Rock Mountain Capital

Founder and Managing Partner David Stonehill leads the investment committee, drawing on over 30 years of middle-market private equity experience at Carlyle, Blackstone, and Och-Ziff. He is supported by Managing Directors David Scharf and John Battinelli, both of whom serve on portfolio company boards and drive deal origination, execution, and operational value creation. The investment team remains deliberately small, with Vice President David Ruiz and Analyst Dov Baron rounding out the professional staff.

The firm writes equity checks from $10 million to over $100 million into North American companies with $3 million to over $25 million in EBITDA. It seeks majority or joint-control positions, though it will consider structured minority stakes in entrepreneurial partnerships. The firm has invested over $600 million in platform companies and add-on acquisitions since inception.

Rock Mountain embeds its Managing Directors directly onto portfolio company boards, with David Stonehill alone holding four directorships. David Scharf brings hands-on operating experience, having previously served as COO of a Carlyle-backed consumer company and led a $2 billion roll-up for a printing-and-publishing wholesaler sold to Fuji Film. The firm explicitly markets a long-duration, patient-capital approach tied to organic growth and strategic M&A rather than debt-driven returns.

The firm concentrates on three sectors: Consumer Goods & Services, Healthcare Services, and Business Services. Current portfolio companies span specialty cleaning products, pest control, pediatric dentistry, fixed wireless broadband, and sports hospitality. The June 2025 acquisition of International Sports Management signals an expansion of the consumer thesis into live-event and experience-based services.

Rock Mountain actively pursues roll-up and consolidation strategies across its platform companies. Chord Specialty Dental Partners has completed nine add-on acquisitions since the initial investment in April 2021. Similarly, GeoLinks added three acquisitions, PurposeBuilt Brands executed two, and VCM Products completed one, reflecting a systematic buy-and-build approach across the portfolio.