Sandesh Patnam has recently left Bay for a new position. He previously was a General Partner at the company.
Additionally， Mr. Patnam is on the board of directors at Akros， Code Green Networks， Daptiv， ParAccel and LiveMedia. He is a board observer for C-Switch， Staccato and Nanogram. Prior to Bay Partners， Sandesh was with TeleSoft Partners， where he co-led investments in Aarohi Communications （acquired by Emulex）， Amberwave Systems， Redclover Networks， Sierra Design Automation （acquired by Mentor Graphics）， Validity Sensors， Xambala and Xpedion Design Systems （acquired by Agilent Technologies）. He has also played an active role in the early days of Ikanos Communications （Nasdaq: IKAN）， Lara Networks （acquired by Cypress Semiconductor）， Catamaran （acquired by Infineon） and Empowertel （acquired by IP Unity）.
Before TeleSoft， Sandesh was at Malleable Technologies （acquired by PMC-Sierra）， an early stage startup developing a VoIP chipset. There， he held a variety of roles from design engineering to product marketing.
Sandesh started his career at MIPS/Silicon Graphics， where he was involved in developing next-generation computing architectures and microprocessors. He has also spent time at Integrated Device Technologies （IDT） and Cirrus Logic.
