We are first and foremost entrepreneurial leaders. Having founded and led multiple organizations, the BHC team understands the challenges of growing business to create jobs and value. We thrive on these challenges and have a track record of overcoming them.
Eric Trope is a Founder and Managing Director of BHC. He has more than fifteen years of experience in private equity investing, fund raising, mergers and acquisitions, operations management, and strategic planning.
Most recently, Trope served as the CEO of a roll-up of specialty construction related businesses through periods of extreme organic growth (100% in 6 months), as well as the largest housing downturn on record and in the end built the largest company in its sector in North America (realized revenues of over $60 million, 600+ employees and 7 locations across the US and Canada). Through this process, he created over 250 new jobs. Four acquisitions were completed with combined individual peak revenues of over $140 million during the housing cycle.
Trope co-founded The Wakefield James Management Group, LLC, a private equity investment group designed as a vehicle to acquire manufacturing and distribution companies across North America. This group made the initial platform acquisitions that led to a roll-up of stair manufacturing and installation businesses across North America.
Trope earned his BSE from Duke University, an MSME from Purdue University, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
Angela Bourhill is a serial entrepreneur, who successfully led Hillmar Industries, a manufacturing company, through a restructuring, which resulted in record sales and improved profitability in a rapidly changing global market. Bourhill took advantage of the opportunities in China and opened an office in Shanghai that became a hub for Hillmar’s administration and procurement. She moved from Hillmar to a successful joint venture with a Chinese firm, importing various products for North American companies. From these two businesses and her passion for helping companies become creative in restructuring for growth, her most recent venture, Part-time Partners, was born.
Through Part-time Partners, Bourhill helped Kaboom, now Eruptive Games, secure $1 million in financing, which enabled and a deal with Zynga games. She has a strong background in leading business to high growth, job creation and increasing profitability. The global network that Bourhill has created ranges from CEO’s of Fortune 500 companies to the lowest cost provider of almost any commodity you could want.