L-SOFT UK - Key Persons

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• Chief Executive Officer
• Founder
• Member of the L - Soft Management Team
• History of LISTSERV
• L - Soft 's CEO
• L - Soft Founder and CEO, Inventor of LISTSERV
• Press and Media

As L-Soft's CEO, Eric Thomas has successfully expanded the company's product and service offerings well beyond the original LISTSERV® product. Under his leadership, the company today has more than 3,700 customers worldwide - including 23 of the Fortune 100 - and continues to break records, delivering more than 30 million messages per day to more than 130 million list subscriptions. In 1986, Eric created L-Soft's flagship product, LISTSERV, the first email list manager and the current de facto standard for the administration of email lists. Eight years later Eric founded L-Soft - now the global provider of software and outsourcing services for email list management, discussion groups, newsletters and direct email marketing campaigns. A citizen of both Panama and France, Eric began his career working for CERN in Geneva and in 1990 moved to Stockholm where he helped SUNET (Swedish University Network) launch the Internet in Sweden. Prior to that, he studied engineering in Paris. Eric has also worked in Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. He speaks French, Spanish, Swedish, Italian and some Russian. Eric Thomas is one of the few true pioneers in Internet technology. In 1986, Eric invented LISTSERV, the first email list management program, representing a major milestone in Internet history. Eric originally created LISTSERV while he was a university student, effectively launching the email list communication industry. In 1994, Eric started L-Soft, for which he serves as CEO. L-Soft Founder and CEO Eric Thomas, who began the email list communication industry in 1986 with the invention of LISTSERV, shares his reflections, visions and musings. Eric Thomas has spoken at numerous conferences, trade shows and events. Eric Thomas has authored numerous articles on email communications and other technology topics. EU workshop on unsolicited commercial communications or spam - Brussels, October 16, 2003

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• Dagens IT / Datateknik 3.0, October 1999

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• the Fathers of Social Media

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• Member of the L - Soft Management Team
• L - Soft 's Executive Vice President
• VP of Marketing & Executive Vice President

Outi Tuomaala is L-Soft's Executive Vice President and also heads the marketing department. She started working for L-Soft in the United States in 1998 and has since then played a leading role in the development of the company. One of her earliest responsibilities at L-Soft was the launch of L-Soft's first European office in Stockholm. She was promoted to Executive Vice President in 2000 and is now responsible for marketing strategies, the Swedish office as well as international co-ordination. Originally from Finland, Outi has also worked in Germany and in the United States. She speaks Finnish, English, Swedish and German and holds a Master's degree in Business Administration and Economics from the University of Uppsala and a Bachelor's degree in Art History from Stockholm University.

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• E - Mail Lists Get Virus Protection / CNN.Com / SCI - TECH, October 30, 2001