Safar Partners

Co-Founder, Health Care Originals

Creating value through innovation.

With the vision and global reach to tackle today’s biggest challenges, including climate change and global health, Safar nurtures innovations in sustainable energy, clean water, food management, and healthcare to maximize returns and create impact

Safar made a public commitment to formally incorporate considerations of environmental, social, and governance factors into its investment processes Accordingly, Safar is a signatory to the United Nations-backed Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI https://www unpri org/)

Uniquely positioned, our flexible strategy allows us to take technologies from inception to global scale.

A NETWORK OF EXPERTS

“Over the years that I have known Safar principals, I have seen them be early supporters of world changing technologies. I’m excited about continuing to build the next generation of PSFC startups with the team and grateful for their continued support.”

Director, Plasma Science and Fusion Center at MIT and Hitachi America Professor of Engineering at MIT

From industry veterans with decades of experience to fresh minds with a drive to change the world, our diverse team is committed to guiding our portfolio companies to financial success and global impact.

Partner, CFO, Investment Committee Member Prior to and concurrent to that, until January 2012, Nader was a Founding Partner and member of the Board of Managers of Caspian Capital Management, LLC (“CCM”) which managed as much as $2 2 billion of alternative assets, including fixed income relative value portfolios and quantitative trading strategies CCM also provided non-discretionary consulting on as much as $3 billion in structured products on funds of hedge fund programs Nader began his investment career at Morgan Stanley in 1985 and worked at Prudential Securities and CDC Investment Management Corporation prior to founding CCM

Nader holds an MBA from Boston College and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Boston University He serves on various company and fund advisory boards In addition to other community engagements, he is also actively involved in several youth assistance and development projects Nader was instrumental in establishing the Paris St Germain professional soccer team youth development program and its Foundation in the United States to help underprivileged youth achieve their athletic as well as academic potential He is also a senior advisor to Inter Campus, the philanthropic arm of Inter Milan soccer team in New York as well as the Youri Djorkaeff Foundation Nader is also the president of the Boston Children’s Fund

He holds a B S in Civil Engineering from MIT, an MBA from the William E Simon Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester, and an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Rochester Arunas is also a member of the M I T Corporation and is a life trustee of the University of Rochester

Sahba Vaziri is a Partner, the Chief Financial Officer and member of the Investment Committee at Safar Partners Sahba also spearheads the ESG efforts at Safar Partners

Sahba is a successful finance professional in the energy field, focusing on renewable energy She has 20 years of experience financing power projects, both as a banker at Lehman Brothers, CS First Boston Corporation, and Bechtel Corporation, and as a personal investor Most recently, Sahba worked as a financial consultant to the leading marine hydrokinetic energy company, Ocean Renewable Power Company, where she analyzed financial and market conditions, performed due diligence, and raised private and public financing

Sahba is a dual degree holder from MIT She received her MBA from Sloan School of Management, with Concentrations in Finance and International Management She also has a BSc in Electric Engineering from MIT with concentrations in Optoelectronics and Telecommunications Sahba is involved with community volunteering, as a member of the Ethel Walker School Board of Trustees, and a member of Mission: Restore Advisory Board

Partner, Investment Committee Member Senior Advisor, Chairman Emeritus of MIT Corporation Greg Feldman is a Partner and a member of the Investment Committee He co-founded Wellspring in 1995 Areas of investment focus for Greg include retail, restaurants and consumer products and services where he has led numerous transactions for Wellspring

For four years prior to the formation of Wellspring, he was in charge of acquisitions at EXOR America Inc , the U S investment arm of the Agnelli Group For two years before joining EXOR, Greg was vice president and co-founder of Clegg Industries, Inc , an investment firm backed by Drexel Burnham Lambert Incorporated to invest in leveraged acquisitions of middle market manufacturing companies From 1983 to 1988, Greg was a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York

Greg has served on the boards of more than twenty public and private companies In addition to his for-profit board activities, Greg also serves as President of the Board of The Kitchen and Co-Head of the Director’s Council at The Whitney Museum of American Art Greg received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hampshire College and a JD from the Benjamin N Cardozo School of Law, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review Greg and his wife have three children and live in New York City

Robert B Millard is the Chairman Emeritus of the MIT Corporation and a Senior Advisor to Safar Partners He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the External Advisory Council of NYU’s Global Institute for Advanced Study, the Business Advisory Board of Safar Partners, and the MIT Dean of Science Advisory Council He attended MIT as an undergraduate and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School He was elected to the MIT Corporation in 2003 and became the 11th Chairman of the Corporation in 2014 He has been a member of the Visiting Committees for Physics, Architecture, Chemistry, and Philosophy & Linguistics He also served as the Chairman of MITIMCo, which manages MIT’s endowment He is co-founder and former Chairman of the Board of L3 Technologies, a major defense technology company He currently serves as Lead Director of L3Harris Technologies He is a Director of Evercore, an international investment bank, and a former Partner of Lehman Brothers In addition, he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and a board member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) He is married to Bethany Millard and has four children He lives in Miami and New York

Rob Fleischman is an Operating Partner of Safar Partners and a successful technology entrepreneur and has deep knowledge in the areas of Internet Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Security, Networking, and Very Large Scale Server Development After graduating from MIT (SB in Computer Science, SM in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering), Rob began his career at BBN Labs (where the Internet was invented, in fact, Rob’s first mentor was Ray Tomlinson, the inventor of e-mail) Mr Fleischman founded multiple start-ups, and held senior engineering positions at large technology and financial companies (BBN, Fidelity, Highwind, Software com, Openwave, Sandvine, Xerocole, Akamai, and others) He holds many patents, invented and helped build news, messaging and DNS technologies that currently process trillions of transactions daily on the Internet

Mr Fleischman is currently a valued advisor on the boards of multiple technology companies and leads multiple endowment investment committees In addition, Rob is currently a Tiger 21 chair in Boston where he helps UHNW investors, families, and financial advisors discuss investments, family wealth issues, and philanthropy

For many years, for fun, Rob could be heard on the radio as a guest and contributor to NPR in New England as the “explainer of all things wired” Finally, and most importantly, Rob is a dedicated husband and father (2 daughters) and works hard to maintain an active life in New Hampshire