Background
Haerr, Gregory Ralph was born on September 30, 1957 in San Diego, California, United States. Son of Ralph Jacob and Molly Elaine (Cooling) Haerr.
founder Chief Executive Officer of Century Software
Haerr, Gregory Ralph was born on September 30, 1957 in San Diego, California, United States. Son of Ralph Jacob and Molly Elaine (Cooling) Haerr.
At, University California, San Diego, 1975. Bachelor in Computer Science, University California, San Diego, 1980. At, California State University, Long Beach, 1976.
Haerr founded the company in 1982, after having moved from his hometown of Louisiana Jolla to Salt Lake City in 1981. Haerr is the oldest of seven siblings. Haerr earned a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science from University of California, San Diego in 1980, with minors in Accounting and Music Performance.
After moving to Salt Lake City, he consulted for various firms writing custom software.
He started Century Software after writing a small file transfer utility for a friend. In 1994, Haerr started building a land banking development business using the profits from Century Software.
Today, these companies own land and developments in Utah, Washington, and Idaho. Haerr"s experience with Windows and Uniplex Information and Computing System operating systems branched out to the newer, free Linux operating system.
In 1999, he wrote a free graphical windowing system called that could be used on small, embedded Linux systems
This system, because of its small size and free cost, enabled many others to build their own applications in the emerging PDA and mobile marketplace. In December 2008, Haerr joined the cast of the FOX reality series in Las Vegas, where he gave away $150,000 of his own money to deserving people and organizations, including extreme wheelchair athlete Aaron Fotheringham.