Northshore Management Company Partners
There are three partners at Northshore Management Company. These partners share a common core value system and a vision for what the company can and should be achieving. Together they oversee the operations of the business and provide leadership for the portfolio companies.
Michael R. West, Managing Partner
Michael R. West is the Managing Partner of Northshore Management Company, LLC. Northshore is a private holding company with control investments in 3GS, LLC, a national document destruction company, BPV Wealth Management, LLC, Quintium Advisors, an investment management company, Northshore Capital Advisors, a mid-market mergers & acquisitions firm which manages buy-side and sell-side transactions ranging from $5-$100 million, and NMC Properties, a real estate investment company. Mr. West brings years of entrepreneurial and executive management experience to the firm with a history of managing finance, strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, business development, sales, operations, IT and human resources in a wide variety of industries.
Prior to Northshore, Mr. West served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Homepoint. In the years preceding Homepoint, Mr. West was Vice President of Business Development and Strategic Planning for ZCI. Prior to ZCI, Mr. West was President and CEO of the Alliance for Quality Care. From 1993 through 1994, he served as Executive Director of the University Cardiovascular Care Consortium.
Beginning in the late 90’s Mr. West was recognized as a thought leader related to e-commerce and, as such, had significant experience working with all types of media. He has been interviewed by MSNBC, Reuters, Bloomberg, The New York Times, the L.A. Times, USA Today and countless local newspapers. Additionally, ABC, CNN, CNNfn, ESPN, Fox News, and NBC have interviewed him on camera. He has made guest appearances on more than twenty talk radio shows, including Bloomberg, and was interviewed for a United Airlines and US Airways in-flight news brief. He was also featured in a Southeastern Conference corporate imaging commercial aired during SEC television broadcasts. In recent years he has lectured at various events and has published numerous articles in trade magazines covering a wide range of business topics.
Mr. West holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Tennessee. At Tennessee, Mr. West was a member of the varsity football team from 1985-1987. Currently, Mr. West is serving his third term as a member of the Advisory Council to the Dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Tennessee and as a member of the Board of Directors for the Historic Tennessee Theatre. In the past, he has served as; Director of the Jason Foundation and member of the Advisory Council to the President, Furman University. Additionally, Mr. West teaches at UT and is a Faculty member for the College of Business Administration.
George Hashbarger, Jr.
Mr. Hashbarger is a 25 year veteran in investing and financial services. Currently, Mr. Hashbarger serves as the Chief Investment Officer of Northshore Management Company (NMC) and as president of Quintium Partners. In his capacities at NMC, Mr. Hashbarger is responsible for managing and monitoring NMC’s existing investments in its wholly owned subsidiaries and minority investments in private companies. In addition, Mr. Hashbarger is responsible for managing NMC’s public company investments; the Quintium Fund, the Quintium Wealth Preservation Fund, and the BPV Core Strategy.
Prior to changing his investment focus to the public markets, Mr. Hashbarger spent nine years in private equity investing at First Union Capital Partners (2000 to 2001) and GE Capital (1993 to 2000). Mr. Hashbarger was a Principal at First Union Capital Partners where he co-led First Union’s early stage technology investing from June 2000 to June 2001. While at First Union, Mr. Hashbarger’s investing focus was enterprise software including logistics, internet security and third party technology outsourcing solutions.
Prior to First Union, Mr. Hashbarger spent eight years in a variety of roles with GE Equity, the private equity arm of GE Capital. A majority of Mr. Hashbarger’s experience at GE Equity was focused in the media, consumer and retail sectors. For his last three years at GE Equity, Mr. Hashbarger’s title was Senior Vice President and Industry Leader for Media, Consumer and Retail. During his tenure as, an Industry Leader, Mr. Hashbarger led a team of eight people that made 21 investments in 15 companies and had primary responsibility for: originating and analyzing new investment opportunities; receiving internal approval for, negotiating and making new investments; actively serving on the boards of portfolio companies; and managing and exiting existing investments. Many of the fundamental techniques including the quantitative and qualitative analysis and due diligence techniques that are used in his public investing were developed and used in making private equity decisions at GE Equity.
Before private equity, Mr. Hashbarger spent five years in specialty advisory work in San Francisco, California with Houlihan, Lokey, Howard and Zukin (1988 to 1993). He primarily worked on fairness and valuation opinions, corporate restructurings and estate planning for large, privately held companies. Prior to business school, Mr. Hashbarger spent two years in the credit training program at InterFirst Bank in Dallas (1984 to 1985).
Mr. Hashbarger received his BBA in finance in 1983 from Texas A&M University with honors and his MBA with a concentration in finance from the University of Virginia in 1988.
Phillip E. Fulmer, Sr.
Champions are made and not born — and no one knows that more than future Hall of Fame football coach Phillip Fulmer. Fulmer, whose .745 winning percentage ranks in the top five in modern college football history; coached 18 All Americans and 92 NFL draft picks, including NFL MVP and future Hall of Famer Peyton Manning.
A conference champion player himself in the football-mad Southeastern Conference, Fulmer brought Tennessee’s football program back to glory as a head coach, winning the school’s first national championship in 41 years. Fulmer won two SEC titles as a head coach and led his squad to win or share the SEC East title seven times.
Fulmer built his program by motivating his teams to victories when the pressure was highest on the road in college football’s toughest venues — places like Miami, Tuscaloosa, Baton Rouge, Athens, Gainesville, and the Rose Bowl. His motivation was rooted in his role as a principled mentor who pushed his young men to grow socially, spiritually, academically, personally, and athletically. This holistic approach earned Fulmer unprecedented recognition from his peers — the second coach in history to earn the Eddie Robinson Coach of Distinction Trophy, the presidency of the American Football Coaches Association, and national, regional and conference coach of the year honors.
Known as a “players’ coach” who pushed his young men from adolescence into manhood, Fulmer won big the right way — without one single NCAA investigation of any kind.
Fulmer’s family approach to football is mirrored in his own life; his wife Vicky has been by his side through thick and thin for 29 years and was beloved as the First Lady of Tennessee football. Four well-rounded Fulmer children became familiar sights on the sidelines for Tennessee fans. Coach Fulmer now spends game day Saturdays in New York as part of the studio crew for CBS College Sports, sharing a career’s worth of insight and experience with college football fans. He’s a partner in Northshore Management Company and a public speaker in high demand, sharing his experiences as a CEO, a developer of leadership skills, and bringing a unique approach to crisis management.