New career path with ESRI

Accepted a position with ESRI as the Account Manager for USDA - Team Lead for the Land & Natural Resources Group at ESRI.  Thrilled at the opportunity to join the team with such an amazing company. 

Below are some neat ESRI company facts: (full credits to Wikipedia)

Type	Private
Industry	Software Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Founded	Redlands, California (1969)
Headquarters	Redlands, California, U.S. 34°3′25.35″N 117°11′44.44″W
Key people	Jack Dangermond, Founder/President
Products	ArcGIS, ArcView, ArcGIS Server,ArcIMS, ArcSDE, ArcGIS Mobile,ArcPad
Revenue	More than $776 million per year
Employees	2,700 (US)+ (2009 statistics) [1]
Website	www.esri.com

Esri ( /ˈɛsriː/) is a software development and services company providing Geographic Information System (GIS) software andgeodatabase management applications. The headquarters of Esri is in Redlands, California.

The company was founded as Environmental Systems Research Institute in 1969 as a land-use consulting firm. Esri products (particularlyArcGIS Desktop) have one-third of the global market share. In 2002, Esri had approximately a 30 percent share of the GIS software market worldwide, more than any other vendor. Other sources estimate that about 70 percent of the current GIS users make use of Esri products.

Esri has 10 regional offices in the U.S. and a network of 80 international distributors, with about a million users in 200 countries. The firm has 3,000 employees in the U.S., and is still privately held by the founders. In 2006, revenues were about $660 million. In a 2009 Investor's Business Daily article, Esri's annual revenues were indicated to be $1.2 billion, from 300,000 customers.

The company hosts an annual International User's Conference, which was first held on the Redlands campus in 1981 with 16 attendees. More recently, the User's Conference has been held in San Diego for the past 10 years. An estimated 15,000 users from 131 countries attended in 2012.