How Leonard M. Levie Built American Industrial Acquisition Corporation

In 1996, Leonard M. Levie established an investment company in New York named American Industrial Acquisition Corporation (AIAC). Its primary aim was to invest in manufacturing firms which served the automotive, aerospace, rail, appliance, power generation, mining, oil and gas, packaging, medical equipment, and pharmaceutical sectors.

About American Industrial Acquisition Corporation:

AIAC and its subsidiaries and affiliates is a privately owned industrial investment portfolio with a long-term goal of building lasting businesses. Today the industrial group consists of 73 manufacturing and distribution sites with over 10,000 employees in 19 countries in Asia, Europe, and North America. The total annual revenues of American Industrial Acquisition Corporation exceed $1.5 billion.

AIAC owns over 6.5 million square feet of industrial real estate and holds the exclusive, perpetual license to harvest 22 million acres of Canadian timberland. AIAC and its affiliates have purchased and operated manufacturing units of:

• Ahlstrom 
• Boeing 
• Carlyle Group
• GSK
• Jabil Circuit
• Johnson Controls
• Kodak
• Lockheed Martin
• Merck
• Moog
• Northrop Grumman
• Pfize
• Raytheon Technologies
• The Riverside Company
• Siemens
• Tolko Industries

About Leonard M.Levie:

Leonard M. Levie is the Founder and Chairman of American Industrial Acquisition Corporation and the AIAC Foundation Inc.

He has served as a guest lecturer at Harvard Business School, The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, the Association for Corporate Growth, and the Turnaround Management Association.

Leonard Levie is a member of the Trilateral Commission, the Bretton Woods Committee, the Council of Foreign Relations Legacy Society, the Economic Club of New York, the Yale CEO Summit, and the Chairman's Legacy Society of Atlantic Council. He was also a member of the COVID-19 Advisory Board for the Citizens Committee for New York City.

He is the Director of the Forest Products Association of Canada, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and Member of the Alexander Graham Bell Legacy Society of the National Geographic Society.

Leonard Levie is also a member of the:

• Oliver Wendell Holmes Society of Harvard Law School
• The John C. Whitehead Society of Harvard Business School
• The 1861 Circle of MIT
• The Founding Grant Society of Stanford University
• The Johns Hopkins Legacy Society
• Yale Legacy Partners, and
• The Legacy Society of the Institute for Advanced Study of Princeton University.
• Leonard Levie has also been a member of the following clubs:
• The Explorers Club
• The Army-Navy Club of Washington D.C.
• The East India Club of London
• The Rand Club of Johannesburg
• The Harvard Faculty Club

Leonard Levie is a member in good standing the Harvard Business School Clubs  of New York, Silicon Valley, India, Singapore, Japan, South Africa, London, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Spain. 

He has also been a member of the following institutes and societies:

• Chatham House (London)
• Policy Exchange (London)
• Japan Society (New York)
• The Asia Society (New York)
• The Italy-America Chamber of Commerce
• The Goethe Institute (Munich)
• The Canadian International Council (Toronto)
• American Red Cross Legacy Society
• The William Society of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  
• The Masterpiece Society of the Louvre Museum

In 2017, 2018, and 2019, Leonard M. Levie was awarded the Turnaround Management Association's Turnaround of the Year for reviving Canadian Kraft Paper Industries, Vermont Aerospace Industries, and Union Metal Industries.