In 1986 Mr. Dohring founded The Dohring Company, which within five years became a top-100 market research firm in the United States and the nation's largest provider of custom market research to the retail automotive industry. In 1995, Mr. Dohring set aside his daily operations at 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 initiative OpinionSurveys.com, a multi-million-member online market research panel that generated several million completed online surveys per year. In 2004, OpinionSurveys.com was acquired by Greenfield Online, one of the largest market research firms in the country at the time (later acquired by Microsoft).

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., owner and operator of www.neopets.com, which rapidly grew to become one of the top-ranked youth entertainment websites in the world, serving over 5 billion pageviews per month in 11 languages globally. 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 $160 million sale to Viacom, Inc. in June 2005.

Most recently Mr. Dohring has served as Founder, Chairman and CEO of Age of Learning, Inc. In this capacity, Mr. Dohring, together with his founding management team of NeoPets and a newly-hired staff of more than 50 artists, writers, programmers, curriculum developers and other education professionals, spent more than three years developing the children's education website ABCmouse.com, including testing with more than 10,000 families prior to its launch in November of 2010. The goal of ABCmouse.com is to help young children build a strong foundation for future academic success by providing a comprehensive and engaging online curriculum to greatly assist early learners to succeed in pre-k, kindergarten, and early elementary school programs.

Together with his wife Laurie, to whom he has been married for more than 30 years, Mr. Dohring has five grown children, including two sets of identical twins and one grandchild.