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Name, Title: David Ladd, General Partner
Company: Mayfield Fund
Expertise: Operations, Communications and Enterprise Software
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Background:  
David Ladd is Mayfield's "operating guy." He joined Mayfield after 30 years of entrepreneurial and operating experience in several successful communications companies. Having spent most of his career on the "other side of the table," David gives honest and quick feedback to entrepreneurs.

David focuses primarily on the communications and enterprise software sectors. His interests range from communications components and systems to telecom and CRM software services. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Banter Technologies, Boldfish, Cowave Networks, LGC Wireless, Sylantro Systems, Teja Technologies, T-RAM, WaveSplitter Technologies and White Pajama.

Prior to joining Mayfield, David was one of the founding engineers at Rolm Corporation. After 8 years at Rolm, he started his own company, which, through a number of mergers, became part of Octel Communications and then Lucent Technologies. He worked half time at Lucent and half time at Mayfield until joining Mayfield full time as a General Partner May of 1999.

David Ladd holds a B.S. degree in Engineering Physics from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.S. in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology.

 
 
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