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 $2.9 billion (2018 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 stake in Epic to a private charitable foundation.