Eighty Percent Solutions is located in Pittsburgh, PA, and run by Fred Stutzman.

Fred is a researcher and entrepreneur: He holds an appointment at Carnegie Mellon University as a postdoctoral fellow, and he was a co-founder of ClaimID.com, a company that helped create the social web identity management space. Stutzman's entrepreneurial and research work has been profiled by leading media outlets such as the Economist, the New York Times Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and NPR. Prior to attending graduate school, Fred was a software engineer and manager in industry.