Leo Linbeck serves as President and CEO of Aquinas Companies, LLC. Aquinas’ unusual structure and business practices have 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 to charitable causes. Additionally, Leo teaches MBAs at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business where he serves as a Lecturer and is a former adjunct professor at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business. Leo graduated from the University of Notre Dame with two bachelor degrees, one in Civil Engineering and one in the Program of Liberal Studies. He has a Master’s Degree in Structural Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Leo is very involved with PreK-12 education reform, especially the expansion of high-performing charter schools serving low-income communities. He helped create REEP (the Rice Education Entrepreneurship Program), a businessschool-based program for developing school leaders and currently serves as its
Chairman. Leo is also on the boards of several educational, community and nonprofit organizations.
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Location: Linbeck Offices 3900 Essex Lane, Suite 1200, 77027
