Berlin CPA Bucchi advises Del. tech startup

Berlin investment and mergers-acquisitions adviser Ronald A. Bucchi has joined the board of Delaware technology startup Lightwave Logic Inc., authorities say.

A certified public accountant, Bucchi also sits on the boards of First Connecticut Bancorp., parent of Farmington Bank, and the Petit Family Foundation Inc. in Plainville, officials said Tuesday.

Based in Newark, Del., Lightwave Logic has prototypes of specialty organic polymers to be used in electro-optical devices. These devices convert data from electric signals into optical signals for use in high-speed fiber-optic telecommunications systems and optical computers

Bucchi is a 1977 graduate of Central Connecticut State University, and completed course studies in general board governance, audit and compensation at the Harvard Business School Executive Education program (2006-2008).

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He is a member of the Connecticut Society of Certified Public Accountants, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the National Association of Corporate Directors.