Monti Saroya

Senior Managing Director, Co-Head of Flagship Fund at Vista Equity Partners

Interviewee

Monti Saroya joined Vista Equity Partners in 2008 and is Co-Head of the Vista Flagship Fund and sits on its Investment Committee.

Additionally, Monti serves as a member of Vista’s Executive Committee, the firm’s governing and decision-making body for matters affecting its overall management and strategic direction, and Vista’s Private Equity Management Committee, the firm’s decision-making body for matters affecting Vista’s overall private equity platform. Monti is also the Co-Chief Executive Officer of VistaOne, Vista’s evergreen private equity vehicle, and serves on the Investment Committee.

He currently sits on the boards of Allvue Systems, Cloud Software Group, Cvent (NASDAQ: CVT), Finastra, Gainsight, iCIMS, Infoblox, Mindbody, Olive, OneAdvanced, Pipedrive, Salesloft, Solera and Xactly and previously sat on the board of PowerSchool (formerly NYSE: PWSC). Monti is also actively involved in the firm’s investments in Jio and Vivid Seats (NASDAQ: SEAT) and was actively involved in the firm’s investments in Apptio, Datto (formerly NYSE: MSP), Marketo, Pluralsight, SumTotal, The ACTIVE Network, Transfirst, Turaz and Zywave.

Monti is a thought leader within the investing and enterprise software communities and was featured in PEI’s Investing in Technology report along with Vista’s Founder, Chairman and CEO Robert Smith, and Vista’s Co-Head of Flagship Fund and Senior Managing Director, Michael Fosnaugh. Read their interview here.

Prior to Vista, Monti worked as a Senior Research Analyst for JMP Securities, where he provided research for buy-side clients on public on-demand (SaaS) companies. Monti previously worked as an Associate for the enterprise software/applications team. Before JMP, Monti worked at Siebel Systems in a sales capacity for the CRM On Demand division. Prior to Siebel, Monti worked for Cisco Systems in various operations roles.