# Ken McDonald

> Ken McDonald is the CEO of Leonardo247, a Plano, Texas proptech company whose proactive operations and maintenance software runs across more than 2 million rental units. A Stanford MBA and Dartmouth math-and-economics grad, he has spent 25-plus years turning small online businesses into large ones - scaling LifePics from a few thousand users to 12 million, helping push TeamSnap past 15 million users as Chief Growth Officer, and running dozens of SaaS and payments products as Chief Product Officer at Togetherwork. He co-wrote 'How to Acquire Your First Million Customers' and now applies an operator-first view of AI to the unglamorous world of apartment maintenance.

- **Role:** Chief Executive Officer at Leonardo247
- **Organizations:** Leonardo247, Togetherwork, TeamSnap, LifePics, Oracle, Intel, Dun & Bradstreet Software
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** MBA, Stanford University Graduate School of Business, BA, Mathematics and Economics, Dartmouth College
- **Known for:** Scaled LifePics from a few thousand users to over 12 million, Helped grow TeamSnap to over 15 million users as Chief Growth Officer (roughly 50x growth), Grew TeamSnap's B2B side from a handful of customers to roughly 4,000

## Career timeline

- **1998** — Joined Oracle's e-commerce team, helping grow it from a small site to hundreds of millions in annual business
- **2000s** — Joined LifePics, scaling the online photo company from a few thousand users to over 12 million
- **2017** — Co-authored 'How to Acquire Your First Million Customers' with Chris Newton
- **2010s** — Chief Growth Officer at TeamSnap, helping scale to over 15 million users (roughly 50x growth)
- **2019-2020s** — GM of Recreation and Leisure, then Chief Product Officer at Togetherwork, leading dozens of SaaS and payments products
- **2025** — Appointed CEO of Leonardo247

## Achievements

- Scaled LifePics from a few thousand users to over 12 million
- Helped grow TeamSnap to over 15 million users as Chief Growth Officer (roughly 50x growth)
- Grew TeamSnap's B2B side from a handful of customers to roughly 4,000
- Helped grow Oracle's e-commerce business to hundreds of millions in annual revenue
- Led dozens of SaaS and payments products as Chief Product Officer at Togetherwork, several growing by an order of magnitude or more
- Co-authored 'How to Acquire Your First Million Customers' (2017)
- Scaled businesses to millions of B2C users, thousands of B2B customers, and billions of dollars in payments

## Latest updates

- **2025-06** — Appointed Chief Executive Officer of Leonardo247
- **2026** — Appeared on the NAA Apartmentcast discussing operator-first proptech and AI strategy

## Links

- Website: https://leonardo247.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kenpmcdonald

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Last updated: 2026-06-11