SARDIS Team biographies  

Osman Mardin

Managing Director


Nick Mitsakos
Managing Director


Dr. Karsten Rönner
Managing Director


Benjamin Sommer
Principal

  Louis Jeng
Associate


Barnaby Clark
Associate



Osman Mardin
Managing Director
 
Osman is a Managing Director at SARDIS. Osman joined SARDIS from Robertson Stephens where he was employed from 1998-2002. At Robertson Stephens, Osman was a Managing Director and a member of the firm's European Management Committee, as well as the Head of European Mergers and Acquisitions and the Head of the European Hardware Systems Investment Banking Group. Prior to joining Robertson Stephens, Osman was Executive Director of Lazard Freres & Cie., Paris, where he worked for 11 years on cross-border M&A. Osman holds a B.A. in Economics from Trinity College, Cambridge, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Completed over 70 transactions, with combined valuation over $15 billion. Representative assignments before SARDIS: Infineon – acquisition of Catamaran; Systemonic (a) acquisition of Raytheon's RF Business, and (b) sale of company to Philips; NoWiresNeeded – sale to Intersil; Novanet – sale to Conexant.
 
  Nick Mitsakos
Managing Director
   
 
Nick is a Managing Director at SARDIS. Resident in San Francisco, he brings to SARDIS an invaluable breadth of experience, across advisory, management, and investment functions in the communications sector. Nick’s representative achievements encompass Intervu (co-founder and COO; NASDAQ-quoted data-networking company, acquired by Akamai Technologies for US$ 3 billion), Berkeley Networks (acquired by FORE Systems for $250 million), Maverick Networks (acquired by Broadcom for $120 million), Wireless Home (acquired by Western Multiplex for $50 million), and ConvergeNet (acquired by Dell for $350 million). Currently, Nick is a board member of Meru Networks and Bridgewave Communications, both focused on wireless. He holds a BS in Computer Science and Microbiology from the University of Southern California and an MBA from Harvard University.
 
  Dr. Karsten Rönner
Managing Director
   
 
Karsten is a Managing Director at SARDIS. He gained his international credentials from over 17 years in R&D, sales & marketing, and general management, mostly in the semiconductor business. Karsten joined SARDIS from Systemonic AG, where he was Executive VP and member of the management board. Prior, he held various key positions with Infineon Technologies and Siemens in Germany, Japan, and Silicon Valley and was an industrial visiting scientist at Berkeley University. In the course of his career, Karsten contributed to the growth of businesses from infancy to hundreds of million dollars in revenue, and led international investment & acquisition projects, among those Systemonic's acquisition of Raytheon's RF Business, the sale of Systemonic to Philips and the investment of Infineon in Aristos Logic. He holds a Masters Degree in physics and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, both from University of Hannover, Germany.
 
  Benjamin Sommer
Principal
   
 
Benjamin is a Principal at SARDIS. Benjamin joined SARDIS from Robertson Stephens where he was a member of the European Mergers and Acquisitions Team and the European Hardware Systems Investment Banking Group. A German national, Benjamin holds a European Master's in Management, a British MSc., a French Diplome de Grandes Ecoles and a German Diplom-Kaufmann from the ESCP-EAP. He also holds a Law degree from the Universite Paris XI. Benjamin is Fluent in English, German and French. Completed transactions in 2005 include: the sale of Inventel to Thomson, the sale of Oasis SiliconSystems to SMSC and Navigon's 25% share participation by General Atlantic.
 
  Louis Jeng
Associate
   
 
Louis is an Associate at SARDIS. He re-joined SARDIS in January 2007, having already worked as an Intern in 2004, specializing in the semiconductor area. Louis previously worked at EFG Eurobank, a subsidiary of EFG International in Switzerland, as a relative value trader specializing in derivatives on interest rates and FX of G10 and Eastern European economies. He also managed a cash portfolio valued at €2 billion. Prior to that, he was an analyst at EFG Private Bank, London where he worked on structured products. He graduated from the University of Manchester (UMIST) with First Class Honours in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and also holds a M.Sc. in Finance from Imperial College, London. He speaks fluent English, Mandarin and has a working knowledge of Cantonese.
 
  Barnaby Clark
Associate
   
 
Barnaby is an Associate at SARDIS, and joined in February 2007. Barnaby previously worked in Paris for the performance management software company Cartesis, where he was the Corporate Sales Business Analyst. He is proficient in several software programming languages, including VBA, SQL and HTML, and whilst at Cartesis he developed two web based applications in .NET that worked alongside their CRM to provide key statistical data. Barnaby studied European Business at the University of Portsmouth and the Bordeaux Ecole Supérieure de Commerce. Barnaby is fluent in English and French.
 
   
   
 
 
   
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