Matt Blumberg
Founder, CEO & Chairman
Matt Blumberg founded Return Path in 1999 back when he had more hair on his head, less hair on his face, and all of it was brown. He started the company because he knew that the world needed a better way of handling email change of address (the company's first product). Matt is passionate about making the online relationship between end users and marketers/market researchers better for both sides of the equation. It is with great pride that he has watched this initial creation grow into a 100-plus person company with market leading brands, innovative products, multiple patents, and renowned industry experts on staff in three different areas of the commercial email industry.
In his prior lives, Matt ran marketing, product management, and the Internet group for MovieFone, Inc. (acquired by AOL, and yes, he does know the guy with the voice); he served as an associate with private equity firm General Atlantic Partners, and he was a consultant with Mercer Management Consulting. While all great jobs, none was nearly as fun as his current gig.
You can learn much more about Matt, possibly more than you ever wanted to, by reading his email marketing and entrepreneurship blog Only Once -- one of the first CEO blogs on the Internet.
Anita Absey
SVP, Sales and Marketing
Anita is a 20-year-veteran of the direct marketing industry, having spent that time leading teams of people to help clients create revenue-generating target marketing programs. A self-proclaimed "data junkie," she has helped literally hundreds of the world's smartest marketers successfully integrate data and technology for their customer acquisition and customer relationship management programs.
Before Return Path Anita spent much of her career at Acxiom and Abacus Direct (later DoubleClick). She holds a BA in Economics from Fordham University.
Tom Bartel
CIPP, Chief Privacy Officer
Tom Bartel helped to define email deliverability as a service when he co-founded Assurance Systems with George Bilbrey in 2002. He has been with Return Path since its acquisition of Assurance Systems in 2003 where he now leads Sender Score Certified, the most widely accepted email whitelist available today. He also serves as Chief Privacy Officer, ensuring Return Path and their clients understand and adhere to industry regulations and best practices. He has a total of 15 years experience working in email delivery, services, and technology with Email Publishing, MessageMedia, and DoubleClick. Tom is certified by the IAPP as a Certified Information Privacy Professional and holds a B.A. in Speech Communications from Colorado State University.
Angela Baldonero
Vice President of People
Angela Baldonero is the Vice President of People which simply means that she is responsible for making Return Path the best place to work in the industry. How does she do this? By nurturing Return Path's most important assets - its employees. By driving company-wide initiatives that support the company's culture and team environment, Angela is directly responsible for the creation of a high performance organization that is committed to Return Path's mission and to building its legacy.
Angela relocated to New York from Washington, DC where she spent the past seven years as Regional Director of People Innovation - East Coast for Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants. She has performed pro-bono consulting work with The World Bank and Booz Allen Hamilton as well as volunteered with Dress for Success. Angela recently completed her Masters of Science in Organization Development at American University in Washington, DC. She began her career in her hometown of Vancouver, Canada after graduating with a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of British Columbia.
George Bilbrey
GM of Delivery Assurance
George joined RP through its merger with Veripost in 2001, a competitive ECOA service. George was the founder and CEO of Assurance Systems, which merged with Return Path in June 2003. He is also a co-founder of Return Path, the industry standard for Email Change of Address (ECOA).
Prior to Return Path he was Director of Product Management at Worldprints.com where he managed the development of the Image Catcher screensaver application and supporting web site, which acquired more than two million users in six months. He was formerly a Partner at Mercer Management Consulting in the high tech and telecommunications group, where he developed operational experience in computer manufacturing and telecommunications. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Duke University, and an MBA from the Kenan-Flagler School of Business, University of North Carolina.
Jack Sinclair
Chief Operating Officer
Jack Sinclair was a co-founder of Return Path in 1999. He was the Vice President of Finance and Corporate Resources until he decided in 2004 that databases and PHP were much more interesting than financial statements and has been the Chief Operating Officer ever since.
Before moving on to Return Path (not that he can remember back that far) Jack worked at Stern Stewart & Co. and the Financial Resource Group providing corporate finance consulting (i.e. producing pounds of documents) and investment banking services to small and large corporations. He graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a concentration in Finance.
Andy Sautins
Chief Technology Officer
Andy joined Return Path as the company's Chief Technology Officer after its merger with Veripost in 2001. Prior to joining Return Path, Andy served as the System Architect for Affinia, Inc. While at Affinia Andy designed and lead the implementation of a 24/7 online shopping service that supported 250-500k requests per day. Andy has also worked for Athenesoft, Inc. as the VP of Software Architecture and at Access Graphics as the Director of Electronic Commerce Development.
Andy holds a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Colorado.
