Bill Johnson - The Founder, Chairman & CEO of The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers
He founded Liberty in 1987, stepped away for 15 years to produce more than 30 Hollywood films, and returned in 2018 to lead one of the fastest-growing privately held brokerages in the country, now nearly 900 people, without a single dollar of PE money. He grew through acquisitions early, then deliberately walked away from them. That arc, buyer to skeptic to builder, gives him a view of the rollup era that the people running the playbook can't offer.