Executive Team

Extensive security and messaging experience

Donald J. Massaro

President and CEO

Donald Massaro brings more than 30 years of success building and managing both public and privately-held technology companies. Mr. Massaro is responsible for strategic planning and execution, and corporate leadership to establish Sendmail as a market leader in the emerging content security market.

Most recently, he held the position of CEO and co-founder at Reconnex Corporation, a provider of content-monitoring security appliances. Mr. Massaro began his career at Shugart Associates as founder and CEO. Xerox acquired Shugart Associates and in 1979 appointed Massaro President of the Office Products Division. As head of the Office Products Division (XOPD), Massaro created a business unit to develop and market products based on the technologies developed at Xerox's famed Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). In 1981 XOPD announced Ethernet and the Star Information System that incorporated and introduced the world to a number of office technologies that have become standards: Ethernet, the Iconic Desktop, Client-Server Architecture, Electronic Printing, etc.

After Xerox, Mr. Massaro was a founder (1982) and CEO of Metaphor Computer System, which was acquired by IBM in 1991. Don has held CEO positions at Silicon Gaming (SGIC), MainStreet Networks and Array Networks.

Massaro holds a Bachelor of Science degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of Notre Dame and received a Master of Science degree in mechanical engineering from Northwestern University. In addition, Massaro was a PhD engineering candidate at the University of California at Berkeley.

Glen D. Vondrick

Executive Vice President and COO

Glen D. Vondrick brings more than 25 years of high-tech industry experience to Sendmail and has spent the last 10 years in the messaging security space. In his role, Vondrick spearheads Sendmail's global operations including sales, professional services, customer support, business development, marketing and manufacturing — directing teams located on three continents.

Most recently, Vondrick served as President and Chief Executive Officer of FaceTime Communications, where he was responsible for repositioning the company to become the market leader in Instant Messaging management, compliance, and security solutions for Global 2000 enterprises. Vondrick has also held executive positions at Inference Corporation (acquired by eGain Communications in 2000), Autodesk Inc., and Ithaca Software (acquired by Autodesk in 1993) following a stellar sales career with Prime Computer Inc., and Honeywell Information Systems.

Vondrick received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business and Public Administration from the University of Arizona.

Eric Allman

Chief Science Officer

As Sendmail's Chief Science Officer and co-founder, Eric Allman leads the company's technology strategy and direction. Allman authored sendmail, the world's first Internet Mail program, in 1981 while at the University of California at Berkeley. He continues to spearhead sendmail.org, the global team of volunteers that maintain and support the sendmail Open Source platform.

At the forefront of industry-leading trends and technology, Allman is currently a leader of the movement to adopt an international standard for Sender Domain Authentication. Allman, backed by a cross-industry group of companies (Cisco, Yahoo, PGP, et. al.), co-authored the draft specification for DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), and submitted it to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

Before joining Sendmail, Allman served as CTO for Sift, Inc., which is now part of 24/7 Media, Inc. He was lead developer and provided a large-scale research software infrastructure on the Mammoth project at U.C. Berkeley. Allman has contributed as a senior developer at the International Computer Science Institute to neural network systems design. Allman was also Chief Programmer on the INGRES Relational Database Management System and an early contributor to Berkeley UNIX, authoring syslog, tset, the troff -me macros, and trek in addition to sendmail. For several years, he has co-authored the "C Advisor" column for UNIX Review magazine. He was formerly a member of the Board of Directors of USENIX Association and is currently a member of the ACM Queue Editorial Review Board.

Allman holds an Masters of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.

Stephanie Nevin

Vice President, Product Marketing & Application Solutions

Stephanie Nevin brings more than 15 years of high tech industry experience to Sendmail. As Vice President, Product Marketing and Application Solutions, Nevin directs Sendmail's product and application offerings, and strategic alliance relationships including: Technology, OEM, Channel, and System Integrator relationships.

Most recently, Nevin was a Business Development Executive with LRN, a leading Ethics and Compliance program provider, where she targeted Fortune 1000 companies in the western US to adopt, design and implement compliance and ethics programs. Prior to LRN, Ms. Nevin was Director of Worldwide Field Alliances at Sendmail where she developed channels for the launch of the Sentrion Email Gateway Security Appliance and expanded Sendmail's OEM partnerships. Previously, Stephanie held Sales and Business Development positions at eGain, and Face Time Communications.

Ms. Nevin holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from the California State University, Chico.

Kort van Bronkhorst

Vice President, Corporate Marketing

Kort van Bronkhorst is a versatile communications professional, with almost three decades of technology marketing experience on both the agency and client sides of the desk. At Sendmail, van Bronkhorst oversees all outbound messaging and communications activities, including public relations, analyst relations, branding and positioning, advertising, trade shows and events, and web-based marketing.

Prior to joining Sendmail, he served as Senior Vice President of Marketing at Phoenix Technologies where he managed corporate, field and channel marketing for the BIOS and security software company. From 2002-2005 van Bronkhorst was Vice President of Corporate Communications at Network Appliance, a leading provider of storage networks. He has also held executive positions at several startups and marketing companies, including 14 years at the helm of The van Bronkhorst Group, a 35-person B2B advertising and communications agency.

Mr. van Bronkhorst received his BS in Journalism/Advertising from the University of Oregon.

Sherry Walden

Vice President, Sales Enablement

Sherry Walden has over 20 years experience selling technology solutions, the last 7 years in the messaging, security, and compliance markets. As Vice President, Sales Enablement, Walden is responsible for the delivery of resources, services, and tools to increase the productivity of the field sales team. This includes lead generation programs, tracking and pipeline development as well as technical satisfaction in pre and post-sales.

Prior to Sendmail, Walden served as an executive at FaceTime Communications where she led major account sales in the Americas and developed indirect sales channels internationally. Under her sales leadership, FaceTime became the dominant market leader of solutions for compliance, security, and management of instant messaging within the Global 1000.

Previously, Walden has held management and technical sales positions at Inference Corporation and Texas Instruments.

Ms. Walden holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics from the Florida State University.

Ian Emery

Vice President, Sales, EMEA

Ian Emery has over 30 years experience in selling and supporting technology solutions, the last 6 years spent in the messaging, security, and compliance markets. As Vice President, EMEA, Emery is responsible for managing enterprise and channel sales, marketing and professional services across Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Formerly, Emery worked at Tumbleweed Communications, the last three years spent as Managing Director, and managed their move into indirect channel sales. Previous to this he held senior roles in enterprise sales companies such as Oracle Corporation and Industri-Matematik.

Mr. Emery holds a BSc Joint Honours degree in Computer Science and Pure Mathematics from the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Kuniteru Kojima

Vice President, Sales, Japan

Kuniteru Kojima brings more than 25 years of high tech industry experience to Sendmail. In his role, Kojima leads Sendmail's Japanese operations including sales, professional services, customer support, and marketing.

Most recently, Kojima served as President of Turbolinux Japan, where he was instrumental in securing 70 % of the Japanese Linux server market while managing marketing and product development also located in Japan. Kojima has held several executive positions at leading global technology companies in Japan: Object Design KK (acquired by Progress Software), Cheyenne Software KK (acquired by CA), Sybase KK, Stratus Computer KK, and Tandem Computers KK (acquired by HP).

Kojima received a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Physics from the Waseda University in Japan and a PhD in Physics from Tokyo University.

Mark W. Davis

Vice President, Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer

Mark Davis brings more than 15 years of experience in corporate accounting, finance, tax, treasury and M&A to Sendmail. In his role as, Vice President, Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer, Mark leads Sendmail's operations, human resources, and finance teams.

Davis has a proven track record of providing vision, planning and concrete financial analysis. Prior to Sendmail, Mark was Director of Finance and Administration at Reconnex where he helped guide the company through periods of high growth and rapid expansion.

As Corporate Controller for CAPSCO, an electronic component distribution company, Davis was responsible for directing the firm's finance, budgeting, treasury, audit, tax, accounting, and long-range forecasting activities and led the M&A team during the company's multi-million dollar acquisition by TTI, Inc. Mark has also worked in corporate finance for North American Phillips and the mutual fund industry.

Mr. Davis holds a Bachelors of Science and a Masters in Business Administration from San Jose State University.

Steve Comstock

Vice President, Customer Experience

Steve Comstock brings more than 15 years of high-tech experience to Sendmail. Comstock is responsible for improving the customer’s experience with Sendmail’s products including installability, manageability, reliability and scalability. He is also responsible for the Quality Assurance division and technical publications.

Most recently, Comstock served as Director of Collaboration Suite Services at Oracle Corporation. He was responsible for the validation, verification and deployment of all infrastructure products. Prior to this position, he spent several years at Oracle in a number of senior operational management roles.

Mr. Comstock holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems from Regis University.