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 Contact:
Email: leo3@linbeck.com
Office
Room #321
Mailstop:
Phone: 713-348-3856 |
Teaching Areas:
Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Individual Investors Affiliations:
Adjunct Professor
Jones Graduate School of Management
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| Education:
| B.A. (1984) University of Notre Dame | | B.S. (1984) University of Notre Dame | | M.S. (1987) University of Texas at Austin | | M.B.A. (1994) Stanford Graduate School of Business |
Bio Statement:
Leo is a husband, father of four, and President and CEO of Aquinas Corporation, the parent company of six values-driven enterprises: construction and development management, stone and masonry installation, strategy consulting, patented products for the highway construction industry, medical products manufacturing, and life science preventure technology development. Since Leo joined the leadership team at the company, its annual revenues have grown from $40 million to over $300 million. Aquinas' unusual structure and business practices has inspired tremendous employee loyalty, with an average tenure among senior managers of more than 20 years, as well as making a significant community impact through an annual tithe of its net income.
Leo teaches MBAs as an adjunct faculty member at Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Management and Stanford's Graduate School of Business.
Leo graduated from University of Notre Dame with two bachelor degrees, one in Civil Engineering and one in Great Books. He then went on to graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin, earning a Master's in Structural Engineering. Some years later, he attended Stanford's MBA program, where he graduated as the only student in the history of the GSB to be both Valedictorian and winner of the Arbuckle Award (the person voted by his classmates to have made the greatest contribution to the school). While at Stanford, he was Chair of the Academic Committee and founder of the Global Management Program, one of two certificate programs at the GSB.
Leo recently created the Houston Life Science Technology Entrepreneurship Institute (Holstein) which is training the next generation of biotech entrepreneurs. Holstein accepted its first fellow this year and expects to grow to more than five fellows over the next couple of years.
Leo is also very involved with KIPP, the best charter school program in the U.S. He has been leading the effort at KIPP:Houston to formulate a bold strategic growth plan.
Leo serves on the Boards of the St. Thomas High School Foundation, Chantal Cookware, Free Enterprise Institute and Young Presidents Organization, Houston Chapter.
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