- Ross Mayfield
Ross Mayfield is co-founder, Chairman and President, and former CEO of Socialtext Incorporated, an
enterprise social software company based inPalo Alto ,California . [ [http://socialtext.com/about/leadership/ About Socialtext] ] He is also a regularblog ger and public speaker.Mayfield received a BA in
Political Science from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA )Fact|date=September 2008 and completed the Management Development forEntrepreneur s (MDE) program at theAnderson School of Business .Fact|date=September 2008He began his career in the non-profit sector with the
U.S.-Baltic Foundation Fact|date=September 2008, after which he moved to Estonia and served as a script-writer for, and advisor to, the Office of thePresident of Estonia .Fact|date=September 2008 He also served as Marketing Director ofLevicom , one of the largest privately held telecom groups inEastern Europe Fact|date=September 2008 where he also started anInternet Service Provider Fact|date=September 2008 and aweb design company.Fact|date=September 2008In 1998 he co-founded RateXchange, a business-to-business commodity exchange for telecom, where he quickly progressed from Vice President of Sales and Marketing to Chief Operating Officer and then to President. [ [http://yahoo.brand.edgar-online.com/EFX_dll/EDGARpro.dll?FetchFilingHTML1?ID=153373 Edgar filing] ] With the collapse of the
dot-com bubble , the company, which had yet to earn any revenue [ [http://www.phoneplusmag.com/articles/0b1tradesk6.html Phone+ Magazinze] ] , saw its billion dollar valuation vanish overnight [Kasler, Dale. " [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.usa/browse_thread/thread/90242752620f3b4c/69d1b3e81c16459e Silicon Valley struggling back] ", "Sacramento Bee", 2003-10-06] , and Montgomery left in August 2000.He then served as VP of Marketing for a [http://www.lucidainc.com/index.html Lucida] , a
Fujitsu spinoutFact|date=September 2008, before co-founding Socialtext in 2002.References
External links
* [http://ross.typepad.com/blog/ Ross Mayfield's Blog]
* [http://www.socialtext.com/ company website]
* [http://www.corante.com/many/ Many2Many, a group blog on social Software that Mayfield contributes to]
* [http://www.archive.org/download/IFTFHowardRheingoldStanfordHumanitiesLab_0/mayfield.mov 71MB] and [http://www.archive.org/download/IFTFRossMayfieldsLecturesmallversion/mayfieldsmall.mov 24MB] Quicktime movies of Ross Mayfield lecturing on emergent democracy and group forming networks at Stanford in 2005, licensed under Creative Commons, hosted by the Internet Archive
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