Secure e-mail provider Sendmail names a new CEO

Sendmail, provider of secure, compliant e-mail services, has named Richard Kreysar as president and CEO. Dave Anderson, Sendmail`s former president and CEO, will become chairman of the board.

Kreysar joins Sendmail from Determine Software, an on-demand enterprise contract management software company. As president and CEO, Kreysar led the company`s recent acquisition by enterprise software company Selectica. He also spearheaded its growth from a fourth generation company to an industry leader with a customer base of Fortune 100 companies.

Kreysar also served as CEO and president of the enterprise web analytics software start-up Accrue Software. Previously, he served as general manager and vice president of operations for McAfee, where he helped grow the organization from a company with $50 million in revenue, 100 employees and a single product to a multinational, 450-employee company with $180 million in revenue and 10 products while maintaining above 40% growth in sales.

Kreysar’s responsibilities will be to build Sendmail`s share of the e-mail security market.

Sendmail also has named Eric Allman chief science officer, Chris Markle chief technology officer and Bernard Fraenkel vice president of engineering.

Allman is a co-founder of Sendmail and author of the Sendmail MTA (mail transfer agent). He has served as CTO for the past seven and a half years. In his new role, he will spearhead Sendmail`s long-term technology strategy and will lead the company`s involvement in industrywide initiatives and standards development.

Chris Markle was formerly Sendmail`s vice president of engineering. Fraenkel was vice president of engineering at Akimbi Systems, a test and measurement software company where he built the engineering team and brought the company`s first product to market.