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| Born | 1948 (age 68–69) Rockford, Illinois, US |
| Residence | Cary, North Carolina, US |
| Occupation | Co-founder and executive vice president, SAS Institute |
| Net worth | $4.2 billion (May 2016) |
| Children | 4 |
| Website | John Sall’s blog |
John P. Sall (born 1948) is an American businessman and computer software developer, who co-founded SAS Institute and created the JMP statistical software. Sall grew up in Rockford, Illinois and earned degrees in History, Economics and Statistics. In 1976 he joined others from North Carolina State University in co-founding SAS Institute, an analytics software company. In the 1980s, Sall and other developers created the JMP statistical software.
Early life
John Sall was born in Rockford, Illinois, in 1948. He received a bachelor’s degree in history from Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin. Sall felt he graduated into a weak job market, so he went to graduate school at Northern Illinois University, where he earned a master’s degree in economics. It was at graduate school that Sall became interested in statistics and computer science. He went on to study graduate–level statistics at North Carolina State University, where he received an honorary doctorate in 2003.
Career
James Goodnight was John Sall’s mentor at North Carolina State University. In 1976, the two joined others from the University, Anthony James Barr and Jane Helwig, in founding SAS Institute, an analytics software company founded to analyze agricultural data. Sall designed, developed, and documented many of the earliest procedures of the SAS language.
Sall started developing JMP in the 1980s, when the graphical user interface was introduced on the Macintosh. Sall and a small team of developers spent a year and a half working on JMP before version one was released in October 1989. Sall continued to do coding and product development for JMP software for more than 20 years, supporting Windows 3.1, writing the product in different implementation languages, re-writing the product’s “nervous system” and improving the JMP scripting language. Today Sall still acts as JMP’s chief architect. He’s also co-authored the book “JMP Start Statistics.”
John Sall has an estimated net worth of $4.4 billion as of April 2016, according to Forbes. Together with Jim Goodnight and two others, SAS was established in 1976. Currently, he sits as the company’s Executive Vice President.
John Sall is a statistics wizard who leads the dynamic data visualization software division of SAS. Presently, the company is the largest distributor of business analytics software. Sall co-owns the Tony Prestonwood Country Club, Cary Academy(a local private school) and the Umstead Hotel & Spa.
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