Program Board

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Scott Hazen Mueller, President

Scott Hazen Mueller is a recognized world-class Internet technologist. He helped launch the anti-spam movement in 1995 and founded CAUCE in 1997. He is an occasional writer and speaker.


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John Levine, Secretary/Treasurer

John Levine is an author, consultant and speaker. He is the primary author of the well known Internet for Dummies and many other books, and has been running e-mail systems since the 1970s. He was formerly CAUCE US director for publications.

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Neil Schwartzman, Executive Director

Neil Schwartzman has been involved in community and professional anti-spam efforts in various leadership capacities since 1995. He is currently manages Sender Score Certified Compliance and ISP Relations for Return Path Inc.

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Ray Everett-Church, Director-at-large

Ray Everett-Church, is an attorney, consultant, entrepreneur, and author, with a fifteen year history of working on the legal and public policy issues of spam. He is a co-author of Internet Privacy for Dummies and has testified before the United States Congress on behalf of CAUCE.

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J.D. Falk, Director-at-large

J.D. Falk has worked on anti-spam systems & policies for such influential companies as the original Mail Abuse Prevention System, Microsoft, and currently Yahoo!. He fills Yahoo!'s seat on the Board of Directors of the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group, and is also a community organizer, DJ, and writer.

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Mike (der Mouse) Parker, Director-at-large

Mike Parker has been running email systems - including anti-spam measures - since the 1980s, served on the CAUCE Canada board, and currently works for Montreal B2B ISP Openface.

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Matt Vernhout, Director-at-large

Matt Vernhout has experience working with several leading Email Service providers, both in Canada and the USA. He has participated on the Canadian Federal Government's Anti-Spam Task Force and is the lead representative for ThinData participation in industry organizations such as MAAWG, as the Director, Delivery & ISP Relations.

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Matt Sergeant, Director-at-large

Matt Sergeant is the senior antispam technologist for Messagelabs.

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Dennis Dayman, Director-at-large

Dennis Dayman has more than twelve (12) years of experience combating spam and improving email delivery through industry policy, ISP relations and technical solutions. Currently is StrongMail's Director of Deliverability, Privacy, and Standards. Dayman worked at Verizon Online within the Security and Legal Compliance group, served as a senior consultant at Mail Abuse Prevention Systems (MAPS), started his career as Director of Policy and Legal External Affairs for Southwestern Bell Global, and is a longstanding member of the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) and several industry boards.

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Cristos Velasco, Director-at-large

Cristos Velasco is a Mexican attorney and a consumer advocate with practical experience in the fields of international trade, telecommunications and technology law. He is the founder and general director of the North American Consumer Project on Electronic Commerce (NACPEC www.nacpec.org), a non- profit organization that facilitates information on the regulation of the Internet and e-commerce consumer protection, and provides legal advice and support to Mexican consumers who have experienced deceptive and fraudulent practices on the Internet. He lectures on topics related to the regulation of the Internet, e-commerce, spam privacy, data protection law and policy in Mexican universities. He is the author of the Monograph on Mexico of the Cyberlaw supplement of the International Encyclopaedia of Laws, a publication of Kluwer Law International.

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Adam Atlas, Director-at-large

Me. Adam Atlas, Attorney at Law, is an electronic transactions lawyer based in Montreal. Atlas is a member of the Bars of Quebec and New York, and advises principally payment processing and other electronic transactions companies in Canada and the USA.

2007-03-07