Growing Employee Ownership Through Acquisitions

Owners at Work

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SUMMARY: In the US there are over 14 million employee-owners working at 7,000 companies. Yet, the sector still has enormous potential to grow. In this episode we speak with Chris Fredericks, CEO of Empowered Ventures and Tim Rettig CEO of InTrust IT, both of whom are focused on growing the employee ownership sector through acquisitions of other mid-market companies. Together both Chris and Tim have acquired 7 companies in the last 5 years creating hundreds of new employee owners, and they are only getting started. We talk about what drove both Tim and Chris to adopt the models they have, the mechanics of the deals, and how they have approached culture building in companies that are diverse in both geographic location and industry.

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Tim Rettig, CEO InTrust IT

• Bio/Contact: https://www.intrust-it.com/tim-rettig/

Chris Fredericks, CEO Empowered Ventures

• Bio/Contact: https://empowered.ventures/chris-fredericks/

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