Meet the Team Get to know the people behind the scenes Matt Highsmith - CEO / President Matt founded TailoredMail in 1997 and has guided its growth ever since. Prior to starting TailoredMail, Matt was VP of Marketing/Sales of Intermind Corporation, winning the American Design Award for Corporate Marketing and establishing over 200 Internet content partnerships. Matt coined the marketing phrase "push technology" back in the mid 1990's (including cover stories of Wired Magazine, Business 2.0, and the Wall Street Journal) and helped pioneer a completely new way of viewing the web. Prior to Intermind he was the Worldwide VP of Marketing and Strategy at Attachmate - and helped guide its growth from $40 million to $400 million. Matt also held channel marketing and brand management positions at Apple Computer (Mac II) and Procter & Gamble (Liquid Cascade). | Dave Tinney - CTO Dave joined TailoredMail in 2000 and brings an extensive background in Microsoft SQL Server database development, planning and testing. He worked for Microsoft for over ten years in various development roles. | Naresh Dusi - Director of Development Naresh joined TailoredMail in 2008 and leads our talented development team. His expertise is in .NET technologies and he loves to invent new functionality and design more scalable, secure systems. | Ryan Nutick - Deliverability & Operations Ryan is the master of TailoredMail's elaborate cloud-network, and our deliverability guru. He is a martial artist, an actor, a lover of animals, and if voted Miss America, will strive to bring about world peace. He is usually available for discussion unless the Seahawks are playing, in which case he is completely unavailable. | Alex Freidenfelt - Client Services Alex joined TailoredMail in December 2006 with a long background in customer service. He heads our support team and is dedicated to helping our clients achieve the most potential out of their email marketing campaigns. Alex was raised in the Seattle area and enjoys the outdoors and international travel, having visited around 50 countries. | Angie Thain - Client Support Angie has over six years of business administration work experience, which started while in the Air Force. When not flying onboard the E3 AWACS, she earned an Information Systems degree from the Community College of the Air Force/Air University and utilized that after her enlistment with a local start-up IT company. She loved the fast-paced world of a start-up and ‘wearing multiple hats’, where she enjoyed everything from bookkeeping to bug testing software. Angie likes to spend her free time playing volleyball and being outdoors- especially hiking, snowboarding and plant and animal photography. Her love of animals has enabled her to be a foster home for Evergreen Golden Retriever Rescue, and she has helped place over 30 dogs in their forever homes. | Laura Ashley - Director of Market Development Laura is a seasoned email and database marketing strategist who has done both business-to-business demand generation and business-to-consumer lifecycle marketing. She has worked with some of the savviest email marketing organizations in the retail, travel, gaming and technology industries. Prior to TailoredMail, Laura worked for e-Dialog, an eBay company, as a Senior Account Manager and DocuSign—The Global Standard for eSignature, as a Senior Market Manager, among others. | | |