About Stonemont Group
Connor Liggan
Founder & Managing Partner
Connor Liggan is the founder of Stonemont Group, a search fund formed to acquire and personally lead one exceptional company for the long term. He set out to do the most meaningful thing he could imagine: find a business worth committing a career to, earn the trust of the owner who built it, and carry it forward.
What Stonemont Group brings is focus, analytical discipline, and total commitment. Rather than spread capital across a portfolio, the fund is built around a single goal: to find one outstanding company, understand it deeply, and steward it — full-time — for years to come.
And it isn't a solo pursuit. Stonemont Group is backed by experienced search-fund investors and guided by a bench of advisors who have spent decades owning and operating businesses — bringing the operational depth, financial rigor, and hard-won judgment that turn a sound acquisition into a lasting one.
- 50+ years of combined team operating experience
- Advised by seasoned owner-operators
- Backed by experienced search-fund investors
- Permanent, hands-on ownership
Team & Advisors
The operators behind the search
Stonemont Group is led by its founder and backed by seasoned advisors who have owned businesses, run the numbers, and worked through transitions firsthand — keeping the search disciplined and the diligence honest.
Connor Liggan
Founder & Managing Partner
Brings analytical rigor and long-term commitment to acquiring — and personally leading — one enduring company.
Brad Gunter
High Point Advisory Group Managing Partner
Brings disciplined financial diligence and a steady hand to post-close operations.
Keith Svatos
Former HVAC Owner-Operator
Four decades in HVAC ownership; master-licensed in HVAC, plumbing, gas fitting, and general contracting.
Why Stonemont Group Searches
One business. One operator. A very long horizon.
Plenty of great companies are owned by people who are ready for their next chapter but have nowhere good to send the one they built. Private equity buys to flip. Strategics buy to absorb. Too often the team, the culture, and the name quietly disappear.
Stonemont Group searches because it believes there’s a better answer: an owner-operator who shows up, learns the business from the ground up, keeps the people who made it work, and commits for the long term. The aim isn’t to extract value — it’s to earn it, slowly, by being a genuinely good steward.
Stonemont Group isn’t acquiring a business to change it — but to carry it forward.