Leo S. Spiegel

Leo S. Spiegel ’83 has been involved in over 50 start-ups and 25 successful exits including several public market transactions. He is the Managing Partner at Spiegel Capital Management provides investments to promising start-up companies. Leo also runs the Hunter Madison Group which provides strategic consulting including venture capital, private equity, corporate development, mergers and acquisitions, business execution and Board of Director services.

Leo was one of the six-person team that formed Pivotal (PVTL). During most of his time at Pivotal, he ran corporate development and strategy. He led the effort of many key initiatives including company formation, all private funding rounds, the formation of the Cloud Foundry Foundation and many customer and partner relationships. Leo was President of Digital Island. Leo joined Digital Island due to a merger with Sandpiper Networks, where he was Chairman and CEO. In 2000, Leo won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area. Prior to Sandpiper Networks, Leo served as SVP and CTO of Donnelley Enterprise Solutions Incorporated. Leo was the co-founder, EVP, and CTO of LANSystems, which was sold to Intel Corporation and R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company. Leo started his first company, Integrated Analysis, while in college. He merged Integrated Analysis with LANSystems.

Leo is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego.  Leo is a Trustee of the UC San Diego Foundation where he is the Chair of the Trustee Recruitment and Engagement Committee and is a member of the International Leadership Committee, Campaign for UC San Diego. He is a member of the Dean's Advisory Council at the Rady School of Management at UC San Diego. He is also the Immediate Past Board Chair of the Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego.