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Suresh Ramasubramanian is currently analyzing spam at Apple.

Previous jobs include six years as Architect, Antispam and Compliance at IBM’s Web Mail Cloud service and a further 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 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 worked at a regional Indian ISP, BPL Innovision.

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, and serves on program and fellowship committees for the APRICOT / SANOG / APNIC regional network operator events.

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 like MAAWG.

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

Businessweek magazine profiled Suresh as #19 in its 2002 list of top 25 e-business professionals.