Ralph E. Taylor-Smith

Lucent Technologies designs and delivers the systems, services and software that drive next-generation communications networks.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.