Business
Profile: William S. Parrish CEO and founder of NobleStrategy
William S. Parrish (pictured), started his construction management firm NobleStrategy in 2002 while working full-time and hasn’t looked back since. For 20 years, he has ridden the ups and downs of business ownership.
Parrish grew up in East Orange, N.J., and was always fascinated by the construction industry — not so much by the man in the hole doing the hard labor as by the guy in the tie who carried a clipboard and all the plans and papers.
He obtained a bachelor’s degree in building construction technology from Hampton University, where he met fraternity brother Ceylon Frett, and a master’s in management of technology at Polytechnic University of New York. Prior to launching NobleStrategy in 2002, he headed the Newark Public Schools’ Office of Design and Construction, where he created an implementation strategy for the school district’s long-range facility needs. He also executed school construction programs for the NYC School Construction Authority, where he managed the planning and construction of two public schools in Queens.
