Shirish Sathaye

Shirish Sathaye joined Matrix Partners as a General Partner in our Silicon Valley office in May 2001. Before Matrix, he was first the VP of Engineering, and then the 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 product group director 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 from Carnegie Mellon University. He has published several papers, and has numerous patents issued on high-speed network design and performance analysis.

Shirish currently serves on the board of Aruba Networks, SiNett Corporation and Solidcore Systems.