# Brydon Group

Cohort-model salaried search, at scale.

The largest cohort-model employed-search program: recruits CEOs-in-residence into annual cohorts (36 CIRs across five cohorts since 2022; twenty platforms bought since 2023 and forty-six acquisitions counting tuck-ins, in software, business, healthcare and government services), pays a salary during the search, and targets $30M-plus of equity behind each platform the CIR then runs.

- Category: Capital & Investors
- Pricing model: Custom Pricing
- Where it fits: Learn & Choose Your Path, Set Up & Fund the Search
- Website: https://www.brydon.com

## At a Glance

The employed lane's scale option: if you would search on salary, the cohort with twenty platforms bought is the bench strength to compare everyone else against.

- Track Record: 36 CEOs-in-residence across five cohorts since 2022 by its program page, and 21 CEOs operating and 46 acquisitions as of March 2026 by its home page. Its portfolio resolves the acquisitions into twenty platforms bought from 2023 and twenty-six tuck-ins, one platform exited in 2025. Four verticals, software, business, healthcare and government services, targeting $30M or more of equity behind each platform; committed capital of $570M and more across its funds at the end of 2025, by its own count.
- Lane: Employed
- Funds: The search phase and the deal
- Based: Washington, DC.
- Invests: No investing scope on the pages this review read, so ask whether it will look at a search where you are.
- Buys: Platform businesses with $5M to $25M of revenue and $1M to $5M of EBITDA, bought 90% to 100% outright.
- Before A First Call: An application through its own hiring system, and deep experience in its core sectors, which it describes as consulting partners, P&L owners, or private-equity-backed C-suite executives.
- First-Time Operators: States a bar that a first-time operator has to clear, usually having owned a profit and loss.
- How Long The Search Runs: No length on the search and nothing about what happens if it ends without a deal, on the pages this review read. Ask what the clock is before you sign anything.
- Published Terms: States its capital is 100% committed with no fundraising contingencies, so a deal carries no financing condition of its own.
- What A Searcher Gets: What a CEO-in-residence is paid, and what equity the role earns, is not published anywhere on its pages; read whole, twelve pages, and the nearest sentences are a salary commensurate with experience and, for its other programs, participating in the value you generate.
- After The Close: Says great companies are built over years, not quarters.

## What It Costs

Employment economics, not fees: a salary commensurate with experience during the search; what equity the role earns is not published.

## Best For

Experienced operators and executives who want the employed path with cohort structure, [committed capital](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/committed-capital), and bigger-than-usual platform ambitions

## Pros and Cons

- Pro: A salary during the search removes the personal burn that ends many searches early
- Pro: Twenty platforms bought in three years, with a chief executive named beside each, is a real, recent track record for a young program
- Pro: $30M-plus of committed equity per platform aims higher than most first acquisitions
- Con: Equity splits and salary figures are not published, so the trade against a traditional search is hard to price from outside
- Con: An annual application window (decisions by late March) sets the calendar for you
- Con: The thesis is shaped with the firm, so you trade some of the [searcher](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/searcher)'s autonomy

## What Searchers Say

A frequently named program in the [employed-searcher](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/employed-search) lane; the cohort model and veteran/underrepresented recruiting emphasis are its recurring differentiators.

## Compared With

- Which salaried-search program fits how you work? (https://searchspheresource.com/resources/compare/brydon-group-vs-nextgen-growth-partners.md)

## Sources

- https://www.brydon.com/ceo-in-residence-program
- https://www.brydon.com/
- https://www.brydon.com/portfolio
- https://www.brydon.com/approach
- https://www.brydon.com/team

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Last checked: 2026-09-23

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