Primary Job Title Founder & President Primary Organization 
Maxfield Foundation
Location Houston, Texas, United States Regions Greater Houston Area, Southern US Gender Male
Robert Maxfield has been a director of our company since 1989 and was President and Chief Executive Officer from November 2009 till August 2010.
He was a co-founder of ROLM in 1969, and served as Executive Vice President and a director until ROLM’s merger with IBM in 1984. Following the merger, he continued to serve as Vice President of ROLM
until 1988.
Since 1988, he has been a private investor. Robert was a venture partner with Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, a venture capital firm, from 1989 to 1992.
Robert received B.A. and B.S.E.E. degrees from Rice University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
