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John Dexheimer focuses in several areas, including 1) optical and sensing systems and applications, 2) enterprise software-services, and 3) alternative energy solutions. In addition to his association with First Analysis, he has been president of LightWave Advisors since 1999. John has advised or led investments in more than 100 completed company financings and mergers in communications, software, electronics, materials, and optics, including transactions involving Philips, SAIC-Telcordia, JDS Uniphase, Novell, EMC, EDS, United Technologies, Cisco, KLA, Intel, Raytheon, and Schott. As a managing director of C.E. Unterberg, Towbin from 1990 to 1999, he led the IPO of Uniphase and its early acquisition growth that transformed it into an industry leader. During this period he also managed the firm’s equity research and venture capital programs. Prior to 1990, he was with GE, Data Resources Inc., and Broadview International. Since 1999 he has helped materials and optics firms receive over $800 million of equity investments and consulted to a number of large corporations and leading venture funds on acquisition strategies and start-up investments. He has helped found start-ups from lab spin-outs and was the first external investor or board member in several optics firms including New Focus, FONS and Altitun (now ADC) and co-founded kSARIA, a mil-aero optics manufacturer. He is a board member of Princeton Lightwave, a supplier of advanced optical systems for industrial, military and security applications; an advisory board member of Indo-US MIM Tec Pvt. Ltd., a leader in advanced materials processing; and a board member and treasurer of the Opto-Electronics Industry Development Association (OIDA). He earned an MBA from Harvard University and a bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota, Institute of Technology. | 