With his deep engineering experience and networking expertise, David Ladd serves as Mayfield's communications and VoIP expert. A successful former entrepreneur himself, David sits on the boards of LGC Wireless, LV Sensors, Orative, Pure Networks and Sylantro Systems, in addition to TimeBridge. After eight years as an early engineer at ROLM, he co-founded voice messaging company Opcom/VMX, which grew to a $100 million publicly held company. In 1994, VMX merged with Octel Communications and David became CTO. After Lucent Technologies acquired Octel in 1997, David joined Mayfield part-time while continuing to help Lucent form spin-out companies based on Bell Labs technology. David holds a B.S. degree in Engineering Physics from U.C. Berkeley and an M.S. in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology.