Silke Fleischer, CEO of ATIV Software, named Finalist in 9th Annual Stevie® Award

Oct. 12, 2012 - PRLog -- ATIV Software’s Silke Fleischer was named a Finalist in the “Female Entrepreneur of the Year - Business Products” category in the 9th annual Stevie® Awards for Women in Business, and will ultimately be a Gold, Silver, or Bronze Stevie Award winner in the program.

The Stevie Awards for Women in Business honor women executives, entrepreneurs, and the companies they run – worldwide.  The Stevie Awards have been hailed as the world’s premier business awards.

Silke Fleischer co-founded ATIV Software (http://ativsoftware.com) and published the sophisticated EventPilot conference app which received the GOLD Stevie® Award in 2012 American Business Awards℠. In addition to starting a rapid growth company in the male dominated mobile app development world, she implemented a completely remote business structure to keep the company footprint small while offering employees the greatest flexibility in working from anywhere in the world.

"Silke’s tremendous dedication and work ethic, her passion for the environment and highest quality products have been instrumental in the success of our company and our conference app EventPilot,” said Eric Converse, CTO and co-founder of ATIV Software. “It’s impressive to see her life achievements from growing up in a small town in East Germany to running a cutting-edge high-tech business that serves some of the largest medical and scientific association events in the country. We are thrilled about her nomination for the Women in Business award.”

More than 1,200 entries were submitted this year for consideration in more than 90 categories. Finalists were chosen by more than 130 business professionals worldwide during preliminary judging.  More than 90 members of the five final judging committees will determine the Gold, Silver and Bronze Stevie Award placements from among the Finalists during final judging

“We’re very excited about this year’s Finalists in the Stevie Awards for Women in Business,” said Michael Gallagher, founder and president of the Stevie Awards.  “The judges have told me that they think this is the best and most inspiring crop of nominees we’ve ever had.  We look forward to seeing the judges’ final decisions.”

Details about the Stevie Awards for Women in Business and the list of Finalists in all categories are available at http://www.StevieAwards.com/Women.  

About ATIV Software
ATIV Software offers EventPilot, the customizable mobile conference app for training, corporate event and association meeting planners. EventPilot enables attendees to stay organized throughout a conference on their mobile device and thereby reduces the massive paper-waste at conferences and meetings. The event app is available as a native app for the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android phones and tablets as well as a mobile web version for all other web-enabled devices including Windows Phone 7. For more information and to check out the many other features, visit http://www.ativsoftware.com.

About the Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service.  Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide.  Learn more about the Stevie Awards at www.StevieAwards.com.