CLARK McLEOD

Clark McLeod is a life-long Iowan and resident of Cedar Rapids who has spent nearly four decades working to build and grow his community. Perhaps best known for his corporate endeavors, he built numerous companies from scratch in Cedar Rapids, taking two to publicly traded status on the New York Stock Exchange. His entrepreneurial efforts added thousands of jobs to the community since 1981, and his former employees and businesses still form a significant base of Cedar Rapids’ current economy.

A former mathematics and science teacher at Franklin Junior High in Cedar Rapids, McLeod now focuses his efforts and resources on environmental restoration of pollinators and pollinator habitat, with a special focus on monarch butterflies. As he did in his corporate endeavors, McLeod continues to set challenging goals and leverage resources to significantly impact the environment.

He invites you to join him in the movement to restore and protect natural infrastructure.

Learn more at www.monarchresearch.org

Experience

Co-Founder and CEO, Monarch Research Project, 2014 to present

The Monarch Research Project’s five-year goals are to dramatically impact the population of monarch butterflies, while simultaneously catalyzing the restoration of thousands of acres of pollinator habitat. MRP’s ultimate “moonshot” is to create a replicable model for restoring the monarch population
nationwide. The first step toward this goal focuses on a single county in Iowa. Efforts are underway with the City of Cedar Rapids, Linn County, and private landowners to increase pollinator habitat and create Monarch Zones utilizing MRP’s exclusively designed BioTent™, which protects monarch eggs, larva, pupa,
and chrysalis from predators.