J.P. Bolduc
- Chairman of the Board, JPB Enterprises, Inc.
J.P. is the founder and chief executive officer of JPB Enterprises, Inc. a Columbia, Maryland private equity firm. Prior to forming JPB, Mr. Bolduc was President and Chief Executive Officer of W.R. Grace & Co., a Fortune 100 company, and, president and chief executive officer of J.A. Jones, Inc., a multi-national, multi-billion dollar engineering and construction firm. He 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. J.P. is a trustee of the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester, is a member of the Advisory Council for Graduate Studies and Research at the University of Notre Dame, and serves on the Board of Directors of Hospice of Baltimore.
Prior to his management positions at Grace, J.P. 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. Presidents serving 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, J.P. 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 J.P. to lead his Task Force on Food Assistance in 1983.
In 1990, J.P. partnered with William E. Simon, Sr., the former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and Chairman of Wesray, to form Catterton-Simon Partners, 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 earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from St. Cloud State University in Minnesota.
James R. Bolduc
- Vice President, JPB Enterprises, Inc.
Jim joined JPB Enterprises, Inc., a Columbia, Maryland private equity firm, in 1997 and has been the principal architect of JPB's private equity portfolio. He is also a founder and managing director of JPB Capital Partners II, a related institutional leverage buyout fund. Prior to joining JPB, Jim was an Associate in the Investment Banking Group of Merrill Lynch. During his tenure at Merrill Lynch, he 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).
Jim is a member of the board of directors of several privately held corporations including CityGate GIS, LLC, Davis Inotek Instruments, LLC, Go3E, LLC, and, N'Site Solutions, Inc. He is also the Chairman of the Capital Campaign Steering Committee for the YMCA of Central Maryland, Howard County Family Branch.
Jim 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.
Joe Rossi
- Founder and Vice President
As founder of Triple E, Joe provides over 25 years of experience in the trade show and retail fixture design and build industry.
Joe started in the business working as a tradesman installing exhibits in the late 80�s. It was this ground-floor experience that cultivated his passion for the industry while providing a firsthand look at its inefficiencies in operations, design, and craftsmanship that ultimately led to exorbitant costs for clients. Armed with this knowledge and a desire to evolve the business, Joe set out in a partnership arrangement and created his first I&D and service company in 1993 called Exhibit Installations.
During his time with Exhibit Installations Joe recognized the opportunity and benefits of adding design and project management services in conjunction with the logistics support in the field. His partners were uninterested in pursuing this option so Joe decided to take the chance and moved forward on his own.
In 1996, Exhibit Effects East, LLC came to fruition. Armed with over ten years of experience and a thorough understanding of all aspects of the business, Joe approached and won several trade show projects with a diverse account base including: New Balance Athletic Shoe, Airwalk, Fischer Price, Woolrich, and others. The growth of the company has continued into Retail POP programs and Field Events and the diversity of the portfolio has evolved to include: Disney Wide World of Sports, Bausch & Lomb, Macy�s, Mongoose, Schwinn, GNC, MetRx, and others.
In 2006, Rossi enlisted a financial sponsor, JPBE, Inc., and created Triple E, LLC. Through this partnership the business has continued to strengthen with additional leadership and operational improvements made with the ultimate objective of offering world class design and support for its clients and their retail environments.
Joe currently serves as the Vice President for Business Development and is actively involved with exploring new ways to evolve the Triple E brand and the industry as a whole.