Author Profiles
(Originally published in Messaging Magazine, January/February 1999)

John B. Reynolds III is a Partner in Wiley, Rein & Fielding’s international and government affairs practices, specializing in international transactions and governmental regulation of those transactions. He represents numerous U.S. and foreign multi-national corporations engaged in the development and export of encryption products and other high technology and national security related goods and services.

Sven James is Founder and President of CompuSven, Inc. CompuSven offers products and services that enable complete migration and coexistence between mainframe e-mail systems such as TAO and SYSM and distributed messaging systems such as Notes, Exchange and Netscape. CompuSven works with large companies on message system topology design and message system selection. He is also the chief architect of CompuSven’s E-Mail Shuttle™; the only "end to end migration and coexistence software package" that includes a gateway, directory synchronization, migration and public data synchronization applications as part of one cohesive solution. He can be contacted at sven@compusven.com. CompuSven corporate information is available at www.compusven.com.

Michael R. Overly is Special Counsel to the information technology department at the law firm of Foley & Lardner. He counsels clients on software licensing, copyright, electronic commerce, and Internet and multimedia law. Prior to becoming an attorney, he worked as a Research Engineer in the Space and Technology Division of TRW, Inc.

Jack L. Finley is the Director of the Center for Electronic Messaging Technologies, at the General Services Administration. Mr. Finley is responsible for developing the comprehensive strategy for electronic messaging and directories on a government-wide basis. Mr. Finley has over thirty years Federal experience in Automated Information Systems and is responsible for the design and implementation of the United States Government Online Directories (USGOLD).

Ghezal Mayel is a Consultant on the information technology team at Booz*Allen & Hamilton, Inc.  Ms. Mayel has specialized experience in the design and implementation of the electronic messaging systems.

Paul Kincaid-Smith is a Technology Evangelist at Software.com, Inc., the leading developer of carrier-scale Internet messaging server software for the world’s largest service providers. He has over a decade of messaging experience and has worked on e-mail projects in Europe, Asia and North America. His efforts have helped Software.com obtain a significant portion of their 25 million mailbox licenses worldwide. Mr. Kincaid-Smith is the author of several technical white papers and was a panelist at the 1998 ISP Spam Roundtable held in Santa Barbara, California.

Mark Chrobak is a Senior Analyst in the e-mail team at Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. (NML). The e-mail team has responsibility for e-mail, calendaring and electronic forms support for 4,200 home office clients located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, along with e-mail support for over 7,000 NML agents across the country. Mr. Chrobak has been with NML for over 22 years, with the last 10 years spent supporting first MVS-based e-mail/calendaring, followed by UNIX/Windows 95 based systems. He has led projects to implement an X.400 bridge solution, developed an e-mail directory synchronization system, and has also designed several custom written e-mail bridging solutions. His recent efforts include the selection/migration from a MVS calendaring system to Corporate Software & Technologies’ OpenTime product along with several Y2K Projects.

Nick Del Torto serves as IT Marketing Liaison for the Ebusiness and Merchandise groups for Canadian National Railways. Prior to this role, he was Manager of Electronic Messaging where he managed 18,000 mailboxes. Mr. Del Torto has over 14 years of experience with messaging technology and was responsible for introducing CN to message switch (Softswitch) as well as X.400, Internet and fax capabilities from e-mail. He has a Bachelor’s in Industrial Relations from McGill University, belongs to the EMA, and is used as a resource by Ferris Networks.

Aditya Jha has over 10 years experience in interacting with customers, creating communication and handling brands. He has been the Creative Director at some of the top advertising agencies. Currently he is in charge of the marketing and corporate strategy at Aditi Corp., a Seattle based start-up that provides electronic customer service solutions using the Internet. Aditya has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.