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Investment Team
We have assembled a group of private equity professionals who possess extensive investment and operating experience in private equity transactions to assist, monitor and service our investors and portfolio companies. Simply put, our staff brings trust, performance and value to each and every transaction. Our team members have operating experience as senior executives and as board representatives of a wide range of companies, including publicly traded corporations, private enterprises backed by private equity capital, and start-up concerns. Our team members have raised both debt and equity capital and executed mergers and acquisitions for their own companies, portfolio companies and corporate clients. In many of our positions, we have had our own capital at risk. Collectively, our team has more than 150 years of proven experience in executing each step of a successful private equity investment including identifying acquisition candidates, assessing their profit potential, valuing the underlying business, structuring the transaction, managing the company’s operations for profitable growth, and planning and executing a strategic exit. More specifically, the collective talents and experience of our staff include:
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Operational experience with expertise in all functional areas of management;
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Business merger, acquisition and divestiture expertise;
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Strategic and organizational planning and execution capabilities;
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Investment banking knowledge and experience;
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Turnaround knowledge and experience;
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Public sector knowledge and experience (federal, state and local governments); and
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Global business knowledge, experience and contacts.
The key members of our private equity team are:
J.P. Bolduc - President and CEO (JPBE), Senior Managing Director and CEO (JPB Capital Partners II)
Mr. Bolduc is the founder and CEO of JPB Enterprises, Inc and is the Senior Managing Director and CEO for JPB Capital Partners II. Prior to forming JPBE, Mr. Bolduc was President and Chief Executive Officer of W.R. Grace & Co. ("Grace"), a Fortune 100 company, and, President and CEO of J.A. Jones, Inc., a multi-national, multi-billion dollar engineering and construction firm. During his more than 35-year business career as an executive officer, entrepreneur, private equity investor, and board member, Mr. Bolduc has been involved in more than 200 acquisitions and divestitures.
Prior to his management positions at Grace, Mr. Bolduc was a Vice President and Partner at the global management and technical consulting firm of Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Inc. and a presidential appointee to three U.S. Presidentsserving as the Assistant Secretary of Agriculture under Presidents Nixon and Ford, and from 1982 to 1985, serving as the Chief Operating Officer for President Reagan's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control (the "Grace Commission"). As COO of the Grace Commission, Mr. Bolduc led the efforts of 161 prominent business leaders (consisting almost entirely of Fortune 500 CEOs) and more than 2,000 private sector business leaders in a study focused on identifying managerial and operational cost savings opportunities, as well as revenue enhancement initiatives in federal government operations. President Reagan also appointed Mr. Bolduc to lead his Task Force on Food Assistance in 1983.
In 1990, Mr. Bolduc partnered with William E. Simon, Sr., the former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and Chairman of Wesray, to form Catterton-Simon Partners ("CSP"), a Greenwich, Connecticut-based private equity firm focused on the consumer products industry. Mr. Bolduc served as a general partner of CSP's first three private equity funds.
Mr. Bolduc serves as chairman and director of numerous social, civic and government boards and commissions and is or has been a director of several privately held and public corporations, including W.R. Grace, Unisys Corporation, Management Consulting Group PLC, J.A. Jones, Inc., EnPro Corporation, Newmont Gold Corporation, Sundstrand Corporation, the Columbia Bank, Marshall & Ilsley Corporation, and Lance Inc. Mr. Bolduc is a trustee of the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester,is on the Advisory Council for Graduate Studies and Research at the University of Notre Dame School of Graduate Studies, and serves on the Board of Directors of Hospice of Baltimore. Mr. Bolduc earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from St. Cloud State University in Minnesota.
James R. Bolduc - Vice President
Mr. Bolduc joined JPBE in 1997 and has been the principal architect of the JPBE private equity portfolio. He is also a Managing Director for JPB Capital Partners II. Prior to joining JPBE, Mr. Bolduc was an Associate in the Investment Banking Group of Merrill Lynch. During his tenure at Merrill Lynch, Mr. Bolduc led or participated in a myriad of acquisitions, divestitures, and equity and debt public offerings with an aggregate value in excess of $25 billion. Prior to working at Merrill Lynch, he served as a Management Associate with the venture capital subsidiary of Marshall & Ilsley Corporation (now called Mason Wells).
Currently, Mr. Bolduc is a board member of several privately held corporations including Davis Calibration, ClaimHub, Go3E and CityGate GIS. Mr. Bolduc is a Co-Chairman of the Capital Campaign Steering Committee for the YMCA of Central Maryland, Howard County Family Branch.
He earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Finance and Business Economics from the University of Notre Dame and a Master of Business Administration from the Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia.
Gregory C. Carey - Vice President
Mr. Carey joined JPBE in 1998 and is a Managing Director for JPB Capital Partners II. He brings experience in mergers, acquisitions and senior operations management to the company. Since joining JPBE, Mr. Carey has participated in and led more than 35 financial advisory assignments with an aggregate value of over $1 billion and more than ten strategic-growth consulting assignments for lower-middle market companies in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern U.S.
Prior to joining JPBE, Mr. Carey was a Director of Mergers and Acquisitions for Townsend, Inc., a privately owned processor of prepared foods. Prior to Townsend, he served in various capacities with W.R. Grace & Co., including President of Grace Culinary Systems, and President of American Caf Restaurants. Mr. Carey was also actively involved in a broad range of acquisitions and divestitures at W.R. Grace as a Senior Assistant to the Chairman.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Trinity College and a Master of Business Administration from the New York University Graduate School of Business.
J. Parker Davis - Managing Director
Mr. Davis joined JPBE in 2004 and is a Managing Director of JPB Capital Partners II.
Prior to joining JPBE, Mr. Davis was CEO of AHS, LLC, a company in the Mid-Atlantic region that he co-founded for the acquisition and commercialization of a patented water-treatment technology that addresses new international environmental regulations for the commercial shipping industry. As a director and CEO of AHS, Mr. Davis negotiated early-stage financing through private investors and state and federal agencies. He established working relationships with strategic partners, manufacturers, industry regulators and congressional representatives. Mr. Davis also negotiated and received patent awards from China, Japan, Norway, Brazil and the European Union.
Prior to founding AHS, Mr. Davis spent over six years in investment banking at Merrill Lynch in New York, most recently as Vice President in the Global Industries Group, where he focused on the industrial technologies sector. At Merrill Lynch, Mr. Davis was responsible for relationships with several client accounts and was directly involved in over 40 completed transactions with an aggregate value of over $30 billion, including public and private offerings of debt and equity, mergers, acquisitions, and advisory assignments. Mr. Davis is Co-Chairman of the Davis Fellows, a full scholaship program awarded at Hampden-Sydney College.
Mr. Davis earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from Dartmouth College and a Master of Business Administration from the Darden School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia. Mr. Davis has also studied at Oxford University in England.
Paul A. Glagola - Associate
Mr. Glagola joined JPBE in 2004 after spending four years with one of its portfolio companies-Davis Inotek Instruments as its Director of Marketing and Technology. Mr. Glagola leads the Venture Capital effort at JPBE. While at Davis, Mr. Glagola led the company's system integration team through several mergers and acquisitions of both private and micro-cap companies.
Mr. Glagola brings extensive technical and operational experience, having also served as a financial services consultant with Unisys Corp. While at Unisys, Mr. Glagola consulted with numerous Fortune 500 companies, and led a team focused on enterprise business modeling and provided customer training during a nationwide software roll-out.
Prior to Unisys, Mr. Glagola was a Graduate Assistant Football coach at the University of Virginia. Mr. Glagola serves as President of the Greater Baltimore Chapter of the National Football Foundation. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Virginia and a Masters of Business Administration from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.
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