Advent appoints ICT expert

UK venture firm Advent Venture Partners has appointed Paul Fisher to the ICT investment team. Fisher will focus on finding and investing in digital media and convergence companies and also providing expertise and experience to the Advent Ventures portfolio.

He joins from First Capital where he was associate director. During his time there, he led multiple transactions for and worked in a number of early stage companies including Rawflow, Reevoo.com and OmniPerception.

Prior to First Capital, he worked in investment banking at Citibank and Salomon Smith Barney where he worked on the equity-backed derivative market.