David Ladd is a General Partner at Mayfield Fund.

Prior to Mayfield, David founded his own company, which, through a number of mergers, became part of Octel Communications and then Lucent Technologies, where he served as a Vice President.

For the 8 years prior to this, David was one of the founding engineers at Rolm Corporation. David focuses primarily on the communications and enterprise software sectors. In addition to T-RAM, he currently serves on Board of Directors of Banter Technologies, Boldfish, Cowave Networks, LGC Wireless, Sylantro Systems, Teja Technologies, Voxeo, WaveSplitter Technologies, and White Pajama.

David 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.