Chapman Gleason started Mission Laptops in November 2009 after a conversation with his daughter's father-in-law, a executive director of a mission board, over 34 missionary families. The question was simple, "How many of your missionaries had laptops?" The initial response was only a few. After contacting all 34 missionary families, 20 missionaries didn't have laptops and Mission Laptops was born.
Chapman Gleason retired from US government service in 2013. He was lead technical project manager for wireless networks and remote access for EPA for over twenty years.
Mission Laptops is based in Lynchburg, Virginia. When Chap isn't dabbling in computer parts, he's making a salad with every vegetable you can imagine or playing cribbage with his wife, Cecelia.