Billy Conner

Associate

Billy joined GulfStar Group in 2022 from PwC, where he worked as a Senior Associate in the Transaction Services Practice. While at PwC, Billy performed financial due diligence for corporate and private equity-backed acquisitions across a wide range of industries, including industrial manufacturing, consumer products, oilfield services, and healthcare. Previously, Billy worked in the Audit Practice at KPMG as a Senior Audit Associate.

Billy earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting and a Master of Accountancy at Baylor University. Billy is also a licensed CPA in the state of Texas.

Recent Transactions

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Industrial Services & Manufacturing
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Founded in 1942, Basler is a third-generation, family-owned manufacturer of electrical control and protection solutions, based in Highland, Illinois, with approximately 700 employees. Basler’s innovative products regulate and protect mission-critical equipment and are used by more than 1,600 global customers across a diverse range of critical applications and high-growth end markets, including power generation, power transmission, grid and utility infrastructure, HVAC, data centers, and industrial and electrical equipment. The Company operates three manufacturing facilities in Highland, Illinois; Taylor, Texas; and Piedras Negras, Mexico.

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Business Services
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Mergers & Acquisitions

For over 50 years, Steger Bizzell has been a leader in civil engineering in Central Texas. The Company has performed more than 22,000 projects for governmental and private clients, with expertise covering a wide range of disciplines including hydraulic and hydro-logic analysis, floodplain mapping, transportation, water and wastewater utilities, planning and site design, and surveying. Headquartered in Georgetown, just north of Austin, Steger Bizzell adds a team of more than 50 technical experts with deep water, wastewater and land development expertise to CHA, a full-service engineering, design, and management consulting firm. Steger Bizzell will rebrand as Steger Bizzell, A CHA Company. The acquisition expands CHA’s team to more than 2,100 professionals across 55+ offices, from Canada to Florida to California.

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Consumer Products & Services
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Mergers & Acquisitions

Alpha, a privately held, family-owned frozen foods manufacturer based in Waller, Texas, was founded in 1984 by Greek immigrants George and Athena Sarandos. Alpha has grown from a regional foodservice distributor into a highly respected producer of frozen pizzas and pizza components for national accounts. Today, Alpha operates from a modern, highly efficient, 115,000-square-foot manufacturing and distribution facility serving a broad range of customers, including K-12 schools, leading grocery retailers and well recognized packaged foods brands.

has completed a majority recapitalization with

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Industrial Services & Manufacturing
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Mergers & Acquisitions

Founded in 1982 by Bob Allen and led by Chris Sellers and Mike Hill, AHI is a leading manufacturer and distributor of quality masonry and related construction products for the Texas market, selling both directly to customers and through third-party building products distributors. The Company is headquartered in Alvin, Texas with additional locations in the Austin and Dallas-Fort Worth markets. AHI manufactures a variety of proprietary products, including Portland and masonry cements, brick cleaners, stucco coatings and cast stone, as well as performing a wide array of structural iron processing services. Manufactured products are sold under the Spectrum and Tex-Clean brands. AHI Supply serves single-family residential, multi-family residential and commercial markets.

a portfolio company of
has been acquired by

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Industrial Services & Manufacturing
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Mergers & Acquisitions

Located in Port Arthur, Texas, PAT Tank is a leading turnkey provider of construction and repair of above-ground liquid storage tanks (“ASTs”) to a variety of industrial end markets across the United States. The company’s capabilities include tank design, fabrication, delivery, installation and coating services, as well as distribution and installation of related products. PAT Tank is strategically positioned in the heart of the United States Gulf Coast region with ready access to the most highly concentrated installed base of hydrocarbon ASTs in the country. Its services are in consistent demand due to the ongoing operating and regulatory requirements that drive regular tank installation, repair and upgrade.

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Specialty Distribution
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Mergers & Acquisitions

Founded in 1997 by David Rollen and headquartered in Coppell, Texas, Rock Materials is a wholesale distributor of natural and architectural cut stone, manufactured stone, cast stone and masonry supplies. Rock Materials also operates at a second location in Tomball, Texas, a suburb of Houston. Rock Materials is the largest provider of architectural stone within the state of Texas and the transaction marks a substantial expansion in this line of business for SRS.  The Company’s senior management team will continue in their functions, leading this effort while retaining upside opportunity as shareholders in SRS post-closing.

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