Team

The blist team combines strong academic computer science foundations with significant success at places like Microsoft and Amazon. Our founder is an accomplished entrepreneur and an engineer himself. blist is his second startup.

Kevin Merritt, Founder & CEO

Prior to founding blist, Kevin founded MessageRite, a web-based email archiving software developer and service provider in 2002. He sold MessageRite to FrontBridge Technologies, became VP of Archiving and Compliance and functioned as CTO of the archiving service at FrontBridge. In 2005 Microsoft acquired FrontBridge. At Microsoft, Kevin initially served as a Software Architect and ultimately as Director of Operations.

At heart, Kevin is a software entrepreneur with a passion and focus on making customers elated by delivering great software as a service. (More)