I believe the timeframe for taking ECG public is 2015. I am guessing picking up a clean shell on the down low and acquiring as many shares as possible would make sense in a RM situation. I'm sure ECG would require equity, hard to tell what that would look like.
I have help SUIP shell for years hoping the previous brothers were going to take their lighting business public. Such a clean shell.. eventually it had to get swallowed up.
I checked out the other companies Bentivoglio took public.. not all of them had great success from a sharepoint point of view. I wouldn't get too excited for $1/share... not to say it can't happen.