Eric Kainer

Eric Kainer joined ThinkEquity in 2006, and is a Principal in Research focusing
on networking and communications. He came to ThinkEquity from Needham & Company,
where he covered communications companies. Prior to Needham, he advised
entrepreneurial companies on strategy and finance. Before that he served as a
senior manager at AT&T (later Lucent) in a number of international sales,
business development, and marketing roles. The initial stages of his career were
spent in software R&D and computer sales with the former Data General (now part
of EMC), and as a market analyst at IDC. He earned his MBA degree from Wharton,
and his BSE degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of
Connecticut.