Richard Leber
President & CEO at Harry Chapin Food Bank
Fort Myers, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Leber is a mission-driven nonprofit CEO and transformational leader with over 30 years of operating, finance, and consulting experience and 15 years in senior executive roles. As President & CEO of Harry Chapin Food Bank he has scaled operations to serve tens of thousands monthly and led major strategic and organizational turnarounds across multiple food-bank networks in Florida and Georgia. He pairs hands-on leadership—having founded and sold a manufacturing company and run P&L for a $320M division—with deep expertise in strategy, finance, IT and people development. A Harvard MBA and Waterloo-trained computer science thinker, he brings uncommon analytical rigor to mission-focused work and even contributes hobbyist coding improvements to open-source tooling like the highline CLI. Known for clear communication and board-level stewardship, he helps organizations convert purpose into measurable impact. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic change management that aligns resources, data and culture to achieve lasting results.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Leadership CollierNon-Profit/Public/Organizational Management, Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management at ELPNOMBA, MBA at Harvard Business SchoolLeadership LeeB.Math Computer Science Combinatorics & Optimization, B.Math Computer Science Combinatorics & Optimization at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (15)
text-manipulation10
colorize10
command-line-interface10
colours10
lib10
ansi-escape10
ansi10
command-line10
ruby10
mysql6
hardlink6
thor6
macos6
rubygems6
oauth6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
JEG2/highline
Jun 2011 - Jun 2011
A higher level command-line oriented interface.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits in 4 days
Contributions summary:Richard primarily focused on enhancing the `highline` library's functionality related to color and styling. They added new color constants (GRAY, NONE, DEFAULT) and implemented bright and RGB color support. The user also introduced convenience methods and string extensions, allowing for easier application of colors and styles within the library, alongside bug fixes and refactoring. These contributions improved the usability and features of the command-line interface.
command-line
rleber/check_names
Jun 2025 - Jun 2025
Contributions:13 pushes, 3 branches, 5 tags in 10 days
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