Howard Leonard

Mr. Leonard is the Founder and CEO of Stewardship Partners Investment Counsel, Inc. located in Charlotte, North Carolina. Stewardship Partners is an investment manager dedicated to helping Christian investors. Prior to forming Stewardship Partners, Mr. Leonard was Executive Vice President of Templeton Investment Counsel, Inc. During his 10+ years at Templeton Mr. Leonard served on the firm’s Portfolio Management Committee and managed $3.5 billion of mutual fund and separate account assets in both global and international mandates. Mr. Leonard played an important role in the success and rapid growth that Templeton’s institutional business enjoyed during the 1990’s and was regularly ranked by his colleagues at Templeton as one of the firm’s top securities analysts. Prior to joining Templeton in 1989, Mr. Leonard served as the Director of Investment Research for First Pennsylvania Bank and earlier as a securities analyst at Provident National Bank. Mr. Leonard’s career in the investment business actually began at the age of 19 when he became a licensed stock broker. He received his CFA designation in 1984, one of the youngest ever to receive this prestigious designation. Mr. Leonard also owns and serves as CEO of the Biblically Responsible Investing Institute, Inc. Mr. Leonard and his wife Carol founded a non-profit ministry, Wall Watchers, in 1998. Wall Watchers provides insightful research reports on Christian ministries for use by current and prospective donors to those organizations (www.MininstryWatch.com). Mr. Leonard is a graduate of Temple University (BBA with a double major in Finance and Economics, 1981). At Temple, Mr. Leonard served as Vice President of his class, as Ombudsman for the School of Business and won the Financial Executives Institute Award given annually to the Temple’s top finance student. Rusty and Carol have three children, Derek (21), Amy (19) and Jessina (15) and have been active homeschoolers. The Leonard’s currently reside in Chester Springs, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, and attend Calvary Fellowship Church.