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"Imagination
is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination
embraces the entire world." -Albert Einstein
Equitek is comprised of a team of individuals with
deep content and expertise in different fields in order to provide a solid
foundation for finding and cultivating the right concepts, technologies
and companies. By combining this expertise with a broad multidisciplinary
perspective, we are able to "listen to the technology": working with the
engineers creating the future but speaking to them in their own language,
and becoming part of the technology development process rather than just
an observer providing capital.
As a group, Equitek possesses content expertise in the telecommunications, Internet, semiconductor and software sectors, and functional expertise in investment banking, engineering, product development, systems integration and strategic consulting. The management team has experience from a broad range of industry leaders, including the Gilder Group , Barclays Capital, Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan, Gemini Consulting, Cypress Semiconductor and IBM.
The
focus of this team is to search out and assess companies developing new
concepts and technologies that will shape the next decade. Once they have
been found, this team can provide its experience and support to help these
companies leverage their concepts and technologies into sustainable commercial
success.
Click on photos to go
to detailed bios:
Ken
Ehrhart,
Equitek Capital Founding
Managing Director:
• Former Director of Research with George
Gilder of the Gilder Technology Report (a Forbes technology investment
periodical focused on companies in the telecoms, IT and semiconductor
industries)
• B.A. University of California at Berkeley.
Greg
Somer, Equitek Capital Founding Managing Director:
• Former Manager, New Products Planning Group
at Cypress Semiconductor
• Former Foreign Exchange Derivative Specialist, J.P. Morgan and
BNP
• B.S.E.E. MIT, M.S.E.E. Stanford University
Paul Grim, Equitek Capital Founding Managing Director:
• Former Strategy Managing Consultant, Telecoms
and Media Group, Gemini Consulting, and Coopers & Lybrand France
• Former IT specialist, IBM France/CGI
• B.S.M.E. MIT, MBA MIT Sloan
John
Gannon, Equitek Capital Founding Managing Director:
• Former Orbit Specialist, General Electric Astro-Space Division
(defence telecommunications satellite program)
• Former Risk Manager, derivative products at Merrill Lynch and Barclays
Capital
• B.S.A.E. Penn State, MBA University of Chicago