Monster Arts' CEO, Wayne Irving II, Walks Away with 2013 CTIA Mobile Visionary Award
San Clemente Technology Innovator Steals the Show at 2013 CTIA Awards Ceremony
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif., May 24, 2013- Monster Arts (OTCBQ: MONT), formerly Monster Offers, a leading mobile marketing and app technology innovator focused on mobile advertising consulting, Daily Deal aggregation and more, is very pleased to announce that its CEO, Wayne Irving II, has won the prestigious 2013 CTIA Mobile Visionary Award, for his vision, strategy & business acumen.
Mr. Irving was selected from a crowded field of competition involving many outstanding entrepreneurs, industry executives, and business leaders. The award is the latest in a series of accolades earned by Irving.
Members of the wireless industry voted online for their favorite B!G Idea contenders for their important roles in mobile innovation. The other finalists in the category of "The Mobile Visionary" were John Horn, President of RACO Wireless, and Matt McKenna, Founder of Red Fish Media. Joining RACO Wireless after successfully running T-Mobile's M2M business, Horn took M2M to the next level by partnering with private equity firm Inverness Graham. McKenna has worked over the past year on the mHealth campaigns Text ER and Tic Doc, spearheading the development of these applications for long-time client Hospital Corporation of America.
Other B!G Idea award winners include:
• The Ingenious Innovator for Product & Service Innovation, R&D was awarded to Rip Gerber, President & CEO, Locaid.
• The Commerce & Retail Commander for Commerce, Retail & Distribution was awarded to Steve Abernethy, President & CEO, SquareTrade.
• The Mobile Guardian for Enterprise IT & Security was awarded to Chris Hill, Senior Vice President, Advanced Solutions, AT&T Business Solutions, AT&T.
Commented Irving, "This award has me almost speechless. Thank you to CTIA for honoring me, and I am gratified to accept this on behalf of the organization and its supporters."
Mr. Irving II, in addition to serving as CEO, Chairman and a board member for Monster Arts, is also CEO and co-founder of CA-based, Iconosys, Inc., a leading mobile communications app developer, and founder of the outreach organization, Text Kills®.
Wayne has had a colorful, successful and highly visible career as an entrepreneur, serving as CEO of SpinRecords.com from 1998-2000, and later as CEO of Save America Money.com from 2001-2003. No stranger to accolades, Mr. Irving was nominated for the 2000 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year honor, made the Entrepreneur Magazine 2000 E-List, was chosen as a recipient of the 2011 OC Metro Hot 25 Business Leaders award, and was a finalist in the 2012 OC Register Kindest Business Owner Award recognition.
For video of Irving receiving the award, visit http://vimeo.com/66877949
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About Monster Arts: Monster Arts is a public company recently created from the merger of Ad Shark, Inc., an innovative leader in mobile marketing advertising consulting, with and into Monster Offers, a leading Daily Deal analytics provider and aggregator.
The company collects and publishes daily deals from multiple sites in numerous local communities across the U.S. and Canada, while also developing and implementing mobile advertising strategies constructing, and based on, a robust media and advertising delivery system. This innovative approach to integrating traditional internet advertising with optimized media and cutting edge ad delivery methods is tailored specifically for the applicable Smart Device, OS or screen resolution platform. In addition to developing the "white-label" appstore technology in Apphysteria, Monster Arts also offers a GPS driven Daily Deals aggregation app called Monster Offers, where app users can choose from 100 or more daily deal providers and 10's of thousands of daily deals, delivered filtered and in real time according to your GPS location. Monster Arts also manages the sales and marketing efforts for the Travel America Visitor Guide (TAVG) network of Smartphone apps, websites, and services, with over 1,000 clients on a recurring billing basis and a resource for those seeking information on what to see, where to stay and where to find the best deals as they travel through the USA. The Information Statement for the Monster Arts name change has been filed and in approximately 20 days from this filing date, the name change will be filed with Nevada SOS and subsequently effected on the marketplace through FINRA. The company will have a new CUISP number and trading symbol, soon to be announced.
Any statements contained in this press release that relate to future plans, events or performance are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, the risks associated with the management appointment described in this press release, and other risks identified in the filings by Monster Offers (MONT), with the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Further information on risks faced by MONT are detailed in the Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011, and in its subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. These filings are or will become available on a website maintained by the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission at http://www.sec.gov. The information contained in this press release is accurate as of the date indicated. Actual results, events or performance may differ materially. Monster Offers does not undertake any obligation to publicly release the any revision to these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. Included in this release are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Although the company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements will prove to have been correct. The company's actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements.
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