Executive Profiles

Russell McDonald, CEO

McDonald is responsible for the overall leadership and direction of iPost. Russell has more than 15 years of experience building and growing sales organizations that specialize in knowledge management solutions. Before joining iPost, he held positions at Elsevier, as Vice President of Sales Strategy for Electronic Publishing, and Ex Libris, as Vice President of Sales and Marketing. He also worked for Ameritech and Innovative Interfaces two leading software companies. McDonald holds an MLIS from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MA and BA from the University of Alabama-Birmingham.

Stephen Webster, VP of Sales

Webster leads iPost’s Sales team and co-founded iPost in 1996 to address the need for well-designed, professional email services and software. Prior to founding iPost, he worked on email systems for an IBM-funded consortium called ITC, and served as engineering director for the award-winning Z-Code, co-founded by iPost’s CTO, Bart Schaefer, PhD. Webster is a frequent keynote speaker on behavioral targeting, profitable and effective email marketing, and cross-channel marketing programs. He holds a BSEE from Carnegie Mellon University.

Craig Kerr, VP of Marketing

Kerr is responsible for overall marketing at iPost. He brings more than 20 years of strategic and hands-on experience in marketing and sales of software and services including enterprise SaaS, on-demand analytics, visualization, workflow and advanced professional services. Kerr has helped successfully scale three start-ups and managed groups for large companies. Before joining iPost, Kerr’s positions included VP of Marketing at Cataphora, VP of Marketing and Business Development at Troba, Director of Sales and Marketing at Avantos and Market Development Manager at Apple Computer. Kerr, also, successfully built his own consulting firm, Kerr Consulting. Kerr Consulting clients included Sun Microsystems, Resumix and @Home Network. Kerr is adept at marketing and selling breakthrough products and services to management in SMB and Global 1000 companies. He holds an MBA from Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.

Barton Schaefer, PhD, CTO

Dr. Schaefer brings to iPost more than 15 years of experience as a key architect and senior developer of email systems, having created flexible and scalable solutions with an emphasis on open standards. Before co-founding iPost, he helped found Z-Code Software, whose ground-breaking application, Z-Mail, won numerous awards, including PC Magazine’s Editor’s Choice Award. Dr. Schaefer is actively involved in IETF email standards discussions and the Anti-SPAM Research Group, and contributes regularly to open software projects including Spam Assassin and zsh. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Oregon Graduate Institute, and a BSS in Computer Science from Cornell College.

Marsha Stark, VP of Channels and Third Party Relationships

Stark has more than 20 years of experience in sales and marketing organizations within the high-tech and software industries. Stark has overall responsibility for the company’s third-party and channel partnerships. Stark is an accomplished, results-oriented business innovator with a proven track record. She has held executive and management positions for both Fortune 500 companies such as Sun Microsystems and Digital Equipment Corporation and distinctive software companies such as Sirsi and Innovative Interfaces. Stark is known for building customer-focused sales and support teams. Ms. Stark holds a BA degree from Kansas State University.

Faye Chartoff, VP of Operations

Chartoff at iPost is responsible for client services. With more than 25 years of operations experience in the software, information and pharmaceutical industries, her professional background includes customer services, product and project management, sales support, and human resources. She has a successful track record for leveraging customer and employee satisfaction for profit and growth in executive and management positions at Innovative Interfaces, Syntex Corporation, Faxon Company and the University of California, Berkeley. She earned her Bachelor’s degree from Cedar Crest College and an MSLS from the University of Maryland.

Greg Fox, VP of Systems Integration

Fox co-founded the company in 1996. He has more than 20 years of experience in designing, developing and deploying email systems. Formerly iPost’s COO, Fox’s role was to ensure that the company’s exceptional technical capabilities were matched by iPost’s commitment to Best in Class service. Formerly, Fox lead a team of Mac OS programmers at Z-Code Software, founded by iPost’s CTO, Bart Schaefer, PhD. Mr. Fox holds a BS degree from Carnegie Mellon University.

Andrea Glickstein, Controller

Glickstein is responsible for leading and directing the financial management, administration and direction of the company as well as overseeing all human resource functions. Glickstein brings over 16 years of administrative, financial and marketing experience to iPost. Before joining iPost, Glickstein was the Product Marketing Manager for Daikin U.S., the company responsible for bringing to market the first commercially available DVD authoring software products. Glickstein worked directly with Hollywood studios and post production houses to bring movies to the now widely adopted DVD format. A veteran of several start-up companies, Glickstein has always been responsible for many levels of the businesses in which she serves. Glickstein holds an M.B.A. in Strategic Leadership from Dominican University of California.