About Jeffrey D. Leu
Career highlights past and present
After earning his master of business administration from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1981, Jeffrey D. Leu found employment in the Strategy and Business Development Group of Cargill Value Investment (now CarVal Investors) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Over the next decade, Jeffrey D. Leu accepted a series of promotions with CarVal, working as part of its Leasing Corporation and Value Investment Group.
In 1993, he became president of CarVal, assuming responsibility for global operations that span the high-yield debt, loan portfolio acquisition, and real estate sectors. Before retiring from CarVal in 2008, he successfully boosted company assets by more than 10,000 percent.
In 2010, Jeffrey D. Leu came out of retirement to help scale the Allegiance Financial Group (AFG). AFG is a specialty equipment lending group founded by John Seibel, a partner in the asset-backed lending firm McGinty Road Partners, which Mr. Leu founded in 2015. He continues his leadership in this firm today as its chief investment officer.