Erik Severinghaus is the CEO of SimpleRelevance, a company that uses personalized, data-driven automation to improve email marketing metrics by 30-300%. SimpleRelevance uses first-party and third-party data along with machine learning to continuously optimize email content, targeting, and timing for each individual recipient. This results in increased revenue, average order value, and conversation rates for clients like Li-Ning, johnnie-O, and a Fortune 500 automaker. SimpleRelevance's system analyzes all customer interactions and uses Bayesian learning to continuously improve its predictive models.