Yogen Dalal
Managing Director
Yogen Dalal is an entrepreneur, engineer, and Silicon Valley executive who has been at Mayfield since 1991. He invests in the internet/digital media and enterprise software areas.
Prior to joining Mayfield, Yogen was a founding member of two successful startups, Claris Corporation and Metaphor Computer Systems. Yogen was also a member of the original Star and Ethernet development teams at Xerox, and a co-author of the TCP Specification in 1974 while at Stanford University. His Ethernet industry blog can be found at www.ethernethistory.com.
Yogen 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 serves on the board of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, a nationally acclaimed professional non-profit theater company in Ashland, Oregon, and Northern California Public Broadcasting (KQED, KTEH, KQET, KQEI). Yogen is a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs and a former board member of the Entrepreneurs Foundation and TheatreWorks.
Fun Facts
- Student of Vint Cerf – the 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.
- Theater enthusiast and collector of black and white photographs of rock stars of the '60s taken by iconic photographers such as Jim Marshall, Henry Diltz and Barry Feinstein.
- Have visited Kathmandu, Khartoum, and Saigon as the son of a career diplomat.
