Shirish Sathaye, based in our Silicon Valley office has been a General Partner with us since 2001. Prior to a venture career, Shirish had over 15 years operating experience as an executive and an entrepreneur at both small and large technology companies.

Shirish currently serves on the board of Aruba Networks (NASDAQ: ARUN), Copivia, Grandis, Rohati Systems and Solidcore Systems.

Before joining Matrix, he was the VP of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer at Alteon WebSystems, where he led the engineering organization almost from its inception through a highly successful IPO and subsequent acquisition by Nortel Networks. Prior to Alteon, Shirish was at FORE Systems, where he led the development of all of FORE's award-winning ATM switch products. Before FORE, Shirish spent eight years at Digital Equipment Corporation, where he worked on Internet routing protocols, Ethernet, FDDI, and ATM network technologies. Shirish has a Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Contact Shirish at: ssathaye [at] matrixpartners.com
Assistant is Greta Harrison: gharrison [at] matrixpartners.com