Executive Team

John Sperry - CEO
Mr Sperry founded Mindshare in 2002 and since has guided the company to financial success seeing it become a member of the Inc. 500. In 2010 Mr. Sperry was named a member of the V100 as one of the top entrepreneurs to lead a new venture to success. He was named as ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ by Ernst and Young Utah Region for 2010. Since the early 1990’s, Mr. Sperry has guided and directed the product and technology development for three companies. He is particularly skilled at finding technology solutions to constrained business problems. Mr. Sperry was CTO for BlueStep, Inc. where he helped design and implement a collaborative web solution that was used by 30,000 people daily from the State of Utah to the University of Arizona. He worked with Sungard Data Systems as their Senior Vice President of Technology. At Sungard he implemented large enterprise financial and CRM solutions for companies such as State Farm, Citibank, Bank of America, Prudential Securities, MetLife, New York Life and others. Before Sungard, Mr. Sperry was the Vice President of Product Development for Sterling Wentworth. At Sterling Wentworth, he designed various cross-selling and profiling applications using ‘fuzzy logic’. He implemented solutions with USAA, GMAC, Mutual of Omaha, Wachovia Bank and other financial institutions. Mr. Sperry spent a year working for the Garn Institute of Finance. He has his MBA and finance degrees from the University of Utah and Brigham Young University.


















