About the Presenters
Carl Hutzler is the Director of Anti-Spam Operations at AOL. He joined America Online as a Project Manager in 1997, and led the re-architecture of the AOL mailbox system. In 2001, Carl took on the additional responsibility of Anti-Spam Operations. His team has implemented technologies that are now responsible for blocking over 80% of the spam that is attempted to AOL customers. Carl also leads the AOL Postmaster team. Prior to joining AOL Technologies, Carl was a network design engineer with Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Inc.

Ron da Silva <ron@aol.net> is the Principal Architect for Network Operations at America Online. He has extensive experience running large IP networks and has had the unique experience of building an international backbone from concept, which since evolved to be a full-scale, tier-one ISP (AS1668). Ron is active in various industry organizations and serves on the Technical Advisory Council for ARIN.