Suresh Ramasubramanian

Current

Head, Antispam - LotusLive iNotes at IBM
Fellowships Chair and Member, Managing Committee at APIA
Coordinator at CAUCE Asia Pacific (APCAUCE)

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Past

Head, Antispam Operations at Outblaze Limited
Consultant at International Telecommunications Union
Systems Administrator at BPL Innovision

Associate, Security and Abuse Desk at Juno

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Education

Osmania University

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Industry

Computer & Network Security

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Suresh Ramasubramanian’s Summary

Suresh Ramasubramanian provides strategic vision and leadership on antispam and cybersecurity, and is currently Head, Antispam at IBM's LotusLive iNotes division.

Previous jobs include eight years as Head, Antispam at Outblaze, a Hong Kong based messaging provider with over 40 million users, whose messaging assets were acquired by IBM in April 2009. Before that, Suresh worked on the Security and Abuse desk at Juno.com (now United Online) for a brief period of time, and then set up the anti-spam operations at BPL Innovision before joining Outblaze in 2001.

Suresh has been actively lobbying for realistic solutions at technological, legislative and policy levels to spam since 1998. He is coordinator of anti-spam NGO APCAUCE, as well being the Fellowships Chair and Vice Chair of the management committee for the APRICOT network operators conference.

He has worked on a field research project on cybersecurity for developing countries for the ITU, in association with the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission, and has earlier written research papers on spam for the OECD Anti-Spam Toolkit and for UNDP/APDIP.

He has given well-received talks and keynote speeches on spam around the world at conferences organized by the OECD and ITU, as well as at industry events such as MAAWG and APRICOT.

He has been a regular media spokesman on these issues, being widely interviewed and quoted over the past several years in publications such as Businessweek, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Wired and PC Magazine.

In recognition of his work against the growing spam problem, Businessweek magazine profiled him as one of 2002's top 25 e-business professionals.

Suresh Ramasubramanian’s Specialties:

spam, acceptable use policy, filtering, deliverablity, public policy, botnets, malware, internet governance, cybersecurity

Suresh Ramasubramanian’s Experience

Head, Antispam - LotusLive iNotes

IBM

(Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2009 — Present (8 months)

Transitioned to IBM on IBM's acquisition of Outblaze
(http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/27214.wss)

Heading antispam for LotusLive iNotes - a security-rich, Web-based messaging service
https://www.lotuslive.com/services/inotes
Fellowships Chair and Member, Managing Committee

APIA

(Non-Profit; Internet industry)

February 2006 — Present (3 years 10 months)

The Asia Pacific Internet Association (APIA), established in 1997, is a non-profit trade association whose aim is to promote the common business interests of the Internet-related service industry in the Asia Pacific region. APIA is the managing organization for APRICOT, the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies, the largest network operators conference in the Asia Pacific region.
Coordinator

CAUCE Asia Pacific (APCAUCE)

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

February 2003 — Present (6 years 10 months)

I was founder-president of, and am currently coordinator of CAUCE Asia Pacific (http://www.apcauce.org) and have been active in CAUCE since the late 1990s, when, as a student, I helped start CAUCE India. CAUCE - the Coalition against Unsolicited Commercial Email - is the largest volunteer antispam organization in the world, with a presence in the USA, Canada, Europe and the asiapac region.

APCAUCE is an informal grouping of CAUCE organizations from different economies around the asiapac region. Its activities (and mine) include organizing regular technical and public policy conferences around the asiapac region, as well as contributing responses to commens solicited from different governments in the region on current or proposed antispam legislation.

Oh behalf of APCAUCE, I also participate in antispam activities organized by groups in industry (such as MAAWG), as well as inter-governmental organizations such as ITU, APECTEL and OECD.
Head, Antispam Operations

Outblaze Limited

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

August 2001 — April 2009 (7 years 9 months)

Heads all anti-spam operations at Outblaze Limited, directs the Postmaster and Abuse desks and is responsible for setting and enforcing Outblaze’s Acceptable Use Policy across the almost 40 million active email accounts operated by Outblaze He is responsible for setting up and enforcing spam filtering and blocking decisions for Outblaze clients and users and his team serves as the single point of contact to discuss blocking and filtering issues.
Consultant

International Telecommunications Union

(Telecommunications industry)

August 2007 — February 2009 (1 year 7 months)

Consulting with the ITU on a cybersecurity related field research project till end 2008
Systems Administrator

BPL Innovision

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

2000 — 2001 (1 year )

Managed spam filtering for various divisions of the BPL Innovision Group, such a small free webmail service oyeindia.com, as well as on the SMS to email gateways for BPL Mobile, a cellular carrier with a presence in 4 indian states. Assisted administrators of BPLNet - an ISP.

Left within a year after the BPL Innovision group did a fairly spectacular crash and burn - all those three entities above are defunct now, and BPL Mobile's cellular service license was taken over by Hutchison.
Associate, Security and Abuse Desk

Juno

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; UNTD; Internet industry)

January 2000 — August 2000 (8 months)

Part of a team enforcing the acceptable use policy on Juno, Netzero, Bluelight and other email / internet providers that were part of United Online

Suresh Ramasubramanian’s Education

Osmania University

MBA , Human Resources Management , 1998 — 2000

Additional Information

Suresh Ramasubramanian’s Websites:

Suresh Ramasubramanian’s Interests:

antispam, security, internet governance, cybersecurity, wsis, public policy, quizzing, reading, movies, music

Suresh Ramasubramanian’s Groups:

APIA (http://www.apia.org), London Action Plan (http://www.londonactionplan.net), KCircle (http://www.kcircle.com), Quiz Foundation of India, Chennai, Linux India, MAAWG, CAUCE, Silk List, Quiznet, flyertalk.com, IGF

Internet Society
The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
United Nations
CAUCE - North American Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email
silk-list
NANOG - The North American Network Operators' Group
Flyertalk
Internet Security Operations Community
APNIC Community
kcircle
MAAWG (Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group)
PSSSS Alumni
CYBER WARFARE Forum Initiative - CWFI
Online Trust Alliance (OTA)
SANOG
APRICOT