Andy Fillat has been a technology investor for 19 years, including 16 with Advent International Corp., where he ran the venture group for 8 of those years and was a member of the firm’s inaugural executive committee. He has been a principal investor in over 40 companies, and been active in nearly 100 investment deals. He has 17 IPO’s among his portfolio, which includes companies in communications, software, services, semiconductor, and wireless areas. He has served on 33 Boards including five public companies.

Prior to joining Advent, Andy spent five years consulting to venture firms and their portfolio companies, was Chief Technology Officer at Fidelity Investments, and was CEO of an early-stage database marketing company.

Andy has an S.B. and S.M. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where his master’s thesis was the invention of the relational database. He graduated with Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Sigma Xi honors. Andy has also earned an MBA degree from Harvard.