Claire Lewis (Yum) Arnold serves as Executive Chair & Co-Founder at Leapfrog Services, a managed IT and cybersecurity provider in Atlanta, GA, leading its work across Managed IT Services, Cybersecurity & Threat Protection, and Cloud Services & Migration.
Claire Lewis (Yum) Arnold co-founded Leapfrog in 1998 and serves as its Executive Chair, bringing experience in high-growth business development and long-range strategic planning. She is focused on enabling clients to securely fulfill their mission through highly serviced technology.
Before starting Leapfrog, she acquired a local distributor of consumer goods through a leveraged buy-out and spent the next 15 years building it into one of Georgia's five largest privately held companies, expanding it as CEO from a single-warehouse distributor into a corporation with nine operating divisions. Earlier, she spent nearly 10 years with Coca-Cola USA in marketing, sales, sales management, and long-range planning.
She has served on numerous boards, including six NYSE-listed firms, and held leadership roles such as Chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and President and Chair of the Rotary Club of Atlanta. Her many recognitions include 2002 Entrepreneur of the Year from the Metropolitan Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and Atlanta Business Chronicle, 2014 Most Admired CEO in the Technology Sector, and induction into the JA Atlanta Business Hall of Fame.
Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and a Doctor of Humane Letters from Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, Virginia; attended sessions at Harvard Business School through YPO and CEO
CEO of a consumer goods distributor (acquired via leveraged buy-out), Marketing, sales, sales management and long-range planning roles, Coca-Cola USA
2002 Entrepreneur of the Year, Metropolitan Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and Atlanta Business Chronicle, 2004 Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans Award for outstanding performance as a corporate director, 2006 inductee, YWCA Academy of Women, 2009 Armin Maier Community Service Award, Rotary Club of Atlanta, 2014 Most Admired CEO in the Technology Sector, Atlanta Business Chronicle, 2014 Turknette Servant Leadership Character Award, 2018 Changing the World Award, Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta, Atlanta Business Chronicle Women of Influence 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award
