Partner
Sarah Istel
Managing Director, Cerberus Ventures
- Firm
- Cerberus Ventures
- Title
- Managing Director
- Role
- Managing partner
- Known as
- Investor
Record updated 17 September 2026
About
Sarah joined Cerberus in 2025, after working as Deputy General Counsel and Bio & Energy Tech Lead for the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Sarah has spent her career working at the intersection of technology and national security, including working on both the House and Senate intelligence committees, as a senior associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, and as a visiting affiliate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School. She also was a term member on the Council on Foreign Relations and clerked in the Southern District of New York and the Second Circuit.
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