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Sanford R. Robertson is a principal of Francisco Partners the world's largest technology buyout fund. With a focus on structured investments in technology and technology-related businesses Francisco Partners is a pioneer in the private equity category of Technology Buyouts.
Prior to founding Francisco Partners Sanford was the founder and Chairman of Robertson Stephens & Co. a leading technology investment bank formed in 1978 and sold to BankBoston in 1998. Since the sale Sanford has been an active technology investor and advisor to several technology companies. Sanford was also the founder of Robertson Colman Siebel & Weisel later renamed Montgomery Securities another prominent technology investment bank. Sanford was one of the pioneers in the creation of West Coast technology banking as an industry in the late 1960s and has remained one of the industry's most renowned participants to this date. He has had significant financing involvement in over 500 growth technology companies throughout his career including 3Com Corporation; America Online Inc.; Applied Materials Inc.; Ascend Communications Inc.; Dell Computer Corporation; E*Trade Securities Inc.; Siebel Systems Inc.; and Sun Microsystems Inc. Sanford currently serves on the boards of directors of Pain Therapeutics and salesforce.com.
Sanford received both a BA degree and an MBA degree with distinction from the University of Michigan.
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