Leo brings a diverse business background shaped by hands-on experience across multiple industries. His work experience has included:
- Managing and operating small farms (fruits and vegetables, beef, swine, sheep, orchards, draft horses, maple syrup, and Christmas trees)
- Economic development in state and municipal government
- Real estate management and development
- Serving as a cost accountant in a shipyard
- Working as a small-town patrolman
- Restaurant work as a dishwasher and short-order cook
- Logging and woodcutting
- Teaching as a college professor and high school instructor (driver’s education, business, and social studies)
- Operating as a licensed securities broker/dealer (stocks, options, futures, forex, and insurance)
- Starting the first cannabis cultivation, retail, and edible production in Maine
Education
PhD Finance, MBA Finance & Management, BA Psychology/Education, Graduate certificate Innovation Engineering.
His passions center on business development, trading, and agriculture. Outside of work, Leo enjoys traveling by motorcycle, near and far.