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 Contact:
Email: leo3@linbeck.com
Office
Room #321
Mailstop: 531
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 five, and President and CEO of Aquinas Corporation, LLC, the parent company of ten values-driven enterprises: construction and development management, stone and masonry installation, turnkey concrete structures, strategy consulting, patented products for the highway construction industry, medical products manufacturing, life science preventure technology development and healthcare real estate development. Since Leo joined the leadership team at the company, its annual revenues have grown from $40 million to over $500 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.
In addition, Leo teaches MBAs as an adjunct professor at both Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Management and Stanford's Graduate School of Business where he serves as Lecturer and MBA Class of 1979 Lecturer for 2008-2009.
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 is also very involved with KIPP and has been leading KIPP:Houston to formulate a bold strategic growth plan.
Leo serves on the Boards of Chantal Cookware, Free Enterprise Institute, Houston Technology Center, Holocaust Museum Houston, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, and Young Presidents Organization, Houston Chapter and is a member of the University of Texas Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Department External Advisory Committee, the Positive Coaching Alliance National Advisory Board and the Rice University Centennial Campaign Cabinet.
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