About Me

  • Name:Ryan Leonard
  • Email:[email protected]
  • Website:https://ryanl.info
  • Address:Ocean City, NJ

Finally Quit $dayjob

IYKYK - Details to follow :}

My Resume

  • Work Experience

  • Venture Investor

    Pre-Seed Through Secondary

    More on this coming soon...

  • Consultant / Advisor

    Various - 2015 - Current

    I get to work with my friends to parachute-in to some very interesting problems; mostly in fintech/medtech at the moment.

  • Chief Infomation Officer

    FXCM - 2012 - 2023

    As FXCM's CIO I get the distinct pleasure to work with some of the most intelligent, dedicated people in the financial services industry. Our team designs/builds/supports FXCM’s global IT infrastructure.

  • Director of Production Engineering/CISO

    FXCM - 2008 - 2012

    In charge of design/operation of a global low-latency trading environment for retail and institutional customers.

  • VP of Infrastructure Engineering

    FXCM - 2007 - 2008

    Took over team and budgetary management of the global network and security (3 datacenters, 22 offices).

  • Systems Engineer

    FXCM - 2005 - 2007

    Brought on to aid in the refresh of a Solaris/SPARC trading environment. Built tooling and infrastructure for the modernization effort.

  • Systems Engineer / Information Security Officer

    Dand Connections Inc - 2004

    Summer internship turned part-time job while at school.

  • Hardware/Software Special Projects

    Pictometry/EagleView - 2003 - 2004

    Assembled specialized hardware to be used in modified aircrafts for image collection, scripted back-end server administration.

  • Systems Administrator / Developer

    Universal Supply Co. - 2003

    Implemented OS updating services for 200+ machines at seven locations. Redesigned web-presence, and created an Ecommerce system for 30k products.

  • Network Engineer

    The Datastore / Villanove University - 2002

    Led student team in the complete restructuring of Villanova University's network. Summer of Cisco/3Com/ExtremeNetworks fun.

  • Infrstructure Consultant/Engineer

    ThinkRealTime - 2011 - 2012

    Infrastructure Consultant/Engineer for the machine learning retargeting and optimization display advertising platform. Basically a low-latency RTB play, primarily on Google's DoubleClick Ad Exchange. Comapny exited ~$10.7m to Dealertrack which was aquired by Dealer.com


  • Education

  • B.S. Information Technology

    Rochester Institute of Technology - 2001 - 2005

    Graduated with concentrations in Networking and Systems Administration, and a minor in Criminal Justice. Member of Computer Science House.

  • High School Diploma

    Ocean City High School - 2001

    Graduated with honors.

Investments

Combination of syndicate, and direct investments in what I find to be interesting companies, verticals, and founders. Consider this my thesis tracking.

2015 - Seed

Avail

Originally Rentaluations; helping small/mid landlords.

2016 - Seed

LeoLabs

Dealing with spacejunk in LEO.

2017 - Seed+

LeoLabs

Dealing with spacejunk in LEO.

2018 - Private

PHIflow

Private.

2020 - Series A+

LeoLabs

Dealing with spacejunk in LEO.

2021 - Seed [EQUITY]

Avala

Interesting take on 3D video labeling. Founder/CEO from Tesla Auto Pilot team.

2021 - Pre-Seed [SAFE]

Katalyst.Fit

I don't understand the space, I am a fat nerd, I want to understand the space I think.

2021 - Seed+ [SAFE]

Suavei

IOT enterprise security is an interesting space, took a flyer on this one.

2021 - Series B [EQUITY]

LeoLabs

Dealing with spacejunk in LEO.

2021 - Seed+ [SAFE]

Grain Technology

Credit based on cash flow; not credit score.

2021 - Series B+ [DEBT]

Momentum Dynamics

This is how I want to charge my car, but mass transit...

2021 - Seed [SAFE]

Pair Tree

I am a sucker for this kinda of stuff :]

2021 - Secondary

BitPay

Gotta ride that crypto wave.

2021 - Series A+ [SAFE]

AlphaFlow

Unique look at bringing passive institutional RE investing to retail.

2021 - Seed [SAFE]

Ryze

I hear crypto may be a thing some day?

2021 - Series B+ [DEBT]

Jetty

Why would you rent and not build cretit?

2021 - Seed [SAFE]

Ruumr

Interesting concept to flip the home-buying process.

2021 - Pre-Seed [SAFE]

Melier

Wine.

2021 - Seed [EQUITY]

Sekr

Millenials/Gen-YXZ all heading to the woods.

2021 - Series A [EQUITY]

SecurityPal

Personal pain point; seems silly, but color me intrigued.

2021 - Series E [EQUITY]

American Gene Technologies

Fix humans.

2021 - Seed [SAFE]

Katalyst.Fit

I don't understand the space, I am a fat nerd, I want to understand the space I think.

2021 - Seed+ [EQUITY]

TapRm

BEER ME!

2021 - Secondary

Shippo

I don't know if I love the product, the company, or the founder more.

2021 - Series B [EQUITY]

GreenPark Sports

Metaverse, but focused on the sportsfan. Founding team is LEGIT.

Contact Me!

Always interested in a chat :]

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