Douglas C. Sperr

Doug Sperr’s career spans more than 25 years of executive leadership and technology innovation. As the Founder and CEO of USGN, Doug has headed the overall leadership and management of the online software solutions company since it opened its doors in 1998. Sperr is responsible for the Company’s overall business strategy, product vision and customer relationships. Under Sperr’s leadership, USGN has experienced unprecedented growth and has become the leader in web-based application development platforms, combining best of class collaborative project management solutions.

An architect by training, Doug applied more than two decades of design and planning experience to develop USGN’s core project management software. Designed out of necessity by Doug for his Phoenix-based architecture firm, Sperr & Associates/ Architecture, Inc., Sperr quickly understood the power of the Internet to dramatically improve the way companies manage projects and the potential his software had to benefit the multi-unit construction industry. Sperr soon founded USGN to commercialize the venture and his unique vision led the USGN development team to create a product that is both highly collaborative and adaptable to users’ processes and applications without the need for IT or programmers.

The company now boasts dozens of loyal blue-chip and Fortune 500 customers with over 11,000 users and 8,000 projects in the USGN online community of application development and project management. Sperr holds a Bachelor of Architecture Degree from Arizona State University, is a registered architect in more then 20 states across the U.S. and is a member of the American Institute of Architects. He’s also an accomplished sailplane and aerobatic pilot.