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Speaker Bios
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Joshua BaerCEO, SKYLISTBaer founded Austin-based email service provider SKYLIST in 1996 as a dorm room dot-com while attending Carnegie Mellon University. In 1998 he authored RFC 2369, a widely adopted standard for unsubscribing from email lists. In 2004, Baer created UnsubCentral to help email marketing companies comply with regulatory requirements. Both companies' technologies eventually became top ranked solutions in their respective categories, winning customers such as Microsoft, Disney, Nascar, the Boston Globe, HBO, and Texas Monthly.An email marketing guru, Baer has been quoted in the New York Times and many other publications, testified before the Federal Trade Commission and various state governments, and is a frequent public speaker. In early 2006 both SKYLIST and UnsubCentral were sold to Datran Media where he served as Chief Technology Officer. Baer holds Computer Science and Information Decision Systems degrees from Carnegie Mellon University and lives in Austin, TX with his wife Amy and two dogs. |
