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Founders & Directors


ZoEmail's team of trailblazers has been introducing new products and technologies to the market for more than 20 years. Here's who we are:


Joel Tucciarone,
CEO & Founder

Joel Tucciarone is a visionary direct marketing innovator who has been described as "brilliant, imaginative and operates with both feet firmly on the ground". Joel created, managed and advised on direct-to-user businesses and database driven customer loyalty programs (B2C/B2B) for over 100 major brands including Gevalia Kaffe (General Foods) and AT&T's Universal Card. An Internet veteran, Joel recognized the spam problem from day one and, with the help of Patrick Tighe, laid the groundwork for a permanent solution: ZoEmail.


Michael Oyster,
President & COO

Michael Oyster is a proven technology executive with strong experience in building successful businesses around breakthrough technology. Michael has significant large, mid-cap, and entrepreneurial experience, leading the first AT&T Nationwide Flagship product introductions, directing the AT&T Wholesale business unit, and leading organizations through merger and IPO. Committed to the ZoEmail mission to provide "A Better Life Online," Michael has aggressively moved ZoEmail into its position to provide high value intelligent messaging solutions that protect all users and eliminate obnoxious, unsolicited email.


Patrick Tighe,
CMO & Founder
Patrick Tighe is a business marketer with a new launch success rate of 90%. From packaged goods to high tech to e-Commerce, Patrick's expertise has helped put great new products where they belong: in the hands of consumers. His proven, successful new biz development and management process has created billions of dollars in sales for companies such as Dole, Johnson & Johnson and Brown & Williamson. Patrick has now focused his energy on ZoEmail's efforts to provide you with A Better Life Online.

Russell Brand,
CTO
Recognized as a leading computer security and systems optimization expert, Russell Brand is the founder of Responsible Solutions, Ltd. (Calif) He has served over 80 companies/government agencies and has saved clients including Apple Computer, Bell Labs and Lockheed Martin tens of millions of dollars. For the past seven years, he has led the team responsible for network security at another of the largest, most visible federal agencies.

Robert J. Hall,
AT&T Labs
Dr. Hall is the mind behind the patented technology that powers ZoEmail. A computer science researcher with AT&T Labs, his focus is automated software engineering (ASE) and the security and reliability of distributed (e.g. Internet) applications. He invented and patented the "Communications Addressing System" that forms the basis for ZoEmail's unique approach to avoiding unwanted e-mail. Dr. Hall has published numerous papers and articles on software engineering; he continues to invent technologies that improve the safety, security and privacy of computer systems, online and off.