Dr. Patrick DeSouza


Patrick DeSouza, J.D., Ph.D.
President

Joining Leeb Capital Management, Inc. as President in 2008, Dr. DeSouza brings leadership experience that reinforce our capabilities to deliver first-tier performance long-term. Dr. DeSouza is also CEO of the Plain Sight Group, a technology holding company centered at Yale University with various investments in private companies. Plain Sight and its team of Yale scientists have been working with Leeb Capital to develop next generation quantitative tools to provide Leeb Capital an analytic edge. In addition to Plain Sight, Pat has twenty years of experience in investment banking and practicing securities law. Over the course of his career, Pat has significant experience with respect to billions of dollars of M&A and corporate finance Dr. DeSouza has also served at the White House as Director for Inter-American Affairs on the National Security Council.  In addition to several articles on economic policy, he is the author of Economic Strategy and National Security (Westview 2000) which includes contributions from former senior members of the Bush and Clinton Admnistrations.  He is currently a visiting lecturer at the Yale Law School where he teaches a course on global wealth management. Dr. DeSouza is a graduate of Columbia College, Yale Law School and Stanford Graduate School where he wrote his doctoral dissertation on foreign investment in the United States.  He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.