Fair Isaac Appoints Deborah Kerr as Chief Technology and Products Officer

Fair Isaac^® Corporation (NYSE:FIC), the leading provider of analytics and decision management technology, today announced that Deborah Kerr will join the company on February 2 as executive vice president, chief technology and products officer. She will be responsible for leading global product management and development functions for Fair Isaac's portfolio of decision management solutions.

Kerr joins Fair Isaac from HP, where she spent the past four years, most recently as chief technology officer of EDS, an HP company. She previously served as SVP-product delivery for Peregrine Systems, leading product marketing and management, R&D, shared technology, technology alliances, enablement and operations. Kerr began her career with NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), where she served as a mission operations manager.

"Deborah is an outstanding technology executive with strong vision and a proven record of successful execution across all areas of product development," said Mark Greene, CEO of Fair Isaac. "Her breadth of experience beyond development, ranging from product strategy and marketing to P&L management and delivery, make her an ideal fit for this important role. I'm confident Deborah's expertise will help accelerate the realization of our vision of connected decisions through the delivery of next-generation Decision Management solutions."

"I'm excited to be joining Fair Isaac at a time when so many businesses are recognizing the power of analytics to drive profitable growth," said Kerr. "The decision management solutions that Fair Isaac provides for risk- and account management have never been more relevant. I look forward to playing a major role in delivering them to market."

About Fair Isaac
Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE:FIC) transforms business by making every decision count. Fair Isaac's Decision Management solutions combine trusted advice, world-class analytics and innovative applications to give organizations the power to automate, improve and connect decisions across their business. Clients in 80 countries work with Fair Isaac to increase customer loyalty and profitability, cut fraud losses, manage credit risk, meet regulatory and competitive demands, and rapidly build market share. Fair Isaac also helps millions of individuals manage their credit health through the www.myFICO.com website.

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