Ralph E. Taylor-Smith
Founder at ETS Strategic Capital
Profile
Ralph E.
Taylor-Smith is the founder of ETS Strategic Capital.
He currently holds director positions at Sypherlink, Inc., Hi-G-Tek, Inc., Innovation Valley Partners LP, and Rajant Corp.
He previously held director positions at RemoteReality Corp., Nistica, Inc., BioVigilant Systems, Inc., World Resources Institute, Sarcos Corp., and Lucent Technologies, Inc. He also worked as an investment banker at The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., an analyst at Morgan Joseph & Co., Inc., and a principal at J.P.
Morgan & Co. Ltd.
Additionally, he was a general partner at BVP Partners LLC and a senior research scientist at Bell Laboratories.
Dr. Taylor-Smith holds a Master's in Business Administration and a doctorate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as an undergraduate degree from Princeton University.
Ralph E. Taylor-Smith active positions
Companies | Position | Start |
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Sypherlink, Inc.
Sypherlink, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services Sypherlink, Inc. provides products and solutions based upon heuristics-matching technology for automating data discovery and mapping processes. The firm offers Harvester that automates an amount of the data discovery and mapping process as well as enables organizations to understand what information is available and where field-level relationships exist between multiple data sources. The company was founded by James C. Paat in 2001 and is headquartered in Worthington, OH. | Director/Board Member | - |
Hi-G-Tek, Inc.
Hi-G-Tek, Inc. Telecommunications EquipmentElectronic Technology Hi-G-Tek, Inc. manufactures remote wireless monitoring security devices. Its products include AVL reader, compact data reader, hatch and seal, and master handheld terminal. The company was founded by Micha Auerbach and Koby Kamin in 1989 and is headquartered in Rockville, MD. | Director/Board Member | - |
Innovation Valley Partners LP
Innovation Valley Partners LP Investment ManagersFinance Innovation Valley Partners LP seeks investment opportunities in technology companies located in the US. The fund targets companies operating in the fields of energy & environment, health & life sciences and security. It invests alongside Battelle Ventures and provides financing for seed and early stage capital requirements. | Director/Board Member | - |
Rajant Corp.
Rajant Corp. Specialty TelecommunicationsCommunications Rajant Corporation provides wireless networking solutions. It offers mobile wireless networking systems and components for the military, mining, homeland security and public safety industries. The firm develops patented Kinetic Mesh technology. The company was founded in Robert J. Schena and Paul Ralph Hellhake in October 2001 and is headquartered in Malvern, PA. | Director/Board Member | 2011-03-16 |
ETS Strategic Capital
ETS Strategic Capital Investment ManagersFinance ETS Strategic Capital (ETS Strategic Capital) is a private equity/venture capital subsidiary of Educational Testing Service, Inc. founded in 2012 by Ralph E Taylor Smith. The firm is headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey. | Founder | - |
Former positions of Ralph E. Taylor-Smith
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Sarcos Corp.
Sarcos Corp. Engineering & ConstructionIndustrial Services Sarcos Corp. engages in the development and production of robotics, micro-systems and sensor technologies. Its products include Guardian S, Guardian GT, and Guardian XO. The company was founded by Marc Olivier, Fraser M. Smith, and Benjamin G. Wolff and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT. | Director/Board Member | - |
RemoteReality Corp.
RemoteReality Corp. Electronics/Appliance StoresRetail Trade RemoteReality Corp. designs and manufactures ultra wide-angle computational cameras and video systems. It offers viewing and analysis software for continuous surveillance, security and other applications supporting military, government, and commercial markets. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Windsor, CT. | Director/Board Member | - |
GE Ventures LLC
GE Ventures LLC Investment ManagersFinance GE Ventures LLC (GE Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of General Electric Co. founded in 2000 by James Kim. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. | Private Equity Investor | - |
J.P. Morgan & Co. Ltd. | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
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Training of Ralph E. Taylor-Smith
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Doctorate Degree |
Princeton University | Undergraduate Degree |
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THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. | Finance |
Private companies | 16 |
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BVP Partners LLC
BVP Partners LLC Investment ManagersFinance BVP Partners LLC (BVP Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in the year 2003. The firm headquarters in Princeton. | Finance |
Lucent Technologies, Inc.
Lucent Technologies, Inc. Telecommunications EquipmentElectronic Technology Lucent Technologies designs and delivers the systems, services and software that drive next-generation communications networks. | Electronic Technology |
Morgan Joseph & Co., Inc.
Morgan Joseph & Co., Inc. Investment Banks/BrokersFinance Founded in 1982, Morgan Joseph TriArtisan LLC, formerly Morgan Joseph & Co., Inc., is a full-service investment banking firm and broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was also previously known as Morgan Lewis & Co. Morgan Joseph TriArtisan is a subsidiary of Morgan Joseph TriArtisan Group, Inc. Morgan Joseph TriArtisan's primary focus is on providing financial advisory and capital raising services in the US, Europe and Asia. This includes mergers and acquisitions advice, restructuring advice, private placements and public offerings of debt and equity. For their institutional clients, Morgan Joseph TriArtisan provides a full range of sales and executions services, including equity research and specialized reports on convertible debt. The firm's sales and trading teams service a variety of institutional clients with both debt and equity investment ideas and trading services. Morgan Joseph primarily serves the consumer products, healthcare, automotive, chemical, transportation, construction, entertainment, telecommunications and media industries. Morgan Joseph TriArtisan's debt and equity analysts cover a growing universe of stock and bond issues across a broad range of industry sectors. Their equity research focuses primarily on middle-market companies with limited research and coverage and uses a classic bottom-up qualitative approach. The high-yield department specializes in finding trading opportunities by identifying undervalued and overvalued high-yield debt for institutional clients. They focus on small- to mid-sized issues that are not widely covered and are often mispriced in the market. Morgan Joseph TriArtisan is a member of FINRA, the NASD and the SIPC. | Finance |
Sypherlink, Inc.
Sypherlink, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services Sypherlink, Inc. provides products and solutions based upon heuristics-matching technology for automating data discovery and mapping processes. The firm offers Harvester that automates an amount of the data discovery and mapping process as well as enables organizations to understand what information is available and where field-level relationships exist between multiple data sources. The company was founded by James C. Paat in 2001 and is headquartered in Worthington, OH. | Technology Services |
BioVigilant Systems, Inc.
BioVigilant Systems, Inc. Industrial MachineryProducer Manufacturing BioVigilant Systems, Inc. manufactures Instantaneous Particle and Microbial Detectors. It develops, builds, and maintains a family of environmental monitoring instruments for pharmaceutical manufacturing, military, security, and other applications. The company was founded in November, 2002 and is headquartered in Tucson, AZ. | Producer Manufacturing |
Hi-G-Tek, Inc.
Hi-G-Tek, Inc. Telecommunications EquipmentElectronic Technology Hi-G-Tek, Inc. manufactures remote wireless monitoring security devices. Its products include AVL reader, compact data reader, hatch and seal, and master handheld terminal. The company was founded by Micha Auerbach and Koby Kamin in 1989 and is headquartered in Rockville, MD. | Electronic Technology |
Innovation Valley Partners LP
Innovation Valley Partners LP Investment ManagersFinance Innovation Valley Partners LP seeks investment opportunities in technology companies located in the US. The fund targets companies operating in the fields of energy & environment, health & life sciences and security. It invests alongside Battelle Ventures and provides financing for seed and early stage capital requirements. | Finance |
Nistica, Inc.
Nistica, Inc. Electronic ComponentsElectronic Technology Nistica, Inc. supplies agile optical modules and subsystems. Its products include FLEDGE, FOURIER, high port-count, and ROADM linecard. The company was founded by Thomas A. Strasser and Jefferson L. Wagener in January 2005 and is headquartered in Bridgewater, NJ. | Electronic Technology |
Bell Laboratories
Bell Laboratories Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Bell Laboratories provides research and development services. It provides communications technologies including transistors, digital networking, signal processing, lasers and fiber-optic communications systems, communication satellites, cellular telephony, electronic switching of calls, touch-tone dialing and modems. The company was founded in 1925 and is headquartered in Murray Hill, NJ. | Commercial Services |
J.P. Morgan & Co. Ltd. | Finance |
World Resources Institute
World Resources Institute Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services World Resources Institute, Inc. provides solutions for environmental, resource, population and developmental problems. The company was founded by James G. Speth in 1982 and is headquartered in Washington, DC. | Commercial Services |
Rajant Corp.
Rajant Corp. Specialty TelecommunicationsCommunications Rajant Corporation provides wireless networking solutions. It offers mobile wireless networking systems and components for the military, mining, homeland security and public safety industries. The firm develops patented Kinetic Mesh technology. The company was founded in Robert J. Schena and Paul Ralph Hellhake in October 2001 and is headquartered in Malvern, PA. | Communications |
RemoteReality Corp.
RemoteReality Corp. Electronics/Appliance StoresRetail Trade RemoteReality Corp. designs and manufactures ultra wide-angle computational cameras and video systems. It offers viewing and analysis software for continuous surveillance, security and other applications supporting military, government, and commercial markets. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Windsor, CT. | Retail Trade |
GE Ventures LLC
GE Ventures LLC Investment ManagersFinance GE Ventures LLC (GE Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of General Electric Co. founded in 2000 by James Kim. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. | Finance |
Sarcos Corp.
Sarcos Corp. Engineering & ConstructionIndustrial Services Sarcos Corp. engages in the development and production of robotics, micro-systems and sensor technologies. Its products include Guardian S, Guardian GT, and Guardian XO. The company was founded by Marc Olivier, Fraser M. Smith, and Benjamin G. Wolff and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT. | Industrial Services |
ETS Strategic Capital
ETS Strategic Capital Investment ManagersFinance ETS Strategic Capital (ETS Strategic Capital) is a private equity/venture capital subsidiary of Educational Testing Service, Inc. founded in 2012 by Ralph E Taylor Smith. The firm is headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey. | Finance |
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