Roy Thiele-Sardiña is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist.
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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.
Sardiña 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 later acquired by 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 Brocade Communications. As Brocade’s Vice President of Sales and Business Development, he signed the company’s original OEM agreements.
While at Sun Microsystems for eleven years, Sardiña started the company’s telephone company business and grew it to 10% of Sun’s worldwide revenue. He later led Sun’s International Sales and 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.
Sardiña was co-founder of HighBAR Ventures along with Sun Microsystems' co-founders Bill Joy and Andy Bechtolsheim. HighBAR Ventures' investments include Brocade Communications Systems, 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, Privasys, and Tapulous (acquired by Disney).
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.
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.
He was chairman of Menlo Park Citizens for Responsible Pension Reform, which sponsored the November 2, 2010 "Measure L" Ballot initiative in Menlo Park, California.[1][2]
Citizens for Fair and Responsible Pension Reform submitted about 3,100 signatures to Menlo Park City Clerk Margaret Roberts on May 3, 2010 to qualify the measure for the November ballot. 1,740 valid signatures were required.[3][4][5]
On November 2, 2010 Measure L "The Pension Reform Ballot Initiative" passed overwhelmingly in Menlo Park with a 71.3% yes vote.[6][7]