PHONE: +1 650 322 1859
EMAIL: rhorstmeyer@gptpartners.com

Bob Horstmeyer has been assisting technology companies in the merger and acquisition process for over 13 years. During this time Mr. Horstmeyer has been involved in over 100 transactions and has enjoyed the opportunity to work with both large and small technology companies worldwide. The range of experience includes companies that are less than a year-old to the sale of Peter Wolters GmbH, a 200 year-old German firm that migrated to the high-technology sector and was acquired by Novellus, Inc.

Mr. Horstmeyer enjoys the intellectual challenge involved in identifying the strategic fit of new technologies and market opportunities with the optimal business organization to create the maximum value for all parties in a transaction. In addition, he enjoys the dynamics of the technology M&A process which is constantly filled with surprises. Mr. Horstmeyer has found managing these complex and often times emotionally charged activities to be a rewarding career.

Prior to his investment banking career, Mr. Horstmeyer was a manger and engineer at several technology businesses, including a defense-electro-optics company (night vision goggles, thermal imagers, laser range finders, etc.) and an energy capital equipment company. Mr. Horstmeyer holds patents in clean HVAC, horizontal drilling technology, and solar concentrators. He also performed the preliminary economic-engineering analysis for Stanford's 50 Megawatt cogeneration facility. He has personally been an active investor in technology start-ups in a variety of sectors from semiconductor capital equipment to optical telecom.

Mr. Horstmeyer’s career began after graduation from the US Naval Academy where he received a BS in Physics. He was an engineering officer on surface ships, qualified as a deep-sea diver and spent several years in Italy managing a five hundred person organization that repaired and overhauled US nuclear submarines in the Mediterranean Sea. Before gravitating to the technology sector, Mr. Horstmeyer ran a marine shipping business in the Caribbean and became an expert in the use of motivational management tools.

Mr. Horstmeyer has a Masters degree in Engineering from Stanford University in Engineering Economic Systems, a discipline in modeling intractable problems using dynamic system theory, optimization and decision analysis techniques. In his spare time, he enjoys sports that begin with the letter “s” (skiing, squash, sailing and swimming) and developing equity option trading models.

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