Hank Asher (May 9, 1951 – January 11, 2013) was a businessman best known as "the father of data fusion." With a reported fortune of around US$500 million earned as the founder of several data fusion / data mining companies that compile information about companies, individuals and their interrelationships from thousands of different electronic databases.
"He's kind of a legend" among those who use investigative data tools, says Greg Lambert, a legal information specialist.