Merriman Holdings Inc. announced that it has appointed Paul Ciriello to its independent advisory board. Ciriello is the managing general partner and founder of Fairhaven Capital Partners. He also founded and was the managing director of TD Capital Ventures.

Formerly, Cierello held a number of executive management positions in the retail, capital and technology companies at Fidelity Investments in Boston and was the founder and president of proxy edge, which automated proxy voting and record keeping for the institutional market. He started his career as a policy analyst at the United States Environment Protection Agency, after serving as a United States presidential management intern. He is on the President's Advisory Council at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.