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To: Douglas V. Fant who wrote (2095)	4/5/1999 12:51:00 AM
From: Nam, Ki Hyung	Respond to of 3299

Good reference! Mayfield Fund Adds Telecommunications Expert Todd Brooks as Venture Partner; Venture Firm is building its Telecommunications Team In Response to Rapid Industry Growth THURSDAY, APRIL 01, 1999 3:56 PM EST - BusinessWire MENLO PARK, CALIF. (April 1) BUSINESS WIRE -April 1, 1999--Mayfield Fund, a Menlo Park-based venture capital partnership, today announced that Todd Brooks will join the firm as a Venture Partner. He will focus on investments in the telecommunications infrastructure, technology and services. Brooks, 38, formerly served as a Managing Principal with JAFCO America Ventures, the U.S. subsidiary of Japan's largest venture capital firm. At JAFCO, Brooks led that firm's telecommunications practice, focusing on investments in telecommunications infrastructure, technology and services, including photonic components and systems, Internet telephony, telecommunications network management software and technology-differentiated telecommunications services. "We are very excited to be adding Todd Brooks to our telecommunications team which consists currently of venture partner David Ladd, venture associate Dana Settle and me," said Kevin A. Fong, a Mayfield Fund General Partner. "Todd is one of the venture capital community's most experienced investors in the telecommunications arena. His background dovetails perfectly with the strategic focus of Mayfield Fund, which has long been a pioneer in the development of the telecommunications industry. Mayfield Fund strongly believes that major enhancements to the telecommunications infrastructure are in the offing and will affect virtually all high-technology sectors. We intend to be a significant force in reshaping telecommunications, which means we need talented venture capitalists like Todd Brooks to find and nurture the next generation of telecommunications companies," Fong added.During his venture capital career, Brooks has invested in and served on the boards of the following telecommunications companies: Monterey Networks, Argon Networks, Clear Communications, ObjectSwitch, Go Digital Telecommunications and Avanex. Brooks' other venture investments include Brocade Communications, Objective Systems Integrators, Vixel Corporation, Cielo Communications, Coherent Networks, Digital Island and Adicom Wireless. In addition, Brooks has worked closely with Advanced Fibre Communications, Inc., Ciena and Aptis Networks, which were also JAFCO investments. Prior to joining JAFCO, Brooks worked for Franklin-Templeton Funds as an equity research analyst, investing in stocks in the telecommunications and data communications equipment markets. While at Franklin-Templeton, he developed broad perspectives and contacts in the worldwide telecommunications equipment and services markets.Before entering the investment field, Brooks worked in the semiconductor industry, where he held product development and business development positions with Applied Materials, Inc., a leading semiconductor capital equipment and technology firm. He holds a patent in semiconductor device technology and has published several technical papers on advanced semiconductor technologies.Brooks holds an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School. About Mayfield Fund Mayfield Fund is a private venture capital partnership based in Menlo Park, California. Since Mayfield's founding in 1969, the firm has invested in more than 300 companies and has taken approximately 80 companies public. Today, these Mayfield-backed companies represent an aggregate market value of more than $100 billion. Mayfield's portfolio companies include: Advent Software; Aspect Telecommunications; BroadVision, Inc.; Citrix Systems; Concur Technologies; Calico Technologies; LSI Logic; Genentech, Inc.; Legato Systems, Inc.; Linear Technologies, Corp.; Millennium Pharmaceuticals; NuvoMedia, Quantum Corp.; 3COM Corp; The Vantive Corp. Teralogic, Tibco and Whistle Communications. NAM