Member Type: Our Team

Elizabeth Bustamante

As member of the BMP team, Elizabeth oversees all aspects of the company’s legal affairs and its constituent organizations and subsidiaries, including Ilumno Holdings and Higher Ed International. A business-oriented General Counsel with more than twenty years of global corporate legal experience in fast-paced environments, she is handling a variety of cross-border activities, including business […]

Deborah Nugent

Ms. Nugent retired from BMP in 2014 after a twelve-year tenure with the company where she served as Chief Financial Officer and in other executive operational roles across portfolio of BMP’s education companies, including Academic Partnerships, Ilumno, Higher Ed Holdings (parent of American College of Education) and Voyager Expanded Learning. She continues to support BMP […]

Justyna Dymerska, Ph.D.

Justyna joined BMP in 2009, ultimately becoming its Executive Chairman and General Partner responsible for all BMP’s portfolio companies in 2020. She spent the past 15 years working in a close partnership, in one office, with Randy Best, learning everything about the art of business from him as they co-managed BMP’s constituent businesses, including Academic Partnerships […]

Randy Best

Randy Best is the founder of Best Merchant Partners (BMP) and, in higher education sector specifically, Academic Partnerships (AP), American College of Education (ACE), Ilumno Holdings and Higher Ed Partners Africa (HEPA) as well as a co-founder of Higher Ed International (HEI). He began his business career in college and built more than 100 companies across […]