Charles Noski
Charles H. Noski | |
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| Born | August 23, 1952 Eureka, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Business executive |
| Known for | Chairman of Wells Fargo & Company, CFO of AT&T, Bank of America, Northrop Grumman; director at Microsoft |
Charles H. Noski (born August 23, 1952, in Eureka, California) held the position of Chairman of the Board at Wells Fargo & Company from March 2020 until August 2021. His executive career includes serving as CFO for AT&T, Bank of America, and Northrop Grumman, along with his role as director and audit committee chairman at Microsoft.
Education
In 1973, Noski obtained a bachelor's degree in business administration from California State University, Northridge. While employed full-time at Hughes Electronics, he completed a master's degree in accounting in 1995. The university later honored him with an honorary doctorate in 2007.
Career
Noski started his professional journey at the accounting firm Haskins & Sells (currently known as Deloitte & Touche) in 1973, achieving partnership status by 1983. He transitioned to Hughes Electronics Corporation in 1990 as corporate vice president and controller, progressing to senior vice president and CFO in 1992, then vice chairman in 1996, followed by president and COO.
Between 1999 and 2002, he served as senior executive vice president and CFO at AT&T Corporation, advancing to vice chairman of the board in 2002. From 2003 to 2005, Noski was corporate vice president and CFO at Northrop Grumman Corporation and held a director seat there from 2002 through 2005. After joining Microsoft's board of directors in 2003, he became executive vice president and CFO of Bank of America Corporation in 2010, was promoted to vice chairman in 2011, and retired in 2012.
Following retirement, Noski has contributed as a board member for companies such as Microsoft, Avon Products, Booking Holdings Inc, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Wells Fargo. His directorships have also included firms like Air Products & Chemicals, Automatic Data Processing, Avery Dennison, and Morgan Stanley.
He served as chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Financial Accounting Foundation from 2016 to 2019 and maintains affiliations with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Financial Executives International. In 2019, he joined the Independent Audit Quality Committee at Ernst & Young. Additionally, Noski is a former chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council under the FASB and participated on the Standing Advisory Group of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. His distinguished career earned him induction into the Financial Executives International Hall of Fame in 2006 and inclusion in the American Accounting Association’s Accounting Hall of Fame in 2021.