Mr. Dohring founded The Dohring Company in 1986, which within five years became a top-100 market research firm in the United States and the largest provider of custom market research to the retail automotive industry. In 1995, Mr. Dohring set aside his daily operations of The Dohring Company to become President and a Director of a high-tech telecommunications equipment company, which in February 1997 completed its Initial Public Offering at a valuation of $300 million on the NASDAQ. Mr. Dohring returned to The Dohring Company in 1998 to launch its online market research effort, which now operates as MarketSurveys.com, a multi-million-member online research panel, that generates several million completed online surveys per year. Additionally, in mid-1999, as an investor and advisor to an Internet-based online casual game company, Mr. Dohring helped secure its first interactive sponsorship, which ultimately contributed to its $50 million sale in late 1999 to a publicly traded NASDAQ company. Soon thereafter, Mr. Dohring founded Neopets, Inc., which was (and remains) one of the top ranked global online youth entertainment communities, serving over 5 billion pageviews per month in 11 languages throughout the world. Mr. Dohring served as Chairman and CEO of Neopets, Inc. from its inception in February 2000, through its successful transition to a new management team in September 2006, following its sale for $160 million to Viacom, Inc. in June 2005. Presently, Mr. Dohring serves as Chairman and CEO of The Dohring Company. Together with his wife Laurie, to whom he has been married for over 25 years, Mr. Dohring has five grown children, including two sets of identical twins.