Goodmail systems® Board of Advisors
Strategic Advisors
Technical Advisory Board
Board of Directors
Hans Peter Brondmo
Hans Peter is a successful serial entrepreneur and Fellow with Digital Impact, the leading provider of integrated digital marketing services to Global 2000 enterprises. He is a renowned commentator and speaker on topics ranging from the future of electronic marketing to the impact of technology on how businesses engage with their customers. As former Chair of the ESPC Anti-spam Technology Working Group, Hans Peter co-authored the influential Project Lumos white paper to establish accountable email. He has testified at US Senate hearings on the Internet and privacy and on the CAN-Spam Act, and writes the monthly Uncommon Sense column for ClickZ. His writings have also been featured in WSJ.com, Business 2.0, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among others. In 1996 he founded Post Communications, an early pioneer in email relationship marketing, which was acquired in 2000. Prior to Post he co-founded DiVA Corporation, a developer of desktop video editing software acquired by Avid Technology in 1993. He has also held positions with McKinsey and Company, the Center for European Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, and Apple Computer in Tokyo. Brondmo currently serves on the boards of TRUSTe and Loyalty Matrix.
Steve Douty
Steve was Vice President of Marketing, Sales, and Business Development at Hotmail, one of the major Internet success stories. He grew the Hotmail customer base to five million in one year and co-led the sale of the company to Microsoft. Following the acquisition, Steve took responsibility for media programming, product planning, and network productions for MSN. He built the staff to more than 75 professionals in less than six months and was key in the conversion of MSN to a Web portal. In 1999, Steve left Microsoft to co-found and become CEO of Octopus. Prior to Hotmail, Steve was Vice President of Marketing for Tricord Systems, then a $60 million maker of high-end server-based networking solutions. He has also held a number of sales, marketing, and management positions with GTE Telenet, IBM, and AT&T Paradyne.
Richard Gingras
Richard Gingras is a serial entrepreneur with over 25 years experiencing leading networking technology and content businesses. He ran the online service efforts at @Home (which later became Excite@Home), including the broadband and narrowband portal divisions, and served as SVP and General Manager of the company's consumer-focused product division, Excite Studios. Recently he has guided new ventures including Audio Mill (merged into Real Networks), web applications platform provider Laszlo Systems, custom book publisher MyPublisher, and broadband applications platform developer Sugar Media (merged into 2Wire). In the early 90's Richard led the development of the eWorld online service at Apple Computer. He created the first interactive set top-based news magazine in partnership with CBS, NBS, and PBS in 1979. Richard began his career in television, holding various positions with PBS, KCET/Los Angeles, and NBC. He is a 1973 graduate of Boston College.
Peter Hirshberg
Peter is a well-known Silicon Valley executive. He was Founder and CEO of web application software maker, Elemental Software, sold to Macromedia in 1999, and chairman of Interpacket Networks, sold to Veristar in 2001. Peter was President and CEO of Gloss.com, the major multi-brand beauty ecommerce business co-owned by Estee Lauder Companies, Chanel and Clarins. Previously, Peter's new-media strategy firm served clients including America Online, Microsoft, NBC Television Network, Estee Lauder, Pacific Bell and Silicon Graphics. At Apple Computer, as Director of Enterprise Markets, Peter grew large business and government revenue to $1 billion annually and helped lead the company's entry into online services. He is a trustee of The Computer Museum History Center and a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute.
John Ouren
John previously served as President of Goodmail. He was responsible for managing the company's sales, business development and strategic alliances. Prior to joining Goodmail, John was the senior vice president of sales, services and field operations at Digital Impact, a leading provider of email marketing technology and services recently acquired by Acxiom Corporation. Before Digital Impact, John was both a founding member of the e-commerce practice and leader in the financial services practice at Mckinsey & Company, where he provided strategic and operating expertise to leading software companies and financial services firms worldwide. John holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
Jonathan Rosenberg
Jonathan is Senior Vice President of Product Management at Google where he is responsible for the development and management of Google's varied product lines, including AdWords keyword-based advertising products and syndication partner services. He brings more than 15 years experience in the fields of information services, the Internet, online services and computer software, including recent tenure as Senior Vice President of Online Products and Services for Excite@Home. Prior to joining @Home, Jonathan managed Apple's eWorld product line and served as Director of Product Marketing for Knight-Ridder Information Services in Palo Alto. It was in this role that he directed development of one of the first commercially deployed online relevance ranking engines and menu-driven Boolean search services for consumers.
Technical Advisory Board
David H. Crocker
Dave H. Crocker is a principal with Brandenburg InternetWorking. Crocker has been a vital contributor to email standards development since the early 1970s. The author of more than 45 Requests for Comments (RFC), his work includes RFC 733-the first standard for Internet email-and its revision, RFC 822, which remains the core reference for Internet mail formatting. He also has played a major role in the development of standards for MIME file attachments, Internet facsimile and Internet EDI, as well as contributing to work on network management, domain name service, and transport protocol service. Dave's recent focus in the Internet standards arena is on messaging trust and reporting mechanisms. He has been designing network-based applications businesses and system architectures for more than thirty years, first in the ARPA research community and then commercially at MCI Mail and various Silicon Valley companies. His management roles, during the 1980s, covered email clients and servers, core protocol stacks for TCP/IP and OSI, network management control stations, and knowledge management tools for product support. Dave was a co-recipient of the 2004 IEEE Internet award for his work on email.
Dr. Martin E. Hellman
Dr. Martin E. Hellman, Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, is best known for his invention, with Diffie and Merkle, of public key cryptography. Hellman has also been a long-time contributor to the computer privacy debate, starting with DES's key size in 1975 and extending to service (1994-96) on the National Research Council's Committee to Study National Cryptographic Policy. His work in cryptography has been recognized by a number of honors and awards, notably the 1978 IEEE Information Theory Group's Best Paper Award, election as a Fellow of the IEEE (1980), the IEEE's 1981 award for the year's best tutorial paper, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's 1994 Pioneer Award, the 1996 National Computer Systems Security Award, the 1997 Franklin Institute's Levy Medal, the 1997 ACM Kanellakis Award, the 2000 Marconi International Fellow Award, election to the National Academy of Engineering (2002), and election as a Fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (2006). Hellman also has a deep interest in the ethics of technological development.
Dr. Aviel D. Rubin
Dr. Aviel D. Rubin is Professor of Computer Science and Technical Director of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Professor Rubin directs the NSF-funded ACCURATE center for correct, usable, reliable, auditable and transparent elections. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, Rubin was a research scientist at AT&T Labs. He is also a co-founder of Independent Security Evaluators (securityevaluators.com), a security consulting firm. Rubin is author of several books including Brave New Ballot (Random House, 2006) Firewalls and Internet Security, second edition (with Bill Cheswick and Steve Bellovin, Addison Wesley, 2003), White-Hat Security Arsenal (Addison Wesley, 2001), and Web Security Sourcebook (with Dan Geer and Marcus Ranum, John Wiley & Sons, 1997). He is Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, Associate Editor of IEEE Security & Privacy, and an Advisory Board member of Springer's Information Security and Cryptography Book Series. Rubin serves on the DARPA Information Science and Technology Study Group. In January, 2004 Baltimore Magazine name Rubin a Baltimorean of the Year for his work in safeguarding the integrity of our election process, and he is also the recipient of the 2004 Electronic Frontiers Foundation Pioneer Award. Rubin has a B.S, ('89), M.S.E ('91), and Ph.D. ('94) from the University of Michigan.
Ragy Thomas
Ragy Thomas is an interactive marketing entrepreneur with a proven track record launching highly scalable and profitable B2C and B2B email platforms. As the former President and Chief Technology Officer of Epsilon’s Interactive Services group, Thomas was integral in growing Epsilon into one of the world’s largest senders of commercial email. In addition to his management responsibilities, Thomas served as chief architect of the company’s market-leading DREAM email technology platform, garnering three consecutive Forrester and JupiterResearch leadership rankings in the firms’ annual evaluations of email marketing service providers. Prior to Epsilon (and predecessor email marketing provider Bigfoot Interactive), he directed technology operations at Advaya, the email marketing solutions company later acquired by Expression Engines. Previously, Ragy held lead architect roles at AT&T's Business Data Networks group as a consultant and at the software division of Tata Unisys (now Tata Infotech), where his team executed customized software development projects for clients such as Ford and Charming Shoppes. Ragy received a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from Pondicherry University, India, and an M.B.A. from New York University's Stern School of Business, with a double major in finance and Information Systems.