• by Ray Schultz , April 20, 2022

Email authentication firm Valimail has named Brian Craig as vice president of product and Kuldip Pabla as vice president of engineering while promoting Seth Blank to chief technology officer.

Craig will lead product management design, data operations and product support. Previously, Craig served as VP, analytics, marketing and product management at Marchex, and was a co-founder of Centrik and vice president, marketing. 

Pabla will set and lead the execution of engineering strategy.  

Pabla most recently served as executive vice president of R&D for Siera.AI. In addition, Pabla is a board member for dopomo and a technology advisor for eyeVueLive, and has been SVP of R&D for K4Connect.

Blank, who joined Valimail in 2017, was named VP of product and chief product officer in 2021, and has held multiple leadership roles running open-source software and standards development and innovation., the firm says. 

Blank also serves as the chair for AuthIndicators Working Group developing the BIMI  Brand Indicators for Message Identification)standard, as DMARC (domain-based message authentication and conformance) working group co-chair for the Internet Engineering Task Force, and as a member of the group’s board of directors. 

Blank also holds multiple leadership roles at the Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG).