nsb      Nathaniel S. Borenstein

I'm a scientist/programmer/inventor/entrepreneur who has been involved in Internet-related innovations since 1980, specializing in e-mail technology, human-computer interaction, and electronic commerce. Journalists have called me an "Internet Guru" and "a geek's geek, " among other things. I have largely focused, in my career, on taking new innovations and driving them, collaboratively, to become successful products. I specialize in building consensus in diverse groups, and I enjoy translating between different perspectives, particularly between software development and business strategy. Since 2002 I have been a Distinguished Engineer for IBM Lotus Division ().

You Might Know Me From...

My standards work. Among other things, I'm co-creator of MIME, the Internet standard multimedia data format. My old barbershop quartet is featured in the first-ever MIME message.

My entrepreneurial ventures. I co-founded First Virtual Holdings in 1994, which became MessageMedia and was ultimately swallowed up by Doubleclick when the Internet bubble burst, and NetPOS.com in 2000.

My software projects (notably metamail, Safe-Tcl, and the