Sandro Mina

CO-FOUNDER AND MANAGING DIRECTOR, RELAY INVESTMENTS

Sandro learned about search funds in Prof Grousbeck’s class at Stanford in 1990.  In early 1993, Sandro, along with Gunnar Bjorklund, Martin Steber and Nick Babchuck, co-founded Sverica International, where Sandro spent 20 years as a co-founding Partner. He currently serves on the Board of several Search Fund sourced companies, along with Oasis, an Ireland based document storage company, and a local non-profit, the Swedish School of Boston. During Sverica’s early days, Sandro served as President and CEO of Cameraworld.com, one of Sverica’s pre-fund portfolio companies that he sourced, managed and eventually sold. In earlier careers, Mr. Mina worked in the public and private sectors in a number of industries, including technology (United Nations Computing Centre and Storage Technology), banking (Citibank, Goldman Sachs & Co. and VISA) and telecommunications (consultant for a large European company).

Mr. Mina earned his BSc degree in Computer Engineering from Imperial College London and his MBA degree at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.

Martin S. Steber

CO-FOUNDER AND MANAGING DIRECTOR,RELAY INVESTMENTS

In early 1993, Martin, along with Gunnar Bjorklund, Sandro Mina and Nick Babchuk, co-founded Sverica International. During his early tenure, Mr. Steber was CEO of two pre-fund investments in Birmingham, Alabama, Automatic Detection Systems Inc, an electronic security company, and AccuDocs LLC, a billing services company. Both of these entities were eventually sold to larger industry leaders. 

Later, Mr. Steber was actively involved in raising Sverica’s first and second private equity funds. Mr. Steber retired from Sverica in late 2007 to relocate to Europe before returning to Montreal in 2011. He serves on the board of several Search Fund companies, such as Chronus, Microdea, Subatomic and UCITonline.

Mr. Steber completed his BSc in Computer Engineering from Imperial College London before joining Bain & Co. from 1987 to 1989.  He earned his MBA degree at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University in 1991, having spent the previous summer at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in London.