Carl Grimes is the owner-broker of CBI-Sunbelt Business Advisors of the Ozarks. He received the designation of CBI (Certified Business Intermediary) from the International Business Brokers Association. He is also president of the Professional Association of Arkansas Business Brokers, the statewide organization for business brokers in the state of Arkansas. He is a licensed real estate broker for the states of Arkansas and Missouri. Mr. Grimes has participated in the sale of over 400 businesses in his career as a professional business broker. He has handled transactions over $6 million and as small as under $10,000.00. Mr. Grimes was a successful businessman prior to beginning his career in business brokerage. He published an award winning newspaper, built and operated a state of the art cable television system, owned a real estate firm, a retail catalog sales business and an abstract and title company. He successfully sold all his businesses to enter the field of business brokerage. Mr. Grimes' areas of specialty include newspapers, magazines and other print businesses, the motorsports industry, abstract and title companies and the cable television industry. Mr. Grimes married his high school and college sweetheart, Kathy, in 1971. They are both originally from Clarendon, Arkansas and have two adult sons, Casey and Connor. Connor works in the family business of Sunbelt of the Ozarks. Mr. Grimes has been in business in Northwest Arkansas since 1984. He is a graduate of the inaugural class of Leadership Fayetteville, a program conducted by the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce. He has also served as a city councilman, school board member and president of a Chamber of Commerce. He has served as an elder, a deacon and Sunday School teacher. He and his wife are members of University Baptist Church in Fayetteville.