Outblaze Company Information Founded in 1998 by Yat Siu, Outblaze was the first company to offer fully hosted email and messaging services for multilingual communities and continues to raise the international standard for web communication technology. Outblaze is a business full of innovators who are passionate about messaging. With over 200 people dedicated to delivering the most powerful web 2.0 product suite available, Outblaze is now the world's largest online service platform providing white label email, collaboration and social media services to service providers, telecoms operators, corporations, academia, media and publishing companies and portals. The Outblaze suite of services also includes online scheduling, file sharing, and protection against spam, viruses and phishing. Outblaze collaborates with its clients to create customized solutions tailored to meet their specific needs without requiring them to invest in expensive software and hardware.? The company handles all operations of the service leaving clients free to focus on their core competencies. Outblaze is privately held, profitable and cash flow-positive. Outblaze Facts Outblaze manages over 40 million mailboxes across 480,000 unique domains. Outblaze provides stand-alone anti-spam and anti-virus protection for an additional 36 million email accounts. The company processes an average of 250 million messages each day. Outblaze¡¦s Anti-Spam filters are updated constantly The company blocks over 1.4 million IP addresses today and makes over 12,000 changes to the IP block list each day. Outblaze delivers services in over 21 languages in 100 countries Outblaze has over 200 employees working in offices in the US, Canada, the UK, Hong Kong, China, India, and the Philippines Key Executives Yat Siu-CEO and Founder Tony Basoglu-CTO Suresh Ramasubramanian-Manager of Anti-Spam Operations Rita Kong-Acting CFO Stefano Bensi-Managing Director, Outblaze USA Richard A. Bye-Vice President, Sales and Corporate Development Europe, Middle East, Africa Matthew De Santis-Vice President, USA Sales and Account Management Ramsey Pryor, Vice President of Product Marketing Shareholders Outblaze shareholders consist of large multinational publicly listed companies as well as smaller entities. Shareholders include Scottish Investment Limited, Lotus Asset Management, PCCW, Barunson Company Limited, and Outblaze management. Company Awards 2005 Hong Kong Awards for Industries: Technological Achievement Award Golden Penguin Greater China OSS Competition 2005: Product Application Award Linux Business Award 2005: Merit Award for Product Development in the category Infrastructure Building & Communication Application. Caring Company 2004/2005: award for Outblaze social corporate responsibility activities APICTA 2003: Best Communications Application. Linux Business Adoption Award 2003: Enterprise Grand Award in Infrastructure Building & Communication Applications. IT Excellence Award 2002: Gold Award for Best Product.
Outblaze Products and Services As the world¡¦s largest online service platform, Outblaze delivers solutions to a variety of customers including service providers, telecoms operators, corporations, academia, media and publishing companies and portals. Outblaze products and services are provided to the customer on a cost per user per month basis allowing clients to maximize revenue and profit per user. Outblaze handles all operations of the service, including provisioning, hosting, and management, leaving clients free to focus on their core competencies. Outblaze solutions significantly reduce the total cost of ownership and add value to existing businesses by easing customer acquisition and retention, increasing on-line efficiency, offering quality web-based communications systems and providing revenue-generating opportunities such as premium upgrades. Outblaze collaborates with its clients to create solutions that best fit their needs enabling them to remain unique in an increasingly competitive environment. Clients can choose any combination of services and Outblaze can deliver any or all of those services to individual customers on demand. The technology is scalable, robust, reliable and fully customizable, yet simple and rapid to deploy.
