Fernando De Leon

Fernando De Leon is the founder and CEO of Leon Capital Group, a holding company that oversees $6 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. In the real estate sector, Leon Capital Group owns and develops multi-family apartments, as well as industrial and logistics warehouses. Its current development pipeline includes 10,000 apartments and 4 million square feet 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 35 locations. He is the founder of Physician Directed Partners, an ophthalmology and optometric business that operates 20 medical facilities. Leon Capital Group also owns and operates Frontline Dental Implants, as well as Specialty Dental Brands, a pediatric dental, orthodontic and oral surgery company with 160 clinics across the U.S. 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 National Coca Cola Scholar. The De Leon Family foundation focuses its work on educational initiatives in Texas and northern Mexico.