Rich has built successful technology businesses for more than 20 years. Prior to joining SparkPost as CEO, he was Group VP of the Oracle Data Cloud, which he turned into one of the fastest growing divisions at Oracle. Prior to Oracle, Rich was CEO of AddThis and led the company through rapid growth and its profitable acquisition by Oracle. Rich also founded Mt. Weather Capital and RedShift Ventures. He was responsible for multiple exits, including Cronos Integrated Microsystems (acquired by JDS Uniphase for $750mm).
Outside of work Rich is a competitive cyclist and he races and rides all over the world.

He holds an MBA and JD from the University of Maryland, and a BA in Economics from Denison University.

Kath Pay lives and breathes email marketing and is recognized as an international email marketing thought leader. She devotes her time to developlng customer-centric ecommerce journeys using a holistic, multi-channel approach.
Being an industry veteran of 21 years, Kath is a regular author, expert contributor, international Keynote speaker, and trainer. Some of the brands she has helped are: Barclays, Hiscox, Facebook & Ebay – to name just a few.

With more than 25 years in the Adtech, Martech, data and analytics market, Hal Muchnick is Chief Commercial Officer of SparkPost, responsible for the commercialization and market adoption of SparkPost’s products, and driving results across Sales, Business Development, Marketing, and Customer Success. 

Prior to joining SparkPost, Hal held senior leadership positions in successful enterprises, including AddThis - where he was instrumental in the company’s acquisition by Oracle-, Kontera, Operative, DoubleClick, LowerMybills.com, and Experian.

When not working, he likes to read, sail, cook, travel and spend time with family.

Maarten has more than 18 years of experience in software and systems development from a variety of roles and positions, such as software engineer, IT architect, project manager, development manager and CTO. During the last 10 years, he has developed a unique expertise on email delivery service, including email marketing applications, outbound email infrastructure and deliverability. He is the founder of Postmastery.

Amie Durr is responsible for delivering technologies that help businesses support and drive their messaging needs with a focus on scale, usability, engagement, and analytics. As the only person she knows with a background in both Mathematics and Anthropology, Amie has spent her career marrying her love of data and technology with her love of understanding people and processes. She is an evangelist and strong supporter of innovation and generally doing cool stuff, championing both the voice of the customer and the market, as well as the creative, technical skills of the engineers.

As the leader of SparkPost’s on premises software business, Joal is responsible for driving adoption and technology wins for SparkPost’s many PowerMTA and Momentum customers. He loves helping companies grow through long term trust-based relationships that bring results for all involved. Joal has a background in business development and law, and holds a JD from the University of Maryland. Outside work, he is an avid rock climber and lover of any excuse to be outside.

After a degree in music, Kieran Cooper spent 15 years in marketing for arts organisations where he made extensive use of technology, including setting up one of the first arts websites in 1995. He moved to the field of email in 2005, working for Lyris in the UK. Since 2014 he has been a Technical Account Manager at SparkPost, looking after enterprise customers all over EMEA including Booking.com, Vente Exclusive, Intercom and Capital One UK. He became a Certified Data Protection Officer in 2017.

Steve Henderson is Head of Deliverability at Emarsys. He is an email marketing, data protection, GDPR, e-Privacy, email deliverability, and information security expert. He specializes in email marketing compliance and email delivery optimization. Steve has worked with the DMA Email Council since 2012 producing practical compliance and deliverability guidance for the email marketing industry.

As the Vice President Compliance and IT Security of SparkPost, James leads all aspects of SparkPost’s IT Security and IT Compliance initiatives, bringing 20 years of experience in IT Security, IT Audit and Data Compliance. He has held leadership roles at some of the world’s largest public and private international companies across multiple industries ranging from manufacturing and leasing to entertainment/hospitality to high tech. Prior to joining SparkPost, James was Director of IT Security and Compliance for Hershey Entertainment and Resorts where he was responsible for IT Security, IT Risk & Governance and IT Compliance programs such as PCI DSS and GDPR.

James has broad experience in the IT Security and Compliance space including disaster recovery/BCP, application and database security, cloud security architecture and design, telecommunications, network security, international data governance, IT Risk and IT forensic investigations. James has also consulted in the public and private sector internationally and spoken on many IT Risk related topics, emerging technologies as well as helped organizations undergo business related IT transformation where security and compliance were a focus.

Scott Habicht has been in the computing industry for over 25 years. He's worked in support and sales engineering for PowerMTA & SparkPost for over 13 of those years. With his current position as Senior Director of Support, he is inspired to deliver high-quality, enterprise class customer service to the PowerMTA, SparkPost, and Momentum customers.

When not working, Scott is an avid craft beer drinker, lover of live music, and medium to long distance runner.

He holds an MS in Information Technology Project Management from University of Maryland, Global Campus and a BA in Psychology from University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Fernando A Fernández is a Technical Project Manager at Force24. For the past three years, Fernando’s core responsibility is to provide the best strategies to clients in order to improve/retain delivery, overall deliverability and monitoring live client campaigns.

Tamara has worked in email for more than 7 years and with PowerMTA for over 6. She joined dotdigital (formerly dotmailer) at the beginning of 2018 having previously worked at GoDaddy on their Sign-Up.to email platform. Tam knows that a holistic and data driven approach is required to continuously improve email delivery, and particularly enjoys collaborating with deliverability and compliance experts to maximise delivery and inbox placement.

Stuart Ramwell is the Technical Operations Manager for j2Global’s MarTech divison, responsible for providing strategic leadership and process control across the Communicator, Campaigner and smtp.com brands. With over 15 years of experience in SaaS products and environments, Stuart redesigned and built Communicator’s latest production environment from the ground up.

Sarah has been working in the Email Industry for the past 4 years. She is Moosend's Deliverability Expert, also supervising the Deliverability and Support Teams. Best known for her workarounds and finding solutions for any problem!

Sarah is on a mission to fight spammers and provide all Moosend users with the best deliverability tips. When not doing those things, she plays around with SQL and API.

As the Manager of Compliance & Deliverability Operations, Tonya is a thought leader in her field providing direction and feedback during this exciting time of innovation. Tonya manages a team that maintains shared and dedicated environments to ensure that reputations stay positive and abusers are quickly identified and removed from the network. Tonya has worked in the email industry for over 20 years. Her experience comes from having worked on both the receiving (ISP) and the sending (ESP) side of Email.

Sjoerd Engelblik is Product Manager with 8 years of experience in developing and implementing email marketing software. Starting off at Tripolis Solutions as a support agent and software trainer, he then ran implementation projects and became a product owner for some of the email marketing solutions that Tripolis built. For a year now, he has been working as a Product Manager at Booking.com where he is building new infrastructure at scale to support all one to one marketing communications that Booking.com deliver to their customers.

Tom currently directs Sales Engineering and On Premises Customer Success at SparkPost.

For over a decade, Tom has driven customer-facing, international solutions teams at SparkPost to ensure customer success worldwide.

Dmitry is the Founder and CEO at Stripo.email and eSputnik, and an expert in email marketing automation. He is a licensed specialist in Lead Management and Email Messaging according to Meclabs, the world famous company that runs numerous investigations in marketing.

He’s a speaker at multiple specialized conferences in Estonia, Germany, the USA, Portugal, the Netherlands and Russia, including: E-commerce Berlin Expo (Berlin), Tripolis (Amsterdam), FINADTECH (Tallinn), eCommer (Kiev), Mailing Day (Moscow), Mailcon (Ekaterinburg).

Mick started in 2001 in email marketing at the first Dutch full-service email marketing agency. He fell in love with the medium and specialized in this field of marketing. Soon he devoted himself to the Dutch DMA and co-wrote the current email industry code and co-founded the National Email Benchmark. He also became more interested in data and privacy and became data protection officer last year. In addition to his company STAHRK, he is a partner in Mandrino.io, e-mailmarketingtraining.nl and teacher for SRM.

David is an experienced product manager. He has been working at Seznam.cz for over 8 years mainly on the Email.cz service (freemail) and participated in the development of own antispam, which Seznam uses. Thanks to this he was able to gain a lot of experience regarding the rules of deliverability and best practices, which he sometimes tries to pass on at domestic and international conferences.

Jakub has been in love with computers since the '80s, having had his first Commodore smuggled from West Germany. In the early '90s, when Prague's technical university got its internet connection, he started digging into networking and systems management. At Mailkit he's responsible for overall business & product strategy as well as deliverability. Deliverability & email best-practices have been at the core of his interests and Mailkit's foundations since co-founding the platform 15 years ago.

Cat Herder. I love email!

Thomas has been running the French National Spam Reporting Centre - Signal Spam - for the last 8 years, building and operating FBL and aggregated data feeds as well as working with law enforcement on tackling cyber-crimes threats. Thomas has experience in both e-mail marketing issues and cybercrime mitigation, having designed the tools Signal Spam offers its members, and helped establishing the legal frame in which it operates.

Alex Irimia has been working for 8 years in Email Deliverability and joined Postmastery in 2017. He currently manages deliverability and email infrastructure for multiple Postmastery clients, large brands and ESPs. His main focus is keeping PMTA config up to date from a deliverability perspective. He also closely works with clients to improve sender reputation.

Harold is the Technical Product Manager for SparkPost's On-Premises Products as well as key aspects of SparkPost Cloud. He has a Bachelor's of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Master's Degree in Resource Economics. Harold enjoys taking new ideas from conception through commercialization and focussed on developing IoT environmental monitoring systems prior to joining the SparkPost Team. For relaxation he enjoys traveling, hiking, and spending time with friends and family.

Thomas has been running the French National Spam Reporting Centre - Signal Spam - for the last 8 years, building and operating FBL and aggregated data feeds as well as working with law enforcement on tackling cyber-crimes threats. Thomas has experience in both e-mail marketing issues and cybercrime mitigation, having designed the tools Signal Spam offers its members, and helped establishing the legal frame in which it operates.

Alex Irimia has been working for 8 years in Email Deliverability and joined Postmastery in 2017. He currently manages deliverability and email infrastructure for multiple Postmastery clients, large brands and ESPs. His main focus is keeping PMTA config up to date from a deliverability perspective. He also closely works with clients to improve sender reputation.