Roy Thiele-Sardiña is a succesful venture capitalist and entrepreneur with over 25 years of investment and operating experience in the technology industry. Mr. Sardiña most recently was 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.

Roy 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.

Before becoming an angel investor and venture capitalist, Roy was a highly regarded operating executive. He was co-founder & CEO of Ingrian Networks, a leading data privacy provider, and co-founder and CEO of Tasmania Network Systems, a cache proxy company (acquired by Cisco). He was also a member of the founding management team for Brocade Comunications 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 worked at Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:SUNW) for eleven years. While at Sun, Roy started the company's Teleco 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.

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