John Leonard
Building products that grow companies.
Background
The executive behind the roadmap.
Senior product leadership for organizations that need experience, not a learning curve.
I've spent my career at the nexus of SaaS, private equity, and product innovation — building platforms that process billions in public spend, leading teams through acquisitions, and inventing solutions that earned four U.S. patents across nine filings.
Through RoadMapVenture, I work with PE-backed software companies, executive teams, and government-facing SaaS businesses as a fractional CPO and strategic advisor — bringing C-suite product leadership without the full-time overhead.
Career Highlights
RoadMapVentureFounder & Fractional CPO
SovraDirector of Product Operations & Data Practice
mdf CommerceDirector of Product Delivery
Periscope HoldingsDirector of Product
Dominion-Harbor GroupChief Technology Officer
Fluid InnovationCo-Founder & VP Products
GeoAnalyticsBI Management Consultant
City of Kansas CityGIS & Data Coordinator
What I Do
Engagements built for impact.
Three core ways I work with organizations — from strategic advisory to embedded leadership.
01
Fractional CPO
Embedded product leadership on a part-time or interim basis. Strategy, team structure, roadmap governance, and board-level reporting — without the full-time cost.
02
Product & Operations Advisory
Structured engagements for PE-backed portfolios, post-acquisition integrations, and growth-stage SaaS companies. From competitive positioning and platform consolidation to building the product operations function that makes your teams faster, more aligned, and consistently on-time.
03
AI & Data Intelligence Strategy
Your data is an untapped competitive asset. I help organizations establish data practices from zero, architect modern analytics platforms, and convert siloed data into monetizable products — so your decisions are driven by intelligence, not instinct.
Selected Work
Projects that moved the needle.
Career-defining initiatives across government SaaS, PE-backed portfolios, and venture-stage product builds.
Platform Consolidation · Sovra / KKR
Unified eProcurement Platform and AI integration
Led product strategy and a $10M capital improvement program consolidating multiple acquired procurement platforms into a single enterprise SaaS offering serving 500K users across North America with new GenAI product integration.
Post-Acquisition Integration · mdf Commerce
Multi-Platform Product Integration
Retained post-acquisition to integrate multi-platform roadmaps across a 90-person technology organization. Led 50K customer migration preserving $5M ARR while opening a new mid-market segment.
Growth & Exit · Periscope Holdings
$200M Acquisition Readiness
Turned around product release velocity for a 20+ year-old platform. Launched 3 new products including the government-industry-first Marketplace. Supported the company's $200M acquisition.
Patent Innovation · Fluid Innovation
4 U.S. Patents · 3 Venture Exits
Co-invented procurement intelligence and semantic search technologies across 9 patent filings. Delivered 3 successful SaaS exits: IP Zone (AMEX), idealAsset (Dominion Harbor), Enlyton (IBM Watson).
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