Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> December 9, 2003
MASSOOD ZARRABIAN joined OutStart as President and CEO in March of 2001
with more than twenty-five years of technology and management
experience. Under his leadership, OutStart has grown from a newly funded
software company with one product and a handful of customers to a leader
in the e-learning applications market with strong revenues and thousands
of customers. During his short tenure with OutStart he has overseen
three successful acquisitions, most recently of Trainersoft Corporation,
provider of a leading e-learning authoring tool. Prior to OutStart, he
was President of the eService Division of Broadbase Software, a leading
provider of eCRM solutions. Before that, as President and CEO of
Servicesoft Technologies, a leading provider of intelligent eService
solutions, he directed the succesful merger with Broadbase Software.
Massood held executive positions with Lewtan Technologies Inc. and
Cayenne Software, Inc. He has also held a number of senior management
positions at Computervision Corporation. Massood graduated from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science degree
in civil engineering. Profile
TWST: Can we start with an overview of OutStart?Mr. Zarrabian: OutStart is just over three and a half years old. We
raised our first round of financing in January of 2001. We are a
software