Information Builders Co-Founder Gerry Cohen Mourned As Software, Analytics Visionary “In the four years I knew [Cohen], he built IoT technologies and blockchain technologies, anything to access data from disparate sources. He said, ‘Let me get data from any source, and do all the hard work of dealing with that disparate landscape so you can just use the data to work,’” says Frank Vella, CEO of Information Builders. By Joseph F. Kovar December 14, 2020, 09:21 AM EST Gerald D. “Gerry” Cohen, founder and chairman of the board of pioneering data and analytics technology developer Information Builders, passed away December 3. Cohen founded Information Builders in Manhattan in 1975, and grew the company to be the third-largest software company in the world at one point. Prior to founding Information builders, he developed in the mid-1960s the RAMIS (Random Access Management Information System) programming language for creating and managing databases while working with Mathematica, which was founded by professors at Princeton University to develop mathematical models for decision making.