SectorPoint Advisors
Founder-built businesses outgrow their leadership before their markets.
We help lower middle market sponsors build the teams their plans assume, from founder transitions to the leadership hires that scale the platform.
The smaller the deal, the bigger the management question.
In a lower middle market deal, there is no bench. One operator carries the thesis, and everything below that seat was built around the founder. Getting that hire right is the largest controllable variable in the investment, and the hardest one to solve.
The operator is the value creation plan.
At this size the leadership team is one person deep. Misjudge that hire and the model stops mattering. There is no bench underneath to absorb the mistake.
Your network gives you two or three names.
The operators who can run these businesses are already running one. They are not on the market, and reaching them takes targeted outreach to people who are not looking.
The search industry skips this market.
Retained firms carry fees and timelines these deals can't support. Contingency shops send resumes without understanding the thesis. The deals with the most riding on one hire get the least help making it.
One partner from acquisition to exit
Representative engagements
Who we work with
Private Equity Sponsors
A thought partner on the leadership question before you commit: what the thesis asks of the team, what the role really is, and the operator search before or after close.
Independent Sponsors
The management story is half the deal you're raising on. We help you pressure-test it, then deliver the operator the thesis needs.
Family Offices
Permanent and long-hold platforms live or die on leadership continuity. We build teams for holders, where the right hire compounds.
Portfolio Company CEOs
Building the functional bench underneath you: operators who fit the business, the plan, and the stage.
Davis Dardaman, Founder
Before SectorPoint, I led human capital and commercial diligence engagements for private equity investors, on the buy side of the leadership question. Those deals kept teaching the same lesson: most lower middle market businesses win on execution, and the person running the plan matters more than any market dynamic.I've also acquired a small property management business, stepped into the founder's place, and later sold it. I've worked through both ends of that handoff.SectorPoint exists to address this directly: a thought partner for leadership transitions, and the search execution to fill the seat.
Where we spend time
We specialize in a stage of company: founder-built service businesses, typically $5M to $100M in revenue, making the move from founder-led to professionally managed.
Essential Services
Home, industrial, and infrastructure services: the technician-driven, asset-heavy business with local relationships.
B2B & Commercial Services
Route-based, recurring, and specialty services sold to businesses, including healthcare, logistics, and distribution.
Consumer Services
Multi-site and franchise concepts serving households and members, from health and wellness to automotive and pet.
Professional & Tech-Enabled Services
Expertise-driven and software-enabled service businesses moving from founder-led to professionally managed.
Have a deal or platform that needs an operator?
If the operator question is the open item on a deal or portco, let's talk.
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