Bron is a technologist with over 20 years of experience building email products who lives in Melbourne, Australia with his wife and two children. He joined Fastmail in 2004 as a developer and sysadmin, has served on the board of Fastmail since 2013, and became CEO in 2017. Bron is a member of the open-source Cyrus email server board and co-chair of the JMAP and EXTRA working groups at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). He is the primary author of the IMAP extension for object identifiers (RFC8474). Bron holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Tasmania. He frequently speaks around the world about open standards, Cyrus, email privacy and security, and Fastmail products and values.