Roy Thiele-Sardiña

Roy Thiele-Sardiña is a co-founder and Managing Partner of HighBar Partners. Over the las 35 years, he has founded, invested in and held senior management positions at numerous prominent companies in the technology industry. Mr. Thiele-Sardiña was a Managing Director with Steelpoint Capital (the private equity subsidiary of Moore Capital Management) and an Executive-In-Residence at the Mayfield Fund. In the mid-90s, Mr. Thiele-Sardiña channeled his investments through HighBAR Ventures, co-founded and held key management positions at Ingrian Networks (acquired by SafeNet), a leading data privacy provider, Tasmania Networks (acquired by Cisco), a cache proxy company and Brocade Communications Systems (Nasdaq: BRCD), a fibre channel switch company. Mr. Thiele-Sardiña was the CEO of Ingrian and Tasmania, and the VP of Sales and Business Development at Brocade. Mr. Thiele-Sardiña worked at Sun Microsystem for 11 years driving its international business from $180M to $1.9B. Mr. Thiele-Sardiña holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MBA from The Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University.