The U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed former North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum as the 55th secretary of the Department of the ...
Doug Burgum to head the Interior Department ... He went on to become a wealthy software executive. He led Great Plains Software, which Microsoft acquired for $1.1 billion in 2001.
Over two terms as governor of North Dakota, politics didn’t come naturally to Doug Burgum. Now the former tech executive is ...
If confirmed as secretary of the interior, Doug Burgum would become a key player in implementing ... In 2001, he sold his ...
Doug Burgum, among them ... a “safe pair of hands who can help get things done.” Burgum’s company Great Plains ...
He went on to become a wealthy software executive. He led Great Plains Software, which Microsoft acquired for $1.1 billion in 2001. Burgum stayed on as a vice president until 2007. He's also led ...