Jack Dangermond
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Who is Jack Dangermond?
Jack Dangermond is an American business executive and environmental scientist. In 1969, he co-founded with his wife Laura the Environmental Systems Research Institute, a privately held Geographic Information Systems software company. Dangermond ranks 554 on the Forbes list of the World's Billionaires.
Dangermond is the company's President and Founder, and he works out of Esri's headquarters in Redlands, California. Dangermond founded Esri to perform land use analysis; however, its focus evolved into GIS software development, highlighted by the release of ARC/INFO in the early 1980s; the development and marketing of ARC/INFO positioned Esri with the dominant market share among GIS software developers. Today Esri is the largest GIS software developer in the world and its flagship product, ArcGIS, traces its heritage to Dangermond's initial efforts in developing ARC/INFO.
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- Profession
- Education
- Harvard University
- University of Minnesota
- Harvard Graduate School of Design
- California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
- Redlands High School
- Employment
- ESRI
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on July 23, 2013
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