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	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.	Private Equity Investor	01/09/2005
Thermo Fisher Scientific Chemicals, Inc.	Private Equity Investor	01/04/2004

Formation de Linda Smith

Rochester Christian University	Undergraduate Degree
Babson College	Masters Business Admin