Phil Noble

Phil Noble Jr. (born May 17, 1951, Greenville, South Carolina) is an American entrepreneur and speaker in technology and the civic sector.

Phil Noble
Personal details
Born (1951-05-17) May 17, 1951
Greenville, South Carolina, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
EducationPresbyterian College
Jacksonville State University
Birmingham-Southern College (BSc)
Stockholm University

Biography

Growing up in Anniston, Alabama, Noble’s father, J. Phillips Noble, a Presbyterian minister, was involved in the civil rights movement during Gov. George Wallace’s tenure as Alabama governor. FBI files indicate Noble’s father was a top target of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan.[1]

After graduating from Tennessee Military Institute in 1969, Noble attended several colleges and universities, graduating from Birmingham-Southern College in 1974.[2]

Working in politics and technology

For his work, in 2001, Noble was chosen as a Resident Fellow of the Harvard Institute of Politics of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.[2]

gollark: You know what they say, gibson, "if it compiles it works".
gollark: It's idiomatic C because the compiler doesn't complain.
gollark: ```c#include <stdint.h>#include <stddef.h>static uintptr_t MEMPOS = 1;void* malloc(size_t size) { uintptr_t bees = MEMPOS; MEMPOS += size; return (void*)bees;}void free(void* ptr) { *(char**)ptr = "hello please do not use this address";}```
gollark: Okay, all I need is... approximately 100 billion £, and I can probably solve it, then.
gollark: Hmm.

References
  1. Noble, P: Beyond the Burning Bus: The Civil Rights Revolution in a Southern Town, page 107. NewSouth Books, 2003.
  2. Harvard former fellows Retrieved 7 September 2010
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