Bill Fair

FICO (legal name: Fair Isaac Corporation), originally Fair, Isaac and Company, is an American data analytics company based in Bozeman, Montana, focused on credit scoring services.1

Born Dec 13, 1922, died Jan 19, 1996.1

About

FICO (legal name: Fair Isaac Corporation), originally Fair, Isaac and Company, is an American data analytics company based in Bozeman, Montana, focused on credit scoring services. It was founded by Bill Fair and Earl Isaac in 1956. Its FICO score, a measure of consumer credit risk, has become a fixture of consumer lending in the United States.

In 2013, lenders purchased more than 10 billion FICO scores and about 30 million American consumers accessed their scores themselves. The company reported a revenue of $1.29 billion for the fiscal year of 2020.

From Wikipedia’s article on Bill Fair, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2

Companies

Early life and education

  • 1943California Institute of Technology Bachelor of Science3
  • Date not recordedUniversity of California, Berkeley3
  • Date not recordedStanford University3

Career

Occupation: businessperson, electrical engineer.6

  • 1947 to 1948Worked at University of Nevada, Reno4
  • Date not recordedFounded FICO5

Personal life

  • CitizenshipUnited States7

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