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. Mr. Levine 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. Mr. Schwartzman 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.
Chris Lewis, Treasurer
Chris Lewis has been active in managing and fighting usenet and e-mail spam for over a 17 years. He is currently an Independent Security Consultant. Mr. Lewis formerly worked for Nortel, as Senior Architect, Email Security, and was a Senior Technical Adviser to MAAWG.
Kelly Molloy, Secretary
Ms. Molloy is an anti-spam researcher at CISCO SpamCop. Previously, she worked at Return Path, and at 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. Mr. Masiello currently works in an application security role at Groupon. Previously, he served as the 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.
Mr. Blumenthal 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, CIPP/C has experience working for several leading Email Service Providers, both in Canada and the USA. Mr. Vernhout contributed to the Canadian Federal Task Force on Spam, and is currently 250ok's Director of Privacy and Industry Relations, leading their representation to, and participation in, such email industry organizations as CAUCE and MAAWG. You can find his blog at EmailKarma.net
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 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
- A technical advisor to CyberGreen.
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/
Joe can be reached at stsauver@fsi.io or joe@stsauver.com
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.
Tom Grasso, Director-at-large
Tom has been a FBI Agent since 1998 and has worked for the FBI’s Regional Computer Crime Squad in Chicago and the High Technology Crimes Task Force in Pittsburgh. He has also served as the FBI Liaison to the CERT/CC at Carnegie Mellon University. Mr. Grasso is now part of the FBI’s Cyber Division and is assigned to the National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance (NCFTA) in Pittsburgh, a joint partnership between law enforcement, academia, and industry. Mr. Grasso is also an Adjunct Professor of Criminology at La Roche College in Pittsburgh.