MasterStreet Releases Public Beta of Professional and Executive Education Search Engine

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Search and Enroll in 1,500+ NYC Classes in Engineering, Design, Marketing, Finance, IT and More

NEW YORK – July 11, 2013 – MasterStreet, a free search engine for professional and executive education classes and programs, is releasing its public beta site for New York City. Built in collaboration with top NYC technology companies and educational institutions, MasterStreet offers a first-of-its-kind search platform featuring over 1,500 short in-person classes and open-enrollment programs from Columbia, Cornell, NYU, Fordham, Baruch, Pratt, FIT, SVA and other top institutions. Users can search and compare classes across all institutions, enroll directly on the MasterStreet website, and evaluate the productivity of classes and programs in which they and their teams have participated. MasterStreet’s broad and growing selection of classes and programs enables talent-driven companies and their teams to access the skills they need to meet the challenges of growth.

“We built MasterStreet in consultation with some of NYC’s leading high-growth and technology companies to help them attract, develop and retain the talent they need to grow and succeed,” said Thomas D. Lehrman, CEO and founder of MasterStreet. “MasterStreet helps executives and team members quickly develop engineering, design, IT, marketing, sales, finance and other skills to meet urgent company needs and move faster to address new opportunities.”

MasterStreet’s enterprise service, MasterStreet for Teams, makes it easy for CEOs, talent managers and business unit managers to provide the best leadership and professional development opportunities to their teams. MasterStreet offers easy-to-administer reimbursement options and tools to track and increase the return on investment (ROI) of learning and development (L&D) initiatives. Its easy-to-use search and enrollment tools enable busy executives and professionals to access the skills they need to succeed, at a time and place that fits with their busy work schedules. MasterStreet’s customer service team helps executives and team members save valuable work time by handling enrollment questions and group registration. In the words of one senior university official in New York, “MasterStreet is like OpenTable for executive and professional education.”

 

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MasterStreet is a search engine for executive and professional education classes and programs. Currently available in public beta in New York, MasterStreet contains more than 1,500 in-person classes from top education and training institutions, with hundreds of new classes and programs every week in engineering, IT, design, marketing, sales, operations, finance and other business skills. MasterStreet was founded in 2012 and is located in New York, NY. The growing team is comprised of experienced entrepreneurs, designers, engineers and business professionals who have worked in leadership and technical roles at Aviary, Gerson Lehrman Group, Law360, NetApp and Reuters, among other companies. For more information, visit www.masterstreet.com.


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Thomas D. Lehrman, CEO
Stephen Schmalhofer, Business Development
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