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Doug Dohring is Founder, CEO, and Executive Chairman at Age of Learning. Doug previously worked at NeoPets as a Founder and CEO.

Doug Dohring is a California-based entrepreneur who has led several companies to success over the past three decades. Doug founded Age of Learning, Inc., in February 2007, which brought together experts in the field of education, creative content developers, and engineers to develop and launch ABCmouse.com, the most comprehensive digital learning resource for children ages 2—8. Winner of numerous awards from national education, parent, and media organizations, ABCmouse offers a comprehensive expert-designed curriculum for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade. ABCmouse.com is regularly ranked as the leading children's learning app for iOS and Android. To date, children have completed more than 9 billion learning activities on Age of Learning programs. Doug Dohring also spearheaded the creation of several Age of Learning Education Access initiatives, which have reached many millions of children by offering the full, award-winning ABCmouse.com® Early Learning Academy at no cost to teachers, libraries, and community centers, including afterschool programs and public housing authorities. Mr. Dohring is also currently the Chairman of the Age of Learning Foundation, a nonprofit organization with a mission to fundamentally improve the education of children in low- and lower-middle-income countries worldwide.

In 2021, Doug Dohring and his team announced the launch of My Math Academy, a personalized, adaptive math program for pre-K through second grade and the first product offering from Age of Learning’s new School Division. My Reading Academy, another adaptive learning solution that inspires and guides students to mastery every element of complete reading instruction followed soon after My Math Academy. These adaptive solutions provide schools and districts with standards-based early education programs proven to help teachers differentiate instruction and accelerate learning while helping students achieve mastery. The team also launched Adventure Academy in 2019, the world's first AAA MMO educational game. This massively multiplayer online game for elementary and middle school age children features thousands of learning activities in a fun and safe virtual world.

Prior to founding Age of Learning, Doug Dohring founded NeoPets, Inc., in February 2000. Neopets.com rapidly became one of the world’s top-ranked websites, generating more than 8 billion page views per month in 11 languages globally. Advertising Age named him one of the Top 100 Marketers of the Year in 2001, and in 2002, with the expansion of NeoPets into Asia, Neopets and Doug were the subject of a Harvard Business School Case Study. Doug Dohring served as Chairman and CEO of NeoPets, Inc., from its inception through its $160 million sale to Viacom in June of 2005. Before NeoPets, he founded The Dohring Company in 1986, which quickly grew to become a top-100 market research firm in the U.S., serving thousands of clients.