Press Kit

William Lansing currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of FICO. Before joining FICO, Mr. Lansing served as CEO and president of InfoSpace, and also as CEO and President of ValueVision Media. He was a partner at General Atlantic Partners, a global private equity firm. Prior to his work at General Atlantic, Mr. Lansing served as CEO of NBC Internet, an Internet media company and as CEO of Fingerhut, a direct marketing company. He has also held leadership positions at General Electric, Prodigy and McKinsey & Company. Mr. Lansing has served on the board of directors of FICO since February 2006. He holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University and a J.D. from Georgetown University.

Wayne Huyard serves as FICO’s EVP of global sales, marketing and services. Wayne brings more than thirty years of business leadership experience from companies such as Oracle, RightNow Technologies, Cerberus Capital Management, Verizon and MCI. A proven growth leader, Wayne has created significant stakeholder value across multiple industries with success leading all business disciplines and sales channels from consumer to enterprise to government in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Wayne launched a NASDAQ-traded enterprise and pursued major public policy agendas. Wayne is well known as a motivational leader with a business-first mentality rooted in sincerity, self-awareness and drive.

Claus Moldt is FICO’s executive vice president and chief technology officer. He has nearly 30 years of operational, support, and consulting experience supporting and architecting large scale, highly-available infrastructures. Prior to the role of FICO CTO, Claus was FICOs chief information officer where he was responsible for FICO’s cloud services, security and IT functions. Claus is a co-founder of m›PATH, Inc. and served as its CEO. He was the global chief information officer and senior vice president of service delivery at Salesforce.com and held leadership positions at eBay, Loudcloud and Oracle where he worked with Fortune 500 customers to aid in setting up scalable infrastructures.

Mark Scadina joined FICO in 2007 as senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary. Before joining FICO, Mr. Scadina was executive vice president, general counsel and secretary of Liberate Technologies, a leading provider of interactive services software founded by Oracle and Netscape. Prior to that, Mr. Scadina was vice president and general counsel of InterTrust Technologies, the pioneer in digital rights management solutions. Earlier in his career, Mr. Scadina practiced law in the Silicon Valley office of Pennie & Edmonds. Mr. Scadina received his law degree from U.C. Berkeley School of Law and holds a BS degree in computer engineering from Santa Clara University.

Mike McLaughlin leads FICO’s global finance organization as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.  Mike joined FICO after spending 12 years at Morgan Stanley, where he was Managing Director and Head of Technology Corporate Finance.  During his 26-year investment banking career, Mike advised hundreds of companies in the technology, financial services and real estate sectors on a wide range of strategic and financial topics.  He holds a B.A. from Stanford University and a Masters of Public and Private Management from the Yale School of Management.

Richard Deal leads FICO’s Human Resources function focused on attracting, engaging, developing and deploying talent through innovative human capital management strategies. He joined FICO in January, 2001 from Arcadia Financial Ltd., where he held the executive HR role for three years. Prior to that, he held a number of senior HR positions supporting the mortgage and corporate trust divisions of U.S. Bancorp in Minneapolis. Mr. Deal has extensive experience leading acquisition integration activities, building compensation and performance management systems and developing leadership competencies. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin and a master’s degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Purdue University.

James M. Wehmann is executive vice-president responsible for the Scores business unit. Prior to working at FICO, Jim was senior vice president, global marketing at Digital River, a leading provider of cloud commerce solutions. During nearly nine years with the company, he was responsible for developing, marketing, selling and executing the company’s marketing services offerings. Prior to joining Digital River in 2003, Jim served as vice president of marketing at Brylane, Inc., where he was responsible for all aspects of marketing strategy and brand management for the company’s largest division. Before that he was responsible for new customer acquisitions as senior vice president of marketing for one of the country’s largest credit card issuers, Bank One. He also spent nearly eight years at Fingerhut Companies, Inc., where, as senior vice president, marketing, he developed and implemented segmented credit marketing strategies. Jim is a graduate with distinction of the Kellogg School of Management, where he earned a Master of Business Administration. He earned his Bachelor of Science from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.