Team
Ralph Protsik, Managing Director
 Ralph
Protsik (BS, Yale) manages BSG Team Venture's Education and
Media sectors, working nationally with many of the country's leading
online publishers, web service providers, research and consulting
firms, interactive agencies, and eLearning and education companies.
Ralph entered the executive search industry in 1994 after more
than two decades in educational publishing, eighteen as president
of his own company. In three years with Management Recruiters International
(MRI), the nation's largest executive search firm, Ralph established
his reputation in the fields of new media and educational technology,
completing senior assignments for Simon & Schuster, Scholastic,
Discovery Communications, International Thomson, CondeNast/Advance
Publications, and Pearson Education, among others.
Ralph was MRI's National Rookie of the Year in 1994, a Top 20 biller
nationally in 1994, 1995, and 1996, and MR Boston Account Executive
of the Year in 1995 and 1996.
Since co-founding BSG in July 1997 Ralph has continued to evolve
his practice in education and media, including senior management
assignments for both large organizations (Sylvan Learning, Discovery
Channel, PBS, ITT/ESI, The Princeton Review, ETS, ProQuest, Voyager
Expanded Learning, Riverdeep, Thomson Prometric, Fidelity Investments,
Inc. Magazine, et al) and smaller, VC-backed firms (Blackboard,
4GL Schools, TetraData, Zoesis Studios, Experience.com). In addition,
he has completed search assignments for educational not-for-profits
that include the National Education Association (NEA) and the IMS/Global
Learning Consortium.
He includes among his affiliations the Education Industry Association
(EIA), Career College Association (CCA), the Greater Boston Education
Industry Council (GBEIC), as well as Eduventures. Ralph has been
active both as sponsor and panelist for such industry events as
EdNET; Eduventures K-12 Markets and Opportunities and Digital Education
Marketplace; IIR's Education Investment Forum; eSchoolNews' Business
to Education Technology Summit; Fulcrum's Education Industry Finance
and Investment Institute; VentureOne Exchange; Springboard Venture
Capital Forum; the Nantucket Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship;
and the Ernst & Young Israeli Showcase.
Ralph is a member of the International Association of Corporate
and Professional Recruitment (IACPR)
and the Pinnacle Society (www.pinnaclesociety.org),
an organization committed to excellence in recruiting.
His article, How Book Publishers are Staffing for Multimedia (CD-ROM
Professional, July 1995), won the Information Access Company award
for "Best CD-ROM Article."
For a selected list of BSG Team Ventures searches in the education
field, click on: BSG Education Searches
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