Leadership

ISHPI is about innovation, success and reaching new heights. Meet ISHPI’s growth team - the men and women who are driving ISHPI to new heights. Highly regarded as top professionals in their fields, each is leading their respective part of the business to become closer to their customers, while finding and capitalizing on new and rewarding business opportunities and approaches for doing business and creating a better and safer tomorrow.

Noah T. Leask - Co-Founder, Chairman, CEO, and President
Lisa Leask – Co-Founder and Vice President
Michael Beadle – Vice President
Earl D. Bowers – Vice President Corporate Development
Claire Murchison – Director, Human Resources

Noah T. Leask – Co-Founder, Chairman, CEO, and President

Noah T. Leask, Co-Founder, Chairman, CEO, and President of Ishpi Information Technologies, Inc., (DBA ISHPI) is a Service Disabled Veteran with over a decade of wartime service in the U.S. Navy conducting global operations supporting National Defense where he played a critical role in providing the U.S. Navy with Cyber, Information, Signals, and Information Technology Dominance as a deployed member of the U.S. Naval Security Group Command afloat and ashore. Mr. Leask has well over a decade of experience starting, managing, and growing businesses, having recently been recognized as the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) 2009 Veteran Small Business Champion of the Year for South Carolina and Southeast Region, Region IV, for the work he is doing in support of veterans, wounded warriors, and veteran-owned businesses nationwide. He has also been recognized as one of the 2010 Charleston Regional Business Journal’s “Forty under 40” which acknowledges the recipients as the future of the community and celebrates their commitment to professional, personal and philanthropic endeavors, including a well-rounded lifestyle that focuses on work and community.

He is directly responsible for ISHPI’s vision and strategy, as well as day-to-day management, client and vendor relations, and strategic partnerships. He has successfully grown ISHPI’s business base by 200% annually. ISHPI was recently recognized as a 2011 Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Company, the American Indian Chamber of Commerce of the Carolinas (AICCC) 2011 Small Business of the Year, and a 2011 “Top Business in America” multiple award winner (6) by Diversity Business. ISHPI is Mr. Leask’s vision that has rapidly grown to a successful international premier provider of Information and Cyber Dominance (ID) services and C5ISR Engineering and Technical Services (C5ISR E&TS) supporting services for the Intelligence Community (IC), Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Agencies, and Commercial Sector.

Mr. Leask is the President of the American Indian Chamber Commerce of the Carolinas (AICCC) and Charleston Defense Contractors Association (CDCA) Board of Directors member and a member of the U.S. Naval Cryptologic Veterans Association (NCVA), Association of Old Crows (AOC), Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA), National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) Disabled American Veterans (DAV), Advanced Security Technology Research Alliance (ASTRA), and Lowcountry CYBER Security Campaign where he is actively working with other businesses on developing a Cyber Security Center of Excellence to help provide employment opportunities in the Charleston, SC area. He is also a member of the Board of Advisors for EPCI College of Technology where he focuses on the high tech educational requirements for veterans and students in the global market place. He possesses a Bachelors of Science degree from Strayer University in Washington, D.C., graduating Summa Cum Laude.

Mr. Leask is an American Indian from The Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians and is originally from Cheboygan, Michigan. Now residing in the Charleston, SC area, he is very active in his community, serving as the Chairman of the Board for Rein and Shine, an equine assisted therapy facility serving people with disabilities, as a member of the Board of Directors for Special Olympics South Carolina (SOSC), as a member of the College of Charleston Realizing Educational and Career Hopes (REACH) Program Advisory Board, and as a member of the Lowcountry Special Olympics and Unified Athletics Committees. He is also the Town of Mt. Pleasant Unified and Special Olympics coach for several sports. He was awarded the 2008 Volunteer Coach of the Year and 2007 South Carolina Parent of The Year by the South Carolina Recreation and Parks Association for his work with Unified Athletics and the Special Olympics.

Contact me: Noah.Leask@ishpi.net or 843-329-4100

Lisa Leask – Co-Founder and Vice President

Lisa Leask, Co-Founder and Vice President of ISHPI, is a former U.S. Naval Officer and brings over twenty years of administrative management experience supporting clients in the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. She has held the positions of Executive Officer, Human Resources Manager, Command Administrative Officer, and Office Manager. As Executive Vice President for Human Resources, Finance, and Office Management, she is responsible for day-to-day overall management of ISHPI’s offices, finance, accounting, payroll, and human resources activities.

While on active duty, Ms. Leask was assigned to U.S. Naval Security Group Activity (NSGA), Naples, Italy, as the Joint Operations Communications Lead with the responsibility of supporting the National Security Agency and Global Intelligence Operations. She had a direct impact on operations in the U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM), Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces, Europe (CINCUSNAVEUR), and Commander 6th Fleet (COMSIXTHFLT) Areas of Responsibilities (AORs), working NATO Joint Forces communications to include support to Bosnia, Herzegovina and Somalia. Following her military career, Ms. Leask held the positions of Executive Assistant and Human Resources Assistant at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) providing support to several Senior Corporate Vice Presidents, and as Human Resources Manager at CommIT Enterprises, Inc., Arlington, Virginia, a position in which she gained several years of valuable experience managing a small business.

Ms. Leask is very active in her community. She was recognized as a Girl Scouts of Eastern South Carolina Women of Distinction honoree for Business in 2010 and was the 2009 Volunteer of the Year for the Town of Mount Pleasant Recreation Department. She assists Special Needs students in the local school district, serves in vital leadership roles with the Girl Scouts of America, is Treasurer for a Mount Pleasant Soccer Club (MPSC), is Special Olympics Swim Team coordinator for the Town of Mount Pleasant, and is a member of the Town of Mount Pleasant Unified Athletics committee. Additionally, she is a founding member and serves as Treasurer of the first Women in Defense (WID), Palmetto Chapter in Charleston, South Carolina.

Ms. Leask earned her Bachelor of Science Degree in Political Science from the University of South Carolina in 1991.

Contact me: Lisa.Leask@ishpi.net or 843-329-4100

Michael Beadle – Vice President

Mr. Beadle is a PMP certified Vice President with ISHPI. In his Vice President capacities within ISHPI, Michael oversees the Southwest (SW) and National Capital Region (NCR) operations as well as corporate recruiting and staffing, IT infrastructure, and supports ISHPI’s business development. As the SW and NCR director Mr. Beadle is responsible for the lifecycle management of the programs that span the sum of ISHPI’s core competencies. In his role as recruiting and staffing lead he is responsible for building and maintaining a customized solution for candidate identification and processing and sustaining relationships for future growth. In his role as the Information Technology (IT) infrastructure manager, he has primary responsibility to ensure the accessibility and reliablity of key corporate assets from laptops to SharePoint.

In recent years, Mr. Beadle has served in various roles with large systems integrators in the C5ISR arena providing companies with PMO and Portfolio organizational systems, enterprise level technical planning, and Earned Value Management (EVM) leadership development. During his successful 12-year career, he has developed and implemented strategic business and operations plans leading to substantial growth in revenue and profit. Furthermore, he excelled in creating both the structure and team necessary to guide his current and past programs and companies through the turbulence and uncertainty that accompanies growth. Mr. Beadle has a long successful history in designing and implementing the changes necessary to create successful transitions to scalable Earned Value Management (EVM) enterprise level systems that are cost effective and customizable to the needs of specific client both large and small.

Mr. Beadle is a distinguished graduate of Indiana Institute of Technology in Ft. Wayne, Indiana with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE). He received his Masters of Science, in Systems Engineering (MSSE) with a certificate of Technical Project Management from Johns Hopkins University while participating in Lockheed Martin’s Engineering Leadership Development Program. He is a practiced executioner of 6-sigma as a Greenbelt, and has been an active member of the Washington D.C. Chapter of the Program Management Institute since 2005.

Contact me: Mike.Beadle@ishpi.net or 703-304-2909

Earl D. Bowers – Vice President Corporate Development

Earl D. Bowers, ISHPI’s Vice President of Corporate Development, brings over 30 years of business management experience to ISHPI and is responsible for the execution of the company’s strategic plan as it relates to growth and business development. Working closely with the Board of Directors, Operations, Human Resources, and Finance, he directs and facilitates a companywide approach to business capture planning and execution designed to focus business development efforts on contracts that are consistent with ISHPI's corporate strategy and opportunities that expand ISHPI's core capabilities.

Prior to joining ISHPI, Mr. Bowers served in a variety of high profile Executive Management positions with some of the premier contractors in the Defense Industry, including Director of Business Development for Truestone, LLC, Vice President of Corporate Development for Dataline, General Manager and Managing Partner of pTerex, LLC, Director of Marketing and Sales at PROSOFT, and General Manager of the Mid-Atlantic Division of MILCOM Systems Corporation. Following a distinguished 20 year career in the US Navy and prior to his move to Executive Management, Mr. Bowers held Program Management positions with CACI, Sabre Systems and FCBS, primarily directing large custom software development programs for the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Coast Guard.

Mr. Bowers earned his Masters of Business Administration (MBA) in Management and his Bachelors of Business Administration (BBA) in Computer Information Systems from Texas A&M, graduating as the top student in both programs.

Contact me: Earl.Bowers@ishpi.net or 757-646-8568

Claire Murchison – Director, Human Resources

Claire Murchison was named ISHPI’s Human Resources and Corporate Office Manager in June 2009 and was promoted to Director, Human Resources in February 2010. Ms. Murchison joins ISHPI with a decade of experience on the administrative level. In her role, Ms. Murchison provides company-wide hiring support, conducts new employee indoctrinations, maintains personnel files, manages all employee benefit plans, plays a key role in the development and administration of HR policies and procedures, and oversees day-to-day office management of ISHPI’s headquarters in Mt. Pleasant, SC.

Ms. Murchison began her career at The Price Group, a nationally recognized educational consulting firm in Columbia, SC, as their Intake Director and Psychometrist. Her role involved intake coordination, administration of psychological testing, client invoicing, benefits and payroll administration, staffing, and general office management. She then went on to serve as Director of Admissions at The Carlbrook School, a co-educational boarding school, in Halifax, VA. There, she was responsible for the management of the admissions department, development and maintenance of relationships with referral sources, supervision of the enrollment and acclimation process of the student population, participation in the staffing process, and the development and enactment of school policies on the executive level.

Ms. Murchison earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology in 2000 and a Master of Human Resources degree in 2004, both from the University of South Carolina. White attending graduate school, Ms. Murchison was selected to participate in a highly sought after Human Resources internship at Harcourt Assessment in San Antonio, TX.