BMC Associates, LLC

Principal
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Mediator and Management Consultant

Ed Kopf is co-founder and a Principal of BMC Associates, LLC. BMC helps business partners, and owners of family and non-family businesses deal with conflict and build collaboration. BMC's interdisciplinary and non-adversarial approach helps strengthen working teams' overall business and interpersonal performance. Prior to joining BMC Associates as Principal, Ed had over twenty years experience in corporate leadership positions in finance, operations, marketing, and strategic planning. In addition, he has consulted extensively with owners, executives and boards of large and small companies on a wide variety of management and financial issues.

Ed services to BMC’s clients include:

• Mediation, a process that resolves conflicts among business owners and principals through facilitated negotiations.
• The Partnership Charter, an innovative, preventative tool for partners and partners-to-be who want to make their partnerships as strong and resilient as possible. This is a structured approach to negotiating the many issues that tend to cause difficulties and conflicts among partners.
• Business Succession Plans, an integrated approach to transferring family business leadership and ownership from one generation to another.
• Collaborative Estate Planning, a way for families to address the many sensitive issues involved in transferring assets such as vacation properties, heirlooms, and businesses from one generation to the next.
• Other Services meeting the planning and organizational development needs of clients are offered in conjunction with the services described above.

Business and Professional Affiliations

• Member, Association for Conflict Resolution
• Member, Family Firm Institute

Education

• 1975 Ph.D., Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
• 1969 B.A., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania