MailChannels develops and markets the world’s fastest real-time SMTP transport. The company’s MailChannels Outbound detects and prevents spam from leaving service provider networks, without inconveniencing customers in any way. Recognized by Red Herring Canada Top 50 and the MIT Spam Conference, MailChannels protects Fortune 500 companies, leading service providers and universities worldwide.

MailChannels Origins

Launched in 2003, MailChannels provides email security technology to help organizations stay off of blacklists by stopping outbound spam from leaving the network. The idea grew out of weekly brainstorming sessions between Ken Simpson and Will Whitaker after the anti-spam company they worked for was acquired by anti-virus vendor Sophos. MailChannels was founded on the belief that there were more efficient ways to fight email spam and detect botnet infections than simply content filtering. This boils down to a few things:

Breakthrough Technology

Will and Ken's industry experience led them to create a combination of two breakthrough technologies that make MailChannels incredibly effective:

• a carrier-scale SMTP proxy that leverages a highly efficient event-driven software architecture
• transparent filtering capability designed to detect and eliminate outbound spam flowing out of subscriber networks on port 25

Continuous Innovation

MailChannels' mission is to provide the world's fastest real-time SMTP transport to the largest service providers in the world. Quite simply, we are faster moving and more innovative.

Achievements

Since our first commercial product release in 2006, we have earned praise from industry insiders and customers worldwide:

• 2005: Key Patent Filings
• 2006: Traffic Control 2.0 Release, First Fortune-500 Customer
• 2007: Awarded MIT Spam Conference Best Paper Award
• 2008: Awarded Red Herring Canada Top-50 Award
• 2009: Traffic Control 4.0 Release: Industry-Leading 15M Messages Per Hour
• 2010: Launch of MailChannels Transparent Antispam™: Industry's First Carrier-Scale Transparent Spam Filtering
• 2011: Initial Tier-1 Carrier Deployments with MailChannels Transparent Antispam. Launch of MailChannels Smart Outbound Relay.

Management Team

Ken Simpson, CEO and Founder

Ken first experienced the excitement and magic of software when his father brought home one of the first IBM PCs in 1980, teaching him how to write simple programs in BASIC. Since then, he has combined his passion for software with entrepreneurism, founding or participating as an early-stage employee in four successful startups in a broad range of technical areas including Voice-over-IP, Wireless Internet, and of course anti-spam. Ken has a First Class Honors degree in Computer Engineering from Simon Fraser University and Santa Clara University. At the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG), Ken splits his time running the botnet and web abuse sub-committees, as well as assisting in the work of the outbound abuse sub-committee.

Mike Smith, Director of Development

Mike Smith has managed productive development teams at numerous successful startups for over ten years. As one of the first developers hired at ActiveState, Mike was instrumental in designing and developing the highly successful PerlMX email security product, which attracted computer security pioneer Sophos to purchase the company. At ActiveState, Mike was also responsible for implementing key initiatives in e-commerce, licensing, and customer support.

Scott McKay, Senior Developer

Previously with SAP Business Objects, where he worked on cloud applications as part of a rigorously managed development team, Scott leads the development of MailChannels Smart Outbound Relay™. Scott has a Bachelor of Applied Science in Engineering Physics (Computer Science Option) from the University of British Columbia.

Desmond Liao, Director of Marketing

Desmond is responsible for demand generation and corporate communications. Previously, he held positions at Hoggan + Associates, a leading public relations agency representing clients such as SAP Business Objects and Electronic Arts Canada. Earlier, he managed Community Relations for OMNI TV (formerly Channel M). Desmond has a B.A. from Simon Fraser University, Dean’s Honor Roll, and is an alumnus of Leaders of Tomorrow by the Vancouver Board of Trade.

Board of Directors

Ken Simpson, CEO

See description above.

Eric Winsborrow, Director

Eric Winsborrow was the VP of Product Marketing for McAfee, where he conceived and executed the most successful launch in company history, "Total Protection Solutions," repositioning the company from anti-virus to security risk management. Eric also held executive positions at security companies, including Symantec, Sygate, and Cloudmark, and unified communications vendors Cisco, Lucent and Nortel.

Will Whittaker, Co-Founder and Director

Computer security expert and developer Will Whittaker, brings 10 years of computer security leadership to MailChannels. As an early employee at ActiveState, Will was one of the initial developers of PerlMX, which later became the industry leading PureMessage anti-spam solution. In 2003, ActiveState was acquired by Sophos, a leading computer security company. Mr. Whittaker is a published author and guest speaker at numerous international conferences including the O'Reilly Open Source Conference. For many years Will has also been a key organizer of the annual CanSecWest security conference, a world-renowned event for computer security professionals.

Careers

MailChannels' people are our most valuable asset. We offer full extended health benefits, and a healthy work environment that promotes quality of life and personal development as aspects of your career. View Open Positions.