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Janice Roberts is a managing director at Mayfield Fund. She taps her vast experience as a global communications executive and a veteran early-stage entrepreneur to focus on Mayfield's investments in networking components and systems, mobile communications and consumer-oriented companies. Janice also serves on the boards of companies including Quickoffice, Phonebites, SunRocket and Ubicom. Janice's notable investments include Peribit Networks, which was sold to Juniper Networks. Prior to joining Mayfield, Janice built a successful early-stage investment portfolio as president of 3Com Ventures. She also led 3Com's global marketing and business development operation and ran a number of the company's new business initiatives, including the highly successful Palm Computing subsidiary. Previously, Janice was managing director and president of BICC Data Networks LTD., which was acquired by 3Com in 1992. Janice holds an honors degree in commerce (economics and finance) from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. She serves on the advisory boards of the Entrepreneurs Foundation (EF), the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs (FWE) and the INSEAD Business School U.S. Council. | 