Michael S Leeds

Leeds is the president and founder of FlightStar, Inc., a Long Island (NY) aircraft management firm. Until 1999 Michael was president and CEO of CMP Media, Inc., one of the leading media companies focused on technology, computers and the Internet. He earned his BS in business administration from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1974. In 2001 he led his family’s endowment of the University of Colorado’s College of Business efforts to increase academic excellence, expand its curriculum emphasis on social responsibility, and increase diversity. Leeds is a trustee of the North Shore Long Island Jewish Hospital System, one of the largest healthcare systems in the world, Vice Chairman of the Institute for Student Achievement, an organization dedicated to the success of youth at risk, and a director of the Kenya Education Fund as well as Karma 411.