Alta Vista Ventures announced that Richard Groome has joined the company as Director of Corporate Finance and Global Business Development. Mr. Groome is an entrepreneur who started two successful securities firms in the 80's and 90's. Mr. Groome has the reputation of being one of the preeminent financiers of small and medium sized emerging growth companies. He has actively managed or participated in over 400 financings representing some $4 billion of small cap deals and is very well versed in start-up and early stage ventures. Prior to the founding of Notre Dame Capital, Mr. Groome was a co-founder of Marleau Lemire Inc., which became the number one firm in Canada in small, mid cap financing during the late 1980's. Mr. Groome was also a director of the CDNX Exchange, the predecessor of the TSX Venture exchange in addition to serving on the Board of Directors of numerous public and private companies over the last 30 years.