FICO Appoints Silicon Valley IT Veteran Claus Moldt as Chief Information Officer

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Apr 11, 2016, 08:30 ET

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 11, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --

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Claus Moldt has joined analytics software pioneer FICO as CIO
Moldt is an accomplished technology executive, with 29 years of operational experience at companies that include Salesforce and eBay
Immediately prior to joining FICO, Moldt was CEO of mPath, a rapid mobile application development platform business

FICO, the analytics software company, has announced the appointment of Claus Moldt as chief information officer (CIO). Moldt, a respected IT industry veteran, brings exceptional experience leading teams responsible for the operation of large-scale, high-availability, mission-critical technology platforms.

"As we prepare to introduce the next-generation FICO^® Decision Management Suite, the time was right to bring on an IT leader who could support the delivery of this groundbreaking platform for the development and deployment of advanced analytics solutions," said Stuart Wells, EVP and chief technology officer, FICO. "Claus is ideally qualified to ensure that our IT infrastructure operates securely, reliably and to the high technical standards that our customers across the globe have come to expect."

Prior to joining FICO, Moldt was CEO of mPath, an enterprise-scale rapid mobile application development platform built from the ground up on Amazon Web Services. Before that he was the global CIO and senior vice president of service delivery at Salesforce, where his teams were responsible for day-to-day operation of the internal and external infrastructure, including capacity planning, availability architecture, disaster recovery, datacenters, network, servers and storage infrastructure. He previously held leadership positions at eBay, Oracle and Loudcloud.

"The world is moving quickly to develop and deploy advanced analytic applications that enable the automation and optimization of business decisions," said Claus Moldt. "FICO is establishing a new platform that will become the next industry standard. The opportunity to be part of introducing and scaling it up is very exciting."

About FICO
FICO (NYSE: FICO) powers decisions that help people and businesses around the world prosper. Founded in 1956 and based in Silicon Valley, the company is a pioneer in the use of predictive analytics and data science to improve operational decisions. FICO holds more than 165 US and foreign patents on technologies that increase profitability, customer satisfaction and growth for businesses in financial services, telecommunications, health care, retail and many other industries. Using FICO solutions, businesses in more than 100 countries do everything from protecting 2.6 billion payment cards from fraud, to helping people get credit, to ensuring that millions of airplanes and rental cars are in the right place at the right time. Learn more at http://www.fico.com.

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