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Linda M. Fingerle

CFO & Principal
EDF Ventures

Speaker

Extreme Power Connect

Linda Fingerle has served as Chief Financial Officer and Principal of EDF Ventures since 2007 where she is responsible for the firm’s financial monitoring and reporting and, as a Principal, has oversight over select portfolio companies. She also manages the relationships with the firm’s limited partners, and oversees the firm’s IT and administrative services.

Linda is a CPA and brings more than 20 years of experience in business and finance to the EDF Team. Prior to joining the EDF Team, she was a Group Operating President for MascoTech, Inc., a Michigan based industrial manufacturing corporation performing a wide variety of mergers and acquisition and operational activity. Linda served on the Board and Audit Committee Chair for Aastrom Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTM) a Michigan based biotech company and provided financial consulting to an Ann Arbor based biotech start-up that reached a successful exit in 2009.

Previously Linda was a Senior Audit Manager at Arthur Andersen & Co., where she worked with clients in a wide variety of industries, both public and private, in an audit capacity as well as performing due diligence for financings and acquisitions.

Linda is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. She earned a BS from Michigan State University and CPA from the State of Michigan.

Currently, Linda oversees the following companies as a non-contractual (n/c) board observer:


		Alfalight, proprietary high power, high efficiency packaged diode laser and laser bar products for telecommunications, medical, military and advanced industrial applications;

		Arbor Networks, network anomaly detection solutions for companies that run large, complex, mission-critical networks;

		The Echo Group, a software solution addressing the information management;

		Rhevision, tunable lens systems for miniature and mobile imaging systems;

		TherOx, a developer of therapeutic, oxygen-enriched solutions and delivery systems for heart attack patients; and

		Xtera Communications, cost-effective optical networking transport solutions for regional, long-haul and ultra long-haul telecommunication networks.