Boxbe

With Boxbe, your inbox is no longer a free-for-all.

Boxbe is a service that lets you easily create an email guest list so that you can make sure you receive email messages from people who matter to you. Boxbe's guest list works just like your IM buddy list or your social network friends page. It contains only those you've added or invited. Boxbe's Email by Invitation is free and works with most popular email services including Yahoo! Mail, Outlook and Gmail.

Thede Loder - Founder and President

Thede first wrote about using a payment to screen incoming email while researching the problem as a graduate student at the University of Michigan. He combined that research with the experience he gained building several technology companies (as a principal at Diamond Technology and Management Consultants, a founder of Leverage Information Systems and an early employee of Match.com) to bring Boxbe to life.

As co-founder and President of Boxbe, Thede is working feverishly to make Boxbe's vision a reality. In addition to being Boxbe's evangelist, he leads the company's technology efforts, acting as chief architect and head of engineering and technical operations. Thede is also chairman of Boxbe's Board of Directors.

Corbett Barr - Founder and Chief Operating Officer

 

Corbett has straddled business and technology throughout his career. After starting out as a software developer and project manager, he joined Diamond Management and Technology Consultants to broaden his skills and help Fortune 500 clients use technology to enable new business strategies. Six years of management consulting prepared him to start something from the ground up, which led to founding Boxbe.

As co-founder and COO of Boxbe, Corbett is obsessed with building a service that our members can't live without. He also handles many of the company's traditional business activities, including finance, recruiting and operations and serves on Boxbe's Board of Directors.

Mark Benerofe - EVP of Corporate Development

Mark is a veteran of media and technology ventures including both start-ups and established corporations. Mark served in senior executive positions including President at IntelliOne Technologies, Chief Marketing Officer at Walker Digital and Executive Vice President at both Priceline and Newscorp. At Sony, he served as Senior Vice President of the successful launch of Sony Online Ventures, which included multi-player games such as Everquest and the gameshows Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune! At Microsoft, he initiated the MSNBC partnership as Director of Broadband Media.

A pioneer in broadcasting and interactive media, Mark wrote the launch show for CNN Headline News in 1982 and was the youngest Supervising Producer at CNN. He was also the youngest director at Prodigy in 1988, where he served as Editorial Director and General Manager putting more than 300 providers online for the first time, including Dow Jones, Consumers Union, Zagat Survey, National Geographic and WGBH. A board member, investor and advisor for several start-ups, Mark also co-owns COREBODY Decatur, a successful fitness club in Atlanta. In 2006, he completed a two year term as Chairperson for the Players on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour Board and Women's Tennis Benefits Association, where he helped drive on court innovations for television, and spearheaded successful initiatives to achieve Equal Prize Money at Roland Garros and Wimbledon and the first revenue sharing agreement for professional tennis players in history.