Carl Grimes
Personal Experience
Before Carl Grimes founded Confidential Business Intermediaries/The CBI Team, he published an award-winning newspaper, built and operated a state-of-the-art cable television system in partnership with the largest off Wall Street Investment Banking Firm, owned a real estate company, a retail catalog sales business and an abstract and title company. All of these businesses were successfully sold and led Carl to the field of business brokerage. He received the designation of Certified Business Intermediary (CBI) and Fellow of the IBBA from the International Business Brokers Association.
As a licensed real estate broker since 1982, Carl is also president of the Professional Association of Arkansas Business Brokers. Having handled transactions worth as little as $10,000 to as much as $8 million, Carl has been involved in the sale of over 850 businesses in his career as a professional business broker.
Born and raised in Clarendon, Arkansas, Carl is proud of being a native “Arkansawyer”. In 1971, Carl married his high school sweetheart, Kathy. In 1984, he started his first business in Northwest Arkansas. Carl and Kathy have two grown sons, Casey and Connor, and 5 grandchildren.