Les Seagraves, Executive Editor
EarthLink's Chief Privacy Officer, Les Seagraves, serves as Executive Editor of the Protection Blog. Les is a general counsel with EarthLink's legal department, where he leads the legal battle against spam and fraud. He's a frequent speaker for trade groups, conferences, continuing legal education and college classrooms. A true technology lawyer, Les has testified in congress and consulted with federal and state legislators on privacy, spam and other areas of technology law.

Mary Youngblood
As EarthLink’s Customer Security Strategist, Mary Youngblood leads company initiatives aimed at identifying and researching new technologies to address spam, viruses, phishing and other online security issues.

Prior to her current position, Mary was the manager of EarthLink’s Abuse Team.  She supervised the group of professionals who help protect EarthLink subscribers from spam, viruses, fraud and other Internet abuses. Mary’s team worked to investigate and stop these and other violations of EarthLink’s Acceptable Use Policy.  In this role, Mary led several of EarthLink’s successful investigations of some of the Internet’s most prolific spammers, including K.C. Smith, the “Buffalo Spammer” Howard Carmack and the Alabama Spam Ring.

Mike Strutton
As the Director of Product Management for EarthLink's Software Products, Mike has been engaged with many of EarthLink's protection products, aka The Blockers, as well as TotalAccess for Windows and Mac. Mike has been with EarthLink for over 10 years and has over 12 years of internet experience. Mike is an avid fan of the Apple Macintosh, but don't let that fool you, while he totes his Powerbook everywhere, he surrounds himself with 3 Dells in his office and 3 more at home.

Stephen Currie
EarthLink's Director of Product Management for Communication Products is Stephen Currie, who oversees the EarthLink mail client, including the development and implementation of email tools like EarthLink spamBlocker. Stephen has also represented EarthLink at industry coalitions aimed at eradicating spam and other Internet abuse, and his expert opinion on spam has been featured in national media coverage.

Scott Mecredy
A Senior Product Manager for Protection Software at EarthLink, Scott Mecredy has been developing consumer software for over 7 years. An industry thought leader (place pointer finger on chin and look longingly into space), he helped create ScamBlocker, the first comprehensive Phisher protection product available in the market. Scott's a Rock Star (in his own mind), and lives for one thing: a successful software launch.

Liza Barry-Kessler
EarthLink's Senior Product Manager for Parental Controls. Although new to EarthLink, Liza is ancient in "internet years" having been online since 1987. She began her career in Parental Controls as a First Amendment lawyer at the Center for Democracy & Technology (www.cdt.org), where she was part of the team that launched the industry-wide internet-safety and privacy initiative, GetNetWise, in 1999.

Liza is also a nationally recognized expert on web filtering and internet privacy issues, both in the home and in school and library environments, and is co-author of the 2005 book Privacy in the 21st Century: Issues for Public, School, and Academic Libraries, Libraries Unlimited Press.

Travis Metcalf
The Protection Blog site administrator and product manager has been with EarthLink for 5 plus years in various roles. Travis has spent most of his time at EarthLink working in portal production for the EarthLink Personal Start Page, as well as writing the Today at EarthLink messages.