Daniel Leeds is the president of Fulcrum Investments LLC, a private investment office.

Until 1999, Mr. Leeds was president of International Publishing and a member of the Office of the President at CMP Media, Inc, a leading media company, publishing titles such as InformationWeek, Computer Reseller News and Electronic Engineering Times. The company was cited as "One of the Best Companies to Work For" by Fortune magazine and Working Women magazine.

From his office in Paris, Mr. Leeds created and managed CMP's international business, which grew to over seventy licensed, wholly owned, and joint ventured magazines and websites covering over thirty countries. When CMP was sold in 1999, it had sales of nearly $500 million and 1800 employees.

Since moving to Washington, DC in 1999, Mr. Leeds has been active in civic affairs, with a particular interest in public policy development and philanthropy. He is a member of the Dean's Advisory Board for the MIT Sloan School of Management, a member of the Brookings Institute's Business Council and an advisory board member of the Brookings Institute's Center for the United States and Europe. With his wife, Sunita, he cochairs the Enfranchisement Foundation, which works with charities to develop programs that can help break the cycle of poverty and ignorance.

Mr. Leeds earned a master's degree from the MIT Sloan School of Management as a Sloan Fellow, a BS in engineering and a BA in economics from Cornell University. Mr. Leeds and his wife have four children.