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After becoming a 'Zoom' maestro, Bob Oros spurred Hightower Advisors to close a $1-billion deal a week -- surpassing 2019's total in just over a month

CEO Elliot Weissbluth's replacement spent a year doing housekeeping -- then learning digital due diligence under the sword of COVID-19. But now Oros is loaded with fresh Thomas H. Lee capital, and RIAs like doing business with him

Author Lisa Shidler September 4, 2020 at 8:51 PM
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Bob Oros: These were not deals that were almost done and we were just waiting to sign the paperwork.


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