James Bendle

James Bendle is the Chief Financial Officer for Alpine Advanced Materials and its affiliates, Catalyze Dallas and Metro Aerospace. Bendle leads financial planning, accounting, compliance, and reporting, as well as financial reviews and investment structuring for new opportunities.

Bendle has built finance and investment organizations throughout a 25-year career at companies from startup stage to Fortune 50. After his early manufacturing and finance roles at Caterpillar, Dell, and General Bandwidth, he went on to demonstrate a penchant for incubating and growing businesses by launching an early e-commerce company that landed on the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing private companies for 3 consecutive years.

Bendle moved on to an investment career at Silicon Valley-based Flex, where he negotiated investment and spin-out agreements, served on boards of directors, and operated as interim CFO. He was most recently Senior Vice President of Finance for space communications startup CesiumAstro, in Austin, Texas.