Robert Maxfield
Robert Maxfield | |
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| Born | Robert Roy Maxfield September 30, 1941 Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
| Died | August 13, 2024 (aged 82) Marble Falls, Texas, U.S. |
| Education | Rice, BA 1963 Rice, BS 1964 Stanford, MSEE (1965) Stanford, PhD EE (1969) |
| Known for | ROLM, co-founder (1968) Echelon, VP (2009-2010) |
| Spouse | Katherine Maxfield |
| Awards | Entrepreneur of the Year, Harvard Business School (1980) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Electrical engineering |
| Thesis | Techniques for computing optimal controls for linear systems with inequality constraints (1969) |
| Doctoral advisor | David G. Luenberger |
Robert Maxfield (September 30, 1941 – August 13, 2024) was an American entrepreneur, electrical engineer, and philanthropist. He is best known for being a co-founder of the pioneering Silicon Valley company, ROLM. Maxfield and three former classmates from Rice University founded ROLM, growing it into a Fortune 500 company. After he retired from ROLM, he had a storied career in education, research, and philanthropy.