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Alan Masarek
Alan Masarek co-founded Quickoffice in 2002, where he first served as President and CFO before becoming CEO in 2007. During his tenure as CEO, Masarek has overseen a three-year sales growth rate of 368 percent, helping to secure Quickoffice's position as the most widely embedded mobile productivity software on nearly 400 million devices worldwide. Through his leadership and management, Quickoffice is a top-grossing iPad app and top 10 grossing app in the Android Market, and has reached nearly 15 million registered users in 2011.
Masarek has served as a C-level executive for over 25 years, leading technology companies that span corporate, venture and entrepreneurial settings. He has successfully raised hundreds of millions of dollars during his career and has been instrumental in creating value for his shareholders, generating over half a billion dollars in market value.
Prior to co-founding Quickoffice, Masarek was the founder and CEO of AdOutlet, a leading B2B marketplace for the media industry. He successfully built the company from the ground up, raising $30 million in three equity financings from leading VCs before securing the sale of the Company. Previously, Masarek was President of Advanced Health Corporation (NASDAQ: AHTC) where he led the company from a development-stage IT company into a profitable, publicly traded services and IT company. Masarek began his career as a CPA with Arthur Andersen before becoming a principle at The NTC Group, a New York-based leveraged buyout firm.
A recognized thought leader on mobile productivity and cloud computing, Masarek has spoken at many influential industry events including CTIA, CloudBeat and GigaOm Net:Work.
Masarek received his MBA from Harvard Business School, with distinction, and his BBA from The University of Georgia, Magna Cum Laude.
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Quickoffice awarded Bulldog 100
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- By Alan Masarek
- January 23, 2012
- CEO Corner, General Information, Quickoffice Blog RSS
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I was very excited to learn that my old alma mater, The University of Georgia, has just named Quickoffice number five on the ‘Bulldog 100’ fastest-growing Bulldog businesses. This distinction, which is sought by hundreds of business owners and UGA alumni, couldn't make me happier, as I have great pride in being a Bulldog.
The Bulldog 100 is a yearly program that recognizes the fastest growing businesses that are owned or operated by UGA Alumni. To provide a bit of background, I received my...
Happy New Year!
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- By Alan Masarek
- January 3, 2012
- CEO Corner, General Information, Quickoffice Blog RSS
- 3 comments
From all of us at Quickoffice, we wish you a very happy and healthy 2012! We are excited to see what the New Year will bring to technology in general, and specifically for the mobile industry. Last year was truly remarkable, as it was full of new and innovative...
Roundup: GigaOm conferences
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- By Alan Masarek
- December 22, 2011
- CEO Corner, General Information, Quickoffice Blog RSS
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Over the past few months, Quickoffice attended several key industry conferences: GigaOm Roadmap and GigaOm Net:Work. GigaOm Roadmap highlighted emerging ideas and market opportunities in today’s connected world. We met influential technology leaders and learned about the future of connectivity and its impact on consumers. Drew Houston from Dropbox and John Markoff from The New York Times both spoke at the event on the advancements in the cloud, mobile and home markets. Dropbox has already hit 45 million users and it continues to grow, as more consumers become comfortable with storing and accessing their digital content in the cloud. John Markoff had an interesting discussion with...
A look back at CloudBeat discussions
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- By Alan Masarek
- December 20, 2011
- CEO Corner, Quickoffice Blog RSS
- 1 comment
Last month, I was honored to join a panel at CloudBeat in San Francisco, alongside other mobile industry executives, Andy McLoughlin from Huddle, Nick Mehta from LiveOffice and Vineet Jain from Egnyte. Hosted by VentureBeat, CloudBeat is a newer industry event that focuses on disruptive technologies across all sectors of the cloud. Their goal is to ‘uncover the solutions that are changing the way businesses serve customers and empower employees’.
The panel I joined focused mainly on the adoption of cloud in the mobile sector, and more specifically on iPads in the enterprise. We discussed Apple’s growing deployment within businesses and...
MEA Winner!
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- By Alan Masarek
- December 12, 2011
- CEO Corner, Quickoffice Blog RSS
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On Monday, I had the pleasure of being in Los Angles for the annual Mobile Excellence Awards, which celebrates the best companies and individuals in mobile entertainment and technology. I am beaming with pride and excitement to report that Quickoffice was the chosen winner in the 'Best Mobile Application for Utility or Business’ category! We were thrilled to be invited to this highly regarded event and honored to be one of the selected winners for such an esteemed distinction...
Quickoffice increases momentum in Q3
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- By Alan Masarek
- November 14, 2011
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Quickoffice has been busy this past quarter, announcing several application updates, appointing new executives and increasing our overall user base. We’re excited at the company’s momentum and plan to continue our rapid growth.
To demonstrate this momentum, in addition to reaching ten million registered users this year, we were also just named to the Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies. Quickoffice has experienced a three-year sales growth rate of 368 percent, making us...
Quickoffice iPad app, winner!
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- By Alan Masarek
- October 11, 2011
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Last week we were delighted to learn our app, Quickoffice Pro HD for iPad, won this year’s Gold award from Tech Awards Circle in the SOHO / Consumer software category! We couldn’t be happier to be a selected winner by the judges, a circle of independent journalists and reviewers, each with at least a decade of experience covering technology from consumer electronics to enterprise computing. This honor is another testament to...
Talking enterprise apps at MobileBeat 2011
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- By Alan Masarek
- August 25, 2011
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The MobileBeat conferences never disappoint and this summer’s event in San Francisco was no different.
I had the honor of joining two great mobile minds – Aaron Levie, CEO of Box.net, and Bob Tinker, CEO of MobileIron – on the panel, 'Enterprise Mobile Apps, Definitely Not Business as Usual.'
My perspective comes from the development of our mobile Office apps, which let users edit and manage files from their tablets or smartphones. Box.net is one of our cloud storage partners. The MobileIron team developed their Virtual Smartphone Platform to give IT professionals...
We’re growing, just ask our new CFO
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- By Alan Masarek
- August 19, 2011
- CEO Corner, General Information, Quickoffice Blog RSS
- 3 comments
The last few months have been pretty busy at Quickoffice. In case you missed it, here’s a quick run-down.
We hired our first CFO, promoted the man who’s helped put our software directly on more than 300,000,000 devices in nearly 200 countries and saw our mobile Office apps pre-loaded on five new devices from companies...
The mobile operating system ecosystem
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- By Alan Masarek
- August 19, 2010
- CEO Corner, General Information, Quickoffice Blog RSS
- 91 comments
In the wireless world, there are a variety of operating systems for developers, such as Quickoffice, to pursue. The list includes Android, Bada, BlackBerry, iOS, MeeGo, Symbian, and also, webOS. The last, webOS, is being more closely watched than ever, especially since HP bought Palm, which originally developed the elegant platform...
