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Eric Dunn
Eric Dunn
Born	1956
Occupation(s)	CEO of Quicken, director of iCIMS and the Electronic Transactions Association
Known for	Employee number 4 at Intuit
Spouse	Susan Dunn

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Eric Dunn (born 1956) is CEO of Quicken. Dunn is a director of iCIMS and the Electronic Transactions Association.

Early life[edit]

Dunn holds a bachelor's degree in Physics from the Harvard College, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Career[edit]

Cook started his career at Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he learned about product development, market research, and marketing. He then took a job in strategic consulting at Bain and Company in Menlo Park, California. Cook soon began using the insights he was learning there to look for an idea for a company of his own. That idea came to him one day when his wife was complaining about paying the bills. With personal computers just coming out at the time, Scott thought there might be a market for basic software that would help people pay their bills. He launched Intuit in 1983, which today offers software and online products to help individuals and small companies manage their finances.^[1]

He was Intuit's chairman from February 1993 to July 1998. From April 1983 to April 1994, he was served president and CEO of Intuit.

In 2002, Cook and his wife, Signe Ostby, established the Center for Brand and Product Management at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Business, the nation's first university-based center focused exclusively on training MBAs in brand and product management. Cook and Ostby both started their careers in brand management.

In 2005, Cook was #320 on the Forbes 400, with a net worth of $1.1 billion. Since the 1990s, he has "more than doubled his donations to Republicans and Democrats, giving the maximum [in 2007] to mainstream politicians such as Mitt Romney and Harry Reid."^[2]

Personal life[edit]

Cook is married to Signe Ostby. Ostby worked for Procter & Gamble, then Clorox before she launched Software Publishing Corporation, making productivity software for personal computers.^[3]

References[edit]

^ "Scott Cook". Forbes. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
^ Harkinson, Josh. The Apostles of Ron Paul, Mother Jones (January/February 2008)
^ "Signe Ostby CBPM Founder". Wisc.edu. Retrieved 4 November 2014.

Gregg Keizer, “Intuit sells Quicken to private equity firm in management buyout, Computerworld, March 4, 2016 http://www.computerworld.com/article/3041032/desktop-apps/intuit-sells-quicken-to-private-equity-firm-in-management-buyout.html

Gregg Keizer, “Intuit to close sale of Quicken by April 30”, Computerworld, February 26, 2016. http://www.computerworld.com/article/3038774/it-industry/intuit-to-close-sale-of-quicken-by-april-30.html

Andrew Nusca, “Intuit Sells Quicken Business to H.I.G. Capital”, Fortune, March 4, 2016. http://fortune.com/2016/03/04/intuit-quicken-sale/

John Ribeiro, “Intuit selling Quicken to private equity firm HIG Capital”, PCWorld, March 3, 2016. http://www.pcworld.com/article/3040723/intuit-selling-quicken-to-private-equity-firm-hig-capital.html

Suzanne Taylor and Kathy Schroeder, Inside Intuit, Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2003.

Robert Mclean, “Intuit finds a buyer for Quicken”, March 4, 2016. http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/04/technology/intuit-quicken-dunn-hig-capital/

Matt Krantz, “Quicken 2016: Why it still matters”, USA Today, November 17, 2015. http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2015/11/17/quicken-2016-personal-finance-software/75894904/

Lisa Beilfuss, “Intuit finds a buyer for Quicken”, Wall Street Journal, March 4, 2016. http://www.wsj.com/articles/intuit-finds-a-buyer-for-quicken-1457103810

External links[edit]

Inc. profile for article on 25 Most Fascinating Entrepreneurs
The Contribution Revolution is the wiki companion site to Cook's recent Harvard Business Review article of the same name

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