Peter is involved with cultivating and evaluating new investment opportunities and providing strategic and operational support to existing portfolio companies. His areas of specific focus include industrial automation and advanced manufacturing, medical devices, life science and healthcare services, and in vitro diagnostics and analytical instrumentation. Prior to joining Axel Johnson, he spent 15 years at Cadence, Inc., a high technology medical device manufacturing and engineering firm enabling medical companies to bring better devices to market faster, and was President & CEO for most of that period. He remains Chairman of Cadence, is a director at HighRes Biosolutions, and has served on numerous other boards. Earlier in his career, he spent time doing direct investment in China and in fixed income and derivatives trading. Peter has been a Visiting Executive Lecturer at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia for over 10 years. Peter holds an AB in Mathematics from Middlebury College and an MBA from the University of Virginia.  

Industrial automation and Advanced manufacturing,