Mr. Leeds is the founder and President of the Paragon Group, a search and consulting firm addressing executive recruitment and talent needs nationally. He brought a unique methodology to the industry and his firm’s clients that is still a rarity today.

Upon graduating, he joined a NYSE Member firm as broker where he was promoted to Regional Manager over the Mid Atlantic states and firm Principal with 40 offices, B2B sales of clearing services, and teaching operations and sales courses to client banks, credit unions, and NASD member firms.

From there, Mr. Leeds founded a partnership to develop, acquire, and operate specialty retail addressing the needs and wants of an under-served demographic within the Washington DC and Baltimore markets as well as a small wholesale and manufacturers rep operation serving small retailers nationally.

It is as a merchant that Mr. Leeds found a strong need to develop his recruiting skills. He sought out and received his primary recruiting training from Manhattan based retail recruiting veterans.

Capitalizing on his initial success in recruiting for the partnership and a taste and enthusiasm for it, he went a step further, eschewing the traditional recruiting methods taught and practiced since the 1950’s and married much of his financial sales and consulting experience to create a new recruiting paradigm. This proved to be highly successful, building a bond between the recruiter, clients, and candidates — the Paragon Group was born and began serving the talent search needs of clients nationally in the middle management to senior executive levels.

Mr. Leeds actively works a desk to this day. His style is no-nonsense, doesn’t want to hear the word “can’t”, just "how". He is known for telling clients and candidates the unvarnished truth; whether they want to hear it or not.

Married with 5 children, he resides in Virginia's Northern Shenandoah Valley. His undergraduate and graduate education is in finance from the George Washington University and Marymount University of Virginia. He is a partner in a residential real estate investment company and serves as an adviser to an industrial instrumentation software company.

Mr. Leeds is also an active volunteer in several non-profit organizations.