Steve Leonard

Steve Leonard is an international leader in the information technology industry with more than 25 years of experience building hardware, software, and managed services companies in Asia and Europe. Steve also has broad experience in government, holding senior roles through which he created and implemented national programs for an innovation-based economy.

Steve currently serves as CEO of Singularity University (SU), a Silicon Valley-based global organization that enables leaders to understand how future technologies will impact their companies and countries, and engages those leaders to help them shape that future. SU seeks to positively impact one billion people through the collective capabilities of the entrepreneurs, investors, corporations, and governments with which it works.

Before joining SU, Steve created SGInnovate, a private company wholly owned by the Singapore Government, to help entrepreneurial scientists create investable deeptech startups. Recognizing that Singapore has a top-ranked education system and a pool of world-class scientific research talent, Steve envisioned forging a specialized mini-ecosystem of scientists, investors, corporations, venture builders, and government leaders around the shared goal of generating new economic value. During Leonard’s tenure as its Founding CEO, SGInnovate built an engaged community of 35,000 people, held 600 discussion events around science and technology, and launched more than 90 deep tech startups into which it invested $50M.