Leslie has too many years of progressive finance, accounting and investing experience. Prior to founding Murdock & Associates / Horn Murdock Cole, he worked with Ernst & Young in Silicon Valley and Dublin. Under his leadership, Murdock & Associates became one of Silicon Valley's premier accounting consulting firms. Clients included Google, EBay, Apple Computer and Yahoo. Accretive Solutions acquired Murdock & Associates in 2000 and Leslie left the firm in 2004, having built the firm to 150 professionals. After Accretive, Leslie became a founding member of the Clean Tech Open, a global clean tech accelerator. He was the first CFO of Simple Hired, a VC back job search website, sold to Indeed. In 2007, with Claire Martell, he founded Murdock Martell a consulting firm proving CFO and accounting services to start-ups and emerging growth companies. Clients include Verifone, Google, Reflective, Udacity and the next generation of emerging start-up’s. Leslie retired from Murdock Martell in 2017. For the past twenty years, Leslie has been active as an angel investor and financial advisor to start-up technology companies. In 2017 Leslie was invited to join The Band of Angels, Silicon Valley's oldest seed funding organization, where he volunteers part-time time assisting and mentoring early stage companies. Leslie is an Irish Chartered Accountant. He has passed the CPA Exam, he is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the California Society of CPAs. He a founder, past board member and mentor for the California Clean Tech Open, a business accelerator to promote clean/green technologies, past board member of Acterra, an environmental non-profit and is Treasurer of The Irish Literary & Historical Society, past President of both the San Jose/Dublin Sister City Program and the San Jose Conservation Corps, a non-profit job training program for at-risk youth.