Shirish Sathaye at Cervin Ventures combines deep engineering experience as former VP of Engineering at Alteon WebSystems and senior roles at Stratacom/Cisco with investment expertise across multiple top-tier firms, allowing him to evaluate infrastructure startups from a builder-operator perspective rather than purely financial lens. He has a track record of helping scale category-defining enterprise companies like Aruba Networks and Nutanix from early stages, and is known for his hands-on, board-centric approach where he shares guidance on how founders can extract maximum value from their boards. Shirish Sathaye at Cervin Ventures combines deep engineering experience as former VP of Engineering at Alteon WebSystems and senior roles at Stratacom/Cisco with investment expertise across multiple top-tier firms, allowing him to evaluate infrastructure startups from a builder-operator perspective rather than purely financial lens. He has a track record of helping scale category-defining enterprise companies like Aruba Networks and Nutanix from early stages, and is known for his hands-on, board-centric approach where he shares guidance on how founders can extract maximum value from their boards.