About Stonemont Group
Connor Liggan
Founder & Managing Partner
Stonemont Group is an independent investment firm dedicated to acquiring and leading one exceptional business for the long term.
We focus on durable, essential companies within the skilled trades and B2B services sectors — businesses with strong customer relationships, recurring revenue, and consistent cash flow.
Rather than operating as a traditional financial sponsor pursuing a short-term exit, we take an operator-led approach. We acquire a single company and step into its operational leadership, investing directly in its people, processes, and systems to support sustained growth.
Our focus spans trades, field services, specialty contracting, and industrial services, among other essential B2B operators that have built durable trust in their markets over time.
- Skilled trades & B2B services focus
- Operator-led, not a short-term exit
- 50+ years of combined team operating experience
- Permanent, hands-on ownership
Team & Advisors
The operators behind the search
We're led by our 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.
We search because we believe 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.
We aren’t acquiring a business to change it — but to carry it forward.