Leonard Vignola, Beacon Partners Leonard is a founding partner of Beacon Partners. He has an extensive financial background having been an officer of Marwit Capital and a founding partner and officer of Particof and Co. While at Beacon, he has served as a COO of an optical lens forming equipment manufacture, CFO for an environment remediation corporation and CEO of a computer peripheral company. Leonard is past president of CVG. He was also the founder and President of a lottery ticket vending machine company; Controller of Cuyahaga Rod wire and Strip Mill Division of U.S. Steel; and directed the internal operations analysis for PepsiCo and its operating companies. He is a graduate of Northwestern University, he holds an MBA from Case Western Reserve University.