Appointment of accomplished technology executive with extensive cybersecurity and enterprise software sales and strategic development experience

NEW YORK, NY – June 6, 2019 – 85 Advisors is pleased to announce that Jeff Fisher has joined the firm as an Executive in Residence. He will serve as a trusted advisor to 85 Advisors’ M&A and growth advisory clients in the cybersecurity and IT operations management sectors. Jeff will be based in New York City.

“Jeff has a 20+ year track record of developing and implementing the go-to-market and M&A strategies of several notable emerging and growth-stage infrastructure software businesses,” said Steven Freitas, Executive Managing Director of 85 Advisors. “Jeff’s deep domain knowledge and breadth of operational experiences will be invaluable in helping our clients plan and implement successful growth and M&A strategies.”

Prior to 85 Advisors, Jeff was Vice President of Sales and Alliances at Hysolate, a Team8-backed endpoint security startup, where he led the effort to bring the company’s disruptive secure client hypervisor software solutions to the U.S. market. Previously, he served as Vice President of Strategy and/or Alliances for a number of innovative enterprise software companies, including Softricity (acquired by Microsoft), Desktone (acquired by VMware), RES Software (acquired by Ivanti) and KEMP Technologies. In these roles, Jeff helped conceive and evangelize emerging product categories, such as Application Virtualization and Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) that are now multi-billion software markets.

In addition, he was an integral member of executive leadership teams that raised more than $100 million in venture/growth capital and delivered more than $400 million in exit value to shareholders. Earlier in his career, Jeff held technical sales and business development roles at Microsoft and Citrix. He earned a B.A. degree from Cornell University and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.