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James H. Moeller
Moeller Ventures, LLC
3712 Woodland Trail
St. Paul, MN 55123-2406 U.S.A.
Voice: 651- 454-4123, Fax: 651-456-9373
Contact: James Moeller, jim.moeller-at-removetext-moellerventures.com
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Chronological Experience Summary:
Managing Partner:
Moeller Ventures is a technology market research, consulting and strategic advisory firm that focuses on bridging the classical gap between the details of technology and the issues of business and finance that drive success by leveraging core industry intelligence into market reports, customized due diligence, strategic partnering, executive seminars and other executive-level consulting. The business was founded in March of 2002 and leverages Mr. Moeller’s experience as an analyst in the investment banking business with RBC Capital Markets (formerly Dain Rauscher Wessels and Wessels, Arnold & Henderson) as well as his 10-years of experience in the technology industry with companies such as ADC Telecommunications, a wireless technology startup company named Uniplex, the ETA Systems supercomputer division of Control Data Corporation and IBM, as well as independent consulting and freelance analyst roles. Recent engagements have included customized market and technology assessment projects, strategic financing and corporate spin-out advisory work, private company investor relations, and public company / sector performance profile reports. These projects leverage extensive relationships across the industry with private equity firms such as Platinum Equity, Sun Capital Partners, Crescendo Ventures, Kodiak Venture Partners, Avalon Ventures as well as numerous private companies, technology suppliers, OEMs/system integrators and end customers.
Director / Senior Wireless Technology Analyst: 6/2000 - 2/2002
Senior technology analyst focusing on wireless infrastructure, microwave broadband wireless, RF semiconductors and the wireless Internet. Covered Andrew, Powerwave, REMEC and Spectrian in the infrastructure segment, Alvarion, DMC Stratex Networks, Netro and Vyyo, in broadband wireless, and Alpha Industries, ANADIGICS, CREE, Intersil, Qualcomm, RF Micro Devices, Sirenza Microdevices and TriQuint in the RF semiconductor sector. Lead analyst in setting strategy for the wireless communications group. Responsibilities include due diligence for investment banking / research initiatives on market, competitive and technological assessments, author frequent company and industry reports, and perform executive seminars (‘teach-ins’) and investor presentations associated with the covered companies as well as IPOs, secondary stock offerings and merger and acquisition transactions.
Vice President / Wireless Technology Analyst: 12/98 – 5/2000
Technology analyst focusing on wireless communications and RF communication semiconductors and for Dain Rauscher Wessels. Responsible for launching coverage of the broadband wireless and RF component sectors. Responsible for coverage of Proxim, Aironet, Vyyo, BreezeCOM, REMEC, TriQuint, RF Micro Devices, Alpha Industries, ANADIGICS and Sawtek. Was the lead analyst for DRW on the secondary stock offerings of TriQuint and REMEC, as well as the lead analyst on the IPO’s of Vyyo and BreezeCOM and Aironet. The lead-managed IPO of Aironet (an 802.11/WiFi broadband wireless LAN company) by DRW continues, to this day, to be the firm’s most successful wireless transaction, going public in July of 1999 for a valuation of $150 million and subsequently being purchased by Cisco in a sole-managed M&A transaction by DRW that closed in March of 2000 for $1.4 billion.
Senior Associate Technology Analyst: 4/1998 – 11/1998
Senior associate technology analyst, focusing on wireless communications, in the combined Dain Rauscher Wessels research group after the merger of Wessels, Arnold, & Henderson, with Dain Rauscher’s institutional brokerage and investment banking group.
Wessels, Arnold & Henderson L.L.C., Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2/1997 - 3/1998
Associate Technology Analyst
Associate technology analyst concentrating on wireless communications in Wessels’ institutionally focused brokerage and investment banking firm. Responsibilities included the fundamental research of various wireless market segments, backup coverage of public companies within these segments, and corporate finance activities involving initial public stock offerings and secondary stock offerings of Innova (August 1997), Corsair (July 1997) and Powerwave (July 1997).
Freelance Technology Market Analyst
Freelance Technology Market Analyst for Datapro, a division of McGraw-Hill of New York (now part of the Gartner Group). Researched and authored technology market reports covering such telecommunications topics as cellular and wireless data communication, CDPD communications, telecommuting, mobile computing, and corporate profiles, for inclusion on Datapro’s Wireless Analyst CD-ROM.
ADC Telecommunications Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2/1994 - 1/1997
Senior Communications Project Engineer
Senior level project engineer in ADC's Access Platform Systems development group (now called Broadband Communications Division), involved in leading the research, development, and system integration of subscriber-termination products for ADC’s Hybrid Fiber Coax (HFC) local-loop telephony and data system. Responsibilities included researching Bellcore technical requirements, drafting internal specifications, implementing subscriber unit technology, and integrating subscriber products with head-end / central office equipment. Also served as a project liaison to numerous outside consulting and contract engineering groups.
Uniplex Corporation, St. Paul, Minnesota, 8/1989 - 1/1994
Radio Communications Project Leader
Initial employee hired by founders during start-up stage, to provide project leadership for the Company’s flagship product, a direct sequence spread spectrum digital radio. Provided strategic planning and market opportunity analysis during product conceptualization. Also managed the development and system integration, the communication software, and the radio network planning and implementation, throughout product development and initial deployments. The radio system design implemented FCC Part 15 (unlicensed) and Part 90 (licensed) applications in the 902-928Mhz frequency band for the position location and mobile data communications markets.
ETA Systems Inc., St. Paul, Minnesota, 3/1988 - 7/1989
Systems Development Engineer
Performance Engineering group team member, specializing in the development of the ETA10 supercomputer master clock system and the on-board CPU clock distribution network. Researched, simulated, and redesigned the 143MHz master oscillator timing system implemented in ECL circuitry.
IBM Corporation, Rochester, Minnesota, 10/1987 - 2/1988
Hardware Simulation Engineer
Hardware Engineer developing and simulating software models of the 32-bit asynchronous backplane system bus for the AS400 line of computer systems.
EDUCATION:
University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, 1995 - 2000
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, 1983 - 1987
MS Electrical Engineering - 1987
BS Electrical Engineering - 1985
Masters thesis, post-graduate research, and teaching assistant dealing with advanced signal processing techniques as applied to radar echo analysis and voice recognition systems.
Parkland College, Champaign, Illinois, 1981 - 1983