Marketing/Branding guy, copywriter (Industrial Poet), M.Ed., editor, singer-songwriter/guitarist, reader, writer, and daddy to two amazing girls.Prior to joining Avira in summer of 2014, Mashak helped another European IT security company grow from obscurity into a globally recognized industry leader (and household name).From 2008 to 2010, he worked with an IT market research firm as report editor for the CEMA region.Before that, he was a freelance marketing consultant, a high school English teacher, the owner of a property management company, served five years on sales and client-retention teams for the world's largest perimeter security firm, and dabbled with various small business ventures of his own.