Brian P. Dougherty

Brian P. Dougherty (born 1956) is an American software developer and businessman best known as the founder and CEO of Berkeley Softworks (later GeoWorks Corporation), which produced the pioneering GEOS graphical operating system for the Commodore 64 in 1986 and the influential PC/GEOS operating system for the IBM PCs and compatibles in 1990. Dougherty also founded GlobalPC, Airset and Wink Communications. While Dougherty was CEO of GeoWorks, he had been approached by several large technology companies including Microsoft and Apple because of the success of the GEOS operating system.^[1] Dougherty attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he graduated with a B.S. in electrical engineering and computer science.^[2] When he graduated he landed a job at Mattel, where he contributed for the design of the Intellivision video game system.

Brian P. Dougherty

1956

Berkeley, California, United States

University of California, Berkeley

Businessman
programmer

1981–present

Founder and CEO of Berkeley Softworks (later renamed to GeoWorks Corporation); co-founder of Imagic, GlobalPC, and Wink Communications

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Career[edit]

Early career[edit]

Dougherty started his career in making video games in 1979 with the help of Mattel for their then newly released Intellivision home video game console.^[3]^[4]^[5]

After two years of developing video games for the Intellivision, in 1981 Dougherty co-founded Imagic, a private video game developer and publisher which made games for the Atari 2600, the Intellivision's direct competitor. Alongside Dave Durran, which would go on to be the Vice President and Software Architect at GeoWorks, would go on to publish games for consoles and home computers such as the TRS-80 Color Computer and the IBM PCjr.^[3]^[4]^[5] Shortly after the video game crash of 1983, Imagic filed for bankruptcy. After its downfall, the rights to its most popular releases were bought by Activision in the mid-1980s.^[6]

GlobalPC's "No Exit" 1984 Macintosh spoof commericlal

MyTurn's Half-an-hour infomercial featuring Terry Bradshaw and Bella Shaw

Interview with Brian Dougherty while he was CEO of Airset inc.

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Brian P. Dougherty