I’m Noah Landow, and I spend my time leading value driven organizations, solving organizational and technical challenges, and pursuing esoteric disciplines that keep me curious.

In the mid-1990s I founded Macktez, a technology consulting firm that helps innovative companies navigate periods of great change. We work with an amazing group of non-profits, startups, and creative companies.

I firmly believe that event at its best technology is only half the equation. The other half is listening, learning, and understanding what people need and building systems and organizations to meet those needs.

Beyond Macktez, I’m drawn to leadership roles in compelling institutions.

I serve as board president of UnionDocs, a center for documentary art that generates and shares big ideas through screenings, panels, discussions, and collaborative studio programs. We moved from Williamsburg to Queens, bought a building, and are just finishing up a huge capital campaign and building-wide renovation.

I’m also a founding board member of The Victorian Web Foundation, a non-profit that supports the longest running website on Victorian arts and culture on the internet; it dates back to 1988, and contains over a hundred thousand pages.

At Macktez, I lead a team that helps forward-thinking companies solve their toughest technology problems. Whether it’s systems architecture, team building, or strategic planning, I approach each challenge as both a technical and organizational problem. I also host our in person event series, Tête-à-Tech.

My board work at UnionDocs and The Victorian Web comes from a deep commitment to institutions that create space for serious thinking and cultural exploration.

These aren’t just boards I sit on — they’re communities I’ve invested decades in building.

I study and teach Aikijujitsu Daito-ryu, a traditional Japanese martial art (or Koryu) from which Aikido derived. I hold the rank of Yondan (fourth degree black belt). Studying this style requires humble modesty, endless curiosity, and and appreciation for the peculiar proclivities of the human body.

Over the years, I studied Architecture (undergrad) at Yale, designed jewelry under the name Ligament, photographed and hosted social events as TDG (and wrote a book on etiquette), and studied silversmithing at Buck’s Rock summer camp. These pursuits are all connected through my love of physical handwork and craft, a desire to help bring beautiful things into the world, an appreciation for materiality and love of the way sincere materials show age and change over time.

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