As Chairman of the Board and acting CEO, Tony is responsible for defining and steering the strategic direction and outcomes of the company. With an equal focus on investment in and development of the right people, and product architecture that inspires both commercial and business confidence and adoption, Tony ensures atmail is perfectly poised to achieve projected growth.

A seasoned entrepreneur with a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Tony began his formative years at technology innovator Sun Microsystems, where he discovered a love of web applications. He then built his own web applications company, Tonic Systems, which was bought by Google. He worked at Google over two years to assimilate his technology into Search and Google Docs.

Tony balances his CEO commitments with his role of Investment Director at Starfish Ventures, and is passionate about using his skills to foster atmail’s trajectory from a pioneering webmail company into the global messaging leader of the future.

Having developed one of the world’s first commercial Webmail products in 1998, Ben Duncan is the founder, CTO, visionary and driving force behind atmail’s success in the enterprise email space. With a strong background in open source and software programming, and a passion for intuitive and innovative user-interface design, Ben has built atmail into a global leader servicing millions of paid mailboxes, for 4,500 customers in over 90 countries including first tier ISPs, telecommunications companies, global corporations & government agencies.

Locally, Ben spearheads atmail’s involvement as the technology partner for Peregian Beach, delivering initiatives like free wireless, and championing the creation of a ‘Silicon Beach’ to attract technology start-ups, smart companies and innovative green/eco based start-ups.

In his spare time Ben is the co-founder of ‘Coding From Beach’ – connecting 250+ programmers and entrepreneurs and providing opportunities to leverage their networks, host in-depth technical discussions and inspire new ventures.

John is a valued asset on the board, having forged an illustrious career in technology and innovation investment. He has decades of experience identifying and shaping the frameworks of successful businesses.

He is the co-founder and Investment Principal at Starfish Ventures. He has served as General Manager (Australia) of JAFCO Investment (Asia Pacific), and prior to that worked in the investment banking and stockbroking industries for Schroders, Nomura Securities, KPMG and ANZ McCaughan. He holds a Bachelor of Science from Monash University, a Graduate Diploma in Finance and Investment from Securities Institute of Australia, Masters of Business Administration from RMIT University and is a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

John is also the Chair of Swinburne Ventures Pty Ltd (the entity responsible for the commercialisation of technology for Swinburne University of Technology) and a cotrustee of the Dyson Bequest; a $15M Charitable Foundation providing grants to social welfare, education and environmental causes.

As Director, Sales and Finance, Deb is responsible for atmail’s financial, legal, sales and HR divisions. An accounting and finance professional, with over 10 years’ experience at senior management level in the software development space, Deb excels at balancing a holistic view of the business while identifying areas for improvement and efficiency, and matching them to solid business processes and sound financial practices. She is responsible for growth across all revenue generating areas of the business, and manages a team of highly motivated and engaged sales professionals to develop and implement effective yield strategies and leverage all partnership and sponsorship opportunities.

She has been a figurehead in designing due diligence and primary audit programs, is an advocate of strategic planning and measurement, and relishes adapting systems to meet and drive business and legislative milestones. Add to this her ability to foster key partnerships, grow team morale, and instill a proactive internal culture all while maintaining the highest ethics and integrity, and Deb is an instrumental leader ensuring atmail’s continued success.

Bringing two decades of proven IT and Management experience from Australia’s largest media corporations, Glen manages global client support and success for atmail as Director, Customer Experience. Glen’s focus is solely on our customers, ensuring smooth integration with our products, applying solid problem solving methodologies and innovative processes to resolve issues, constantly optimising performance, analysing satisfaction measurements and surpassing customer outcomes and goals.

Glen thrives in mission-critical environments and leads a dedicated team both in Australia and the US to support our customers throughout their sales and post-sales journey. He is revered for the loyalty and performance he extracts from his teams, who in turn deliver the same excellence in their connections with customers. He has been instrumental in attaining unparalleled industry results in customer experience and engagement, achieving above 96% satisfaction rating, under 50mins for first-time response and a cloud up-time of 99.99%.

With over 12 years’ experience in the ICT industry, Dan leads product development, evolution and quality assurance for atmail. His ability to anticipate the issues and needs of businesses, and interpret them into roadmaps and operational targets for our engineers, has seen the atmail platform continually recognised as a leader in the enterprise-class email space.

Managing teams both operationally and in large-scale projects, Dan utilises his proven background in product management, customer engagement, systems administration, analysis, requirements gathering, web services, integration and design, to deliver products renowned as much for their stability and reliability as their ease-of-use and adaptability.

Outside of the office, Dan has worked as a sessional tutor and guest lecturer at the University of the Sunshine Coast and has a book chapter published on the topic of “Future Trends in Digital Security”.