Our Team – Granite Hill Capital Partners

Sameet Mehta

Managing General Partner

Sameet has been an engineer, investor, and executive in Silicon Valley for twenty years. In addition to running Granite Hill, he stepped in as Board Member, CFO and COB for SentinelOne through its growth years, leading to the largest CyberSecurity IPO to date. Prior to founding Granite Hill, Sameet spent seven years in M&A and strategic venture capital with Cisco, where he established and led the venture capital effort in India, and covered routing and switch fabric technologies, video and consumer. He was previously with Lehman Brothers in the technology investment banking group. Sameet holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University and a MBA from Stanford Business School.

Jeffrey Pisani

Member

Jeff has over fifteen years’ experience in financial services and alternative asset management. He has held senior risk management positions at Wells Fargo and was the COO of Overland Advisors LLC, an affiliate of Wells Fargo with over $2 billion in AUM. He was previously Vice President and Assistant Treasurer at KKR Financial. Jeff holds a Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems from Miami University.

Ehud "Udi" Shamir

Advisory Board

Ehud is the CEO and Founder of ThreatOptix, a next-generation Linux Security platform. Prior to co-founding ThreatOptix with Sameet, Udi co-founded SentinelOne, which went public in June 2021 as the largest Cybersecurity IPO to date. There, he led SentinelOne’s Research and Forensic Group and oversaw\the company’s product innovation and supports development across multiple engineering areas, including architecture and product capabilities.

Ehud is a computer security expert and developer with more than eighteen years of experience in security, especially in malware research and advanced sandboxing technology.

Dr. Asher Sinensky

Advisory Board

Dr. Asher Sinensky, PhD has spent the last decade working in Silicon Valley on problems related to data, security, and their intersections with technology. After receiving his doctorate in Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. Sinensky joined Palantir Technologies where he has served in a variety of roles during his tenure. Dr. Sinensky has broad experience touching many parts of the data analytics and software ecosystem including product management / development, data modeling, enterprise software implementation, enterprise software sales, and data policy & privacy.

Hilton holds a master’s degree in business administration from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University.