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. John 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), board member of the Internet Society, and a member of the ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC).
Neil Schwartzman, Executive Director
Neil Schwartzman has been involved in community and professional anti-spam efforts in various leadership capacities since 1995. Neil 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 Awards Committee.
Kelly Molloy, Secretary
Kelly Molloy is the Senior Program Manager at Farsight Security, Inc. Previously, she worked with CISCO/SpamCop, Return Path, and the Mail Abuse Protections Systems (MAPS)
Sam Masiello, Executive Board
Sam Masiello has been working with email, messaging, and fighting internet pollution for over 20 years. Sam currently works as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Gates Corporation. Previously, he served as in an application security role at Groupon, as Chief Security Officer at Return Path and as a member of the Board of Directors for the Messaging, Malware, and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG), the Steering Committees of the Online Trust Alliance (OTA) and a member of the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). Additionally, He was the Director of Threat Management for McAfee where he was responsible for the strategy, vision, support, and threat research for all of their anti-spam products.
Don Blumenthal, Executive Board
Don Blumenthal is an adjunct professor at the University of Michigan and Michigan State University, specializing in cybercrime, information security and privacy, and Internet governance issues, and Senior Policy Adviser to the Public Interest Registry.
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.
Matthew Vernhout, Executive Board
Matthew Vernhout, is the Director of Privacy at 250ok and is a Certified International Privacy Professional (Canada) with nearly two decades of experience in email marketing. Matthew has experience working for several leading Email Service Providers, both in Canada and the USA. Matthew contributed to the Canadian Federal Task Force on Spam. He actively shares his expertise on industry trends, serving as director at large of the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (CAUCE), vice chair of the Email Experience Council (eec), and senior administrator of the Email Marketing Gurus group. He is a trusted industry thought-leader, speaking frequently at email marketing and technology conferences around the globe, and maintaining his celebrated blog, EmailKarma.net. Matthew has contributed to several benchmark publications during his career including DMARC Adoptions Among e-Retailers, The EEC’s Global Email Marketing Compliance Guide, The Impact of CASL on Email Marketing, and more.
You can find his blog at EmailKarma.net and on twitter @emailkarma.
Allison Nixon, Director-at-large
Allison is a threat researcher, verifier of leaks, and hunter of humans. She has been a background source for numerous investigations and articles that focus on the post-breach issue of "who dunnit?". She performs original threat research and is at the forefront of answering questions that people have not yet thought to ask. In 2013, she spoke at Blackhat about bypassing DDOS protection. In 2014, she released a paper detailing methods for vetting leaked data. She has been looking into the issue of "booters" and DDOS services. She researches DDOS attribution, cybercrime attribution, and criminal communities. In her spare time she grows tomatoes and makes puns.
Joe St Sauver, Director-at-large
Joe St Sauver, Ph.D., is a Distinguished Scientist with Farsight Security, Inc. Joe came to Farsight in 2014 from the University of Oregon (where he worked for the Computing Center/Information Services for roughly 28 years), and Internet2/InCommon, where he was Internet2's Nationwide Security Programs Manager, and was responsible (under a UO contract) for the InCommon Certificate Service and Multifactor Program.
In addition to serving on the CAUCE Board, Joe's remains active in a number of other cyber security efforts, including serving as:
- One of half a dozen Senior Technical Advisors for M3AAWG (the Messaging, Mobile and Malware Anti-Abuse Working Group)
- A member of the Research and Education Information Sharing and Analysis Center Technical Advisory Group (REN-ISAC TAG).
- A member of the Global Cyber Alliance TAC
Joe routinely writes and presents on a variety of cyber security topics. Many of his public talks can be found linked from Joe's personal home page at https://www.stsauver.com/joe/
Tom Grasso, Director-at-large
Tom Grasso is a retired FBI agent with over 25 years of cybersecurity experience. During his time with the FBI he dedicated his career to finding ways for private sector and law enforcement to collaborate on defeating priority cyber threats. He worked for the FBI's Regional Computer Crime Squad in Chicago and the High Technology Crimes Task Force in Pittsburgh. He went on to be the first FBI agent assigned to the National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance (NCFTA) in Pittsburgh where he led joint operations with private sector targeting botnets, malware and the cyber underground. Tom is currently the Chief Global Strategy Officer for Qintel where he continues his work on private sector/law enforcement collaboration.
Dave Piscitello, Director-at-large
Dave Piscitello has been involved in Internet technology for over 40 years. He regularly collaborates with the information security, operations, and law enforcement communities on a diverse range of security issues related to the Domain Name System and domain name registration processes, including phishing, spam, botnets, DDoS attacks, domain hijacking and registration abuses.
Dave's research includes proxy and private domain registration abuse, REST-based Internet directory services, domain seizures and DNS abuse investigative techniques. While Vice President of Security at ICANN, Dave directed the development of DAAR, a domain name abuse reporting system for generic Top-level Domains. Dave has authored books on Internet protocols, remote access, and Voice over Internet Protocol Security ). He publishes articles regularly on Internet security, DNS, anti-phishing, malware, Internet policy and privacy.
Dave is a member of the board of the Antiphishing Working Group (APWG). He is an Associate Fellow of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and former technical advisory board member of A10 Networks, Cosine Communications, Covad Communications, Foundstone Inc, Intruvert Networks, and Watchguard Technologies.