Primary Job Title Advisor, Investing Primary Organization 
Sway Ventures
Location Los Angeles, California, United States Regions Greater Los Angeles Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
Investor Type
Website swayvc.com/about/n-darius-sankey/ LinkedIn View on LinkedIn
N. Darius Sankey, PhD is a founding General Partner at Sway Ventures, as well as a seasoned executive in the venture capital and technology industries.
Before his work with Sway Ventures, Darius served as a Senior Director of Portfolio Management at Intellectual Ventures, a Managing Director at DFJ – Zone Ventures, and has served as a board
member for several companies including Siimpel Corporation and Neven Vision (acquired by Google). He has worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, Inc. and held strategic planning, consulting, and R&D positions at RAND and AT&T Bell Laboratories.
Darius holds a Ph.D. in Optical Engineering from the Institute of Optics, University of Rochester and a B.S. in Physics and Electrical Engineering from MIT. He is also an adjunct professor at Rady School of Business at the University of California, at San Diego (UCSD).
