SPEAKERS

Barry Abel
Chief Revenue Officer, Halon

Barry is an energetic and seasoned business leader with deep experience in both SaaS and enterprise software who has expertise scaling companies to mid eight figure ARR (annual recurring revenue). Extreme focus on revenue building activities across all customer facing touch points to include sales, marketing and CST (customer success team). Enterprise selling a specialty, with emphasis on leveraging ABM/ABS (Account Based Marketing/Account Based Selling) and Challenger Methodology. Possessing broad-based business acumen with true understanding of how to drive profitable growth and bring an operational mind set focused on metrics, KPI’s and accountability.

Ebenezer Anjorin
Lead Product Manager, Google

Ebenezer Anjorin is a Product Lead at Google Workspace. He oversees safety for Gmail, Chat, Postmaster tools, and Client Foundations. Prior to Google Workspace, he managed other products at Google such as Assistant, Search, and Shopping.

Tabish Bhimani
Principal Strategist, Mastrat Digital

Tabish Bhimani is a seasoned expert in DTC lifecycle marketing, specializing in email and SMS channels. Tabish has a proven track record of creating and executing successful marketing strategies that generate between $1 million and $5 million in sales for clients.

With a knack for leveraging pop culture trends and crafting personalized messaging through zero-party data, Tabish ensures that client communications remain fresh and engaging, leading to higher open and click rates. As a fractional CMO, he offers valuable insights, conduct gap analysis audits, and implement loyalty programs that drive referrals and enhance overall marketing performance, contributing to significant increases in both revenue and margin.

LB Blair
Chief Strategy Officer at Email Industries

Currently Chief Strategy Officer at Email Industries, LB has been working in email since 2015 with Deliverability as a focus since 2017. LB’s background in Accounting, IT Audit, SQL, and Computer Forensics lends itself well to the data driven approach she brings to the discipline of deliverability.

LB has helped senders of all sizes resolve deliverability issues. From those only sending a few thousand per month, to numerous super senders with over 1 billion monthly messages.

In her spare time LB enjoys cooking, board gaming, and video gaming.
Previously LB has worked as a chef, tech support, construction worker, comic shop clerk, and a Spanish tutor.

Alex Brotman
Sr Engineer, Anti-Abuse, Comcast

Alex Brotman is a seasoned expert in email deliverability and anti-abuse, currently serving as a Senior Engineer in the Anti-Abuse & Messaging Policy group at Comcast. Since joining Comcast in 2011, Alex has played a pivotal role in ensuring that customers receive desired emails while blocking unwanted or potentially harmful messages. His expertise spans various aspects of email security and deliverability, including acting as a postmaster, developer, and systems administrator.

Alex is also actively involved in industry groups like the Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). In these roles, he has contributed significantly to developing best practices and new mechanisms to enhance email security. Notably, Alex has co-authored two IETF RFCs and has been a co-chair of the Data & Identity Protection Committee at M3AAWG since 2014, where he works to improve the secure transmission of data across the email ecosystem.

Seth Blank
CTO, Valimail

Seth Blank is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Valimail, where he leads the company’s technical strategy and innovation efforts to enhance email security and authentication. With a deep expertise in cybersecurity and a passion for advancing the safety of digital communication, Seth plays a pivotal role in shaping Valimail’s solutions that protect brands and consumers from email-based threats.

Seth is an influential voice in the email security community, serving as the Chair of the AuthIndicators Working Group (BIMI) and actively participating in the development of industry standards such as DMARC, SPF, and MTA-STS. His commitment to driving technological advancements and fostering collaboration within the industry has positioned him as a trusted leader in email authentication and security.

Raymond Dijkxhoorn
Founder and CEO, SURBL

Raymond Dijkxhoorn is the CEO and a founding member of SURBL, a company specializing in providing reputation data through near real-time feeds. This data is used to secure various digital communications, including email, SMS, and web access, and helps protect against malicious activities such as phishing and spam. He has over 25 years of experience in high-tech engineering, particularly in ISP (Internet Service Provider) and ESP (Email Service Provider) technology and implementation architecture.

In addition to his role at SURBL, Dijkxhoorn is a founding member and CTO of EHAWK, a platform focusing on fraud and abuse prevention, and he owns Prolocation, a Dutch ISP. His extensive experience in the industry makes him a well-regarded figure in cybersecurity, known for his contributions to enhancing internet safety and security protocols

Tali Hasanov
CEO, WSI Digital Path Marketing

Tali is an award-winning digital marketer with a track record of growing her clients’ businesses and driving revenue. Her 18 years of varied and in-depth experience have helped to make her an industry leader.

Tobias Herkula
Senior Product Owner Mail Security at 1&1

Experienced professional with over 15 years of experience in email, deliverability, anti-abuse and anti-spam. Strong track record of successfully leading and managing teams, as well as driving product strategy and development. Currently serving as Senior Product Owner for Mail Security at 1&1 Mail & Media.

Derek Lackey, CIPM
Managing Director, Newport Thomson

Derek is the Managing Director of Newport Thomson, a data protection and privacy advisory firm in Toronto, specializing in CASL, PIPEDA, GDPR, ePrivacy, and CCPA/CPRA compliance. As Chairman of the Response Marketing Association, Derek leverages over 30 years of marketing and advertising experience to help clients achieve compliance with minimal disruption. He authored “CASL Compliance: A Marketer’s Guide to Email Marketing to Canadians” and advocates for practical, feasible compliance solutions.

Active in the privacy community, Derek chairs the Guidance Committee of the Canadian Advisory Council – GDPR, co-chairs the IAPP Toronto Chapter (2020/2021), and participates in several committees, including ISO 31700 and the Data Governance Standardization Collaborative. Educated in Marketing at the University of Toronto, Derek has led his ad agency to success, handling brands like Air Canada Vacations, Canon, and The Salvation Army, with seven out of nine becoming top in their categories in Canada.

Lauren Meyer
CMO, SocketLabs

Lauren brings 18 years of experience in the email industry to her role as Chief Marketing Officer for SocketLabs. Throughout her career, Lauren has helped small and large-scale senders get the most out of their email marketing programs, working with various ESPs and email technologies. Having focused mainly on the areas of deliverability, anti-abuse and compliance, Lauren is a vocal advocate for having a proactive, data-driven approach to email performance monitoring as a means to optimizing email performance and the recipient experience.

Kent McGovern
Email Deliverability Principal, Braze

Kent McGovern is an Email Deliverability Principal at Braze, where he helps clients get the most from their email marketing by advising them on email deliverability best practices, authentication, legislation, and ISP mediation.

Kent has over 15 years of deliverability experience working with industry leaders such as Web.com, ReturnPath, Oracle Marketing Cloud, Sparkpost (a MessageBird company) and Braze.

Jakub Olexa
CEO, Mailkit and Omnivery

Jakub has been in the email industry for over 20 years. He started on the receiving side operating Xmail.cz (freemail service) and transitioned to the sender side when he started Mailkit – a marketing automation platform. Having built platforms on both sides of the email chain gives Jakub a unique perspective on email marketing and its impact. Almost 15 years later the success of Mailkit has been followed by the birth of Omnivery – a hybrid-cloud MTA with the same core principles – compliance first, business second. Both Mailkit and Omnivery have client vetting as a cornerstone for email reputation and great deliverability.

David O’Sullivan
Email Deliverability Ops Manager, Attentive

David O’Sullivan is a Email Deliverability Ops Manager for Attentive, an ESP focusing on E-commerce senders. He has over a decade of experience spanning Operations, Consulting, and Anti-Abuse work in the email space.

Matthew Vernhout
Founder Canadian Email Summit, Principal Email Advisor, Email Industries

Matthew Vernhout, known online as @emailkarma, is the Principal Email Advisor at Email Industries, where he brings his extensive expertise in email marketing, deliverability, and privacy advocacy. A respected figure in the digital marketing world, Matthew serves as the chairperson of the ANA’s Email Experience Council and holds a Director-at-Large/Secretary with the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (CAUCE). He is also the Communications Chair for the AuthIndicators Working Group (BIMI Group), founder of the Canadian Email Summit, and co-founder of EmailDojo.io.

With a reputation as a thought leader, Matthew was recognized as the 2019 EEC Thought Leader of the Year and is a Certified International Privacy Professional (Canada) (CIPP/C). He frequently speaks at global email marketing and technology conferences, sharing insights from his celebrated blog, EmailKarma.net. Notably, in 2010, EmailKarma was recognized as one of the top 40 marketing blogs in Canada, underscoring Matthew’s influence and expertise in the marketing community.

Brian Westnedge
Sr. Director, Alliances & Partnerships, Red Sift

Brian leads alliances for Red Sift, an integrated cloud email and brand protection platform that automates BIMI and DMARC processes, making it easy to identify and stop business email compromise, and securing domains from impersonation to prevent attacks. He has worked in the DMARC space since its inception, has 20 years of experience in email deliverability, security and authentication, and can be found on X @bwestnedge commenting on email, security and other topics.

Trevor Yeo
Senior Advisor, Investigations, Office of the Privacy Commission of Canada

Joining the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada in 2008, Trevor Yeo is a Senior Advisor within the Office’s PIPEDA Compliance Directorate. During his time at the OPC, Trevor has led and provided compliance support to many of the OPC’s most complex investigations into the privacy practices of private sector tech companies including Nexopia (2012), GANZ (Webkinz) (2014), Compu-Finder (2016), Wajam (2017), the Equifax breach (2019) and CoreFour (Edsby) (2021). Since 2011, Trevor has been the operational lead for the OPC’s CASL enforcement program. Prior to joining the OPC, Trevor worked for over 20 years in the UK and Canadian financial services sectors in a variety of technical, management and regulatory compliance roles. Trevor obtained his IAPP Certified Information Privacy Professional (Canada) and (Europe) designations in 2009 and 2021 respectively.

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