Ghia Griarte

Ms. Griarte is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Ponte Partners, a second fund focused on the acquisition of direct private companies, PE/Growth/VC portfolios, and LP interests. Ponte invests in technology (security, fintech, enterprise software, SaaS, mobility, AR/VR, infrastructure), digital health, consumer, and industrial sectors.

She serves on several private company boards and most recently served as Board of Trustee for the City of San Jose Police and Fire Retirement Plan, a $4.7 billion public pension fund where she chaired both the investment and governance committees and served on the joint personnel and audit committees, and San Jose Mayor Liccardo’s Retirement Stakeholders Working Group.

Ms. Griarte has been in private equity and venture capital for 20+ years. Previously she was a Managing Director at Saints Capital, a secondary firm with $1B+ of assets under management with a 200+ global portfolio of companies across the US, Europe, and Asia. Prior to joining Saints in 2003, Ms. Griarte was at Centennial Ventures, a technology-focused early-stage venture capital firm with investments in broadband access, cable, networking, satellite, wireless and digital media. Previously, Ms. Griarte was a strategy consultant at Gemini Consulting in the Telecom, Media, and Networks practice focused on wireline and wireless telecommunications companies across Europe, the US, and the Middle East. Ms. Griarte began her career as an electrical systems engineer at Lockheed Martin and chaired the Corporate Avionics Taskforce.

Ms. Griarte received an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, a MEM from the Robert L. McCormick School of Engineering, and BS degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.