Suresh Ramasubramanian

Suresh Ramasubramanian heads all anti-spam operations at Outblaze Limited. He directs the Postmaster and Abuse desks at the company, and is responsible for setting and enforcing Outblaze’s Acceptable Use Policy across the almost 40 million active email accounts operated by Outblaze, on domains such as lycos.com, mail.com and register.com. He is responsible for setting up and enforcing spam filtering and blocking decisions for Outblaze clients and users and his team serves as the single point of contact to discuss blocking and filtering issues.

Suresh has extensive experience in handling e-mail abuse and postmaster work, starting with a stint at Juno.com (now United Online) and then going on to set up the anti-spam operations at BPL Innovision Limited before joining Outblaze in 2001. He is coordinator of APCAUCE (the Asia Pacific wing of the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email), as well being the vice chair of the management committee for the APRICOT network operators conference.

Suresh has been actively lobbying for realistic solutions at technological, legislative and policy levels to spam since 1998, and has written two papers on the spam problem, for the OECD and for APDIP/UNDP. He has given well-received talks and keynote speeches on spam around the world at conferences organized by the OECD and ITU, as well as industry events such as MAAWG, APRICOT and InboxEvent and been widely interviewed by media such as Businessweek, the Wall Street Journal, Wired, PC Magazine and Salon.

In recognition of his tireless work against the growing spam problem, BusinessWeek Magazine profiled him as one of 2002's top 25 e-business professionals.