Brandmail Solutions has added three industry leaders to its advisory board: Mike Santullo, Mike Cassidy and Seamus McAteer. In addition, John Braskamp and Seth Redmore, both formerly of Cisco Systems have joined Brandmail Solutions as Chief Operating Officer and VP of Marketing respectively

Palo Alto, CA (PR Newswire) - Brandmail Solutions announces the addition of three world class advisors who each bring a wealth of experience in critical areas that will assist Brandmail Solutions continue to change the face of email. Noel Ruane, CEO of Brandmail Solutions noted that Mikel Santullo and Seamus McAteer are highly regarded experts in the areas of Mail and Mobile. “Mike was the founder and CEO of Rocket Mail which was acquired by Yahoo and is now known as Yahoo Mail and is the largest webmail property in the world. With M:Metrics, Seamus is building out the world's leading authority on mobile data. And Mike Cassidy is now 3 for 0 in the valley with success at Stylus, Direct Hit and Xfire. I'm obviously delighted to have all three join our advisory board and we as a company are are already enjoying their active involvement and participation."

Mike Santullo

Mike was the CEO and co-founder of Four11, the Internet's first popular white page directory service, and RocketMail, a Web based e-mail service now known as YahooMail. Four11 and RocketMail were acquired by Yahoo in 1997. Mike has been a board member and/or investor with a number of start-ups, including the search engine company DirectHit (acquired by Ask Jeeves). Prior to Four11, Mike held marketing, engineering management, and product design positions in a variety of start-ups, including: Momentum (interactive service platform), Finisar (high speed video delivery), Raynet (fiber optic telecommunications equipment), and Zoom Telephonics (consumer electronics). Mike's achievements include a patent in the field of telecommunications and a Business Week Product Design Award. Mike holds a BSEE from M.I.T.

Mike Cassidy

Mike has been the co-founder and CEO of three start-ups: Xfire, Direct Hit, and Stylus Innovation. Direct Hit was a revolutionary Internet search engine whose customers included MSN, Lycos, AOL, and dozens of others. Ask Jeeves acquired Direct Hit for $500 million in 2000. Stylus Innovation's flagship product was the award winning computer telephony software Visual Voice. Artisoft acquired Stylus for $13 million in 1996. Xfire was acquired in 2006 by Viacom for $110m. Mike has a BS and MS in Aerospace Engineering from MIT. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Seamus McAteer

Seamus is co-founder, chief product architect and senior analyst at M:Metrics, the world's leading authority for mobile data. Seamus has been analyzing the wireless industry since its inception and has been assisting clients in the wireless and portable computing sectors since the early 1990s. He was formerly managing partner at Zelos Group; a director and research fellow with Jupiter Research, where he headed Jupiter's coverage of new technologies and services; a senior analyst with SRI International.

McAteer is frequently sought as a speaker and expert commentator. He has been quoted in numerous international media outlets, including: the New York Times, USA Today, Nikkei Weekly, Wired Magazine, the Associated Press and a variety of trade journals. He has made frequent TV and radio appearances, commenting on technology issues for CNN, Fox News, NPR and TechTV.

"Not only have we rounded out our advisory board, we've added two key members to our expanding management team with the hiring of John Braskamp and Seth Redmore" said Ruane. "They're both seasoned executives with experience in a variety of companies, and we're delighted to have them on board."

John Braskamp

John has over 20 years of experience in Business Development, Strategy, Product Management, Marketing and Sales in the telecommunications industry. Most recently, John lead the Operations & Marketing organizations for the Network Software & Systems Technology Group of Cisco Systems. John joined Cisco in 1999 via the $6.9 Billion acquisition of Cerent Corporation where he was Vice President of Business Development. Prior to Cerent, John was Director of Corporate Strategy and Business Development for Lucent Technologies where he directed activities associated with Lucent's IPO, spun new companies out of Bell Labs and led mergers and acquisition activities including the $20 Billion purchase of Ascend Communications, Inc.

Seth Redmore

Seth has over 13 years of experience in Product Management and Product Marketing in the telecommunications industry. Most recently at Cisco he ran a team that built a state of the art text analytics/business intelligence system. Prior to that, he was responsible for outbound marketing for Cisco's IOS software platform, software running on over $15B/year of product. Seth joined Cisco via the acquisition of Netiverse, where he was co-founder and VP of Marketing. Before Netiverse, Seth held marketing positions at FORE Systems and Berkeley Networks.

About Brandmail Solutions

Brandmail Solutions is a global pioneer in email verification and branding. Working with technology companies and service providers across the email ecosystem, Brandmail Solutions provides a complete and scalable system that not only safeguards end users against phishing but also intuitively enhances the overall email experience.

With the SbS2.0™ Secure Branding System, Brandmail Solutions is quite literally “changing the face of email.”™ Estabilished in 2006, Brandmail Solutions has offices in the United States, Ireland, and Germany.