Best Merchant Partners (BMP) is a specialized non-fund sponsor focused on founding, building and managing high-growth, tech-enabled higher education businesses that have a lasting social impact. BMP is focused on expanding access to top quality and affordable higher education and creating value for the shareholders and the communities it serves. Since 1995, BMP has been exclusively founding, operating and managing education initiatives across North America, Latin America, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. BMP manages investor relations for its portfolio holdings and actively oversees and assures financial and operational performance of the constituent businesses. BMP is a lead sponsor and parent entity of a global portfolio of higher education companies focused exclusively on expanding access to post-secondary education through technology. It founds, capitalizes, acquires, manages and operates its holdings through local, company-specific management teams and provides them strategic direction and other relevant executive support. Companies founded by BMP share a common mission of expanding access to top quality affordable post-secondary education and they work with nearly 100 academic institutions around the world.