LEADERSHIP

Blake Apel joined Dataprise’s Board of Directors in December 2019. As a Partner at Trinity Hunt, Mr. Apel serves on the firm’s Investment Committee and leads investment evaluation activities in the IT Services industry. Mr. Apel also sits on the Board of Directors of Improving, which provides outsourced custom software development services to Fortune 500 and mid-market clients across the US and Canada. Blake currently sits on the Board of three additional Trinity Hunt portfolio companies.

Mr. Apel began his career at Trinity Hunt in 2007. His responsibilities include deal sourcing, deal execution, and portfolio company growth initiatives. Before joining the firm, Blake worked in management consulting at Bain & Company where he focused on corporate strategy, operations, and other value-creation projects. Mr. Apel has investment experience in the IT services, legal services, and healthcare industries, among others.

Mr. Apel graduated magna cum laude from Vanderbilt University with a BA in Economics, and received his MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he was awarded the Elfman-Wareham Private Equity Fellowship.

David Eisner founded Dataprise in 1995 and led its growth from tiny technology start-up through becoming a recognized leader in providing managed IT services to small and medium-size businesses nationwide.

In 2019, Mr. Eisner led Dataprise through a successful transaction with Trinity Hunt Partners. In 2020, after twenty-five years of leadership, Mr. Eisner transitioned to the company’s Board of Directors where he remains a strategic advisor focused on growth related initiatives.

Mr. Eisner is a past recipient of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award® and the Tech Council of Maryland’s Executive of the Year award. Mr. Eisner has also been named to the MSPmentor’s 250 Top People in Managed Services. In 2015, Mr. Eisner wrote Build Your Business Not Your IT Department: A Guide to Selecting the Right Technology Partner, a guidebook for small to medium-sized business on how to select the right IT partner. The book is available at Amazon.com. In 2018, Mr. Eisner was honored with the inaugural MSP 501 Lifetime Achievement Award from Channel Futures.

Mr. Eisner holds both a bachelor's and master's degree in computer science from the University of Maryland and The Johns Hopkins University, respectively. He is an alumnus of the Entrepreneurs' Organization and a member emeritus of the Board of Visitors for the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences at the University of Maryland.

John Martin joined Dataprise’s Board of Directors in January 2022. As a Vice President, Mr. Martin is responsible for supporting deal sourcing and execution as well as portfolio company growth initiatives. He joined Trinity Hunt in 2018 after working for Piper Jaffray & Co. in the Diversified Industrials & Services Group, where he focused on mergers and acquisitions across a variety of sectors including business services, transportation and logistics, specialty manufacturing, and building products.

John is actively involved in the portfolio management of Dataprise, Aperture, Improving, IMS ExpertServices, Juris Medicus, Lone Star Fasteners, MainStreet, Miller Environmental, Unity MSK and Exclusive Concepts. He received his B.S. in Accounting and Business Administration cum laude from Washington and Lee University.

Larry Goldberg is serving as Senior Vice President for Ensono, a leading provider of Hybrid IT Managed Services.  Larry currently leads Ensono’s global advisory and consulting practice. He is responsible for advising clients on their digital and IT transformation journeys while providing efficient project execution to deliver client outcomes.  During his career at Ensono, Larry also served as SVP of the Global Pre Sales Solution Architecture team as well the Global Sales and Business Operations function.  Larry is passionate about being a relentless client ally and providing client-driven business outcomes – ensuring the personal and professional success of our clients. He joined Ensono in 2017 with more than 25 years of outsourcing, consulting, and sales and business operations experience.  Prior to Ensono, Larry had long work tenures at MCI and Oracle, coupled with experiences at Savvis/Centurylink and IBM.  Larry received a B.S. in Business Management from the University of Maryland at College Park and holds an M.B.A. in International Business from the American University.  

Lisa Noon is a senior management executive and experienced certified corporate director with 40+ years of experience scaling and transforming high-growth, high-tech global businesses utilizing emerging technologies, innovative go-to-market strategies, operating model transformation and diversity-sensitive talent management strategies.  Her background includes Senior Managing Director, COO, CTO, Vice President, community and non-profit Director and private company advisory board roles in traditional, start-up, rapid-growth and regulated enterprises. She is a recognized leader in developing the next generation of women leaders across Cloud, AI and Cyber.  Lisa is a proven operating executive with portfolios ranging from $5M to billions in revenue across over 100 countries and staff in 21 time zones. 

Lisa serves as one of two Independent Board Members at Dataprise, a PE-owned IT Service Management firm in the US.  As a strong advocate for corporate governance, risk management, and stakeholder engagement, she leverages her deep knowledge of technology (Cloud, AI, Cyber, etc) to enhance operational performance and ensure alignment with long-term objectives. 

She retired from Deloitte where she was a Senior Managing Director for Deloitte Consulting LLP. serving as the COO of the US Alphabet Google practice and co-led Deloitte’s Healthcare sector business.  During her tenure Deloitte’s US sell-with business grew from $8M to $400M and $4M to $75M respectively while Google Cloud’s increased from $4B to over $40B.   This role is her 6th role as a leader in developing and scaling high-growth technology businesses starting with IBM.  Lisa leveraged her previous experience to design Deloitte’s partner alliance go-to-market and practice management (talent) operating models then led the management of the business to scale while engaging with clients to advise, implement, and operate Cloud and AI solutions with enterprise and technology risk, security, and ethics in mind.   While doing, she designed, developed and integrated innovative talent and training programs to scale rapidly with improved outcomes.  She routinely advises clients evaluating strategies to transform their technology and talent (e.g. in-sourcing vs outsourcing, cloud vs data center, alliance partnerships) and implement solutions that leverage the latest technology to do things they cannot do today (e.g. Big Data, AI, Mixed Reality).   

Previous to Deloitte, Lisa built the Google Cloud business at Accenture, after a successful exit from a startup that she co-founded.  While at IBM, Lisa went from strategy roles to operating roles then back again in the course of designing three global programs to dramatically grow the business with new technology.  One of those programs (Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)) took a high-margin software portfolio from $30M to $4.4B over four years with a $155M investment.  Her earlier years were spent as a technologist in financial services where she was active in M&A due diligence and integration and technology strategy while developing and implementing mission-critical applications supporting $3T USD per day.  

She has served on several non-profit  boards, including service as committee chair of CloudGirls.org and Vice-chair of Liberty Education Forum.  She is currently an Advisory Board member of RackN and Ignite Worldwide.  She was sponsored by Deloitte for the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Accelerate program where she certified as a corporate director (NACD.DC).  Her board service is further supported by corporate governance training from Northwestern Kellogg and Deloitte’s Board Preparedness program.   

Lisa attended Allegheny College on an athletic scholarship and earned her AAS in Computer Science from Jamestown Community College.  She has multiple IT-related certifications including Open Group Master IT Architect TOGAF, Cloud Computing, and AI.  Lisa lives in a restored mid-century modern home, has two dogs and enjoys cooking, entertaining, competitive cycling, and skiing.  Lisa maintains her real estate license in the state of Florida and enjoys golf as a member of Fort Lauderdale Country Club where she serves as the Vice-president of the Women’s Golf Association and is a member of the Long Range Planning Committee.  

Chip Register joined the Dataprise Board of Directors in 2023. Chip is the CEO of Argano, a next-generation business and technology services provider that builds the Digital Foundations™ that make businesses run better. He is responsible for providing end-to-end digital solutions to help clients transform business operations and optimize their competitive position.

Previously, Chip served on the Executive Board of Publicis Groupe, one of the three largest media and communications holding companies in the world, and Co-CEO of Publicis Sapient, its digital transformation division. He joined Publicis Groupe when it acquired Sapient Corporation in 2015. At Sapient, he was CEO of Sapient Consulting, one of its two operating divisions focused on industry-led consulting and IT services.

In 2010, he was named one of the Top 25 Consultants in the World by Consulting Magazine.

Chip also serves on several Boards of Directors and Advisory Boards for companies innovating enterprise and consumer technologies and services.