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The Chicago rollup s founder got paid better by doing the second-stage exit and the new cast on the Board also includes Bob Oros ascending to chair and Darrell Horn of Green Square Wealth Management joining
February 19, 2021 8:58 PM by Lisa Shidler
Brooke s Note: For anyone who knows both Elliot Weissbluth and Bob Oros, it s pretty clear that a psychologist would put them in two different subcategories. Both can sell like the dickens, but Weissbluth has the more alpha style. As Tim Welsh puts it in this article, he was just what the industry needed when he founded Hightower a roll-up pioneer who mass-liberated a whole upmarket class of hybrid RIA breakaway pioneers at a time when leadership was needed. Hightower is now a more buttoned down firm of RIAs, fancier backers, experienced managers, bigger AUM and less controversy. There s no better proof of that than how it completed its transition to a new chairman and added an