Yogen Dalal

Member of the original Star and Ethernet development teams at Xerox, Dalal is also a co-author of the TCP Specification, whose team's pioneering work on the design of the TCP protocol has been recognized with a "Birth of the Internet" plaque in the Gates Building at Stanford University.

Prior to joining Mayfield Fund, Dalal was a founding member of two startups, Claris Corporation and Metaphor Computer Systems. An entrepreneur, engineer, and Silicon Valley executive, Dalal joined Mayfield Fund as a venture capitalist in 1991. Over more than 20 years, he invested in the communications, enterprise software, and Internet consumer and infrastructure areas. In 2011, he stepped down from the leadership role at Mayfield Fund and successfully transferred this responsibility to the next generation.

Dalal earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Stanford and a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, where he was honored as a Distinguished Alum.

He has served on the Board of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, a nationally acclaimed professional non-profit theater company in Ashland, Oregon, and KQED, public media for Northern California. Dalal has been a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs and a former Board member of the Entrepreneurs Foundation and TheatreWorks.