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Mr. Fillat is a Venture Partner at Leapfrog Ventures. Previously, he worked with several venture capital and private equity firms, including Rembrandt Venture Partners and American Capital Strategies, in a variety of capacities. From 1989-2004, Mr. Fillat was at Advent International Corp. leading their venture operations starting in 1996.

Mr. Fillat personally focuses on companies in the telecommunications equipment, wireless, infrastructure, software, and services sectors. He has been directly responsible for approximately 40 deals and had active roles in another 50+ as group manager, mentor, sponsor, and advisor to non-US technology dealmakers at Advent. Before Advent, he spent four years as a partner at Fletcher Spaght working with their venture capital clients, and 13 years in operations, including 3 years as CTO of Fidelity Investments and 2 years as CEO of an early stage information services company.

Mr. Fillat holds an MBA degree from the Harvard Business School, as well as a Master of Sciences and Bachelors of Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a major in computer science.