James Howard Goodnight was born on January 6,1943 and is an American billionaire businessman and software developer.
16 Facts About James Goodnight
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James Goodnight has been the CEO of SAS Institute since 1976, which he co-founded that year with other faculty members of North Carolina State University.
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James Goodnight lived in Greensboro until he was 12, when his family moved to Wilmington.
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James Goodnight was a member of the Beta-Beta chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon at NC State, and contributed to the construction of a new fraternity house for the chapter in 2002.
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James Goodnight worked at a company building electronic equipment for the ground stations that communicated with the Apollo space capsules.
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James Goodnight returned to North Carolina State University after working on the Apollo project, where he earned a PhD in statistics and was a faculty member from 1972 to 1976.
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James Goodnight joined another faculty at North Carolina State in a research project to create a general purpose statistical analysis system for analyzing agricultural data.
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Goodnight along with another faculty member Anthony James Barr became project leaders for the development of the early version of SAS.
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James Goodnight remained CEO of SAS Institute for more than 35 years as the company grew from $138,000 its first year in business, to $420 million in 1993 and $2.43 billion by 2010.
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James Goodnight has maintained a flat organizational structure with about 27 people who report directly to him and three organizational layers.
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In 1981, James Goodnight was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
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James Goodnight has been a frequent speaker and participant at the World Economic Forum.
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In March 2020, Jim James Goodnight was awarded a CEO Great Place to Work For All Leadership Award by Great Place to Work.
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James Goodnight met his wife, Ann, while he was a senior at North Carolina State University and she was attending Meredith College.
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James Goodnight has an interest in improving the state of education, particularly elementary and secondary education.
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James Goodnight owns Prestonwood Country Club and The Umstead Hotel and Spa situated on the edge of the SAS campus.