Extensive security and messaging experience
Donald J. Massaro
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 Systems, 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
President and COO
With more than 30 years of high-tech industry experience, including executive leadership roles from the last 10 years in the messaging security space, Glen Vondrick heads Sendmail customer-facing, global operations including sales, professional services, customer technical support, business development, marketing, and sales operations. Under his leadership, Sendmail has transformed from an open source and commercial software company to become the trusted messaging advisors and leading supplier of messaging processing infrastructure appliances, applications, and services to the world’s largest enterprises.
Prior to Sendmail, 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. Previously, Vondrick has also held senior leadership positions as Senior Vice President, Field Operations at Inference Corporation (acquired by eGain Communications), Director of Worldwide OEM Sales at Autodesk Inc, and Vice President of Sales at Ithaca Software (acquired by Autodesk Inc.), following an early stellar sales and sales management 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.
You can read his blog posts here.
Gregory Shapiro
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
In his tenure at Sendmail, Shapiro has held prominent roles in the engineering, information technology, and business development departments, each time bringing the highest level of expertise and leadership to projects. After four years of leading Sendmail's products in production, he returned to improving those solutions, first in the business development group researching and evaluating partner products for the Sendmail Message Processing Engine and most recently as the engineering group's chief architect.
Prior to Sendmail, Shapiro began his professional career as a systems administrator for Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) after graduating from WPI with a degree in Computer Science in 1992.
Shapiro is a FreeBSD committer, has served as program committee member for BSDCon 2002, and program chairman for BSDCon 2003. In addition, he has contributed to the past three editions of the O'Reilly sendmail book.
You can read his blog posts here.
Kevin Leusing
Vice President, Engineering
Kevin Leusing brings more than 25 years of professional experience to Sendmail. As the Vice President of Engineering, Kevin’s primary goal is to deliver Sendmail customers high quality and feature packed products enabling them to streamline their messaging infrastructure and ensure secure deliverability of mission critical email. Leusing’s prior experience leading Sendmail’s renowned professional services organization gives him the customer centric point-of-view required to develop and deliver products that automatically make it to the top of any Global 2000 organizations short list. Kevin also had senior leadership roles at other leading security and messaging companies including Voltage Security (a Sendmail encryption partner), IBM Global Services, and has significant experience managing large technology projects for Fortune 1000 companies with management consulting firms Synova and KPMG.
Kevin holds a BS degree in Mathematics from Texas Tech University
Ian Emery
Vice President, 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.
Stephanie Nevin
Vice President, Marketing and Business Development
Stephanie Nevin brings more than 15 years of high tech industry experience to Sendmail. As Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, Nevin directs Sendmail's corporate and product marketing teams, and strategic alliances 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.
Rene Pharisien
Vice President, Americas
Rene Pharisien has been a successful sales leader and executive in the technology market for over two decades. As Vice President of Americas Sales, Pharisien is responsible for managing and growing Sendmail's product and services revenue in the United States, Canada, Latin and South America.
In his career, Pharisien directed high growth enterprise sales teams at Siebel Systems, Epiphany, 3Com, Sequent Systems, and Prime Computer. Most recently he held the position of Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing for DecisionView following executive assignments with Niku and Kintera. He also formed his own investment advisory business helping early stage technology companies obtain first rounds of institutional financing.
Pharisien earned a B.S. degree in Marketing from Portland State University in Oregon.
Jim Seaman
Vice President, Federal and System Integrators
Jim Seaman has been involved in technology sales, marketing, and management for 27 years. He has held senior positions with Netezza, Akamai, Control Data, Nynex, and Optimos - where he was President. During the last nine years at Netezza and Akamai, Seaman began new government divisions and scaled them to tens of millions of dollars in annual revenue. In addition to his success in government sales, Seaman also has extensive experience marketing enterprise messaging infrastructure solutions in both private and public sectors.
In his role with Sendmail, Seaman is responsible for managing and growing the federal business as well as driving revenue generation from indirect channels - predominately large System Integrators.
Seaman earned a B.S. degree in Marketing from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Cheryl Widman
Vice President of Human Resources
Cheryl brings over 20 years of experience in business management and human resources to her role as VP of Human Resources. In this position she is responsible for organizational development, performance management, management coaching, policy recommendation, salary and benefits, team building, employee relations and the hiring process. Prior to this appointment, Cheryl served as Director of Human Resources at Sendmail.
Prior to Sendmail, Cheryl has held positions in the human resource departments of companies including Arrival Communications (multi-state telecommunications), Summa Management Associates, San Francisco Business Times, Automatic Data Processing, and United Cerebral Palsy Association.
Cheryl earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in business management from University of Central Oklahoma. She has also earned a certification from the Human Resources Certification Institute for Professional in Human Resources.
Sherry Walden
Vice President, Field Services
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.
U. Heather Ogan
Director of Finance and Administration
Heather brings over 15 years of Accounting experience to her role as Director of Finance and Administration including 6+ years in Public Accounting. In this position she is responsible for the Finance, Accounting and Administrative organization of the company, including cash management and financial reporting. Prior to this role, Heather served as Accounting Manager and Controller at Sendmail.
Prior to Sendmail, Heather held positions in Accounting in Healthcare, Pharmaceutical and High tech industries. While in public accounting practice in Virginia and California, Heather performed audits, compilations, management consulting and tax work for a wide cross section of industries and non-profit organizations as well as individuals, trusts and estates.
Heather earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Maryland System (College Park), and earned her CPA certification in Virginia. She is currently a California licensed CPA.
Eric Allman
Founder
As Sendmail's co-founder, Eric Allman authored sendmail, the world's first Internet Mail program, in 1981 while at the University of California at Berkeley. He has been widely recognized with honor and awards of distinction as an industry luminary for his contribution in spawning internet email. Allman continues to be a frequent speaker at industry conferences.
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.