Meet the Team

Joshua

Joshua Baer

Founder & CEO

Joshua Baer has been working to empower consumers on the Internet and improve email marketing best practices for more than a decade. In 1996 Baer founded SKYLIST, one of the first email marketing companies, in his college dorm room. In 1998 he co-authored RFC 2369, a technical standard for unsubscribe that has been adopted by Google, Microsoft and Yahoo.

Baer first conceived of OtherInbox as a solution to his own email management problems. He soon realized that it was also an opportunity to address many of the pains of email marketing while still protecting the consumer’s privacy.

Baer holds Computer Science and Information Decision Systems degrees from Carnegie Mellon University and lives in Austin, TX with his wife and three children.

You can follow Joshua on Twitter here.

 


Isaac

Isaac Priestley

Web Developer

Isaac Priestley brings the straight funk to all things that run on alternating current. When not developing our web needs, Isaac can be found rocking the Nerdwave jams with his band, World Racketeering Squad. Isaac studied animation and graphic art and has been known to draw comics that reveal in deliciously graphic detail the innermost fears of men and women alike. Isaac is not a man to be understood, rather a rock star who is burdened with the incredible weight of entertaining us all. Indulge him!

 

    • Favorite food you can eat while typing on a keyboard- Muffins
    • The amazing instant multitasking query- 10 windows open
    • InboxScore- 20
    • iTunes most played- “SuperFreak”, Rick James

 

 


Hoon

Hoon Park

Customer Advocate

Hoon Park is a complicated man who makes things easy for our thousands of users. Hoon secretly runs the company but we have yet to tell Josh! Without Hoon, OtherInbox ceases to be a great company and is deregulated to merely a good one. The legend goes - Hoon learned of OtherInbox when we were finalists at the TechCrunch50 Conference in 2008. Less than a month later, he waltzed through the doors, ready to attack spam! Speaking of spam, it’s been reported that one summer he ate a spamburger every day without a hint of irony or even an overplayed reference to Monty Python.

 

  • Favorite web safe, hex color- #CC5500 - Burnt Orange. Hook ‘em!
  • Hometown- Corpus Christi
  • First computer- Commodore 64, with a 300 baud modem
  • The amazing instant multitasking query- 5 windows open

 

 


Bob

Bob Potter

Senior Developer

Bob started out as an intern for us and we just had to keep him around! He is from Georgetown, TX and attended Southwestern University before joining us at Austin Centre. He swears by the sausage kolache at Bakerman’s right across the street at 7th and Brazos since it is both delicious and edible with one hand while coding. We tried his favorite Twitter client, http://termtter.org/ and were glad to see terminal-window geeks have their very own way to stay in touch! He digs the live music scene here in Austin, TX. In fact, if he is not at a show (or coding!) he is probably nappin. Go B-Pot! Zzzzz.

 

  • Nickname- B-Pot
  • First Computer: Macintosh SE/30
  • The amazing instant multitasking query-11 windows, 20 tabs
  • Favorite programming language - Ruby!

 

 


Brad

Brad Fults

Senior Developer

Brad hails from the gorgeous valleys and beaches of Southern
California. He fell in love with JavaScript soon after it was
introduced, via View Source on the Yahoo! home page. He found too many
things to study at UC San Diego, and so obtained degrees in
Math-Computer Science and Philosophy. Since then he's been working
hard to be an unstoppable force for quality within several web
startups. He may be the only one at OIB who ate spam as a kid in a
serious context. It's even better with ketchup!

Nickname: h3h
Best thing about Austin: Tacos
Favorite non-web-safe hex color: #75def3

 


Ben

Ben Hamill

Developer

Ben Hamill came to OtherInbox by way of a harsh mistress named Ruby. Ben learned about us when he attended Ruby on Rails user groups in our 8th floor office at Austin Centre. An early adopter of our first product, Defender, Ben just had to get involved. We lucked out when he came upon a tweet that called out for programmers. Twitter works! A recovering AOL user, Ben is a native Austinite and enjoys the diverse selection of food, events and personalities that can be experienced here. Little known fact: He knows the entire script for “The Big Lebowski.” Finally, Ben is a bona-fide, dyed-in-the-wool Browncoat and is still awaiting a sequel to “Serenity”.

 

  • Education- BA in Linguistics, UT Austin
  • Favorite programming language- Ruby
  • The amazing instant multitasking query- 12 windows open
  • Tweets sent- 5588

 

 


Marcos

Marcos Acosta

Developer

Marcos Acosta kinda freaked us out when he told us about his nickname, “mmaa”. But mmaa quickly grew on us and now we are totally cool with it. He’s a former Alta Vista user who made his way south from Abilene by way of his alma matter, UT Arlington. Lucky for us he’s settled here at Austin Centre with OIB!
Marcos wins the “most rugged imagery award” for his reply to how he prefers his Spam: Thin slices cooked in a pan over a fire on a mountain at 12,000 ft. Delicious!

 

  • Favorite programming language- Ruby
  • First Computer: Apple Macintosh LCIII
  • InboxScore- 67
  • Best thing about Austin- public transportation, particularly the train!

 

 


Andy

Andy Smith

Designer

Andy just kinda showed up one day and started making everything at OIB look awesomer! Though as a kid, he wanted to be a motorcycle-riding park ranger at Yellowstone, we are glad he found his artistic side. Andy used to drive a school bus and will testify that parallel parking is quite the hassle. He has been known to be very happy that nobody breaks fluorescent light bulbs over the hood of his car anymore. Note- We did not ask him where he used to hang out. Once, we tried to feed him Spam. At first, he pretended to eat it, but suddenly had to leave due to an emergency. We realized later that he had politely spit it into his napkin. Nice.

 

  • First Computer- E-Tech Intelliputer 1500 (not verified)
  • The amazing instant multitasking query- 6 windows open.
  • Favorite programming language- Javascript
  • Hometown- Abilene, TX
  • Star Wars or Trek- Whichever one has HAL9000 in it

 


Brian

Brian Bailey

Content & Product Manager

Brian grew up in the Mitten State, but escaped the cold soon after
graduating from Michigan State with a degree in Philosophy. He was
part of the original team at Gowalla and spent four years there as the
Glue Guy. He loves chai lattes, presidential campaigns, Arsenal F.C.
and live music. Brian somehow landed a two-character Twitter handle
years ago, which he has promised to leave his son in his will.

Brian's favorite things are making lists and writing. He does both often.

First Computer: TI-99/4A
Best thing about Austin: So many friendly, creative people
Second best thing about Austin: ACL Live at The Moody Theater
Number of Grateful Dead concerts: 5

 


Allyson

Allyson Weber

Customer Support & Marketing

We’d be remiss if we did not mention right off the bat that Ally is the only female in the office. NOTE- We knew we were missing something when the developer team cleaned up their cubicle in record time! An army brat,  Ally’s been all over such notable domestic acronyms such as VA, NC, SC, AZ, NM, AL,TX and even PR (Puerto Rico)! The quintessential Austin girl, Ally can usually be found swimming in Barton Springs, checking out local music, enjoying art or eating good food but we were shockingly pleased to discover she is also a gamer (!) and a major Star Wars fan-girl to boot. Smart, cultured and geeky? Yes please!

School- University of Alabama - Roll Tide!
Favorite web safe, hex color- #330066
Spam?- No way! She’s a vegetarian.

 


Andrew

Andrew Cooper

Customer Support

 


Dave

Dave Wilby

VP Product Management

Dave hails from North East Texas and has the fake English accent to back it up! Dave or “Wilbs” as he is sometimes referred to, takes the elevator up to the office daily but is aware that stairs exist. His first computer was a Sinclair ZX81 that, according to the internet, could only render video when it was idle! When asked if he preferred pen or pencil, Dave stumped the survey by answering “Mechanical Pencil.” We’d expect no less from a man whose prefers his spam deep fried and whose iTunes most-played query reveals The Airborne Toxic Event- “Sometime Around Midnight.”

 

  • Hometown- Harrogate, UK
  • The amazing instant multitasking query- 24 windows open
  • Best thing about Austin- You get two summers separated by winter and hell!
  • InboxScore- 41