Author of hackoff.com: an historic murder mystery set in the Internet bubble and rubble. Ex Serial CEO. Was founder Chairman and CEO of ITXC Corp. His popular blog is at blog.tomevslin.com.

Tom Evslin's novel - hackoff.com: an historic murder mystery set in the Internet bubble and rubble - is serialized free online at www.hackoff.com in both text and podcast versions and will appear in hardcover in March of 2006. hackoff.com, he says, is not autobiograhical, however. It begins with the death of fictional CEO Larry Lazard. Evslin is a an exCEO who lived to tell the story.

Tom was cofounder (with wife Mary), Chairman and CEO of ITXC Corp. The NASDAQ-listed company grew from startup in 1997 to the world's leading provider of wholesale VoIP and one of largest carriers of international voice minutes of any kind by 2004 when it was acquired. 

Evslin conceived, launched, and ran AT&T's first ISP, AT&T WorldNet Service. WorldNet popularized all-you-can-eat flatrate monthly pricing for Internet access and forced the rest of the industry, including AOL and MSN, to follow suit. Evslin has been blamed and praised for this ever since. He is unrepentant.

At Microsoft, Evslin was responsible for email products including Microsoft Exchange and Outlook. Evslin came to Microsoft when key assets of Solutions, Inc. (a software company he founded and he and Mary ran) were sold to Microsoft.

In the 1970s Solutions developed the first commercial electronic software for banks. In the 1980s Solutions was the first developer of commercial communications software for the Macintosh. Award-winning products from Solutions included Desktop Express published by Dow Jones Software, Glue (a predecessor of Adobe Acrobat), SmartScrap & The Clipper, and backFax.

Evslin is an inventor on five granted US patents. He is on the Board of Directors of ShoreCap Exchange (an organization which provides subsidized training to micro-credit banks) and The Snelling Center for Government in Vermont.

Mary and Tom live in Stowe, Vermont when they are not visiting their widely-scattered children or wandering elsewhere. Son Jarah is a post doc string theorist at the Free University in Brussels; daughter Kelly lives in Hoboken and is publisher-in-chief and webmaster at dotHill Press; daughter Kate is in the jewelery department at Southeby's in London.