Transforming and growing technology businesses

Leon Sandler Profile

Leon Sandler is a high energy business leader who combines action and insight. He has a track record of transforming businesses and finding the leverage, and taking the business to the next level. He has taken businesses that are in trouble, or emerging, and turned them into successful ventures.

Achievements include:

• Turned around Texas Instruments’ Consumer Electronics Division from a loss of $600 million to profitability
• Spun a team of engineers out of Boeing, raised $7 million and created an industrial laser company, Nuvonyx
• Helped over 20 early stage companies. Some notable successes are FutureTense (sold for $125 million), MKE (sold for $10 million), HNC (IPO at $300 million)

Mr. Sandler has over 25 years of experience in the management of technology companies and provides seasoned business judgment. He was the CEO of several start-ups and has assisted many other ventures as an interim executive or advisor. These businesses were in software, hardware, imaging, sensors, medical devices, services.

Prior to founding the Monmouth Group Leon Sandler held general management, marketing, finance and business development positions at Digital Equipment, Eastman Kodak, and Texas Instruments and was a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group. He started his career as a chemical engineer working for ICI Ltd.

He holds a BS and MS in Chemical Engineering from Natal University in South Africa, and a MBA from the Stanford Business School. He is the inventor of the Texas Instruments Financial Investment Analyst calculator and a recipient of the Wall Street Journal Finance Award.

Mr. Sandler is a mentor at the MIT Venture Mentoring Service and active in organizing programs for the MIT Enterprise Forum.