Docstoc Adds Startup BD Veteran and Marketing / Newswire Specialist to Scale Distribution and Growth Docstoc.com grows at breakneck pace, reaching 1,000,000 publicly available professional documents in first year. Santa Monica, CA, Nov. 19th, 2008, (BUSINESS WIRE): Docstoc (http://www.docstoc.com) the premier online community to find and share professional documents, announced today two new hires, Robyn Ward, Vice President of Business Development and Serena Ehrlich, Director of Marketing. "Robyn's extensive experience with startups combined with Serena's varied media background and industry relationships immediately accelerate our revenue, traffic, and distribution goals." said Docstoc CEO and co-founder, Jason Nazar. “Docstoc continues to establish its brand as the web’s most notable repository of professional documents that consumers can find fast, easy, and for free.” Robyn Ward comes to Docstoc with a 10 year track record of successful business development and operational expertise. Most recently she was VP Operations and Strategy at Verified Person, a background screening company. Ward will be focusing on growing product distribution, key partnerships, and sponsorship opportunities. Serena Ehrlich's background includes a 14-year career in sales, marketing and management with Business Wire, a Berkshire Hathaway company. During her tenure, Ehrlich provided successful marketing communications strategies for a diverse client base, ranging from Fortune 10 Companies to startups. Ehrlich will be responsible for growing the vastly expanding base of user generated content and related revenue opportunities. Interested parties seeking partnership or advertising opportunities may contact docstoc at 310-255-1172 or email bizdev@docstoc.com About Docstoc.com Docstoc is the premier online community to find and share professional documents. Docstoc provides the platform to upload and share documents with the world, and serves as a vast repository of legal, business, financial, technical, and educational documents that can be easily searched, previewed and downloaded for free. Docstoc facilitates the sharing and promotion of documents across the web and has popularized the use of embedding documents throughout the blogosphere and mainstream media.
Docstoc was founded by Jason Nazar and Alon Shwartz in 2006. The site publicly launched in November 2007, and has since attracted over 1,000,000 publicly shared documents and 300,000 registered users. Contact: Media: Jason Nazar, Jason@docstoc.com, 310-255-1172 Partnerships: Robyn Ward, bizdev@docstoc.com, 310-255-1172