John Waechter serves as managing director and partner at Delafield Hambrecht, an investment firm in Seattle. He began his career in sales with the Xerox Corporation and GTE (Verizon). He has held senior management positions at Northland Communications and was CEO of Saltmine. He is the co-author of Conquering the Seven Summits of Sales: From Everest to Every Business, Achieving Peak Performance. John has also climbed the Seven Summits.