William S. Leavitt is the President and the chief investment officer of LCM, as well as chairman of the firm's investment committee. Mr. Leavitt has been a lecturer in finance at Northwestern University and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Metropolitan Affairs (Roosevelt University), Saint Mary’s College (Minnesota) and Spertus College (Chicago). For almost 20 years, he was a member of the Finance Committee serving the endowment fund of the Jewish United Fund of Chicago, as well as its Sub-Committee on Investment Managers and Asset Allocation. 

He received an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and a law degree from the University of Michigan Law School.  Mr. Leavitt began his career as an associate at the law firm of Sonnenschein, Carlin, Nath & Rosenthal. Mr. Leavitt was also General Counsel and Chairman of the Board of his family's metal fabricating business. He founded Leavitt Capital Management in 1985.

Mr. Leavitt is a frequent speaker at investment and family office conferences, including those sponsored by the Institute for International Research and the Investment Management Network. Most recently, he was a featured speaker at the 2011 MIT Energy Conference held in Boston.

Among the publications in which Mr. Leavitt's comments on alternative investments have been mentioned include the Wall Street Journal, Financial News Network, Emerging Markets Week, MAR HEDGE, Smart Money Online, TheStreet.com and ABCNews.com. His latest publications were pieces on global water, which appeared in the August 2010 and September 2009 issues of Dr. Marc Faber's "Gloom, Boom and Doom Report".