John Mascarenas, Senior Advisor, Strategic Advisory Services International

Strategic Advisory Services International, LLC (SASI), a boutique M&A advisory firm to technology companies, announced that John Mascarenas has joined the SASI team in the role of senior advisor. 

 His career spans more than 33 years in the high tech industry primarily in equity investments and M&A with a focus on data management, compute storage, mobile, flash, and networking segments in enterprise and consumer markets. 

Previously he was a senior director/consultant for strategic equity investments and M&A at SanDisk Ventures and senior investment director at Intel Capital. 

Mascarenas was with Intel Corp. since 1980 and with Intel Capital since 1998 where he was involved in over 70+ private equity and M&A transactions with a total value of $1 billion+.

Orior to Intel Capital, he held senior level positions at several Intel business units where his roles included strategic business alliances, sales, marketing, product service and engineering. He was also involved in several new technology start-up ventures for Intel and has also started and sold two private companies. 

He holds industrial design patents in digital imaging.

He will help guide SASI through its next phase and also help build key strategic relationships across venture firms, early stage start-ups and leading public technology companies.

“Over the last ten years, I have had the opportunity to work with John on a number of engagements and have always been impressed with his business acumen, technical depth, and negotiating skills. He brings a high level of integrity and passion to everything he does and I am excited to have him as part of the SASI team,” said John Rotchford, MD, SASI.