Joe Cosenza, vice chairman of The Inland Real Estate Group, Inc. and president of Inland Real Estate Acquisitions, was recently included in Real Estate Forum’s Elite 70, a group of some of the most influential executives in the business. One of four former school teachers who founded Inland Real Estate Group in 1968, Cosenza has since worked on some 3,400 individual deals involving more than $43 billion of income-producing real estate across all product types.