John Sall has an estimated net worth of $4.4 billion as of April 2016, according to Forbes. Together with Jim Goodnight and two others, SAS was established in 1976. Currently, he sits as the company's Executive Vice President.

John Sall is a statistics wizard who leads the dynamic data visualization software division of SAS. Presently, the company is the largest distributor of business analytics software. Sall co-owns the Tony Prestonwood Country Club, Cary Academy(a local private school) and the Umstead Hotel & Spa.

He is one of the members of the Board of Trustees of North Carolina State University and he sat  on the board of The Nature Conservancy.