Primary Job Title General Partner Primary Organization 
Ascent Venture Partners
Location Boston, Massachusetts, United States Regions Greater Boston Area, East Coast, New England Gender Male
Investor Type
Brian joined Ascent in 2003. As general partner, he leads investments and applies his 30 years of experience in the financial services industry to help the firm’s portfolio companies with a focus on financial technology, mobility, and internet services including Cargo Metrics, Placemark Investments, TimeTrade, and Verivo. In addition, Brian
oversees the firm’s finance and reporting team.
Before joining Ascent, Brian was COO and CFO at Argo Global Capital, a venture capital firm specializing in wireless technologies based in Wakefield, MA. He also served as a senior vice president and group CFO of Fidelity Investment’s operating unit, FPIBG, which included Fidelity’s retail mutual funds and brokerage businesses, and their Capital Markets, Institutional Brokerage, and Registered Investment Advisory businesses.
While at Fidelity, Brian also was CFO of FIIS, Fidelity’s intermediary-based mutual funds division and was a Senior Vice President and Division Executive of their Institutional Brokerage division. Prior to Fidelity, he was a Senior Vice President, CFO and Treasurer of an investment management firm, Affiliated Managers Group, which he helped to take public. He was also a Senior Vice President and CFO of an investment management firm, PIMCO Advisors, which he helped to take public, as well.
