Partner Emeritus, Mayfield Fund
Bill Unger, has been with Mayfield since 1984. Bill was an early investor in such industry leaders as Sandisk (SNDK), Silicon Architects (acquired by Synopsys (SNPS)), Calico Commerce(CLIC) acquired by Peoplesoft/Oracle, nChip (acquired by Flextronics (FLEX), Newport Communications (acquired by Broadcom (BRCM)), Simplex Solutions and Verplex Design Systems (both acquired by Cadence (CDN)) and Excess Bandwidth Corporation (acquired by Globespan).
Today, he serves on the boards of Lightspeed Logic, Bandspeed, and Papilia and is on the advisory boards of several other privately held companies. Bill has always dedicated time to philanthropic activities. Currently he serves as a board member of CARE USA, YouthNoise, and The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, and is on the advisory boards of the Dean of Engineering of The University of California at Berkeley, the Dean of Engineering of the University of Illinois at Chicago, Environmental Entrepreneurs, the Global Philanthropy Forum, and the Entrepreneurs Foundation.
Officers
- Telle Whitney, - President and CEO
- Catherine S. Kirkman, Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich and Rosati - General Counsel
- James Beck, CPA & CMA, Managing Director & CFO, Mayfield Fund - Treasurer & Vice President
- Cindy Goral, VP of Operations - Secretary
Staff
- Telle Whitney, President and CEO
- Cindy Goral, VP of Operations
- Jody Mahoney, VP of Business Development
- Jerri Barrett, Director of Marketing
- Alexandra Krasne, Development & Industry Partner Manager
- Deanna Kosaraju, Director of Programs
- BJ Wishinsky, Communities Program Manager
- Caroline Simard, Director of Research
- Kim McLeod, Program Associate
- Rachelle Siskin, Program Associate
- Kathy Gee, IT Project Specialist
- Amy Clark, Office Manager/Executive Assistant
Our Founder
Board of Trustees
- William Wulf, Ph.D., Former President, National Academy of Engineering, Board Chair
- Bill Unger, Partner Emeritus, Mayfield Fund - Vice-Chair
- Margaret Ashida, Director, Diversity and Workforce Programs - IBM Software Group
- James Beck, CPA & CMA, Managing Director & CFO, Mayfield Fund - Treasurer & Vice President
- Francine Berman, Professor, Dept of Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego and Fellow, ACM
- Debi Coleman, Managing Partner, SmartForest Ventures
- Alan Eustace, Senior Vice President, Research and Systems Engineering, Google
- Penny Herscher, President & CEO, firstRain
- Kathy Hill, Senior VP Ethernet and Wireless Systems Technology Group, Cisco Systems Inc.
- Wayne Johnson, Vice President, University Relations, Hewlett-Packard
- Maria Klawe, President, Harvey Mudd College
- Richard Rashid, Senior VP and VP Research, Microsoft
- Justin Rattner, Senior Fellow & CTO, Intel
- Cheryl Shavers, Former Undersecretary of Technology, Clinton Administration, & CEO of Global Smarts, Inc.
- Telle Whitney, President & CEO, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
- Linda Bernardi, Emeritus (Term: 1996 -2006)
- Greg Papadopoulos, Emeritus (Term: 1996 -2006)
Individual and Organizations
Board of Advisors
- Carole Dulong, Google - Co-Chair
- Allan Fisher, Vice President, Laureate Education - Co-Chair
- Frances Allen, IBM Fellow Emerita, IBM
- Pamela Arya, Executive Director, Applied Minds, Inc.
- Nina Bhatti, Principle Scientist, HP Labs
- Katy Dickinson, Director, Business Process Architecture, Sun Microsystems
- Catherine Didion, Senior Program Officer, National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
- Penny Eckert, Professor of Linguistics, Stanford University
- Moira Gunn, MogoTech Media, Tech Nation
- Robin Jeffries, Google
- Ellen Lapham, Entrepreneur & Designer, Innovation Ventures
- Carol Muller, President and CEO, MentorNet
- Rebecca Norlander, Technical Assistant to the Chief Software Architect, Microsoft Corporation
- Nancy Ramsey, Author, The Futures of Women: Scenarios for the 21st Century
- Ann Redelfs, Redelfs LLC
- Kathy Richardson, Consultant
- Ruth Stergiou, Principal, Planning Dynamics, Inc.
- Sarah Revi Sterling,Student, University of Colorado, Boulder
- Janice Stockard, Visiting Professor, Mills College