Eswar Priyadarshan Also Receives Nomination for CTO of the Year Award from Mass Technology Leadership Council
WALTHAM, Mass. – Quattro Wireless (www.quattrowireless.com) announced that CEO Andrew Miller is a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2009 Award in New England. According to Ernst & Young LLP, the awards program recognizes entrepreneurs who demonstrate extraordinary success in the areas of innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their businesses and communities. Miller was selected as a finalist by a panel of independent judges. Award winners will be announced at a special gala event on June 16th at the Marriott Newton Hotel.
Additionally, Quattro Wireless’ CTO Eswar Priyadarshan has been named a nominee for CTO of the Year in the Mass Technology Leadership Council Awards being awarded in November 2009 in Massachusetts and Quattro Wireless has been nominated for Company of the Year. The Mass Technology Leadership Council is dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship and promoting the success of companies that develop and deploy technology across industry sectors.
“When Highland Capital Partners decided to partner with Quattro Wireless, we not only invested in a business idea but, equally as important, the visionaries behind it,” said Bob Davis, Quattro Wireless board member and general partner at Highland Capital Partners. “Andy Miller and Eswar Priyadarshan’s leadership and tireless dedication have propelled Quattro Wireless to be a global leader in the rapidly exploding mobile ad market. The Entrepreneur Of The Year, CTO of the Year and Company of the Year nominations clearly acknowledge their guidance of Quattro to quickly evolve into the largest premium mobile ad network, serving billions of global impressions every month to enable advertisers to engage with the mobile consumer.”
Quattro Wireless is mobile’s largest premium ad network, working with Fortune 500 brands, direct marketing leaders and category-leading publishers and application developers to power their mobile strategies. With sophisticated technology and exclusive premier partnerships, Quattro creates unrivaled reach, consumer engagement and efficiency for advertisers across all channels (mobile web, SMS, applications, video) and platforms (iPhone, Blackberry, Android).
The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year awards program celebrates its 23rd anniversary this year. The program has expanded to recognize business leaders in over 135 cities in 50 countries throughout the world.
Regional award winners are eligible for consideration for the Ernst & Young LLP Entrepreneur Of The Year national program. Award winners in several national categories, as well as the overall national Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year award winner, will be announced at the annual awards gala in Palm Springs, California on November 14, 2009. The awards are the culminating event of the Ernst & Young Strategic Growth Forum, the nation’s most prestigious gathering of high-growth, market-leading companies. Founded and produced by Ernst & Young LLP, the Entrepreneur Of The Year awards are sponsored nationally by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and SAP America. In New England region, sponsors include Bowne, Curran & Connors, Boston Magazine, J.Robert Scott, Marsh USA, Nixon Peabody and AMS.
The 12th Annual Mass Technology Leadership Awards 2009 program spotlights the companies, people, and technologies that exemplify the best and the brightest in the Massachusetts technology community. It recognizes companies and individuals who epitomize leadership and excellence in business and technology.
About Quattro Wireless
Quattro Wireless, mobile’s trusted ad network, leverages sophisticated technology and exclusive premier partnerships to create unrivaled reach, consumer engagement and efficiency for today’s marketers and advertisers. Quattro is dedicated to delivering service excellence and turnkey solutions to optimize digital performance across all channels (mobile web, SMS, applications, video) and platforms (iPhone, Blackberry and Android). Fortune 500 brands and direct marketing leaders seek Quattro’s global reach, dynamic targeting, advertising innovation and transparent practice. Category-leading publishers leverage Quattro’s proprietary platform to realize the economic power of the mobile web. Quattro Wireless was founded in 2006 by proven mobile pioneers and is headquartered in Waltham, Mass. For more information, please visit www.quattrowireless.com.
