Our club is a proud supporter of ShelterBox, and this week's speaker, Leo Lawrensen, (ShelterBox Ambassador and fellow Rotarian from the Oro Valley club), will provide an update on the impact that we have made through our partnership. The mission of Shelter Box is to build awareness of global displacement and to facilitate providing families with life-saving shelter and essential tools and supplies that will enable them to rebuild their homes and transform their lives after disaster. Our SaddleBrooke club is a ShelterBox HERO Rotary Club that has committed to making an impact in worldwide disaster response. We look forward to continuing and increasing our support to this worthwhile cause. |
Leo Lawrenson is the President and Founder of Lawrenson Services Inc. (LSI), a firm providing a wide range of technical public and corporate financial services, including pool structuring and management, loan and lease origination and servicing, cash flow analyses, arbitrage compliance and computer consultation.
He is a Registered Municipal Advisor and the manager of the day-to-day technical aspects of LSI, including all project management. He has more than 40 years of progressive experience in municipal finance, debt analysis, and financial consulting, and more than 45 years of IT, networking, and MIS management expertise.
Before starting his own firm, Leo worked for Lehman Brothers in the Student Loan, Education, Health, Housing, Power, Special Products, and Banking Services Groups. He was also the recognized in-house automation and technology expert, and the Atlanta Office Manager.
Before joining Shearson Lehman Hutton, Mr. Lawrenson was hired by Kutak Rock & Campbell, a national 200-attorney law firm specializing in public finance, in his first year at Georgetown University Law School. Besides doing legal work for Wall Street clients and the Soviet Union, he served as National Director of Information Processing. Mr. Lawrenson attended the US Air Force Academy, New Mexico State University, California State University, and Stanford University, and has degrees in Physics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Artificial Intelligence.
He retired from the United States Air Force Reserve in 2005 as a Colonel with 30 years of active and reserve military service. His last assignment was with the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon, providing Homeland Security and Military Support to Civil Authorities. He was the Air Force Battle Captain for 9-11.
Leo has been in Rotary since 2009 and has held nearly every Club position, including serving as President in two different Clubs. He has been Club Rotarian of the Year twice, District Rotarian of the Year, and is a Major Donor, Benefactor and Paul Harris Society member. He has been District 6910 Interact Chair, Youth Services Director, and on the Board of Directors.
He is a Rotary Leadership Institute Discussion Leader and Tech Support Specialist, as well as a ShelterBox Ambassador. Before relocating to Tucson, he was tapped to be District Communication Officer, and asked to be DGND. He is a new member of the Oro Valley Club and its Club Service Chair.
He has gone to Myanmar with Alliance for Smiles (cleft palate/lip surgery group) and is scheduled to go to Bangladesh in 2022.
Leo sings in church choirs, was in a prison band, plays many different musical instruments, is a pilot, scuba diver, hiker, soccer and tennis player, and loves to cook.
