Dexter + Chaney celebrates 30 years in business
August 5, 2011Dexter + Chaney, developer of Spectrum Construction Software, marked the 30th anniversary of the company’s founding with a staff party at its campus in Seattle. Partners Mark Dexter and John Chaney started the business in 1981 in the spare bedroom of Dexter’s Seattle apartment. The duo had worked together as certified public accountants in the consulting division of Arthur Andersen (now Accenture) on a huge maritime project involving pricing change orders and mark-ups – a manual process at the time. They sought a better method and decided to apply the emerging technology of electronic spreadsheets to the construction market. Today, Dexter + Chaney employs more than 80 people who work in two buildings on the company-owned 2.3-acre campus in north Seattle. It addresses the accounting, operational, management and reporting needs of more than 1,000 construction companies throughout the United States.
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