Leonard M. Levie

Leonard M. Levie is the Chairman and Founder of American Industrial Acquisition Corporation and the AIAC Foundation Inc. As such, he is also Chairman of AIAC’s subsidiaries or affiliates, including Arnprior Aerospace, Avara Pharmaceutical Services, BeLink Solutions, Bradford Space, Champlain Cable, Canadian Kraft Paper Industries, Combi Wear Parts, Consolidated Industries, D2A, Epalia, Eurofoil, Forte Micro, Gecoe, Holophane, IP3 Plastics, Lenape Forged Products, Malaga Aerospace Defense Electronic Systems, Metallwarenfabrik Gemminger, Neotiss, Shriro Group, SuperAlloy Manufacturing Solutions, Titanium Fabrication Corporation, Umbilicals International, and Vermont Aerospace Industries. In addition, he previously served as Chairman of former AIAC units, including All Circuits, Amnitech, JST Transformateur, MCI, and Sodiamex.

Mr. Levie has been a guest lecturer at the Harvard Business School, the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, the Association for Corporate Growth, and the Turnaround Management Association. In addition, he served as a panelist with the Hon. Fabius Laurent, former Prime Minister of France, on Investing in France, at the Consulate General of France in New York City, October 1, 2015. He is the Director Forest Products Association of Canada, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and Member of the Alexander Graham Bell Legacy Society of the National Geographic Society.

Mr. Levie is also a member of the Trilateral Commission, the Bretton Woods Committee, the Council on Foreign Relations Legacy Society, the Economic Club of New York, the Yale CEO Summit, the Chairman’s Legacy Society of the Atlantic Council, the COVID-19 Advisory Board for the Citizens Committee for New York City, the Explorers Club, the Army Navy Club of Washington D.C., the East India Club of London, the Rand Club of Johannesburg, and the Harvard Faculty Club.

In addition, Mr. Levie is a member of the Harvard Business School Clubs of New York, Silicon Valley, London, France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Japan, India, Singapore, and South Africa, the Copper Club, the Family Office Association, the Association for Corporate Growth, the Turnaround Management Association, the National Association of Corporate Directors, Chatham House – the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the Policy Exchange, the Japan Society, the Asia Society, Alliance Francaise, the Italy-America Chamber of Commerce, the Goethe Institute, the Canadian International Council, the Americas Society/Council of the Americas, the American Red Cross Legacy Society, the William Society of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Masterpiece Society of the Louvre Museum.

Mr. Levie was awarded the Turnaround Management Association’s 2017, 2018, and 2019 Turnaround of the Year Awards for the revival of Vermont Aerospace Industries, Canadian Kraft Paper Industries, and Union Metal Industries.