- The 82-year-old CEO of Epic Systems, Judy Faulkner, boasts a $7.8 billion fortune from owning 43% of the tech company—yet says she’s “never cashed a single share” for herself. The Silent Generation leader, who has signed Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge, instead pours the profits from selling her nonvoting shares into charity. Her unconventionality bleeds into her leadership, too, as Faulkner holds monthly “work church” meetings, complete with grammar lessons, inside her themed office buildings.
CEOs with major controlling stakes in their billion-dollar companies have the power to make themselves richer and richer, but one 82-year-old tech leader isn’t cashing in for herself. Judy Faulkner, the CEO of Epic Systems, has been selling her nonvoting shares back to the company—and redirecting the profits elsewhere.
