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James Howard Goodnight is a Salisbury, North Carolina-born American businessman as well as a software programmer perhaps best known for serving as the current CEO of SAS Institute. Born on 6 January 1943, James is also noted for his successful entrepreneurship and leadership style which has always been a subject of study. A very successful businessman and a billionaire as of now, James has been active in the business sector since 1976.

An exemplary personality who has managed to become one of the most successful businessmen in the world, how rich is James Goodnight as of now? In 2015, James has been counting his net worth at $7.7 billion. Needless to say, his involvement in the business sector as an entrepreneur is the major source of his income, especially being the founder of Cary Academy and SAS Institute which have been earning him hundreds of millions of dollars every year, making James a multi-billionaire as of now.

James Goodnight Net Worth $7.7 Billion

Raised in Greensboro and Wilmington, NC James was a bright student in his school where his strongest subjects were mathematics and chemistry. After graduating from New Hanover High School, he trained to become a software developer at North Carolina State University. He started his career as a software program writer for the agricultural economics department and later landed a job in building electronic equipment for space-related projects. Eventually, after earning a PhD in statistics, he joined the faculty in North Carolina State for a research project relating to agriculture, called Statistical Analysis System which later became a company and has now been yielding billions of dollars every year.

After leaving the faculty of the university in 1976 and founding SAS, James started serving as the CEO of the company. SAS Company basically serves as the software that helps in accessing, managing, analyzing and reporting data to help in the decision making process. This organization is still a private company and maintains a flat organizational structure which has been one of the unique traits in business sector for such a large company, whose yearly revenue is well over a billion dollars. Needless to say, this has been one of the most significant factors which helped James gather his present net worth.

Apart from taking his company’s success to a new height each year, James is also noted as a philanthropist. He along with his wife and two business partners has founded a prep school named Cary Academy, which shows his interest in education. In addition to this, he is also the owner of Prestonwood Country Club as well as The Umstead Hotel, both located in North Carolina.

As for his personal life, the 72 years-old businessman James has been married to his college sweetheart, Ann since 1969 and the couple has three children. Ann is also interested in business and has opened an Asian food restaurant in NC named An Cuisines. As for James, he has been enjoying his life as one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world. Having been named as the 61^st richest man in USA in 2014, James has presently been enjoying his net worth of $7.7 billion.