Philย Leslie
Executive In Residence at Golden Tassel Group
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolPhil Leslie is an operator-investor who helps HR tech and B2B SaaS companies scale organically and via acquisition, drawing on 13 years of hands-on executive experience and a 20+ year entrepreneurial arc. Based in Chicago, he has founded and exited startups, led growth and product at companies like RIVS/interviewstream and ProOnGo, and served as CEO, CRO, and Chief Innovation Officer bridging product, data, and go-to-market. Today he advises and invests through roles as Executive in Residence, founder of a holding company, accelerator coach, and board memberโspecializing in companies with $2Mโ$10M ARR. He combines technical roots (BS in Computer Science) with an MBA from Chicago Booth to translate product analytics and scalable engineering practices into repeatable commercial outcomes. Not obvious from titles: he repeatedly builds acquisition-ready businesses, having led multiple tuck-ins and driven growth equity transactions. Pragmatic, networked, and industry-focused, heโs actively sourcing HR tech founders and operators to accelerate.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Entrepreneurship Finance, MBA Entrepreneurship Finance at The University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessB.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Purdue University
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Github Skills (2)
authentication6
php5
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Github contributions (1)
pleslie/phpaggcat
Jan 2013 - Jun 2013
PHP Sample Code for Authenticating to Intuit's Agg & Cat APIs
Contributions:8 commits in 5 months
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