website children birth_place birth_date residence image article_title name occupation
-lsb- http://blogs.sas.com/content/jmp/author/johnsall/ john sall 's blog -rsb- 4 rockford , illinois , us 1948 cary , north carolina , us john sall 2012.jpg john sall
 john sall co-founder and executive vice president at sas institute
john sall

john p. sall -lrb- born 1948 -rrb- is a businessman and computer software developer , who cofounded sas institute and created the jmp statistical software .
sall grew up in rockford , illinois and earned degrees in history , economics and statistics .
in 1976 he joined others from north carolina state university in co-founding sas institute , an analytics software company .
in the 1980s , sall and other developers created the jmp statistical software .
