Leo has had a wide-ranging career often involved with businesses or industries in startup mode or navigating major changes. Just after college he worked with the Solar Energy Research Institute – predecessor to the National Renewable Energy Lab on projects related to energy consumption in large commercial and industrial buildings and spent a few years practicing architecture and designing energy efficient buildings.

A detour to an MBA then lead to a series of adventures ranging from starting passenger ferry service between NYC and NJ, growing a specialty cheese business on a small island off the south coast of Australia, a stint in the Industrial/Automotive battery business, the startup of the first main stream e-book publishing business and more recently the development of institutional scale wood fired CHP facilities.

Leo now consults from his home office in Sandwich.

Leo holds a Masters of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School, a Masters of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Arts major in Architecture from Washington University in Saint Louis.

Leo serves on the Board of the Squam Lakes Conservation Trust and has previously served as a Selectman in the town of Sandwich and a member of the Sandwich Planning Board.