Our Leadership

Aaron joined Resource in 1998 and has been active in all aspects of its operations. He became a principal in the firm in January 2002. He is a CFA charter holder and a CFA Institute member. Aaron graduated with honors from Wheaton College in 1998 with a Bachelor of Arts in Business and Economics.  

Byron joined Resource in 2006. From 2003 until 2006, Byron was an associate at Cochran Caronia Waller, a Chicago-based boutique investment bank, where he worked with insurance industry clients to execute mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, as well as public and private financings. He began his professional career at KPMG, LLP in Chicago, as an associate in the assurance department. Byron graduated magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame with a Bachelor of Business Administration and a Master of Science in Accountancy.

Joe founded Resource in 1998 after ten years of making personal investments in resource real estate in the Northwest. Resource's philosophy on risk management was developed on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, where Mr. Leininger spent ten successful years as an independent trader in the Eurodollar Option pit. He authored a book about his trading experiences entitled Lessons from the Pit (Broadman & Holman, 1999). Mr. Leininger graduated from the University of Illinois in 1983 with a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Economics.

Jim joined Resource in 2000. From 1990 to 2000, he acted as one of the founding partners of TGV Partners, an investment firm specializing in leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations. During that time, TGV assembled $144MM to invest in seven companies. Previously, he had been a principal in the Los Angeles law firm of Riordan & McKinzie. Mr. Geisz received a B.A. from Harvard College in 1974 and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1978.