Mimecast Company Overview

Peter Bauer is the CEO, Cofounder and a Board Member at Mimecast, which he launched in 2003, with CTO and fellow Cofounder, Neil Murray.

He is the visionary behind Mimecast’s product and SaaS platform strategy, which focuses on reducing risk and making email safer for business, utilizing a pure Cloud delivery mechanism and an intuitive user experience, suited to the way people interact with email today.

This combination of next generation technology, a unified platform, and seamless integration with existing email systems, is the driving force behind Mimecast’s success in its mission to transform the way people work amidst today’s ever changing threat landscape.

Peter was born and raised in South Africa, trained as a Microsoft systems engineer, and began working with corporate messaging systems in the mid 1990’s.  He moved to the UK where Mimecast was founded, and then moved once more, arriving in Boston, Massachusetts in 2011, in order to lead Mimecast’s aggressive push into North America.  Since that time, Mimecast has been one of the strongest performers in its market segment in terms of customer acquisition and top line growth, making Peter one of only a handful of CEO’s to have led a pure SaaS company for over 10 years while acquiring well over 10,000 customers worldwide.

Neil is one of the people who helped build Mimecast. Not just metaphorically, but literally. He’s led the development team from our inception – when he was the development team – overseeing the construction of our cloud platform from the ground up. It’s thanks to him that Mimecast, uniquely, was conceived and built as a single, integrated platform rather than a set of bolted-together services.

Today he oversees the management and development of our cloud and services platform and sets out the overall technical vision and strategy for the service.

Before Mimecast, Neil was the CTO of Global Technology Services, a South African, JSE-listed provider of business information solutions, which had bought Pro Solutions, a software development company he helped found in the early nineties.

Neil’s 20 year-career also includes experience architecting and building leading software products for internet banking, messaging and rapid application development.

Peter joined Mimecast in 2006 and is responsible for overseeing the company’s global financial strategy and operations.

Peter has 15 years of experience in the IT sector. Prior to Mimecast he was CFO of SR Telecom, a Nasdaq-listed company with operations in 26 countries, based in Montreal, Canada. He was key to SR Telecom’s SEC listing as well as its acquisitions including the $121 M takeover of Netro Corporation. Peter has also lectured in accountancy at Concordia University and began his career at Ernst & Young in their technology group.

He holds a Chartered Accountant Designation with the Canadian Order of Chartered Accountants, and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Ed joined Mimecast in August, 2015 as Chief Operating Officer, leading the global marketing, sales and services teams. He brings extensive experience in both SaaS and security companies, with a proven track record of delivering growth by combining innovative marketing strategies with go-to-market operational excellence.

Ed joined Mimecast from cloud-based application security company, Veracode, where he served as Chief Marketing Officer responsible for the company’s worldwide marketing strategy. Prior to Veracode, he served as General Manager at ADP responsible for their SaaS-based compliance business. Previously, he was CEO at Copanion, a SaaS workflow solution.

Ed is a graduate of Boston College and holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.

Mark’s mission at Mimecast is putting customers first. That’s why he is focused on leading the outside-in approach to customer success and satisfaction. Mark has been with Mimecast since the beginning; he was employee number three. Since 2005, his roles have spanned virtually every functional group, including both Vice President of Sales and General Manager of the U.S. business. Through this experience, Mark has developed a deep understanding of the customer journey.

Prior to joining Mimecast, Mark completed a Ph.D. in African History at St. John's College, Cambridge; worked for the British Library on their Oral History of the Wine Trade in the UK initiative; and worked for McKinsey & Co in London as part of their world-renowned Research & Information team.

Mark lives in New England with his family and enjoys being outdoors in Maine during most weekends.

Alan joined Mimecast in 2008 as Sales Director, before taking on the role of General Manager for the UK, Europe and Middle East. Since then he has played a vital role in shaping and overseeing the go-to-market and customer experience strategies that have underpinned our rapid growth. He now brings the same insight and experience to his role as GM EMEA & APAC.

Today, Alan is responsible for driving business and revenue performance across our rapidly expanding global organization. In particular, his focus is on enabling greater cohesion between our regional teams and, therefore, more effective global execution of our go-to-market and customer experience strategies

Alan started his career with Vistorm, a top security VAR in the UK, before moving on to SurfControl. There he held channel and sales roles before being promoted to UK Channel Sales Director.

In his role as Managing Director for Mimecast South Africa, Brandon brings with him over 15 years’ experience in sales, sales training and certification, as well as various programs aimed at building new revenue streams. 

Brandon has been with Mimecast since January 2008 where he previously held the position of Sales Director. During this time, Brandon was instrumental in securing some of Mimecast South Africa’s key clients, growing the business from 85 customers to more than 2,000. 

Prior to Mimecast, Brandon spent 10 years within the Dimension Data Group, starting off in Sales moving into an Exco position at Internet Solutions. After this, he ran Sales for the Dimension Data Group for the Western Cape.

Grant joined Mimecast in 2008 as Business Development Director in South Africa, leading the development of the channel sales model in that region. He relocated to London in June 2012 to help build the global product management team. Today Grant has overall responsibility for the Digital Business Operations group ensuring that Mimecast's systems support our growth.  

Grant started his career in IT early – undertaking the development of software applications while obtaining a finance and business degree. Prior to joining Mimecast, Grant built an IT professional services firm specializing in helping customers work more productively with unstructured data. He sold that business successfully to a listed entity in South Africa.

Nathaniel has been Mimecast's Chief Scientist since 2010. His duties focus on the future, including the evolution of Mimecast's long term vision and the development of our intellectual property strategy and assets.

He is best known as the co-creator of the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) standard and the developer of several widely-used software systems, including the Andrew Message System and metamail. Before joining Mimecast, he was an IBM Distinguished Engineer. Previously he had served as a faculty member at the University of Michigan, Carnegie-Mellon University and Grinnell College. He holds three patents related to Internet payment systems, with other applications pending, and has consulted in numerous cases related to email and Internet payments.

He is also a serial entrepreneur. In 1994 he was one of the founders of First Virtual Holdings, recognized by the Smithsonian as the first internet payment system. He grew First Virtual to a 1996 IPO and 1998 acquisition. In 2000 he co-founded NetPOS.com, the first Internet-centric point of sale system. He is the author of three books and numerous technical articles, a past President and Board Member of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, and a former Board Member of the Institute for Global Communications and of Peace Action.

Joe joined Mimecast in 2015 as senior vice president of Human Resources, leading the global HR organization. With more than 22 years of HR and talent management experience in the high-tech sector, Joe is focused on setting the strategic direction on talent acquisition, employee development and retention; organizational design; and compensation and benefits planning.

Joe joined Mimecast from Mercury Systems, where he held the position of vice president of HR and was responsible for improving its talent strategy and development. Joe has an extensive background in strategic HR operations planning, and was responsible for setting annual goals to drive the growth of the $225 million publicly traded company. Before this, Joe was vice president of HR at NMS Communications/LiveWire Mobile, where he was responsible for global HR strategy.

Alex joined Mimecast in February 2016 as Senior Vice President of Global Marketing, overseeing corporate communications, branding, field and channel marketing, product marketing and demand generation.

Prior to Mimecast, Alex was the Vice President of Marketing at Onapsis. Before that, Alex was general manager of RSA Conference, the leading industry event for information security professionals, implementing innovative ways to engage the RSA Conference community and manage the conference’s expansion. With his deep domain expertise in information security marketing and advertising, Alex will be pivotal in developing the global marketing strategy and driving the expansion of cloud-based email security and data protection services.

Mark joined Mimecast in September 2015, leading the product strategy, design and innovation for Mimecast’s email security, archiving and business continuity solutions.

Mark joins Mimecast from Constant Contact, a leading provider of email marketing SaaS solutions, where he worked for more than five years fulfilling a variety of leadership rolls including head of product management and strategy and head of segment marketing. Prior to that, Mark held management positions at companies like Azuki Systems, IMG Corporation and EInk, leading product strategy and strategic business development through periods of growth and change.

Mark graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a BSEE and holds an MBA from Wake Forest University School of Business.

Bob joined Mimecast in September 2016 as Senior Vice President and General Counsel.  He has over 20 years of experience leading legal teams in a variety of industries, including SaaS, security, enterprise software and financial services.

Prior to joining Mimecast, Bob was Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Constant Contact, Inc., a leading provider of email marketing SaaS solutions. Bob joined Constant Contact in 2007 and led the legal team through the company’s initial public offering, multiple acquisitions and the sale of the company to Endurance International Group, Inc. in February 2016. Before joining Constant Contact, he served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of RSA Security Inc., a provider of security technology solutions, until its acquisition by EMC Corporation.  Prior to that, Bob served in the general counsel role for a number of companies including Med-i-Bank, Inc., a provider of software and services for electronic benefit payments, ON Technology Corporation, an enterprise software company, and The Pioneer Group, Inc., a financial services and alternative investments company. Before joining Pioneer, Bob was a member of the corporate department of Hale and Dorr LLP (now Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP).

Bob holds a B.A. from the University of Rhode Island and a J.D. from Boston University School of Law.