After 25 years in the newspaper business as a reporter, page designer and senior editor, Noel Nash joined ESPN to help create the Stats & Analysis Team in 2006. In 2015 he became Vice President of the Stats & Information Group - a staff of more than 200 part- and full-time employees around the globe who generated unique and differentiating content across all media platforms. Noel left ESPN in 2017, and purchased The Chronicle in February 2019. He and his wife Dee Dee have a son, Benjamin, who lives in Connecticut, and a daughter, Melissa, who lives in Salem, Ore.