OutStart, provider of the only proven, content-centric software product family for learning, today announced that at its 6th Annual Awards ceremony on October 8, 2003, the New England Business and Technology Association (NEBATA) honored OutStart CEO Massood Zarrabian for exceptional leadership at the intersection of business and technology.
Each year, NEBATA, an established non-profit business association that brings together buyers and sellers of information technology, honors business and technology leaders from the New England area that have continuously demonstrated exceptional management and leadership while contributing to the advancement of business and technology in the area.
“Massood has proven to be invaluable to the New England business and technology community,” said NEBATA President Tom Hopcroft. “We are proud to be rewarding his hard work at a time when recognition of superior corporate executive performance is so desperately needed.”
Awards were also given to nine other New England business executives at the formal dinner ceremony held at the Fairmont Copley Plaza in Boston, Mass. The winners, selected from 20 finalists, were representative of companies that had a high-impact force of change in the way business is conducted, and had contributed winning ideas and best practices to their organization and the New England business community.
“I am honored to be included in such a prestigious group of visionaries and innovators in business and technology,” said Massood Zarrabian, CEO of OutStart. “OutStart’s contributions to the New England market are the result of our staff’s hard work and passion for making great learning happen at large, complex organizations. I look forward to leading the company as it continues to grow and make our customers around the world perform better to become more successful.”
About OutStart
OutStart provides a proven, integrated product family for companies seeking to increase individual and organizational performance. Only OutStart offers complete learning applications that meet all of the diverse learning and training needs of large and small companies and any size team. OutStart’s content-centric learning applications enable an organization to transform its unique business knowledge into practical learning assets and deliver those assets to the right person, the right way, at the right time, to drive a sustainable competitive advantage. They also include the functionality needed to manage all administration around learning and training processes.
OutStart helps companies realize improvements in sales force and services productivity, call center efficiencies, customer and partner education and technology adoption. OutStart is headquartered in Boston and has offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Dublin, Lake Mary, Fla., London, Los Angeles, New York City, Raleigh, N.C., and Washington, D.C. For more information, visit www.outstart.com
About the New England Business and Technology Association
The New England Business and Technology Association is a non-profit business association that brings together buyers and sellers of information technology and an array of related technologies and solutions to foster knowledge-sharing and business development in a professional environment. Programs hosted by the New England Business and Technology Association explores the critical business and leadership issues at the intersection of technology and business. Continuing series include the Leadership Roundtable, New England Business and Technology Awards, Critical Issues Series, and unique programs focusing on the Financial Services, Health & Life Sciences, and Retail & Logistics industries. These initiatives support the overall vitality of the New England economy. For more information, visit www.nebata.org.
