Blog Contributors

Elisa Cooper

Elisa Cooper is a director of Product Marketing for MarkMonitor. Over the last 6 years, Elisa has worked closely with Fortune 1000 corporations to define and develop market leading domain management and brand protection solutions. Elisa also serves as a senior domain name consultant working with corporations on portfolio consolidations, domain name strategy and online brand protection.

Frederick Felman

Frederick Felman’s career in marketing enterprise and security technology and services spans 25 years. At MarkMonitor, he is responsible for defining and promoting the company’s brand protection product offerings. Frederick and his team created the Brandjacking Index™, an often-cited measure of the trends in online abuse targeting the world’s largest brands. As part of the MarkMonitor commitment to securing brands online, Frederick leads advocacy initiatives for brandholders’ rights that intersect Internet governance. Before joining MarkMonitor, Frederick was Vice President of Products and Marketing at Zone Labs, which was acquired by Check Point Technologies.

Mary Roach

Mary Roach is Director of Product Marketing for the MarkMonitor Brand Protection solution and brings over 15 years of marketing and management consulting experience from the Internet, wireless and medical device industries. Prior to MarkMonitor, Mary held various senior marketing positions at technology companies throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and was an engagement manager with A.T. Kearney and Quattro Consulting.

Irfan Salim

Irfan is the President and Chief Executive Officer of MarkMonitor, bringing more than 20 years of experience growing and leading world-class Internet security, fraud prevention, and domain registrar companies. Prior to MarkMonitor, he was president and chief operating officer of Internet security company Zone Labs, which was acquired by Check Point Technologies. Earlier, Irfan was president and CEO of NameSecure.com, an Internet domain name registrar and services company.

Te Smith

Te Smith is the Vice President of Communications at MarkMonitor. Her career in marketing and communications covers more than 25 years with market-leading brands in a variety of high technology product categories. From launching innovative companies like Zone Labs and Netflix to growing market share at established software leaders like Lotus Development Corp., Te has honed her skills in branding, public relations and demand generation.