Leopoldo E. Guzman
Founder, President and CEO
Guzman & Company
Leo Guzman is the president and CEO of Guzman & Company, an investment banking
and institutional brokerage firm headquartered in Coral Gables, Florida, which he
founded in 1987. Guzman & Company is a member of the New York Stock Exchange
and other exchanges.
Prior to founding Guzman & Company, Mr. Guzman was for three years chief investment
officer of Gulf Investments Company, a large, publicly held investment company in Kuwait.
From 1980 to 1982, Mr. Guzman was in the mergers and acquisitions group of the
Chase Manhattan Bank in New York City. From 1976 to 1980, he was a member of
the corporate finance department of Lazard Freres & Company in New York City.
Mr. Guzman received a BS in operations research from the School of Engineering and
Applied Science of Columbia University in 1969 and his MBA from the Stanford Graduate
School of Business in 1971. He is the recipient of the 2002 Jerry I. Porras Award for
Outstanding Achievement at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
In 2005, he was appointed by President George W. Bush to a three-year term in the advisory
committee of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.
He also is a member of the board of visitors of the School of Engineering and Applied
Science at Columbia University. Mr. Guzman is a member of the steering committee
of the Master in Financial Engineering program at Columbia University, a member
and director of the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance, and a member
of the Chicago Quantitative Alliance.