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Gary Mahn co-founded one of Idaho’s first software firms

He transformed Fisher’s Stationery into Fisher’s Technology

Mahn helped launch the Downtown Boise Association

He served as Idaho commerce director under Gov. Kempthorne

Gary Mahn, founder of Fisher’s Technology and a Boise community leader, died on May 24, 2025, at the age of 81 years old.

Born in 1943, Mahn became an entrepreneurial and visionary leader for Boise, having pioneered the tech sector in the Treasure Valley. Along with Kevin Learned, Mahn founded Learned-Mahn in the late 1970s, one of Idaho’s first software companies that focused on finance and health care.

Mahn purchased Fisher’s Stationery, founded in 1936, in downtown Boise in 1985, working with his wife, Kathy, to expa

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