Paul and Nick first met when some mutual friends organised a canoe trip down the Orange River at the turn of the millennium, and when email marketing was hardly a fully matured idea in any of our founders' minds.

Paul Honig

Founder 1

Ernie Retief

Founder 2

Nicholas Eckert

Founder 3

At the particular time, Paul was working on a startup CMS and Nick was completing an exit of allhotels.com. During the journey, Paul rescued them from a fate of being stranded by changing drive shafts and tires on various occasions as they made their way up the beach on the long trek from Cape Town South Africa to Namibia.

During their journey of chance, while they weren't pulling mussels from the sea, getting stuck in the sand, tumbling out of their canoes, riding the rapids and camping under the African sky, they talked about the Internet and its vast direct marketing potential. When the adventure was done and they parted ways, they kept in touch and continued to share ideas about what was to become GraphicMail as we know it today.

Paul met Ernie in Cape Town while Ernie was working for Dockside, an ISP that Paul had started years before. Together they transformed the CMS into an email marketing service.

Where GraphicMail is today

Our teams of marketers, designers, networkers, technical support, administrative and sales staff work hard to keep our service in tip-top shape at our offices in Cape Town, Miami and Seattle, with Paul running things from our office at the foot of Table Mountain as CEO. . Our developers sit at one of our two offices either amidst the picturesque vineyards of Stellenbosch or in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad.

Business development and commercial/financial direction is run out of our Geneva office within view of Mont Blanc. GraphicMail has dedicated support teams in 17 different countries who work in 10 languages. We are a global team, just like our founders - who alone represent 3 continents - making our email, mobile and social marketing tools accessible and effective everywhere!