ACRE Hires Outsider CEO As Founder Grillo Retires
One of the biggest names in the industry, Joe Grillo, is retiring, and his replacement as ACRE CEO is an outsider (Don Joos) new to the industry.
ACRE is most well known for having acquired 10 different industry companies with plans to acquire many more over the next few years.
In this note, based on a conversation with Grillo, we examine the opportunity and the risk to ACRE by this move.
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