Jon Schepke

Jon is an executive recruiter at Talentfoot Executive Search and a trusted advisor to PE/VC-backed, growth-stage, and enterprise organizations. He partners with CEOs, CROs, CMOs, CTOs, and private equity operating partners to hire transformative go-to-market and technology executives, and works with CEOs and CHROs to build leadership teams equipped for AI-driven operating models. His searches span Chief Revenue Officers, AI-native CMOs, VP of AI & Innovation, Director of AI Enablement, Senior Manager of AI Enablement, and senior leaders in AI, data, software engineering, and product. With 6+ years of retained executive search delivery and 20+ years as an operator and commercial leader, Jon has completed searches for leading funds including KKR, TPG, Warburg Pincus, Tiger Global, LightSpeed Ventures, and Platinum Equity. He places executives at scaling companies with revenues from $30M to $500M+ across enterprise software, SaaS, healthcare, financial services, and consumer. What sets Jon apart is his operator's lens. He founded and led a venture-backed B2B SaaS company that raised institutional capital, scaled the business, and exited to a Silicon Valley acquirer. That firsthand experience building a leadership team, managing a board, and driving a company through exit gives him a perspective most search professionals don't have. Jon is Claude certified and serves on Talentfoot's AI task force. By integrating AI across its search workflows, Talentfoot delivers faster and more comprehensive market mapping, sharper candidate research and assessment, and quicker time to shortlist. For clients, that means stronger slates, better signal on every candidate, and searches that move at the speed of their business."