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About Us | Board l Contact Us l Membership l Members l Members Site Board of Directors, Strategic Advisors & Steering Committee |
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Erik M. Johnson |
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Howard A. Schmidt President & CEO of R & H Security Consulting LLC Former CSO Microsoft, CISO eBay & White House Cyber Security Advisor Howard has had a long and distinguished career in defense, law enforcement and corporate security spanning almost 40 years. He retired from the White House after 31 years of public service in local and federal government. Prior to forming R & H Security Consulting Howard was the former CSO at Microsoft Corporation, CISO at eBay and appointed by President Bush as a Cyber Security Advisor to the White House. |
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Craig Spiezle, Chairman & Founder Director, Security Product Management, Microsoft Internet Explorer As Chairman of AOTA, Craig is responsible for setting the strategic vision of the organization while representing AOTA to industry, business and governmental organizations. Craig is the Steering Committee of APWG, Interactive Marketing Council of the DMA, on the Editorial Board of SC Magazine and the Director of internet Security & Privacy product management. Craig is responsible for Microsoft's Internet safety efforts anti-phishing and botnet technologies focusing on prevention, detection and remediation. Spiezle manages the company's involvement with industry working groups, industry partners and governmental agencies. Starting with Microsoft in 1992, Spiezle has held various managerial positions including international channel development, OEM licensing and product support, where he led product launches, business development and technology partnerships. During his tenure, Spiezle pioneered research into the convergence of technology and an aging society, authoring books and papers and presenting worldwide including to the United Nations, U.S. Senate and to other organizations demonstrating the benefits of computing. Spiezle hold a BS in Photographic Sciences from Rochester Institute of Technology, and an MBA from Seattle University. |
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Pablo Stern Director of Engineering, Messaging & Web Security - Symantec Corporation Pablo is a Director of Engineering for Messaging and Web Security. In this role, he oversees the development of the company's award-winning anti-spam messaging solutions, which monitors and processes more than a billion e-mail messages per day worldwide. Before joining Symantec, Pablo was a Group Program Manager at Windows Live Hotmail. In this role, he led the team in charge of anti-spam and e-mail delivery. During his tenure, Pablo worked on integrating various anti-spam solutions into Hotmail including Symantec Brightmail, SmartScreen, SenderScore, anti-phishing and Sender ID and increasing industry awareness through Postmaster initiatives. Prior to Microsoft, Pablo held software development positions at various start-ups and communication solutions providers. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. where he holds dual bachelor's degrees, with high honors in Computer Science, and Engineering. |
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Ken Takahashi Vice President, Corporate and International Development - Return Path Inc. Ken oversees Return Path's international operations, direction and growth as well as advises each line of business on development opportunities. He joined Return Path from DoubleClick (email division succeeded by Epsilon) where he was Vice President of Strategic Partnerships. In that capacity, Ken was responsible for all aspects of global partner strategy, management and execution in addition to running the industry's first international email deliverability team located throughout North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region. His tenure within the email marketing industry dates back to 1999 when he joined MessageMedia. He has spent the better part of the past eight years fighting spam and advocating on behalf of the online marketing community around the world. Prior to email, Ken has also held positions at Hachette Filipacchi Media and VNU's Claritas division. Along with being a frequent industry speaker and contributor to leading publications, Ken also serves as an advisor and board member to several companies and organizations. He holds a Bachelors of Science degree from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University. |
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Jeff Wilbur Vice President of Marketing, Iconix Jeff serves as the AOTA Steering Committee board representatives, elected by the Steering Committee and AOTA strategic advisors. Jeff has over 25 years of experience in high technology, all focused on bringing new, industry-transforming communications technologies to market. He has been involved at the founding stages of Ethernet, routing, switching, VOIP, unified messaging, and email authentication and services in both startups and Fortune 500 companies. He has a BSEE from Kansas State University and MSEE from Stanford University. |
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Organizational Partners & Strategic Advisors Working with the leading organizations committed to eliminating online abuse and protecting users and business, AOTA has formed strategic alliances with the following non-profit member organizations. AOTA members are encouraged to visit their sites for more information. |
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 David
JevansChairman, Anti-Phishing Working Group, CEO, IronKey Inc David Jevans' career in Internet security spans more than 10 years, having held senior management positions at Tumbleweed Communications, Valicert, Teros, and Differential. Serving on the CEO's technology council at Apple Computer, Mr. Jevans helped to develop the company's Internet strategy. He also worked in the advanced technology group at Apple, and ran an engineering project involving advanced operating systems. Currently, he serves as the chairman of the Anti-Phishing Working Group, a consortium of over 1,500 financial services companies, ISPs, law enforcement agencies and technology vendors dedicated to fighting email fraud and identity theft. |
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 Ari
SchwartzDeputy Director - Anti Spyware Coalition (ASC) Schwartz leads the Anti-Spyware Coalition (ASC), including leading anti-spyware software companies, academics, and public interest groups dedicated to defeating spyware. In 2006, Schwartz won the RSA award for Excellence in Public Policy for his work building the ASC and other efforts against spyware. Schwartz works for the Center for Democracy and Technology, where his work focuses on increasing individual control over personal and public information. He promotes privacy protections in the digital age and expanding access to government information via the Internet. He regularly testifies before Congress and Executive Branch Agencies on these issues. |
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 eco
is the registered association of German internet enterprises. Founded in 1995,
its aim is to enhance the commercial use of the internet, thereby strengthening
Germany's position both in the global internet economy and as a business
location in general. As a body, eco sees itself as the advocate and mouthpiece
of German internet business in all relevant political, legislative and
international groupings. It currently represents 300 members, promoting their
commercial development as well as providing advice and support to companies
whose products and services are available via the internet. All of the
approximately 150 major providers that form the backbone of the German internet
are members of eco. It runs the largest German data exchange, De-CIX (Deutscher
Commercial Internet Exchange). This exchange forms the heart of the German
internet and is the third largest in Europe, covering about 80 percent of
national and 35 percent of international network traffic.
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 The
eec is a global professional organization that strives to enhance the image of
email marketing and communications, while celebrating and actively advocating
its critical importance in business, and its ROI value. We are committed to
regularly conducting a broad series of email initiatives for a variety of
organizations that highlight the positive impact and importance of email as a
marketing tool, communications vehicle and branding device. Additionally, eec
members are setting the standards for email through our Marketing
Roundtables. The eec
members who belong to our organization are representative of organizations,
agencies, advertisers, technology partners, clients and companies focused on the
potential of email marketing via mobile and other digital devices.
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 Michael
S. ZaneisVice President, Public Policy - Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Mike Zaneis is the Vice President of Public Policy for the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). Mike joined IAB in January of 2007 and runs their Washington D.C. office. Prior to joining IAB, Mike served as Executive Director of Technology and E-Commerce at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. As the chief technology and telecommunications lobbyist, he oversaw issues affecting the business community pertaining to telecommunications, data security, intellectual property, counterfeiting, piracy, online and consumer privacy, and e-commerce. Prior to joining the Chamber's lobby team, Mike served as the organization's Director of Technology Policy. He has worked in politics for the past 12 years in Washington, D.C. and Michigan. He received his bachelors degree from Michigan State University and both his J.D. and Masters in Public Policy from Georgetown University. |
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 Fran MaierExecutive Director & President - TRUSTe Fran Maier is the Executive Director and President of TRUSTe, the leading brand in online privacy. Ms. Maier brings 15+ years of experience building consumer brands and enhancing consumer trust. Since Ms. Maier joined TRUSTe in 2001, the independent, non-profit has evolved to expand consumer choice from Websites to email and now, downloadable software. During that time TRUSTe has strengthened its monitoring and dispute resolution platforms while growing in influence and certifying more than 2000 websites. Ms. Maier speaks widely on the issues of privacy, security, and trust, has appeared before the Federal Trade Commission and the US Department of Commerce, and has testified before the United States House of Representative's Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection. |
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Steering Committee Member Companies Bank of America www.bankofamerica.com Box Sentry www.boxsentry.com Cisco / IronPort www.cisco.com Datran Media - www.datranmedia.com Epsilon - www.epsilon.com * Goodmail Systems - www.goodmailsystems.com Habeas - www.habeas.com Iconix - www.iconix.com Internet Identity - www.internetidentity.com MarkMonitor - www.markmonitor.com Message Systems - www.messagesystems.com Microsoft Corporation - www.microsoft.com * MX Logic - www.mxlogic.com Return Path - www.returnpath.biz Symantec Corporation* - www.symantec.com * VeriSign - www.versign.com Members > *Founding Member |
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