About Us
Who we are and what we do
What Is Webs?
At Webs, Inc., we combined our website building savvy with our affinity for small businesses to create the most popular website building and hosting solution for entrepreneurs.
The Webs site builder provides everything you need to get your business online: a wide variety of customizable templates, and engaging features like blogs, photos, videos, forums and more.
As a result, Webs has become the world's largest do-it-yourself website-creation solution. 50 million sites have been built with Webs and, together, these sites receive 300 million page views each month. Clearly, our customers trust us to help them create, manage and host their websites.
What's our philosophy?
We don't want entrepreneurs to waste their hard-earned money on expensive web developers.
So we have made it extremely easy and affordable to build, edit, and manage an amazing website. Our templates, tools, and applications practically build your site for you, and you'll never have to wait around for someone else to edit your site, because with Webs you're just a point and click away from making a change. And Webs customer support will be there for you indefinitely. Overall, we're passionate about helping small businesses succeed online. We believe websites can be built quickly and easily, and yet still look professional. At Webs, we help you grow your business by providing everything you need to create and manage a dynamic site so you can attract, engage, and retain site visitors.
Why choose us?
The best tools, ease-of-use, innovation, and reliability.
The best tools. Choose from a wide variety of professional-looking, customizable templates. Add engaging applications--like photos, video, blogs, forums, and maps--to communicate your business vision, find out what customers are saying, and ensure that customers can reach you. You can even generate revenue on your website with a Web Store.
Easy to use. We provide users with such intuitive tools that anyone--even those with few or no technical skills--can create stellar websites easily, quickly, and by themselves. That's because our templates and one-click applications do most of the work for you; you simply add in your content and publish. It's that simple.
Innovative. We constantly add new applications to give our users access to the latest web trends; we were one of the first site builders to integrate with Facebook, for example. Our mobile website app can turn your site into a mobile site. Plus, our SEO tools get your site found on search engines like Google and Yahoo!.
Reliable. Webs leverages over a decade of experience in helping small businesses create and host websites. Award-winning customer support is available online if and when you need it. We stand behind our products and offer a 30-day money back guarantee if you are not completely satisfied with your site.
Our History
It all started in 2001 with three brothers, two thousand dollars, and one server in the closet.
The brothers Mokhtarzada figured everyone is getting an email address...one day everyone will have a website, too. So they set out to create a site-building service easy enough for their mother to use. Turns out, if you make it easy to build, the builders will come. Millions of business owners have launched their own sites using our site building tools, and the numbers continue to grow. Webs received Series A funding from Novak Biddle Venture Partners and Columbia Capital in August 2006. In December 2011, Webs was acquired by Vistaprint N.V., a leading online provider of professional marketing products and services.
Check out the story of how it all started.
Meet The Management Team
Meet some of the people who make it happen.
Haroon Mokhtarzada
Co-Founder and CEO
Haroon co-founded Webs in 2001 with his brothers Zeki and Idris while studying for undergraduate degrees at the University of Maryland. After graduating summa cum laude, Haroon went to Harvard Law School, where he continued building the company while earning his J.D. As CEO, Haroon manages the Webs family of products. Deeply interested in innovative technology and user experience, Haroon also personally shapes product design and development at Webs.
Rich Ellinger
COO
Rich comes to Webs with 20 years of technology and operations experience. In his role as COO, he oversees the day-to-day operations of the company and works with the executive team to shape the strategic direction of Webs. Prior to joining Webs, Rich was CTO at Jobfox and the co-founder and Vice President of Engineering for Saba. Rich holds a B.S. in Computer Science, a B.A. in Political Science and a M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.
Zeki Mokhtarzada
Co-Founder and CTO
In 2001, Zeki co-founded Webs, where he now serves as CTO. In this role, Zeki is the architect behind the company's backend and server architecture - which supports tens of millions of visitors. Prior to co-founding Webs, he was the first employee at WebOS, where he was instrumental in developing leading-edge applications in the on-demand space. Zeki holds a B.S. in Math and a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland.
Pierre Mallet
VP of Engineering
Pierre is the head of engineering at Webs. In this role, he manages the engineering team and all product development for the company. Before joining Webs, Pierre was an independent software consultant for such clients as Fannie Mae and Capital One. Prior to that, he served as a senior software engineer at Perot Systems. He holds a B.S. in Systems Engineering from University of Virginia and a M.S. in Software Engineering from George Mason University.
Touraj Parang
VP of Strategy & Corporate Development
Touraj started Webs' Silicon Valley office in 2009 and leads strategy and partnership efforts. Prior to Webs, he was the Founder and COO of jaxtr, an innovative consumer Internet and mobile service. As a former corporate attorney and venture capitalist, Touraj has been involved with many startups with an active role in financing and M&A transactions totaling over $1 billion. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and degrees in Philosophy and Economics from Stanford University.
Kathy McGovern
VP of Product Marketing
Kathy leads the company's marketing efforts. Kathy has many years of experience focusing on the small business segment as well as working with subscription-based business models. Before coming to Webs, Kathy held a variety of marketing positions at Network Solutions, CareerBuilder.com, MCI and her own consulting firm. She earned a B.A. in Economics and an M.B.A. from the University of California, Irvine.
Check Out Our Office
Though it's headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, the Webs, Inc., office has a distinctly west-coast feel.
The Webs open office plan facilitates communication, which is vital considering how much collaboration occurs on a daily basis.
By working on small project teams, employees learn by doing and learn from each other. The high level of skill motivates everyone to strive to do their best. At the same time, respect for one another is palpable in the office atmosphere.
And it's not all work and no play....a foosball table helps people blow off steam, and a lounge area brings employees together at lunch to talk about everything from quantum mechanics to Redskins football. Employees zoom around the office on Razor scooters and toss boomerangs while brainstorming. After-work events like bowling and ice skating promote bonding.