Principals

BSG's industry expertise comprises the full spectrum of education markets--K-12, postsecondary, corporate, and consumer--and products and services that include distance learning, SES and EMO, administrative and curricular technology solutions, assessment, teacher professional development, for-profit college education, and corporate training. Clients have gone public, merged, been acquired, raised and invested capital, grown through acquisition, and, with most, thrived under strong leadership.

Ralph's commitment to the industry also goes beyond executive search. 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; APSCU's Education Industry Finance and Investment Institute and Senior Executive Management Seminar; and the SIIA Ed Tech Industry Summit, he has remained persistent in our belief that competence as a service provider begins with knowledge of an industry's people, companies, niches, and trends.

For additional background, see Ralph's Linkedin Profile.

Clients appreciate Ardith’s strategic perspective on the executive search process. Coupling a corporate background and Harvard MBA with clinical experience and an MSW, she evaluates each assignment within the context of a client’s business goals, organizational culture, staffing requirements and market conditions.

Based on a fundamental partnering philosophy, Ardith builds strong alliances with both clients and candidates. The result is an extensive and highly effective professional network across disciplines and industries.

Prior to joining Boston Search Group, Ardith was a partner at Whitehead Mann Group in their Boston office, working across the US and Canada on assignments for technology and healthcare companies. She was also the partner handling the firm’s executive assessment practice in the US. At Pendleton James before its acquisition by Whitehead Mann, Ardith spearheaded the major accounts group within the technology practice.

Before joining Pendleton James, Ardith was a principal at Aubin International, where she provided executive recruitment for technology companies around the world.

Ardith managed her own consulting business for the prior ten year period, working with clients in Boston, New York and London. Her assignments involved recruitment strategies, organizational and executive development, as well as team dynamics.

Ardith has held clinical positions with both Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s hospitals in Boston, and trained at Beth Israel in Boston. Early in her career, she worked at Pepsi in strategic planning and for Genex Corporation, a pioneer biotechnology startup, in marketing communications and public affairs.

Ardith received an M.S.W. from Boston University in 1992, an M.B.A. from Harvard University in 1984 and a B.A. from the College of William and Mary in 1980.

He has over ten years of experience working in the industry, including work as a Director in the strategic research firm Eduventures, Inc., where he doubled their customer base.  In his next role, for the online professional development organization of Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, Wide World, Tim worked closely with school districts to help design system-wide programs. Most recently, as a Vice President at Words & Numbers, he helped develop both print a digital products for leading companies such as Pearson, McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Florida Virtual School, K12 and more. Tim is an active member in ISTE, EdNet, and Alcatel-Lucent’s mobile initiative, the Ng Connect program.

 

Tim received a masters degree in Teaching and a Bachelor of Arts in History and English from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. He is certified to teach Social Studies grades 6–12. He also has a Certificate in Administration and Management (Information Systems) from Harvard University. He lives in Cambridge with his wife Via, and two sons Augie and Jasper.

- Private equity firms (ranging from early-stage venture capital firms to large LBO firms) and their portfolio companies

- Technology and life sciences companies

- Management consulting firms, and clients wishing to hire current or former consultants for operating, strategic planning, business development, and other roles

Lew was raised in the New York area and attended M.I.T. and Harvard Business School. He then spent three years in corporate strategy consulting with Bain & Company in Boston before moving to Los Angeles, where his activities included 18 months at the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee; two years at a large, international search firm; and four years at a medium-sized, general-practice search firm. He returned to New England in 1992 and established his own search firm, which he maintained until joining BSGTV.

He has been active in alumni affairs for both HBS (having served as President of the HBS Association of Southern California) and MIT (as a current board member for the MIT Club of NH). In the spare time which is not devoted to activities with his wife and son, Lew enjoys running and skiing; he is also a semi-retired tennis player and an aspiring cyclist.

Simon founded Team Ventures in 2001, joining forces with BSG in 2004 to form BSG Team Ventures, focusing on the emerging-growth company sector and concentrating on the life sciences/healthcare industry. BSG Team Ventures builds Board and VP–level teams for VC-backed companies but also recruits directly for the investment banks and venture capitalists in the sector. In Simon’s terminology "We build top teams for companies who aspire to grow, and for the advisors who aspire to help them."

Recent representative client engagements include:

• www.oxford-biosignals.com Chairman and subsequent CEO search
• www.cambridgeantibody.com CFO, VP Business Development, plus Bus Dev and Project Management teams
• www.warburgpincus.com development of European Healthcare team
• www.lazard.com development of London M&A team

Prior to founding Team Ventures, Simon established both the research function and the real estate finance business for Savills plc (now FPD Savills), undertook finance training and corporate finance work with Arthur Andersen in the UK and then spent 10 years transforming a private recruitment business from finance-biased local recruiter to international search house. Simon holds a PhD in Economics (’The Growth of Firms’) from the University of Reading, UK.