Ed Sattar - CEO
Ed Sattar visionary and a serial entrepreneur. He has invested 20 years in the elearning industry and made significant contributions across multiple industries. His experiences include extensive research and consulting to convert training into high impact personalized learning experience for a modern learner. He innovated how to deliver compliance training through a learning management system without comprising learner retention. Most recently , he has developed a unique proprietary Instructional Delivery Methodology called QS Learn and embedded into industry first cognitive learning platform CLIPP which is based on artificial intelligence. During his tenure, he has identified key criteria and e-learning compliance standards that are currently being published and implemented.
Fayyaz Shah - CPO CTO
Fayyaz Shah the Chief Product and Technology officer for QuickStart. He is an eCommerce Executive with strong global product management, customer experience and software development expertise. Prior to joining QuickStart, he has held executive level product positions at Travelocity, Wayfair and 360training. His passion is to learn by doing and discussing and it reflects in our products.
Salman Rashid - CFO
Salman Rashid is the Chief Financial Officer for QuickStart Technologies. He has over 20 years of experience within finance, operational management and transformational roles globally. Salman has worked as a consultant with Accenture and prior to QuickStart, he worked with Dell Technologies where he assumed the role of CFO Dell Services – BPO.
Jeff Opland - Senior Vice President and Head of Sales
Jeff Opland is our Senior Vice President and Head of Sales for Quickstart. Jeff joins our leadership team with over 25 years in technology sales. He brings to us a passion of leading high performing sales organization focused on bring high value and high impact in solutions his teams provide to their customers daily. Prior to QuickStart, Jeff spent 17 years in various management and executive positions across the verticals of Commercial, Public Sector, Healthcare and Channel Sales at companies such as Insight, Invenio and Zones.
Shamsah Malik - Vice President of Operations
Shamsah Malik is Vice President of Operations. She is an entrepreneurial, innovative professional with over ten years of sales, relationship management and business development experience within highly competitive SaaS, information technology, and SLED markets. Prior to QuickStart, she ran various sales and support teams at 360training and RainMaker Systems.
QuickStart Advisory Members
Clyde Seepersad
Clyde Seepersad is responsible for the training and certification arm of The Linux Foundation, which works to ensure an adequate supply of open source talent to support the continued, unprecedented adoption of open source software. Clyde has held senior leadership positions in the Education space, most recently as head of Operations at 360training.com and senior executive of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Aasim Hasan
Aasim Hasan works for Moneta Ventures. Prior to joining Moneta, Aasim led the global Energy and Utilities Industry Business Unit at KPIT. Aasim has also been a partner at Sparta Consulting where he served as EVP and played a key role in growing the company to $100M in five years. Aasim was also part of the Executive Council at Fujitsu Consulting, a Fortune Global 500 company.
Gary Osborn
Gary Osborn has over 24 years of experience selling and building sales teams, selling enterprise e-learning solutions to large organizations. His experience consists of working with start-ups, private equity and large corporations. Most recently he led the enterprise sales and customer success team for Skillsoft.
