Santo Politi
Partner
Charles River Ventures

Santo focuses on investments in the data communications sector. He is currently a director of Big Band Networks, and Broadbus Technologies. Prior to joining Charles River, Santo served as President of New Media at Blockbuster Entertainment Inc., where he was responsible for establishing a new operating division focused on extending the company beyond its brick and mortar retail stores into digital broadcast and video on demand.

Before his work at Blockbuster, Santo co-founded Bankers Trust Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm, where he focused on investments in the Internet, information technology and financial services industries. Some of his successful investments at Bankers Trust include Aether Systems, Inc. (NADAQ: AETH), Novatel Wireless, Inc. (NASDAQ: NVTL) and DigitalThink (NASDAQ: DTHK). He has held various engineering and management positions with the Video Systems Division of Matsushita Electric Industrial in Osaka, Japan, Panasonic Broadcast and Television Systems Company and Weston Instruments, Schlumberger Industries.

Santo earned his MBA in Finance from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds an MS in Electrical Engineering and BS degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering.