BMC Associates, LLC 

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Mediator and Clinical Psychologist

David Gage is a leader in the field of mediation for principals of private companies and a co-founder of BMC Associates, a firm with mediators, facilitators, consultants and coaches with backgrounds in business, law and psychology. BMC specializes in assisting co-owners of private companies. Dr. Gage has 20 years experience as a clinical psychologist and over 15 years experience as a mediator. He has spoken to business and professional organizations locally and nationally, has been interviewed on radio and TV, and written for numerous publications including the Washington Business Journal, Executive Excellence, Family Business, the journal of The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, the American Journal of Family Law. He was featured in the New York Times, Fortune, Nation's Business, and The Washington Post. Dr. Gage's book on being effective family or non-family partners, The Partnership Charter: How To Start Out Right With Your New Business Partnership (Or Fix The One You're In), was published in July of 2004 by Basic Books.

Some of David Gage’s clients have included:

• A third- and fourth-generation family business that successfully resolved a long-standing interfamily dispute by restructuring the Board of Directors and eventually having one third-generation family buy out the other, and then progress to establishing a family council and developing a new buy-sell agreement and succession plan.
• A regional insurance company in California transition from the founder generation to the next by helping the son and three key, non-family executives develop a Partnership Charter – a thorough plan for how they would jointly own and operate the company for years to come.
• A group of five siblings in a third generation contractor business work out their differences over roles, titles, styles, compensation, and ownership percentages.
• A founding mother with two daughters work out the amicable departure of one of the daughters from the company.
• A family trust with a disagreement over the proper use of funds within the trust.

Business and Professional Affiliations

• Member, Association for Conflict Resolution
• Member, Family Firm Institute
• Member, American Psychological Association
• Member, American Bar Association’s Section of Dispute Resolution
• Adjunct Professor. Kogod College of Business, American University

Education and Licenses

• Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.
• B.A. with Distinction, Major in Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland
• Licensed Psychologist, Virginia, and the District of Columbia