Eugene Lee is an American businessman based in Palo Alto, California.
[1] Lee's career spans startups as well as large established companies, but his focus has always been on "the intersection of people, software, and networks".
He was the co-founder of Beyond Incorporated, whose BeyondMail product pioneered email filtering and workflow.
Lee was the VP and GM of the Messaging Business Unit at Banyan, which acquired Beyond, and then was the VP Marketing and Business Development for Banyan's Internet Division, where he launched Switchboard.com, an online white and yellow pages directory.
Its California business registration was suspended in 2019, and returned to "active" status in 2020.