Jim Epstein Bio

An accomplished executive with a proven track record building and monetizing shareholder value, Jim has over three decades of C-suite experience as corporate development leader and general management leader. His formidable skill set, in such areas as business development, strategy, M&A, finance, deal-making, and general management, has helped him achieve notable results in middle market companies with high financial leverage. Meanwhile, his diverse company life-cycle background managing in growth companies, restructurings, mature companies, and start-ups has provided him the foundation to take on and solve a wide variety of business problems. Over the last 16+ years, as Chief Development Officer (CDO) and executive committee member, Jim led the corporate and business development efforts that helped transform a single-business-unit U.S. Promotional Products Industry (PPI) supplier with $100+ million in sales into a multi-BU, global-leading PPI company with around ten digits of sales; he acquired six competitors with mid-nine-digit Total Enterprise Value and led PMI; he was a key member of the executive team that twice successfully sold the company to private equity sponsors with acquisitions having contributed a significant portion of value creation; and he led strategy and development efforts resulting in numerous growth initiatives such as European market entry, Poland product imprinting platform start-up, Global Buying Services platform, partnership-customer agreements with large online resellers, and retail brand licenses. During the 6+ years prior to that, as COO and then president of a call center outsourcing company, Jim helped his team grow sales from $35 to $180 million and sold the inbound division to one of the world’s largest BPO companies—Teleperformance, headquartered in France. Jim has a B.S. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.