Judy Faulkner
- Judy Faulkner founded America's leading medical-record software provider, Epic, in a Wisconsin basement in 1979.
- Faulkner, a computer programmer, is still CEO of the $3.3 billion (2020 sales) company.
- 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 gift 99% of her assets to a private charitable foundation.