Our Team
Founder-led execution. No hand-offs. No junior associates. Every search personally managed.
The Boutique Advantage
At Venatis Partners, we built a firm around a simple belief: PE firms deserve a search partner who understands their world. Unlike larger firms where your search gets delegated to junior associates, our founders personally lead and execute every engagement, from kickoff through close.
Founder-Led Execution
When you partner with Venatis, you work directly with our founders throughout the entire search process. Tyler and Brandon personally lead candidate development, interviews, and assessments, ensuring the highest level of quality and attention to your specific needs.
Specialized Focus
Our boutique structure allows us to be highly selective about our client engagements, ensuring we maintain deep focus on each search. This results in more thorough candidate assessment, faster placements, and better long-term outcomes for both clients and candidates.
Meet Our Founders
Tyler Brandt
Founder & Managing Partner
Tyler leads searches for CEOs, Presidents, Sales and Commercial leaders, HR executives, and technical leadership across PE-backed industrial, construction, infrastructure, and energy businesses. His focus is on placing the operating leaders who own the P&L and drive top-line growth. The executives sponsors count on to execute a value creation plan.
Tyler's approach is built on a deep understanding of what makes a leader succeed in a sponsor-backed environment: the ability to operate with urgency, communicate with a board, and build high-performing teams that deliver measurable results. He evaluates candidates not just for skills, but for the leadership DNA that separates good operators from great ones.
Beyond individual searches, Tyler serves as a strategic advisor to PE firms on talent strategy, organizational design, and leadership benchmarking. He helps clients build the management teams that maximize enterprise value.
Brandon Kanyo
Founder & Managing Partner
Brandon leads searches for CFOs, Controllers, Corporate Development leaders, General Counsel, and Compliance executives across PE-backed portfolio companies in industrial and essential services sectors. His focus is on the functional leaders who professionalize finance, strengthen governance, and prepare companies for the next transaction, whether that is an add-on acquisition or a successful exit.
Brandon understands the specific demands PE firms place on these roles: building audit-ready financials, standing up M&A integration processes, managing covenant compliance, and delivering the reporting cadence sponsors require. He identifies candidates who bring both technical depth and the commercial awareness to partner effectively with a CEO and board.
As a trusted advisor to operating partners and deal teams, Brandon provides market intelligence on compensation benchmarking, organizational design, and talent availability. He ensures his clients make informed, competitive offers that close.
Our Approach
Designed for the speed and accountability that PE demands.
Capacity Discipline
We cap our active searches to ensure every engagement receives dedicated focus. This means faster candidate delivery, deeper market coverage, and the attention your portfolio company deserves. Not the diluted effort that comes from overloaded search firms.
Direct Founder Access
You work with Tyler and Brandon from kickoff through close. No hand-offs, no associate-led screening, no surprises. We provide real-time updates, candid candidate assessments, and the responsiveness that deal-driven timelines require.
PE-Calibrated Assessment
We evaluate candidates through a PE lens: Can they operate with urgency? Have they driven EBITDA growth or margin expansion? Do they communicate effectively with a board? Our assessment goes beyond credentials to identify the leaders who thrive in sponsor-backed environments.
Repeat Client Relationships
Every retained client has engaged us again. We measure success not by filling a role, but by the long-term impact of the leaders we place and the trust we build with sponsors over multiple funds and portfolio companies.
Work Directly With Our Founders
Experience the difference of having PE-focused search professionals personally leading every engagement.
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