and theirs."
They sought legal advice almost immediately and decided to stick to their guns.
A metal crown that L V Bespoke made for the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk
Although Louis Vuitton has not responded to the BBC's requests for comment on the case, Jamie Muir Wood, who represented the firm during the tribunal told the hearing that Louis Vuitton's trademark contained the letters "L" and "V" and that it was understood those letters "stand for Louis Vuitton".
He said the Osborne's logo "contains the same two letters, in the same order, followed by the word 'bespoke'". It also contains some slight figurative decoration.
"Conceptually, we say that there is essentially identity or very high similarity because both signs refer to a brand LV," he told the hearing.
"So we say this points to the average consumer seeing these conceptually as a brand on sub-brand, the shared concept being a brand called LV."
Mrs Osborne says the 22 months from the time Louis Vuitton objected to their trademark to winning their case has been both costly and stressful.
"This has been a massive thing hanging over our heads," she says. "I am sleeping easier now than I was but I have also been battling significant health issues during this.
"I would like to believe that the higher-ups in the Louis Vuitton food chain were not aware of this. My ultimate goal is to get an apology from them."
Expert Melanie Harvey says in the past 18 months there has been a "huge" rise big firms seeking to protect their trademarks
Melanie Harvey, a legal director at Birketts LLP and a chartered trade mark attorney, says the Osbornes' case is far from unique.
She says in the past 18 months there has been a "huge" rise big firms seeking to protect their trademarks. She says clothing businesses, champagne makers and high end brands were particularly busy protecting their identities at the moment.
"They want to make sure all of their brand identifiers are safeguarded," says Ms Harvey, who represented the Osbornes during their case.
She says she strongly supports the rights of businesses to protect their brands when there are clear breaches.
Many companies employ a "watch service" to scour public registers and the internet for any potential trademark infringements.
She says people such as the Osbornes will often be approached by representatives from trade mark holders and asked to withdraw their application in order to avoid further issues.
"It is a shock when you get this type of approach," says Ms Harvey.
Many people "fold immediately", she adds.
Others will stand their ground initially but eventually give in because of the costs and stress involved in defending a disputed trademark application.
"It is a highly stressful situation to be in," she says. "And it is quite common for people to back out because of the toll it takes."
She says she quite often sees cases in which new businesses have, sometimes unwittingly, sailed too close to the trademark wind and infringed on the intellectual property of a large company.
As for the Osbornes, Louis Vuitton has been told to pay £4,000 towards their £15,000 legal bill.
Asked whether they might now dabble in a line of luxury gold or silver plant stands, Mrs Osborne says: "I think that might be a step too far.
"We're just happy to have this landmark victory."
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