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.