Company Background

BoxSentry is an innovative Email Security technology company headquartered in Singapore, with a European office in London, and development teams in UK and Australia.

BoxSentry was founded in 2003 with the primary objective of addressing email security issues in non-English speaking markets, particularly those using Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Thai), Arabic and Cyrillic characters. This was to meet the market need created by conventional anti-spam technologies not being effective with non-English language email.

The company has partners across Asia (Singapore, Thailand, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia), as well as across the Middle East and Europe. BoxSentry collaborates with its network of Distributors, Resellers, Solution Partners across its core focus markets to ensure true localization of, and support for, its next generation Email Security platform – RealMail™. The company is bringing it products to customers (Enterprise, Government, Service Providers) through its specialised Distributors and Resellers who are focused on security solutions, and in most cases provide RealMail to their enterprise customers as a "value add" to existing, current generation email security solutions.

BoxSentry has taken a contrarian approach with the RealMail solution which has been developed to ensure an exceptionally low rate of false positives, whilst still effectively protecting against email security threats such as spam. As a result, BoxSentry is the leader in using email sender authentication to protect legitimate email. BoxSentry is redefining the agenda for email security by effectively creating a new category of email security solution.

As part of its commitment to leadership in the email security space, BoxSentry is also a member of various industry alliances including MAAWG (Mail Anti-Abuse Working Group – www.maawg.org). The company participates in, and contributes to, these industry alliances together with some of the email security industry’s largest players.

BoxSentry Pte Limited is privately held with external capital from private investors led by Greenoak Capital Partners.

Management Team

BoxSentry's global management team has extensive international business experience, deep technology skills, together with a strong focus on email, messaging and security.

Manish Goel, CEO

Manish Goel has over 15 years experience in the software and services sectors. Prior to joining BoxSentry, Manish was a Partner of Greenoak Capital Partners, a private equity firm specialising in technology sector investments. Previously, he was a Director with PWC Venture Partners, PricewaterhouseCoopers’ London-based technology investment group, where he led the Investment Selection team. His earlier career focused on strategy and M&A consulting across Asia and Europe within the Financial Services and Technology sectors.

Manish holds degrees in Commerce and Law from the University of NSW (Australia) and a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance & Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia. He is also a member of the Institute of Directors, United Kingdom.

Dr. Arapaut V Sivaprasad, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer

Dr. Sivaprasad ("Siva") has over 27 years experience in the development of innovative technology solutions, spanning across commercial and scientific applications. Siva’s entrepreneurial career began in the field of molecular biology, creating programs to analyse DNA sequences to detect hidden features in genes. Prior to co-founding BoxSentry, Siva founded "WebGenie Software", a provider of enterprise ecommerce applications and "SearchHound", a pay-per-click search engine.

Siva has a B.Sc. (Agric.) from Kerala Agricultural University, India, a M.Sc. (Genetics) from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India and a Ph.D. (Molecular Biology) from University of Adelaide, Australia. He was elected as a member of the New York Academy of Sciences in 1994.

Steve Allam, Chief Systems Architect

Steve has over 18 years experience in the technology and communication sectors. He has delivered leading-edge messaging systems and led the design and development of large-scale, global communication platforms.

Prior to joining BoxSentry, Steve founded Imhotek, a provider of innovative technology solutions to enterprise and government organisations in the EMEA, including British Gas, BT, Vodafone and Inmarsat. Steve previously worked for Digital’s (DEC) messaging team delivering work-group productivity solutions.

Steve has a Bachelor of Science (Hons) from the University of Kent, Canterbury (UK).

Olavs Ritenis, Vice-President, Business Development & Strategic Alliances

Olavs has almost 30 years of international business experience in the technology sector. He is an accomplished entrepreneur, having founded and served as CEO of his own software and consulting services businesses. Other senior management roles have included CEO, sales, marketing, and business development responsibilities for IT and communications firms.

Olavs has successfully introduced new technology products and services into the Australian and Asian markets for US and European vendors, as well as establishing channel partners and resellers throughout the Asia Pacific region.

Enterprise Solution specialization includes messaging and collaboration (enterprise email, unified messaging, wireless, directories, mobile applications, Internet messaging) and EIM (Enterprise Incentive Management).

Olavs holds a Bachelor of Economics degree from the University of Sydney (Australia).

Robert Naqvi, Vice President, Operations

Robert has over 20 years Business Technology experience and has worked within all main disciplines, including Data Management, Technical and Security Services, and Operations Services.

His extensive senior management responsibilities have included responsibility for large IT departments that have provided mission-critical Customer Service functions for a major Utility in the United Kingdom.

Robert has had responsibility for over 100 Customer focused staff, and implemented a number of Customer Support initiatives, including a 24 X 7 Customer Help Desk, and the implementation of Business Continuity programmes whilst working with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.

Robert holds an Master of Science degree in Information Systems Design and Management.