Affiliations provided for professional identification purposes only; each member of the Board is participating solely in an individual capacity, rather than as a representative of any other organization.
John Levine, President
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 and later secretary/treasurer. Levine is a Senior Technical Adviser to the Messaging Anti-abuse Working Group (MAAWG).
Neil Schwartzman, Executive Director
Neil Schwartzman has been involved in community and professional anti-spam efforts in various leadership capacities since 1995. He was one of the founders of CAUCE Canada, sat on the Canadian Federal Task Force on Spam and the U.S. FCC's CSRIC Network Abuse Protection working groups 7 & 8. He is currently the Co-chair of the MAAWG Academic Committee and Vice-president of Receiver & Sender Relations at Message Bus.
Chris Lewis, Treasurer
Chris Lewis has been active in managing and fighting usenet and e-mail spam for over a 17 years. He currently works for Nortel, as Senior Architect, Email Security, and is a Senior Technical Adviser to MAAWG.
Sam Masiello, Secretary
Sam Masiello has been working with email, messaging, and fighting internet pollution for over 20 years. Most recently, Sam served as the Chief Security Officer at Return Path as well as represented his employers as a member of the Board of Directors for the Messaging, Malware, and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG) and on the Steering Committees of the Online Trust Alliance (OTA) andAnti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). In addition to his Board member duties within M3AAWG Sam has also represented the organization as co-chair of the Training Committee and of the Botnet Subcommittee. Prior to his time at Return Path Sam was the Director of Threat Management forMcAfee where he was responsible for the strategy, vision, support, and threat research for all of McAfee's award winning anti-spam products.
Don Blumenthal, Executive Board
Don Blumenthal is a consultant and an adjunct professor at the University of Michigan and Michigan State University, specializing in cybercrime, information security and privacy, and Internet governance issues. Don formerly was with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, where he created and managed the Internet Lab, its Internet investigations center. In that role, he was involved in spam law enforcement matters and established and oversaw the FTC’s spam database system.
Matt Vernhout, Exectutive Board
Matt Vernhout, CIPP/C has experience working for several leading Email Service Providers, both in Canada and the USA. He contributed to the Canadian Federal Task Force on Spam, and is currently ThinData 1:1's Director of Delivery & ISP Relations, leading their representation to, and participation in, such email industry organizations as MAAWG,
Shaun Brown, Director-at-large
Shaun Brown is a lawyer with nNovation LLP, an Ottawa-based law firm specializing in information law. He has several years of experience dealing with e-commerce, privacy and security-related issues from a policy and legal perspective, which includes advising the Canadian government on the development of anti-spam and privacy legislation.
Dennis Dayman, Director-at-large
Dennis Dayman has more than 14 years experience combating spam and improving email delivery through industry policy, ISP relations and technical solutions. Currently, Dennis is the Chief Privacy and Security Officer at Eloqua. 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 MAAWG's, and several other email industry association boards.
April Lorenzen, Director-at-large
Ms. Lorenzen is an anti-spam researcher, speaker and consultant. a Senior Technical Adviser to MAAWG, and CEO of Server Authority Inc.
Joe St Sauver, Director-at-large
Joe St Sauver serves as manager for Internet2's Security Programs under contract through the University of Oregon and is also a Senior Technical Advisor to MAAWG. He routinely presents on cyber security and abuse-related issues at national and international events, including recent topics on IPv6 and security; securing DNS and DNSSEC; fastflux web hosting; cyber war, cyber terrorism and cyber espionage; the insider threat; psychological decision making heuristics and their impact on anti-spam activities; the compatibility of security and privacy; cyberinfrastructure architectures, security and advanced applications; and spam, domain names and registrars. Some of St Sauver's publicly available talks are linked from www.uoregon.edu/~joe/
Jeff Williams, Director-at-large
Jeff Williams is a technology strategist specializing in security, privacy and former adjunct professor of risk management and telecommunications. With over twenty years in industry including twelve at Microsoft he has had numerous opportunities to make the internet a better place through the takedown of various botnets, partnership with law enforcement on a variety of matters, consultation with government bodies from numerous countries, and participation in various programs such as Microsoft's Project MARS and Microsoft Security Response Alliance. Jeff is also a regular speaker on a variety of security and privacy topics at industry events and an occasional guest lecturer for universities.
