- Judy Faulkner founded medical-record software provider Epic Systems in a Wisconsin basement in 1979.
- Faulkner, a computer programmer, is CEO of the $6.7 billion (2025 sales) company, of which she owns an estimated 42%.
- Epic supports the medical records of over 250 million patients and is used by top medical centers such as Johns Hopkins and Mayo Clinic.
- The company has never raised venture capital or made an acquisition, and develops all its software in-house.
- Faulkner signed the Giving Pledge in 2015 and has agreed to eventually give 99% of her assets to a private charitable foundation.
- In 2024 she told Forbes that she was regularly selling around $100 million of her Epic shares a year back to the company, with proceeds going to her charitable foundation, Roots & Wings.
Wealth History
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Personal Stats
- Age
- 83
- Source of Wealth
- Healthcare software, Self Made
- Residence
- Madison, Wisconsin
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital Status
- Married
- Children
- 3
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Dickinson College; Master of Science, University of Wisconsin
Did you know
Faulkner started Epic, originally named Human Services Computing, with $70,000; she wrote the original code on a Data General Eclipse 16-bit minicomputer.
Perks at her Epic’s headquarters in Verona, Wisconsin include a tree house and an Indiana Jones-inspired cave walkway.
In Their Own Words
“I always liked making things out of clay. And the computer was clay of the mind. Instead of physical, it was mental.”
Judy Faulkner
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