Roy Thiele-Sardiña

Roy Sardiña is a venture capitalist and entrepreneur.

As Venture Capitalist

He is co-founder of HighBAR Ventures along with Sun Microsystems' co-founders Bill Joy and Andy Bechtolsheim and a partner at [http://www.keynoteventures.com Keynote Ventures] . HighBAR Ventures' investments include Brocade Communications (NASDAQ: BRCD), Tasmania Networks (acquired by Cisco), CDS (acquired by Maxtor), Viathan/Dantz (acquired by EMC), BrightMail (acquired by Symantec), CAW Networks (acquired by Spirent), SANLight (acquired by Quantum), NeoPath (acquired by Cisco), RedSeal Systems and Privasys.

He was also Managing Director at Steelpoint Capital (a spin-out of the private equity group of Moore Capital Management). He initiated the firm’s infrastructure investments in storage and security, including investments in Promptu, Boingo Wireless, Storactive (acquired by Atempo), Workshare, Arkivio, SNAP and Privasys.

Mr. Sardiña was also an EIR (Executive in Residence) at the Mayfield Fund. He evaluated the storage and security space for the firm and initiated Mayfield’s investment in Mendocino Software.

As Entrepreneur

He was co-founder & CEO of [http://www.ingrian.com Ingrian Networks] , a leading data privacy provider, and co-founder and CEO of Tasmania Network Systems, a cache proxy company later acquired by [http://www.cisco.com Cisco] (Note: After the acquisition, Cisco gave up the Tasmania name and rolled their services into Cisco's own offering). He was also a member of the founding management team for [http://www.brocade.com/index.jsp Brocade Communications Systems] (NASDAQ:BRCD). As Brocade’s Vice President of Sales and Business Development, he signed the company’s original OEM agreements.

Prior to Brocade, he was an integral part of Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:SUNW) for eleven years. While at Sun, Mr. Sardiña started the company’s Telco Business and grew it to 10% of Sun’s worldwide revenue. He later led Sun’s International Sales & Business Development Team (Asia, Japan, Latin America and AMEA), and subsequently was responsible for the company’s Corporate Development Organization in the office of the chairman.

Mr. Sardiña holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.B.A. from New York University, Stern School of Business.

External links

* [http://www.eidogen-sertanty.com/aboutus_people.html Eidogen-Sertanty team]
* [http://www.workshare.com/company/bod/ Workshare Board]
* [http://www.ingrian.com/about_board.html Ingrian Board]

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