"Mr. Gage recommends that potential partners...hash...out
the specifics...to see if they're compatible."
David Gage, quoted in the Wall
Street Journal on February 23, 2009
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Clients and advisors speak about BMC
BMC's clients and their advisors provide the most important proof of the
effectiveness of our team and techniques. The following testimonials
(some presented anonymously to respect the privacy of the client) are a few
examples of the response BMC's services have generated.
- I first engaged BMC as a result of a referral from one of our Board Members.
Phillips is a family owned and operated business with the multitude of
complexities which come with this arrangement. Ed Kopf and Dave Gage have
worked diligently
to understand our issues and help us come to a higher level of understanding
and effectiveness. Ed and Dave are true professionals with a high level
of competence -- they have made a valuable contribution. — Alan
Phillips, CEO, Phillips Corporation
- [BMC]'s team approach, combining high level business and counseling
skills, helped insure that
we kept on track through very complex and charged discussions. The ability
to recognize the skill set
needed at different points, and bring them to the issues at hand, allowed
us to do much more than
would have been possible with just a business consultant. — CEO,
International manufacturing firm founded and owned by husband and wife
- As our company grew, the original partners found themselves increasingly
at odds over the direction of the business, management styles, and values.
As the company became more and more polarized, the partners engaged attorneys
to represent their individual interests, and litigation appeared to be the
only way out of the impasse. At the same time—not surprisingly--the
business itself suffered. Then, in a rare show of agreement (based on a shared
wariness of litigation), the partners engaged BMC to mediate.
While each partner looked to BMC to vindicate his position, BMC astutely
recognized that the best chance for resolution would be on the basis of
a viable and successful business. BMC thus focused on helping the partners
craft an operating agreement and corporate restructuring to achieve this
goal. That agreement allowed the company to prosper sufficiently over the
next several years to interest a Fortune 500 firm, which ultimately acquired
our company. BMC’s success in getting the partners to attend to their
common business interests rather than their personal differences facilitated
an eventual positive outcome. — Kenneth Clansky, co-founder,
Ariel Research Corporation
- [BMC] did an outstanding job bridging the differences between the parties,
facilitating communications, and laying out the options available to the
parties for successful resolution of the business operations/structure. Ed
Kopf and Scott Meza worked well with my law office
regarding the needs of the parties and finalizing the legal documents for
a successful
resolution
of the business dispute. I’m pleased to still be working with both
parties after all this. Left the parties in a good position. — Robert
Beatson, attorney for partnership that BMC assisted through owner buy-out.
- After reading The Partnership Charter, we wanted to take it further and
implement it successfully so we hired [BMC.] They did an outstanding job
with us and we would not hesitate to recommend them for helping potential
and active business partners to strategize and plan for their relational
success. They also went above and beyond to be available for us as we navigated
the bumps along the way! Top Qualities: Great Results, High Integrity, Creative. — Howard
Rabotnick, Partner, regional construction and service firm.
- As a management consultant, I recommended BMC to one of my small business clients, a partnership in need of mediation. The results were excellent. Not only was the business saved, it has thrived thanks to the lessons learned from [BMC]'s effective guidance. — Eitan Grunwald, Management Consultant, Associate of the Institute for Independent Business.
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