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Digital River

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Type
  
Private

Founded
  
1994

Revenue
  
370.5 million USD

CFO
  
Hoke Horne

Founder
  
Joel A. Ronning

Industry
  
Area served
  
global

CEO
  
David Dobson

Number of employees
  
1,239

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Key people
  
Dave Dobson (CEO)Ted Cahall (COO)Hoke Horne (CFO)

Headquarters
  
Minnetonka, Minnesota, United States

Subsidiaries
  
SWREG, element 5, Inc, DR globalTech Inc

Profiles

Digital River is a private company that provides global ecommerce, payments and marketing services. In 2013, Digital River processed more than $30 billion in online transactions. Digital River is headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota.

Contents

Company operations

Digital River has a history of acquiring other companies in the e-commerce (including digital software delivery) industry.

Notable acquisitions include:

Divestitures

  • CCNow (sold to Snorrason Holdings 2012)
  • Journey Education Marketing (2013)
  • Security breach

    A security breach in 2010 resulted in nearly 200,000 customers' data being stolen. A lawsuit followed by Digital River.

    CEO History

    Joel Ronning was CEO from the company's founding until stepping down in November 2012. In June 2013, Ronning was ranked as the most overpaid CEO at a public company in Minnesota despite having been CEO only until November of the previous year. In February 2013, Dave Dobson was named CEO.

    References

    Digital River Wikipedia