Nina Saberi has an investment focus on enterprise and consumer networking, information security, and e-business infrastructure. She currently serves on the boards of Agiliance, Ahura Scientific, Aurora Networks, ChosenSecurity, North End Technologies, and RatePoint. She led Castile's investment in Sonus (NASDAQ:SONS), Brix Networks (acquired by EXFO), GeoTrust (acquired by VeriSign), Network Intelligence (acquired by EMC), Trapeze Networks (acquired by Belden) 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. She started her venture capital career as a general partner at OneLiberty Ventures after a highly successful tenure as president and CEO of Netlink, Inc. Under her leadership this venture-backed company grew to become a leading global provider of network infrastructure and was ultimately acquired by Cabletron, ranking among the top three acquisitions of its year. Ms. Saberi joined Cabletron as a senior executive.
Ms. Saberi started her career as a design engineer with venture-backed Avanti Communications and rose to the level of engineering director. She held senior marketing/engineering roles with BBN and managed an international joint venture for Data General. She was also general manager at venture-backed Amnet which 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.
Ms. Saberi 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.
