Steve Cohen, Chair

As Managing Director and Head of Strategy for ProShares, Steve is responsible for product development, product management, investment strategies, and branding. Steve previously led the marketing team and played a large role in helping shape the firm’s corporate strategy and product development efforts. Prior to joining ProShares in 2002, Steve served as Vice President of Marketing at Folio Investing, and before that at the mutual fund company, Calvert. He also worked with several large agencies in the advertising business for 15 years, including Saatchi & Saatchi and Bozell Worldwide where he ran the Merrill Lynch account.

Steve earned a bachelor’s degree in marketing and management information systems from the McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia. Steve is married and has three children, all of whom attended Montgomery County Public Schools.

Leslie Zeid, Treasurer

Leslie Zeid is a partner with Aprio’s Managed Servies Group specializing in nonprofit outsourced accounting. Leslie has more than 25 years of finance and accounting experience specializing in optimizing accounting systems and guiding nonprofit leaders to manage the financial aspects of their organizations. She works with several different types of cloud-based accounting systems and various external applications to simplify monthly processes and support enhanced management decision-making and grant reporting.

Leslie received a Bachelor of Accountancy degree from Florida International University and an MBA from the University of Maryland Smith School of Business. She is a CPA in the State of Maryland, is Treasurer of The Aprio Foundation and sits on the Greater Washington Society of CPA’s Non-Profit Basics Task Force. Leslie and her husband Marc reside in Montgomery County.

Melvyn Leshinsky

Melvyn (Mel) Leshinsky is a retired senior partner of Aronson LLC, a certified public accounting firm, located in Rockville, Maryland, which he joined in 1971 and retired from in 2010.

During his tenure, Aronson LLC enjoyed unprecedented growth and received many professional and community acknowledgments. Aronson’s client base is made up of construction, real estate, government contracting, nonprofit, technology and private industry companies located in the Greater Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia.

Mel currently serves as Chairman of the Montgomery County Public School Educational Foundation and is a member of the Board of the Institute for Community Initiatives. He is also a co-founder of the Chesapeake Center for Youth Development in Baltimore.