Pat Phelan

Membership Chair

Leap Hospitality | Industry: Hospitality

Pat is the CEO and founder of Leap Hospitality and author of Leaping Forward a book about finding your journey as an entrepreneur.   He has raised more than $100M in private equity for various hospitality projects, supplied and manufactured more than $120M in hospitality furniture and recruited hundreds of talented people for some of the top food and beverage brands. Pat received his Bachelor's in Business from the University of Missouri- Columbia and his MBA from Keller Graduate School of Management. Pat was named as one of the National Restaurant News 2018 top 75 Power CEO's in hospitality. Leap was named one of Kansas City's top 100 growing companies in 2018, 2019, and 2020 by Ingram's Magazine.