Event
Whiting-Turner Business & Entrepreneurial Lecture: Ralph E. Taylor-Smith, GE Ventures
Thursday, February 21, 2019
4:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Zupnik Lecture Hall, 1110 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, University of Maryland, College Park
Michelle Lane
301 405 9847
melane@umd.edu
https://go.umd.edu/taylor-smith-rsvp
Whiting-Turner Business & Entrepreneurial Lecture Series
“Tech Innovation through private equity and venture capital”
Ralph E. Taylor-Smith, Ph.D., M.B.A.
Managing Director at GE Ventures
Lecture Description: Private Equity and Venture Capital investments represent one key pathway for innovative emerging science and engineering technologies to reach the industrial marketplace. Various examples will be discussed, including specific startup tech companies within the Washington D.C./Maryland/Virginia DMV region.
Register for this FREE event at: https://go.umd.edu/taylor-smith-rsvp
The Whiting-Turner lecture series hosted by the A. James Clark School of Engineering celebrates the fearlessness of entrepreneurship and brings leading technology enterprise thinkers who deal with the real-world challenges of a fast-paced, global economy to campus. In their lectures and question-and-answer sessions, speakers share their insights and experiences as well as their lessons and advice, inspiring students and faculty to apply new ideas and approaches to their careers and ideas for new ventures.
Questions? Email: clark-news@umd.edu