Fernando De Leon

Fernando De Leon is the founder and CEO of Leon Capital Group, a holding company that owns $10 billion of assets in healthcare, real estate, and technology. Mr. De Leon is the sole General Partner of over 300 partnerships and subsidiaries across the Leon Capital Group of companies. For 15 years, Leon has been a leader in the real estate development industry, beginning as a modest, privately-owned company and transitioning into a diverse holding company, capable of operating successfully across various geographies and various industries.

In the real estate sector, Leon Capital Group owns and develops multi-family apartments, healthcare facilities, and industrial and logistics warehouses. Its current portfolio includes 12,000 apartments and 10 million square feet of commercial real estate in various markets across the southwestern and southeastern U.S. Additionally, Leon Capital, along with the Perot Companies, co-founded a European Industrial company which currently controls over $3 billion in industrial assets in the European Union.

Mr. De Leon is a co-founder of CREXI, one of the largest digital marketplaces connecting buyers, sellers, landlords and tenants in the commercial real estate sector. Mr. De Leon is also the owner of Mattison Avenue, a salon suites operator with 45 locations and over 1,800 entrepreneurs in its system.

Mr. De Leon and his team founded and currently operate Specialty Dental Brands, the largest specialty dental business in America, with 250 pediatric, orthodontic and oral surgery clinics across 23 states. Additionally, Mr. De Leon founded and operates Frontline Dental Implant Specialists, one of the largest dental implant companies in the U.S.

He is the founder of Physician Directed Partners, an ophthalmology and optometric business that operates surgical facilities in the southeastern United States. Mr. De Leon also founded Turnwell Mental Health Partnership, a consortium of mental health clinics with over 100 clinicians. Additionally, Mr. De Leon is the founder of Advanced Med Aesthetic Partners, the leading operator of medical aesthetic clinics in the United States.

Mr. De Leon began his career as an analyst at Goldman, Sachs & Co in New York. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, from Harvard College, where he was a Hoover Foundation Scholar and a National Coca Cola Scholar. The De Leon Family foundation focuses its work on educational initiatives in Texas and poverty in northern Mexico. The De Leon Scholars program makes scholarship awards to twenty students annually across the state of Texas, who endeavor to improve their communities.