Clare Fairfield is a Managing Director of Concerto Advisors, Inc. Mr. Fairfield has over 20 years of entrepreneurial management and business development experience, including founding and managing businesses, venture capital investing, entrepreneurial education and providing legal advice to start-up and existing companies.

Mr. Fairfield is a founding General Partner and a Managing Director of Concerto Venture Partners, a diversified, early-stage focused venture firm; and, a General Partner and past Managing Director of AAVIN Venture Capital, a sector and stage diversified venture capital/private equity fund. Within these firms Mr. Fairfield's responsibilities included and include: fund raising; sourcing deal flow; negotiating the acquisition, financing and disposition of portfolio investments; sitting on the boards of individual portfolio companies and overseeing their growth; managing staffing needs and making compensation decisions; and making portfolio investment determinations as an investment committee member.

From 1996 through 1998, Mr. Fairfield served as Associate Director of the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center at the University of Iowa. Since 1998, the Iowa Program has been ranked as one of the top 35 entrepreneurial programs in the country. During Mr. Fairfield's tenure, the Iowa program became the first program in the nation to offer an Engineering Certificate in Entrepreneurship. From 1989 through 1993 Mr. Fairfield practiced business and tax law while overseeing the operation of the tax department of Davis & Kuelthau, S.C., a full-service private law firm headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. From 1986 through 1989 Mr. Fairfield was associated with the law firm of Stanley, Lande & Hunter, P.C, where he provided services to clients ranging from start-up ventures to Fortune 500 companies. Since 1983, Mr. Fairfield has been involved as an entrepreneur and/or as an investor with the start-up, acquisition and/or development of companies in the communications, information technology, retail, healthcare, manufacturing, medical device, software, construction and real estate industries.

Mr. Fairfield serves as Chairman of the National Association of Small Business Investment Companies (NASBIC) Education Committee and Chairs the Venture Capital Institute. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Governors of NASBIC and is a past member of the Executive Committee of NASBIC. Clare has frequently served as a judge and as chairman of the selection panel for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award Program. He serves as a member of the Venture Capital Commercialization Review Panel for the National Science Foundation and was a charter member of the MidAmerica Healthcare Investor Network. Mr. Fairfield is Co-Chairman of the MIT Enterprise Forum Committee on Entrepreneurial Ecosystems. He is a member of the National Venture Capital Association, NASBIC, the Regional Association of Small Business Investment Companies, and the Wisconsin Bar Association. Mr. Fairfield is a frequent speaker on the topics of innovation, venture capital and entrepreneurial activities.

Mr. Fairfield received a BBA in Accounting, JD, and MBA from the University of Iowa. While at the University of Iowa, he was designated a Tippie Scholar, a School of Accounting Faculty Scholar, a University of Iowa Undergraduate Scholar, a College of Law Scholar and was a College of Business Rhodes Scholarship Nominee. In 1997, he was named a Price-Babson Fellow in Entrepreneurship at Babson College in Boston.