Joshua Baer is the Founder of OtherInbox and Managing Director of Capital Factory and 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. In 2004 he created UnsubCentral to make sure consumers can always unsubscribe from commercial email. Baer currently runs the Deliverability.com blog and @deliverability on Twitter.

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 keeping consumers in control and increasing transparency.

Already an active angel investor and startup mentor, Baer joined with other entrepreneurs to found Capital Factory – a summer program for startups that brings $20,000 in cash, $20,000 in free stuff, and 20 mentors to accelerate early stage technology companies. Baer is also the organizer of Ignite Austin.

Baer was recently recognized as an Austin under 40 Finalist, as recipient of a Texas Social Media Award and as the Austin Information Technologist of the Year. He holds Computer Science and Information Decision Systems degrees from Carnegie Mellon University and lives in Austin, TX with his wife and daughter.

You can find Joshua Baer on Twitter or LinkedIn.

Josh will be presenting “Turn Complainers into Champions” as our lunchtime feature, and will also be part of the panel for small business and non-profits on March 9.