Noah T. Leask
Noah T. Leask is a U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) National Small Business Award Winner, SBA South Carolina Small Business Person of the Year, two-time Top 10 American Indian Entrepreneur, and Strayer University Outstanding Alumni Award Winner, and an exceptionally accomplished Service Disabled Veteran Executive with a highly decorated military and distinguished professional career. He is a visionary and dynamic leader with proven expertise in all areas of business including start-up, explosive growth, and long-term success having created and still holds a privately held company that is a seven-time consecutive Inc 500|5000 fastest growing company.
Noah is also a technology agnostic geek, learning what he needs to solve the problem at hand regardless of the business, systems, architecture, or languages required. He is one of the U.S. Navy’s first cyber warriors playing a critical role in providing the nation with cyber, information, signals, and technology dominance. He created early warning threat detection systems and networks from system scraps in storage rooms and designed and implemented the first of its kind mail sweeper years before they were introduced, all while under extreme pressure during wartime operations. Noah was on the national Y2K critical manning list for the U.S. and United Kingdom as the lead programmer for two vital world-wide mission critical systems. He led an intelligence agency directory services team, where he upgraded the agency globally to active directory with seamless UNIX mission systems integration removing the need for two workstations on each desktop. His last technology post prior to assuming the CEO and CTO positions at APC Data Analytics, was Chief Architect for a 10 year $900M program consolidating a world-wide intelligence agency while delivering a building and the first of its kind multi-level security data center.
In 2017, Leask donated $1.92 million to the College of Charleston School of Business to establish the Noah Thomas Leask Distinguished Professorship in Information Management and Innovation — a gift that will fund a faculty position in perpetuity. It is a unique position in the business school and follows Noah’s desire to make more capable tech ready business minded cyber and computer professionals who are job ready day one.
He holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Michigan, and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Networking from Strayer University.