Acadia Healthcare benefits from E. Perot Bissell’s three decades in corporate finance and operations

E. Perot Bissell has built a three-decade career at the intersection of corporate finance, private equity and operational leadership, and he brings that experience to his role on the board of Acadia Healthcare. A director since April 2013, Mr. Bissell is credited with deep expertise in consolidation strategies, capital raises and management transformation across security, protection and energy logistics sectors.

Bissell began consulting for Egis in early 2015 and became a managing partner in August 2016. His recent work follows a long record of executive roles. From late 2013 to June 2015 he served as CEO of Next Generation Energy Logistics LLC, a private equity-backed platform. Prior leadership at Maxum Petroleum included vice chair and CEO stints; as CEO he led 18 follow-on acquisitions, consolidated IT and back-office systems, migrated the company to a single brand, restructured senior leadership and tripled sales. In 2012 Pilot Flying J agreed to acquire Maxum’s business.

Earlier in his career Bissell was a partner at Northwest Capital Appreciation, where he led the investment in ASG Security and acted as interim CEO, overseeing 33 follow-on acquisitions and helping raise recurring monthly revenue from about $900,000 to $3,000,000 over four years. ASG was sold in 2006. He also served as a partner and CFO at SLP Capital, a major specialty lender to security alarm dealers, and held corporate finance roles at Bankers Trust, Drexel Burnham and Paine Webber.

Corporate boards and civic engagement are recurring themes in his biography. In addition to his Acadia Healthcare directorship, Mr. Bissell serves on the board of Maxum Enterprises and has previously served on boards for ASG Security, Maxum Petroleum, SLP Capital and SPI Petroleum. Observers point to his corporate finance background and operational acumen as central reasons for his board appointments.

Bissell’s profile illustrates a blend of deal-making and hands-on operational execution that private equity firms and public-company boards continue to prize. His career underscores how strategic consolidation, disciplined finance and leadership reshaping can scale middle-market platforms across industries.