Gene Bertcher

Pillar Income Asset Management, Inc. is a real estate management company that develops and manages over $2.50 billion of real estate for public and private real estate entities. The company is based in Dallas, TX. Affiliated companies under management or advisement by Pillar include American Realty Investors, Inc. (NYSE: ARL); Transcontinental Realty Investors, Inc. (NYSE: TCI); Income Opportunity Realty Investors, Inc. (NYSE American: IOR); and Abode Properties Inc. The company was founded by Scott W. Baad. Bradley J. Muth has been the CEO of the company since 2021.

Direct Investment Holdings Group, Inc. engages in the business of property management and real estate brokerage services. Its activities include investments and interest income on notes receivable. The company was founded on December 19, 1996 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Grant Thornton LLP provides accounting, tax and business consulting services. It offers advisory, business consulting, business risk, enterprise technology and innovation, transaction services, data analytics, cyber risk, and data integrity services. The firm serves the construction, real estate and hospitality, consumer and industrial products, energy, financial services, health care and life sciences, not for profit organizations, private equity, public sector, and technology industries. The company was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.