Your host for this space

PR Photo:http://radio.weblogs.com/0114726/images/ross%20mayfield.jpgAn Openfield:http://ross.typepad.com/photos/scapes/smallfield.jpg

Signature Page: Ross
ross.mayfield@socialtext.com
Company Blog: http://www.socialtext.com
Personal Blog: http://ross.typepad.com

^^^^Why call it Openfield?

Some similarity with my last name for memory, but mostly this is a combination of an open mind and an open space

^^^^Bio

Ross Mayfield is the CEO and co-founder of Socialtext. Mayfield is a serial entrepreneur with over 10 years of startup executive management experience and a focus on helping people and companies communicate effectively.

Most recently, Mayfield served as VP of Marketing for a Fujitsu spinout developing enterprise software for the telecommunications industry and as Interim VP of Marketing for an Immersive Group Simulation provider to military and homeland defense markets. Previously he was CEO of an enterprise risk management software company.

Mayfield co-founded and served as President of RateXchange (AMEX:RTX), the leading B2B commodity exchange for telecom. RateXchange reached $1 billion market capitalization, raised over $45 million in equity and debt and generated a thousand-fold return on investment for initial shareholders. His management of marketing led to majority market share, perceived leadership in its market category and recognition by Forbes as "The Best of the Web."

Mayfield served as the Marketing Director of the largest privately held telecommunications group in Eastern Europe and was the internal lead manager of their Initial Public Offering. He also founded an ISP, a web-design company and has served on a number of Advisory Boards of high tech startups.

Mayfield is a former advisor to the Office of the President of Estonia and began his career in the non-profit sector. He holds a BA in Political Science from the University of California at Los Angeles and completed the Management Development for Entrepreneurs (MDE) program of the Anderson School of Business. He resides in his hometown of Palo Alto with his wife and two children.