M3AAWG Expert Advisors are highly respected experts chosen for their skills and industry proficiency. They assist the committees in their work and often provide new ideas and perspectives at M3AAWG meetings.
Frank Ackermann, Attorney-at-Law, Ackermann Legal
A practicing attorney in Bonn, Germany specializing in European IT law, data protection and data privacy since 2003, Frank Ackermann provides expert analysis of the online policies developing throughout the European Union focusing on how they will affect anti-abuse work. He is an active participant in the EU online security community, having served as a director and vice president of INHOPE (International Organization of Internet Hotlines), senior legal counsel and director at eco-Association of the Internet Industry, in Germany, and as an advisory board member of the German Awareness Node “Saferinternet.de. He also provides information technology law training for online emerging countries with the Internet Society and has been a M3AAWG Public Policy Advisor since 2011. Mr. Ackermann is co-chair of the M3AAWG Public Policy Committee.
Richard Clayton, Ph.D., Security Researcher, University of Cambridge
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/
Richard Clayton led the team that developed Turnpike, one of the earliest integrated Internet access packages for Windows, giving access to email and Usenet over dialup links. In 1995 his software house was sold to Demon Internet, then the United Kingdom's largest ISP. He worked for Demon in various troubleshooting and regulatory roles until 2000, when he returned to the University of Cambridge to study for a PhD. His thesis was completed in 2005, and he has stayed on as an academic "because it is more fun than working."
Dr. Clayton edited many of LINX's BCP (Best Current Practices) documents, which include some of the earliest formal statements of the terms and conditions that internet service providers must impose to ensure they can deal with abuse of email systems. In 2007 he became the second recipient of LINX's "Conspicuous Contribution" award.
He currently runs the Cambridge Cybercrime Centre, a five-year initiative to collate datasets about cybercrime and make them available to other academics. The aim is to drive a step change in the number of academic papers that use real world data as the basis for their insights into cybercrime topics.
Matthew Dunn, Ph.D., Founder and Chief Explainer at Campaign Genius; Co-Founder of Social Signal
Matthew Dunn, Ph.D., is Founder and Chief Explainer at Campaign Genius, and Co-Founder of Social Signal. Dr. Dunn is a serial entrepreneur and executive with wide-ranging experience. He has been a startup CEO, Fortune 1000 Senior Vice-President and CIO, Microsoft veteran, consultant, technology standards organization Executive Director and university professor. A frequent keynote speaker, Matthew is also an award-winning writer, director, designer, and an inventor, holding over a dozen patents in diverse fields.
As a keynoter, speaker and panel moderator, Matthew is known for making complex subjects clear and simple. He has had repeat engagements as emcee and “conference summarizer”, improvising the wrap-up of full day conferences on the spot.
Matthew holds the first Ph.D. in Digital Media, which he designed and completed at the University of Washington before the Web was invented. He also holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Texas. He brings a unique mix of technical, business, scholarships and arts experience to understanding the changing business and technology landscape.
Steph
en Farrell, Ph.D., Trinity College Dublin
https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Stephen.Farrell/me/public-resume.html
Dr. Stephen Farrell is a research fellow in the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin (https://scss.tcd.ie), where he teaches and researches on security and delay/disruption-tolerant networking (DTN). In 2006 he co-authored the first book on the latter topic. Dr. Farrell has been involved in internet standards for more than a decade and was IETF security area director from 2011-2017. He currently co-chairs the IETF home networking working group (homenet) and is co-founder of Tolerant Networks Limited, a TCD campus company.
Janet Jones
Janet Jones has over 25 years of experience in the software industry, with a major focus on security and combating online abuse. She is passionate about solving complex globally impacting problems in the technical, security, and regulations compliance areas while fostering a culture of inclusivity and respect. Janet provides strategic guidance to leadership as well as technical expertise to the online anti-abuse global community. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, Janet helps to develop innovative solutions for security, regulations, and compliance, contributing to the overall success of the organization.
Janet joined M3AAWG in 2014 and has held many leadership and technical roles within the organization, including being the first female Chair for the M3AAWG Board of Directors. She is currently still filling leadership co-chair roles for the Data and Identity Protection and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging committees.
John R. Levine, Ph.D., Taughannock Networks, Founder
John R. Levine is a long-term participant in mail standards and mail anti-abuse efforts. He is a member of the board of the Internet Society, of the ICANN Stability and Security Advisory Committee (SSAC) and is president of the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail (CAUCE North America). He has written many books including the popular Internet for Dummies, Fighting Spam for Dummies, Linkers and Loaders, and qmail.
Dr. Levine has been active in the design and testing of widely used anti-spam and authentication technologies including: DKIM, ARC, CSV, and ARF. He was a co-founder and director of the Domain Assurance Council, an industry consortium creating open standards for domain certification. Dr. Levine has a B.A. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Yale University. His other computing interests include compilers; he co-authored the classic lex & yacc and has moderated comp.compilers, the usenet group which is the world's most popular forum on the topic, since 1986.
April Lor
enzen, Dissect Cyber Inc.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/aprillorenzen
April Lorenzen is an internet security researcher specializing in the preemptive discovery of miscreant and crimeware resources in the domain name system. In her work as Chief Data Scientist at Zetalytics, she oversees one of the world's most geographically diverse passive DNS systems. She has operated IoC (Indicators of Compromise) security feeds continuously since 2004 and is the primary architect of the free open source data visualization tool "Mal4s.”
April is also active in the white hat community as a M3AAWG Senior Technical Advisor and as a Senior Research Fellow for the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). She received the Global Impact award from the Department of Homeland Security S&T Cyber Security Division in 2016 and currently serves as the Principal Investigator for a critical infrastructure supply chain cybersecurity notification research project. She also has been appointed to serve on the Cyber Rhode Island Advisory Committee by the state’s Congressional representative. In 2006, April received an award for Outstanding Support in the Ongoing Battle Against Cyber Crime from the National Cyber Forensics Training Alliance (NCFTA). She is a frequent trainer and speaker at international ISP, law enforcement and security industry conferences.
Angelica Mandell
Angelica Mandell is a diversity, equity, and inclusion independent consultant, joining M3AAWG in early 2022 as an Expert Advisor. Angelica has a Masters of Social Work (MSW) degree from Eastern Washington University along with having an A.C.S.W (Academy of Certified Social Workers) certification. Mrs. Mandell has 25+ years of experience as a regional program director, clinical supervisor, data analyst, program manager and trainer, including focus on creating diverse and inclusive environments and cultures. Additionally, Angelica is an experienced social worker and mental health professional with extensive background in direct client services as well as clinical supervision, staff development and training, and program agency management. Angelica is working with the M3AAWG Diversity & Inclusion committee, member community, and executive leadership to understand how to help industry associations create diverse and inclusive cultures while working on common initiatives as well as incorporating and leveraging partnering organizations where appropriate.
Simon McGarr, Solicitor, Data Compliance Europe
https://www.datacomplianceeurope.eu/
Simon McGarr is recognized as one of Ireland’s leading experts in data protection. A practicing solicitor, he has guest lectured at Irish Universities and the Irish Law Society. His ability to convey specialized information painlessly has made him a regular contributor to media discussions of data issues.
Simon was involved in the two landmark cases developing data protection law in the European Union, Digital Rights Ireland and Schrems. His consultancy firm, Data Compliance Europe focuses on helping organizations, from multinationals to non-profits, towards GDPR compliance.
Rod Rasmussen, ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC),
leadership of the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) and other industry organizations
Pete Resnick, Episteme Technology Consulting LLC
Area of expertise: Pete provides consulting services on engaging with and contributing to standards development organizations, as well as advising on engineering, legal, and policy issues. He also serves as an expert witness in legal cases regarding Internet messaging.
Joe Salowey, Security Engineer at Salesforce, IETF and IEEE
Area of expertise: Joe mainly focuses on cryptography and privacy in standards and security architectures and has spent over 2 decades working on open security standards within the IETF and IEEE.
Joe St Sauver, Ph.D., DomainTools
Joe St Sauver was formerly a Distinguished Scientist with DomainTools through May, 2025 (DomainTools acquired Paul Vixie's company, Farsight Security, Inc. in November 2019). Before joining Farsight in November 2014, Dr. St Sauver worked for the Computing Center/Information Services at the University of Oregon for roughly 28 years, including serving (under a UO contract) as the Internet2 Nationwide Security Programs manager, and manager of the the InCommon SSL/TLS Certificate Service and InCommon's Multifactor Program. Among other national cybersecurity-related activities, Dr. St Sauver remains a member of the Research and Education Network Information Sharing and Analysis Center Technical Advisory Group (REN-ISAC TAG) and is on the Board of the Coalition Against Unsolicited Email (CAUCE). Dr. St Sauver routinely writes and presents on a wide range of cybersecurity topics. Publicly available presentations can be found at https://www.stsauver.com/joe/
Laurin Weissinger, Teacher at Fletcher School, Tufts University, Cybersecurity Fellow and an ISP Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School.
Laurin teaches at the Fletcher School, Tufts University, focusing on socio-technical cyber security. He is also the Cybersecurity Fellow and an ISP Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School.
His research and expertise include: complex systems and security, the problem of trust, trust assurance, trust architectures, security threats more generally, cooperation in international and organizational cybersecurity, risk and security management, regulation and standards, security policy, as well as cybercrime and anti-abuse. Laurin recently served as Vice-Chair for the Second Security, Stability, and Resiliency Review for ICANN.
Laurin studies and teaches cybersecurity from a holistic socio-technological perspective and utilizes multidisciplinary methods to explore the technical, social, and political aspects of complex systems and cybersecurity in practice. His research and policy work are informed by his many years working in IT as a systems administrator and architect in the healthcare industry, in technology consulting, and his work with M3AAWG and APWG.
Laurin received his DPhil (PhD) from University of Oxford, where he conducted an in-depth study of trust assurance in cybersecurity. Additionally, Laurin holds an MSc from Oxford, and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge.
Dana-Lynn Wood (she/her), Senior Advisor to the Chief Compliance and Enforcement Officer, CRTC
Dana-Lynn joined the Compliance and Enforcement Sector at the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (the Commission) in July 2012 to assist the team with the development of Canada’s Anti-spam Legislation’s (CASL) enforcement program. Since joining the Commission, Dana-Lynn has also worked on enforcing the Unsolicited Telecommunications Rules and is the Senior Advisor to the Chief Compliance and Enforcement Officer (CCEO) advising on enforcement policy and compliance issues. Dana-Lynn is currently responsible for domestic and International partnership development for the Electronic Commerce and Telecommunications Enforcement divisions. Before joining the Commission, Dana-Lynn previously held a position at Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (previously Industry Canada) in the National Anti-Spam Coordinating Body, helping guide Bill C-28 (CASL) through the parliamentary and regulatory process.
Dana-Lynn also sits on the Executive Committee of the Unsolicited Communications Enforcement Network (UCENet), a global network of regulatory and law enforcement agencies dedicated to combatting online and telephony abuse. In 2018-2019, Dana-Lynn was seconded to the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) in New Zealand (NZ) to work in their Digital Safety enforcement group and help contribute to the evolution of their anti-spam program. As a result of the events of March 15th, 2019 in Christchurch NZ, Dana-Lynn worked on the digital terrorism file, contributing to protecting New Zealanders from the effects of that online harm.