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Nina Saberi has an investment focus on networking, enterprise security, and value-added mass market services. She currently serves or participates on the boards of Ahura Scientific, Aurora Networks, Brix Networks, ChosenSecurity, North End Technologies, and Trapeze Networks. She led Castile's investment in Sonus Networks (NASDAQ:SONS), GeoTrust (acquired by VeriSign), Network Intelligence (acquired by EMC), and was the chairman of Quantiva (acquired by NetScout) and of Stargus (acquired by C-COR).
An industry veteran with extensive investment and operational experience, Ms. Saberi founded Castile Ventures in 1998 to bring capital, deep industry expertise and hands-on management experience to a new generation of entrepreneurial businesses. Ms. Saberi joined the venture community as general partner of OneLiberty Ventures following a highly successful tenure as president and CEO of Netlink Inc. and as a senior executive at Cabletron. Under her vision and direction, Netlink became a leading network infrastructure provider with a global customer base including major telecommunications carriers and large enterprises. Netlink was acquired by Cabletron in 1996, ranking among the top acquisitions of the year.
Prior to Netlink, Ms. Saberi was general manager at Amnet, a company she was instrumental in turning around by leveraging OEM relationships with IBM, HP and BBN to fund new development, resulting in the company's sale in 1994. Before Amnet, Ms. Saberi managed an international joint venture for Data General, and held senior marketing/engineering roles with BBN. She started her career with venture-backed Avanti Communications and rose to the level of engineering director.
Nina is deeply engaged in the New England entrepreneurial community and was recognized for this effort in 2006 by being selected as a Massachusetts All Star by Mass High Tech in the Finance category. She was the past Chairman (2004-2006) of the Massachusetts Network Communications Council. Ms. Saberi is the Chair of the Advisory Council at the University of Rhode Island's College of Engineering where she received her BS in Electrical Engineering. URI honored Ms. Saberi with the 2007 President's Distinguished Achievement Award. | 