Overview

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An experienced technology leader that has designed and built some of the most innovative data science teams in government and industry. Before coming to Interos as the CTO, Noel was CTO of Kensho Technologies, a startup acquired by S&P Global in 2018 in the largest AI focused acquisition to date. While there, Noel led 100 world class engineers producing state of the art machine learning applications for S&P’s four divisions. He previously served over 13 years in the CIA as an intelligence analyst, analytic manager, executive and the first Chief Technology Officer for the Directorate of Support (DS). Mr. Calhoun created and led the first data science & machine learning teams within the Information Operations Center and DS. He was awarded the Directorate’s first Innovator of the Year award in 2016. Noel left the CIA in 2016 to found Koto, Kensho’s incubator for Intelligence Community focused software products. He has a bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering from Auburn University and MA in Security Studies from Georgetown. When he’s not drafting strategy or talking tech, you can find him walking his big dopey English lab named Barry.