Mark Risher

Mark Risher is CEO and Co-Founder of Impermium. As the former "Spam Czar" for Yahoo!, he has regularly presented to government, industry, and consumer groups about spam, abuse and cyber security.

Palo Alto, California, United States
Member since November 17, 2011

About

Education

Harvard University , BA , Computer Science

I am a(n):

Entrepreneur

Companies I've founded or co-founded:

Impermium

Companies I work or worked for:

CAMEO Style, b-swing

If you're an entrepreneur or corporate innovator, why?

I want to change the world.

Full bio

Mark Risher is the CEO and Co-Founder of Impermium, a stealth-mode, engineering-driven startup dedicated to helping consumer web sites protect themselves from "social spam," including account hacking, bot attacks, and more. As the former "Spam Czar" for Yahoo!, Mark is uniquely positioned to lead the battle against social spam.

Mark is an experienced, highly-technical product executive with significant operating experience. His professional endeavors focus on global, consumer-centric software design and development, and related technologies.