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Nathaniel S. Borenstein
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`        
`PO Box 125
`Greenbush, Michigan 48738          Cell: (734) 926­9672
`http://guppylake.com/~nsb          Fax: (978) 336­5359
`
`An abridged version of this resume is at http://guppylake.com/nsb/Nathaniel­short.html.
`
`Education
`
`• ScD. (honoris causa), Grinnell College, 2013. 
`• Ph.D., Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, 1985. 
`• M.S., Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, 1981. 
`• B.A., Mathematics & Religious Studies, Grinnell College, 1980. 
`• Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 1978­79. 
`• Deep Springs College, California, 1975­76. 
`• Ohio State University, 1974­75.
`
`Awards, Recognition, and Professional Activities
`
`• IBM Distinguished Engineer, 2002. 
`• Named "a geek's geek" by Salon Magazine, 2001. 
`• First Robert Noyce Visiting Professor, Grinnell College, 1998­99. 
`• Who's Who in The World, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Science and
`Engineering, Who's Who in Finance and Industry, 1997­present.
`• Named as one of the "Websight 100" 1996­97. 
`• Profiled in "Tricks of the Internet Gurus", 1994. 
`• NYU Olive Branch Award, 1990. 
`• General Electric Fellow, 1983. 
`• National Science Foundation Fellow, 1980­83. 
`• Phi Beta Kappa, 1980. 
`• Grinnell College President's Medalist, 1980. 
`• Past President/Director, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.
`• Past Director, Institute for Global Communication. 
`• Contributor, Encyclopedia of Microcomputers. 
`• Editorial Advisory Board, Communications of the ACM. 
`• Chairman, 2000 CPSR Conference, "Nurturing the Cybercommons".
`• Chairman, 1994 IFIP Conference, "Message Handling Systems". 
`• Reviewer, 1989/90 ACM/IEEE Undergraduate CS Curriculum. 
`• Reviewer for NSF, numerous journals, conferences, and publishers.
`
`Publications
`
`I am the author of three books, three patents, and numerous articles; a partial listing of my publications
`can be found at http://guppylake.com/~nsb/pubs
`
`References available upon request. 
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`Employment History
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`2010­present:  Chief Scientist, Mimecast, London, UK
`
`Responsibilities and Achivements
`
`• Coordinate long­term technical strategy and research 
`• Design and Implement an intellectual property strategy 
`• Represent the company in technical standards bodies 
`• Represent the company's technical team externally
`
`2002­2010:  Chief Open Standards Strategist and Distinguished Engineer 
`                          IBM Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts
`
`Responsibilities and Achivements
`
`• Administration of multimillion dollar research budget. 
`• Oversight of all standards efforts for Lotus division. 
`• Served on Open Document Format standards committee.
`• Initiated several new IETF standards efforts in calendaring and scheduling and
`spam­control.
`
`2000­2002:  Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, 2001­2002 
`                     Founder and Chief Scientist, 2000­2001 
`                     NETPOS.COM, Ann Arbor, Michigan
`
`Key achievements:
`
`• On a tight budget, built a complete team, technology, and product that is
`thriving five years later.
`• Developed, deployed, and patented a pioneering solution to a well­known
`impediment to Internet services.
`
`Lessons learned:
`
`• Timing is everything.
`• Cash is king.
`
`I built a world­class Internet development team that, in just four months, built and deployed
`the world's first Internet­native Point­of­Sale system for retail use. In the process, we
`invented and filed for a patent that enables the reliable provision of mission­critical services
`via the Internet Application Service Provider (ASP) model. The company's pioneering
`technology was recognized with an achievement award at the 2001 Food Service
`Technology Conference.
`
`Unfortunately, our timing was poor; we formed an Internet company seeking venture capital
`at the exact moment when such investments fell out of favor. When I was asked to take over
`as CEO in 2001, I faced a radically different entrepreneurial environment than I knew from
`First Virtual. Of necessity I learned a great deal about business economics and survival
`strategies. I sold a controlling interest in the company in 2002, and the company has slowly
`grown and flourished since then.
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`1998­2003:  Visiting Professor and Research Fellow 
`             University of Michigan School Of Information, Ann Arbor, Michigan
`
`Key achievements:
`
`• Obtained critical research funding. 
`• Taught courses. 
`• Advised students.
`
`Lesson learned:
`
`• Why are academic politics so tough? Because the stakes are so low!
`
`When I first joined the faculty, I undertook the assignment of providing faculty oversight to
`the Internet Public Library, an extremely popular student­driven institution that was on the
`verge of insolvency. I found sponsorship funding that secured the IPL's existence for several
`years.
`
`As a faculty member, I taught courses and advised graduate students, particularly in the
`areas of User Interface Design and Electronic Commerce. I also found that, returning to
`academia after many years, I missed the kinds of challenges I had found in the business
`world. I reduced my university committment to part­time when I founded NetPOS in 2001.
`
`1994­1998:  Founder and Chief Scientist 
`                     First Virtual Holdings, Inc., San Diego, California
`
`Key achievements:
`
`• Invented and developed revolutionary payment technology.
`• Built a company up through an IPO and beyond. 
`• Authored 3 patents.
`
`Lessons learned:
`
`• Be flexible in your business model. 
`• Avoid turf wars with large institutions.
`
`First Virtual is recognized by the Smithsonian Institution as "the first cyberbank." In 1994,
`we were the first company to connect the Internet to the world of banking networks, using
`innovative "closed loop" email technology to enhance security while allowing virtually
`anyone to be an Internet merchant. The company also built a pioneering email­based on­line
`customer support system, and provided most of the features of both eBay and PayPal before
`those companies existed.
`
`Widely scrutinized by the press, financial institutions, and security experts, the company
`experienced several years of exponential growth with hundreds of thousands of customers
`and virtually no down time. Early rounds of investment came from leading institutions such
`as First Data, First USA, and GE Capital, leading to a successful IPO in 1996. In addition to
`leading the invention and development of the company's technology, I took primary
`responsibility for the company's intellectual property, ultimately producing three
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`fundamental e­commerce and email patents.
`
`The company's business model was eventually undermined by the credit card associations,
`which changed the rules to favor their preferred vision of Internet payment mechanisms.
`With the writing on the wall for our payment system, we effected a complete change in the
`company's mission and product line to become MessageMedia, an early leader in email
`marketing technology and campaigns. I left the company in 1998, after this transition was
`complete, to return to academia. MessageMedia was acquired by DoubleClick in late 2001.
`
`1989­1994:  Member of Technical Staff 
`                     Bell Communciations Research (Bellcore), 
`                     Morristown, New Jersey
`
`Key achievements:
`
`• MIME: the Internet standard for rmultimedia data. 
`• Metamail: open source software still used on millions of machines.
`• ATOMICMAIL, Safe­Tcl, and numerous publications.
`
`Lessons learned:
`
`• Technology is the easy part. 
`• Interpersonal relationships are what change the world. 
`• Like it or not, patents are too valuable for a business to neglect.
`
`For five years, I was a researcher in Bellcore's Interpersonal Communications Group. I had a
`broad mandate and nearly total freedom to study the use of computers and networks to
`enhance interpersonal communication, and published more than a dozen research papers.
`
`My signal accomplishment while at Bellcore was to lead the Internet community, under the
`auspices of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), to develop the open data
`interchange standard that ultimately became known as MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail
`Extensions). Today, every email message, every web page on the Internet, and every modern
`version of a Microsoft operating systems use MIME.
`
`While at Bellcore, I was also the author of the "metamail" software package, an open source
`implementation of the MIME standard. Metamail or parts thereof are still running on
`millions of machines worldwide.
`
`I also defined and implemented two special­purpose "active email" programming languages
`while I was at Bellcore, known as ATOMICMAIL and Safe­Tcl. Both of these were
`languages that permitted interactive programs to be sent around via email without permitting
`viruses or other hostile applications.
`
`Unfortunately for everyone who uses email, Bellcore never commercialized or widely
`distributed the active email technology. Moreover, Bellcore failed to patent active email or
`many other fundamental inventions from its laboratories during the years right before the
`Internet boom. In retrospect I believe that Bellcore's poor patent strategy probably cost its
`shareholders hundreds of millions of dollars.
`
`Despite my successes in open standards and free software, I was disappointed at Bellcore's
`failure to exploit the commercial potential of new technologies. It was my frustration with
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`the difficulty of turning good research inventions into successful commercial products that
`led me to leave Bellcore and become an entrepreneur.
`
`1985­1989:  Manager of Applications Development, 1988­1989 
`                     System Designer, 1985­1988 
`                     Information Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon University, 
`                     Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
`
`Key achievement:
`
`• Built the world's first widely­used multimedia email system.
`
`Lessons learned:
`
`• Nothing beats seeing other people use and enjoy the product of your work. 
`• You don't have to do something just because you're good at it.
`
`The Andrew project was an ambitious early effort to develop a graphical computing
`environment for general use. My role in the project was to use the project's core tools to
`develop a "flagship" application, the Andrew Message System (AMS). AMS was the first
`multimedia email system to see more than token laboratory use, and its direct influence
`included inspiring Steve Jobs to make multimedia email a key application of his NeXT
`computer. (Later in their life cycles, both Andrew and NeXTmail were converted to use
`MIME as their data format, at which point users of the two systems were finally able to
`exchange multimedia data with each other by email.)
`
`In my last year at Carnegie Mellon, I was given my first taste of technical management,
`overseeing a team of programmers producing applications of the Andrew tool suite. While I
`enjoyed managing and was reasonably successful, I concluded that I did not yet want to be a
`full­time manager, and eventually left for a research job at Bellcore.
`
`1983­1985:  Founder and Vice President for Technology 
`                     Soft Cellars, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
`
`Key achievement:
`
`• Developed a suite of applications for low­end microcomputers.
`
`Lesson learned:
`
`• Great technology cannot succeed unless it fills a customer need.
`
`Soft Cellars was a small software company that a few friends and I formed while I was in
`graduate school. We ­­ primarily I ­­ developed a basic database system and a suite of
`educational games for low end computers such as the Commodore Vic­20, Texas
`Instruments 99/4A, and similar systems.
`
`Ultimately, there did not turn out to be a market for the kind of software we were providing
`on these low­end computers. The only difference between our little company and the bigger
`players in this market was the amount of money wasted before this truth became apparent.
`Ever since, before investing substantial time and effort into a problem, I have first tried to
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`assure myself that its solution would be important enough for someone to actually pay for it.
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