Linda Smith
Fondateur chez Glas Capital LLC
Profil
Linda has more than 25 years of experience in merger & acquisition advisory, product management, sales and engineering.
She founded CERES in 2005 to serve photonics technology companies that were underserved by generalist investment banks and business brokerages.
At CERES, Linda sources and leads buy and sell side M & A advisory engagements with clients spanning a full spectrum of photonics enabled markets — from multi-billion-dollar corporations and private equity firms to entrepreneur-operated privately held companies.
Linda is an Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA), specializing in the valuation of businesses with core photonics technology.
Linda’s market experience, prior to CERES, crosses optical components and lasers, clinical and analytical instrumentation, medical devices, telecommunications, and semiconductor equipment.
She held senior marketing and sales management positions at market leaders, Thermo Fisher Scientific/Newport/Spectra Physics, and QIOPTIQ/LINOS/Excelitas.
She also held executive product marketing positions at venture capital funded companies commercializing integrated optics and MEMS technologies.
Linda is a member of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneurial Winning WomenTM.
She is a recognized leader in the photonics community.
As Fellow of SPIE, the International Society of Optics and Photonics, she serves on its Financial Advisory Committee, chaired technical conferences in biophotonics and is frequent lecturer in technology entrepreneurship.
She holds a B.S.
in Optics from University of Rochester and M.B.A.
from Babson College.
Postes actifs de Linda Smith
Sociétés | Poste | Début |
---|---|---|
Luminate Accelerator
Luminate Accelerator Investment ManagersFinance Luminate Accelerator (Luminate) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017. The firm is headquartered in New York. | Consultant / Advisor | - |
CERES Technology Advisors, Inc. | President | 01/01/2006 |
Glas Capital LLC | Fondateur | 01/01/1988 |
Anciens postes connus de Linda Smith
Sociétés | Poste | Fin |
---|---|---|
Axsun Technologies, Inc.
Axsun Technologies, Inc. SemiconductorsElectronic Technology Axsun Technologies, Inc. engages in the design and manufacture of miniaturized optical micro-instruments. Its products include OCT swept lasers, OMx optical monitors, NIR spectroscopy, and Anavo handheld analyzer. The company was founded by Peter S. Whitney and James Gerard Lewis in 1998 and is headquartered in Billerica, MA. | Private Equity Investor | 01/09/2005 |
Thermo Fisher Scientific Chemicals, Inc.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Chemicals, Inc. Chemicals: SpecialtyProcess Industries Part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., Thermo Fisher Scientific Chemicals, Inc. is a company that manufactures and supplies organic and inorganic chemicals. The company is based in Tewksbury, MA and was founded in 1989. | Private Equity Investor | 01/04/2004 |
Formation de Linda Smith
Rochester Christian University | Undergraduate Degree |
Babson College | Masters Business Admin |
Expériences
Fonctions occupées
Relations
Relations au 1er degré
Entreprises liées au 1er degré
Homme
Femme
Administrateurs
Exécutifs
Sociétés liées
Entreprise privées | 5 |
---|---|
Axsun Technologies, Inc.
Axsun Technologies, Inc. SemiconductorsElectronic Technology Axsun Technologies, Inc. engages in the design and manufacture of miniaturized optical micro-instruments. Its products include OCT swept lasers, OMx optical monitors, NIR spectroscopy, and Anavo handheld analyzer. The company was founded by Peter S. Whitney and James Gerard Lewis in 1998 and is headquartered in Billerica, MA. | Electronic Technology |
Thermo Fisher Scientific Chemicals, Inc.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Chemicals, Inc. Chemicals: SpecialtyProcess Industries Part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., Thermo Fisher Scientific Chemicals, Inc. is a company that manufactures and supplies organic and inorganic chemicals. The company is based in Tewksbury, MA and was founded in 1989. | Process Industries |
CERES Technology Advisors, Inc. | |
Luminate Accelerator
Luminate Accelerator Investment ManagersFinance Luminate Accelerator (Luminate) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017. The firm is headquartered in New York. | Finance |
Glas Capital LLC |