Aidan Paul is a consultant on the venture capital committee, and sits as a non-executive on a number of investee companies. He is the founder and CEO of Vtesse Networks Limited, a specialist provider of very high capacity optical networks.. Aidan was formerly UK Managing Director for Alliant Partners, the technology M&A subsidiary of. Silicon Valley Bank. Prior to that he was Director of Corporate Finance for Technology and Telecommunications at Robert Fleming. He held previous positions at the PA Consulting Group, BICC and GEC in consulting, product planning and design, in communications, optical and medical electronics.. He is a Chartered Engineer and a Chartered Management Accountant.