speakers, moderator and panelist highlights 2026 Deliverability Summit
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speakers
Chris Adams
Vice President, Engineering & Head of Email, Bird
Chris Adams
Vice President, Engineering & Head of Email, Bird
Chris Adams is Vice President of Engineering and Head of Email at Bird. He leads engineering efforts focused on email technology, infrastructure, and product development, with a specific emphasis on email delivery and systems that power large‑scale email communications.
Laura Atkins
Co-founder, Word to the Wise
Laura Atkins
Co-founder, Word to the Wise
Laura Atkins has been working professionally in email and email deliverability since 2000. In 2001, she co-founded Word to the Wise, a boutique consulting firm that specialises in creating specific and personalised email delivery strategies for their clients. As spam filters continually evolve to address new threats, Laura's firm enables legitimate companies to work within this filtering framework to communicate effectively with their customers.
Steve Atkins
Owner, Word to the Wise
Steve Atkins
Owner, Word to the WiseSteve Atkins has been building email related software since the mid-1990s and leads the development of software products at Word to the Wise, including Abacus and AboutMy.Email. He also provides client support for tricky DNS, email and authentication issues.
Giovanni Bechis
Chief Technology Officer, PCCC
Giovanni Bechis
Chief Technology Officer, PCCC
Giovanni is a senior IT administrator and developer with experience in enterprise architectures, SQL and NoSQL databases. He has been in the mail industry since the 90’s and has been an open-source evangelist on all companies he has worked. He is also a committer for Apache SpamAssassin, Apache httpd and OpenBSD projects. He is a frequent speaker on international conferences about Linux and mail server technologies.
Hervé Baïle
CTO and Co-founder, Smartprofile
Hervé Baïle
CTO and Co-founder, Smartprofile
Hervé Baïle is CTO and Co-founder of Smartprofile, a marketing data hub that helps organisations consolidate multi-source data and activate cross-channel campaigns. Since 2005, he has been leading platform development with a focus on data architecture, operational reliability, and the technical foundations behind email and multi-channel communications.
Andrew Bonar
co-founder, Emailexpert
Andrew Bonar
co-founder, Emailexpert
Co-founder and Managing Director, Emailexpert UK, he offers recommendations and advice on a broad range of strategic and operational matters, leveraging my 25+ years of experience in the digital space. Andrew has a passion for automation, effective communication, and the power of connections, and I fuse a results-driven approach with an entrepreneurial spirit.
Professor Richard Clayton
Research Professor, University of Cambridge
Professor Richard Clayton
Research Professor, University of CambridgeDoctor Richard Clayton is a Research Professor at the University of Cambridge. In the early 1990s his software house developed "Turnpike", one of the first email clients to run on Windows. He then worked at Demon Internet, then the largest UK ISP, creating innovative systems to detect email abuse. In 2000 he returned to Cambridge to study for a PhD on "Anonymity and Traceability in Cyberspace" and he has remained there ever since as a security researcher ("because it is more fun than working"). Particular research interests have been "phishing" and DDoS, but for the past few years he has also been working with the Yahoo anti-spam team "blocking spam" and understanding the challenges of doing that at planetary scale.
Kieran Cooper
Senior Technical Account Manager, Halon
Kieran Cooper
Senior Technical Account Manager, Halon
Kieran Cooper is a seasoned and highly successful Technical Account Manager with 20 years of experience in supporting customers to achieve success. As a dedicated liaison, he embodies the voice of the company to the customer and vice versa. Kieran possesses a keen commercial instinct and harbors a passion for helping organizations leverage a variety of technologies to meet their objectives. He is committed to facilitating people in seizing the opportunities presented by technology, irrespective of their experience or skill levels.
Kieran excels at building strong relationships at all organisational levels, both internally and externally, ensuring collaborative efforts lead to meeting customer needs. Known as a trusted technical advisor, he is always eager to learn and impart knowledge. He has a profound understanding of the email industry, particularly in deliverability, and consistently seeks to expand his expertise. At Bird, Kieran successfully supported customers with SMS, rapidly extending his knowledge base. He enjoys managing teams and has consistently received excellent feedback from colleagues whose careers he has supported and developed. Kieran is also a successful public speaker and trainer, known for his ability to explain complex topics in an accessible manner. His strong interest in data protection and privacy dates back to the 1990s. In the past five years, he has become a certified data controller and earned his CIPP/E privacy qualification.Stéphane Decamps
Head of Anti-Abuse & Public Relations, Hornetsecurity
Raymond Dijkxhoorn
Co-Founder, SURBL
Raymond Dijkxhoorn
Co-Founder, SURBL
Delivering high level internet solutions.
Specialties: anti spam solutions, large scale mailfiltering, 5.000.000 mails/day and up. Managed server solutions, housing and colo solutions. MySQL clustering.
MailScanner, SpamAssassin, Exim, Sendmail. Linux Virtual Server implementations. Network design and management. Large scale 10Gbit deployments.
Marie Douillet
Engineering Manager, Infrastructure team, Adevinta/leboncoin
Marie Douillet
Engineering Manager, Infrastructure team, Adevinta/leboncoin
Marie Doulliet has nearly 10 years of experience as an Engineering Manager. She previously managed technical teams delivering custom network and security services to business customers within the Cloud subsidiary of OBS.
Currently, she is responsible for leading technical teams at leboncoin, where they provide infrastructure services on AWS. These services are fully automated using Infrastructure as Code, supporting internal developers.
David Finger
Director of Email.cz and Mapy.cz at Seznam.cz
David Finger
Director of Email.cz and Mapy.cz at Seznam.cz
David Finger serves as the Director of Email.cz and Mapy.cz at Seznam, with a demonstrated history in the internet industry. He is skilled in complex product development, user experience, anti-spam and anti-abuse initiatives, email marketing, communication, and mobile applications. David is a strong product management professional and an experienced speaker at national and international conferences.
Erick Galembeck
Anti-Fraud & Compliance Manager EU, Sinch
Erick Galembeck
Anti-Fraud & Compliance Manager EU, Sinch
With over 10 years of experience in the email industry, I have built deep expertise in deliverability, compliance, and abuse prevention. I have worked on optimizing email performance, protecting sender reputation, investigating cybercriminal activity, and implementing measures in line with industry best practices. Drawing on a solid IT foundation and an expanding focus on cybersecurity, I am passionate about combating emerging threats and fostering secure digital environments. I am currently working as an Anti-Abuse Operations Specialist at Sinch, where I use all the skills learned over these years to fight against the bad actors and help keep a safe environment for our customers.
Syed Alam Khan Gul
Senior Email Deliverability Engineer, Postmastery
David Harris
CEO & Founder, GreenArrow Email
David Harris
CEO & Founder, GreenArrow Email
Specialties: Email deliverability, high volume email systems, high performance software, database management, web-based software development, email deliverability
Todd Herr
Principal Solutions Architect, GreenArrow Email
Todd Herr
Principal Solutions Architect, GreenArrow Email
Todd Herr is the Principal Solutions Architect at GreenArrow Email, with over 20 years of expertise in email authentication and deliverability. He has a well-rounded background in the email ecosystem, having worked with email senders, mailbox providers, and vendors.
Mike Hillyer
Co-Founder, KumoMTA
Mike Hillyer
Co-Founder, KumoMTA
With over 18 years of experience in digital product development, business development, and consulting, Mike helps large senders remove risk and upgrade their infrastructure with open-source MTA technology. As the co-founder of Kumo Corp, he lead a team of passionate and talented engineers and consultants who are committed to delivering the best email solutions for their clients.
James Hoddinott
Director, Security Operations Center, Proofpoint
Gerasim Hovhannisyan
CEO & Co-founder, EasyDMARC
Gerasim Hovhannisyan
CEO & Co-founder, EasyDMARC
Hagop Khatchoian
Director of Professional Services, EasyDMARC
Hagop Khatchoian
Director of Professional Services, EasyDMARC
For half a decade, Hagop has been in the email scene, addressing various issues to make it less complicated. Hagop is the “go-to” guy for any email questions, actively contributing to product ideas and updates with product and engineering teams.
Martina Lipp
Marketing Consultant and Advisor, Martina Lipp Consulting
Martina Lipp
Marketing Consultant and Advisor, Martina Lipp Consulting
Tom Mairs
Co-founder, KumoMTA
Tom Mairs
Co-founder, KumoMTA
Tom has over thirty years of experience in technology as a leader, consultant, administrator, and Customer Success expert, with the last fifteen years spent in the on-prem and cloud email infrastructure industry. Tom has led global teams responsible for the sales and support of multiple MTA and cloud email infrastructure products and is passionate about customer success.
Anne-Sophie Marsh
Senior Deliverability Consultant at Iterable
Kevin A. “KAM” McGrail
Member & Chair Emeritus Apache, SpamAssassin
Kevin A. “KAM” McGrail
Member & Chair Emeritus Apache, SpamAssassin
Kevin A. McGrail aka KAM, is the Cloud Fellow for Dito helping organizations migrate and manage their Cloud Cybersecurity. He founded and leads Dito's Cyber Security practice, awarded Google's Cloud Security partner of the year in June 2022. He is a Google Developer Expert for AI/ML and Google Workspace as well as a member expert in the U.S. Marine Corps Cyber Auxiliary. KAM enjoys working with Open Source Software and is a proud member of the Apache Software Foundation. He has battled spammers for decades and his research protects hundreds of millions of Internet users every day. In February 2025, he was awarded the Mary Litynski lifetime achievement award for keeping the internet safe from M3AAWG.org. KAM is a Center for Innovative Technology MACH37 Cyber Security Incubator Graduate and a member of the board of advisors for Virtru.com & SecurityUniversity.edu. He is also named a Distinguished Senior Fellow as a thought leader in the field of Cyber Security at Thomas University's Armed Services Institute in the Center for Military Life.
Lauren Meyer
Founder, Send it Right
Lauren Meyer
Founder, Send it Right
Experienced Vice President of Delivery with a demonstrated history in the email industry, with strong focus on Deliverability and Compliance. Data nerd at heart. Skilled in Digital Strategy, Management, Email Marketing, Email Deliverability, Customer Success Management and SaaS Operations. Strong information technology professional with a BA focused in Communications & Advertising from Robert Morris University.
Hovsep Najarian
Manager, Deployment Services at EasyDMARC
Kate Nowrouzi
VP, Deliverability & Product Strategy, Sinch
Maarten Oelering
Partner, CTO, Postmastery
Maarten Oelering
Partner, CTO, Postmastery
IT consultant with 18 years of experience in software- and systems development. Performed many roles such as software engineer, IT architect, project manager, development manager and CTO. Worked for various software and systems integration companies, from small internet startups to international enterprises (Philips and IBM). During the last 10 years, developed a unique expertise on email applications, including email marketing applications, outbound email infrastructure and deliverability.
Jakub Olexa
Founder, Mailkit
Jakub Olexa
Founder, Mailkit
Involved in computer business since early 90’s, with a background in networking and systems management I was able to use my past experiences to move current projects forward and add an unique value to each of them.
Boris Pavlov
Deliverability and Compliance Operations Lead, Omnisend
Edouard Perret
Infrastructure Engineer (ISS), Leboncoin (Adevinta)
Melinda Plemel
Enhanced Reputation Specialist, Spamhaus
Andrey Sas
Lead Email Deliverability & CRM Manager, Social Discovery Group
Andrey Sas
Lead Email Deliverability & CRM Manager, Social Discovery Group
Andrey has been working in email deliverability since 2009, starting in a high-volume environment with tens of millions of emails sent per day. Since 2012, he has also worked in CRM marketing as a Product Manager, combining hands-on product-side experience with consulting work. His practical background gives him a strong understanding of how to balance email deliverability best practices with the business need to keep the email channel profitable.
Josephine Skinner
Deliverability Engineer, Mailkit/Omnivery
Josephine Skinner
Deliverability Engineer, Mailkit/Omnivery
Josephine Skinner is passionate about identifying and improving organizational efficiencies, as well as empowering others to access the same opportunities she has received. She is deeply interested in psychology, learning new languages, science, the environment, motivation, art, public speaking, facilitating discussions, email deliverability, and occasionally, data manipulation. With 8.5 years of experience at Mailchimp, she steadily advanced her career, acquiring diverse skills and learning from her failures along the way. Currently, she serves as a Deliverability Engineer at Mailkit/Omnivery.
Nathalie Small
Sr. Compliance & Deliverability Specialist, Bird
Nathalie Small
Sr. Compliance & Deliverability Specialist, Bird
Alice Spencer
Senior Manager, Deliverability Services at Ometria
Jess Swazey
Director of Deliverability and Compliance, GreenArrow Email
Muharem Suljagic
Software Engineer, Infobip
Muharem Suljagic
Software Engineer, Infobip
Muharem is an Engineering Manager at Infobip with 7 years at the company and over 4 years of hands‑on experience building and evolving Infobip’s email platform. He leads the email engineering team, working on deliverability, scalability, and reliable high‑volume email systems across APIs, MTA, and core platform components.
Matthew Vernhout
Principal Email Advisor, Email Industries
Matthew Vernhout
Principal Email Advisor, Email Industries
Matthew Vernhout (@emailkarma) is a leading email marketing and deliverability expert with 25+ years of experience, currently serving as Principal Email Advisor at Email Industries. Recognized as the ANA Email Thought Leader of the Year (2019) and a Top 50 Canadian Marketing Blogger (2010), Matthew is the founder of EmailKarma.net and the Canadian Email Summit, and co-founder of EmailDojo.io. He also serves as a Director at Large for CAUCE and Training Co-Chair for M3AAWG, while holding a CIPP/C certification in privacy. Author of A Complete Guide to e-Marketing under Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation, Matthew is a trusted authority in the industry, dedicated to advancing email strategy and compliance. Social Media https://ekma.co/m/EmailKarma
Desislava Zhivkova
Head of Deliverability and Compliance, Omnisend
