In this paper we introduce the notion of multi-receiver certificateless encryption that avoids the inherent key escrow problem of multi-receiver identity-based encryption, and also present a highly efficient multi-receiver certificateless encryption scheme which eliminates pairing computation to encrypt a message for multiple receivers, Moreover, the proposed scheme only needs one pairing computation to decrypt the ciphertext. Finally, we discuss how to properly transform our scheme into a new public key broadcast encryption scheme for stateless receivers based on the subset-cover framework, which enjoys the advantages of certificateless cryptography.