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Howard "Rusty" Leonard
CEO & Chairman of the Board.
Howard J. "Rusty" Leonard, CFA, is CEO of Stewardship Partners Investment Counsel, LLC located in Charlotte, North Carolina. Stewardship Partners is an investment manager dedicated to helping Christian investors align their investing with their biblically-based worldview. Mr. Leonard also serves as Chief Investment Officer of Centurion Alliance, an investment manager closely affiliated with Stewardship Partners. Centurion Alliance serves the secular marketplace with investment management services from Stewardship Partners and other investment managers. Prior to forming Stewardship Partners, Mr. Leonard was Executive Vice President of Templeton Investment Counsel, Inc. During his 10+ years at Templeton Mr. Leonard served on the firm's Portfolio Management Committee and managed $3.5 billion of mutual fund and separate account assets in both global and international mandates. Mr. Leonard played an important role in the success and rapid growth that Templeton's institutional business enjoyed during the 1990's and was regularly ranked by his colleagues at Templeton as one of the firm's top securities analysts. Prior to joining Templeton in 1989, Mr. Leonard served as the Director of Investment Research for First Pennsylvania Bank and earlier as a securities analyst at Provident National Bank. Mr. Leonard's career in the investment business actually began in 1978 at the age of 19 when he became a registered representative. He received his CFA designation in 1984.
Mr. Leonard also owns and serves as CEO of the Institute of Christian Worldview Research, Inc. (ICWR). ICWR compiles information on the actions of public corporations that might be of concern to Christian investors. Mr. Leonard also serves on board of directors of World Newspaper Publishing, a growing Christian based newspaper chain with headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Mr. Leonard has served as Treasurer of the Philadelphia Society of Security Analysts and served as a member of the Board of Regents of the AIMR's Financial Analyst Seminar from 1999 until 2002. He has been a frequent speaker at AIMR and other investment conferences on the subject of global investing. He is currently a member of the AIMR's Global Financial Reporting Advocacy Committee that seeks to influence the rulings made by the International Accounting Standards Board. Mr. Leonard is also a member of The Gathering, a group of large donors to Christian ministries, and the Council for National Policy.
Mr. Leonard and his wife Carol founded a non-profit ministry, Wall Watchers, in 1998 that seeks to provide insightful research reports on Christian ministries for use by current and prospective donors to those organizations (www.mininstrywatch.com). Additionally, the ministry provides a website (www.thegoodsteward.com) that is a compendium of teaching on the subject of Christian stewardship. Mr. Leonard is currently CEO and Chairman of the Board for Wall Watchers, which is located in Matthews, North Carolina.
Mr. Leonard is a graduate of Temple University (BBA with a double major in Finance and Economics, 1981). At Temple, Mr. Leonard served as Vice President of his class, as Ombudsman for the School of Business and won the Financial Executives Institute Award given annually to the Temple's top finance student.
Rusty and Carol have three children, Derek (17), Amy (15) and Jessina (11) whom they home school. The Leonard's reside in Matthews, North Carolina, a suburb of Charlotte and attend Resurrection Lutheran Church.
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Carolynn Leonard
Carol currently home schools her three children and has been a mother and homemaker since 1986. Prior to that Carol served as the Coordinator of Volunteer Services for Evangelical Community Services from 1985 to 1986, was a Reinsurance Accountant with UMI Corporation from 1981 to 1985, was a Reinsurance Assistant Account Supervisor with TPF&C from 1976 to 1980, and was a Fixed Assets Accounting Clerk with Food Fair Stores, Inc. from 1973 to 1976.
Carol was Founder along with her husband of Wall Watchers. Carol has a BS in Accounting from Drexel University in Philadelphia. Carol, Rusty and their three children attend Resurrection Lutheran Church in Charlotte, NC.
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Mark Long
Mark Long is an Equities Analyst and Partner for Stewardship Partners, the Christian-based investment company founded by Rusty Leonard. Prior to joining Stewardship Partners, Mark was president of Wall Watchers, where he was instrumental in the establishment of the ministry and the management of its day-to-day activities.
Before coming to Wall Watchers, Mark was Research Manager at IPAC Securities, a mutual fund ratings organization in New Zealand and previous to that, he was a Money Market Dealer with ASB Bank in New Zealand. Originally from New Zealand, Mark received a bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois and an MBA from the University of Texas. In addition, he has a Diploma of Banking from Massey University in New Zealand. Mark, wife Heather and their two girls attend Providence Road Church of Christ in Charlotte, NC.
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