Product Advisor & Fractional CPO

John
Leonard

Building products that grow companies.
John Leonard
Background

The executive
behind the roadmap.

Senior product leadership for organizations that need experience, not a learning curve.

I've spent my career at the nexus of SaaS, private equity, and product innovation — building platforms that process billions in public spend, leading teams through acquisitions, and inventing solutions that earned four U.S. patents across nine filings.

Through RoadMapVenture, I work with PE-backed software companies, executive teams, and government-facing SaaS businesses as a fractional CPO and strategic advisor — bringing C-suite product leadership without the full-time overhead.

Career Highlights
RoadMapVenture Founder & Fractional CPO
Sovra Director of Product Operations & Data Practice
mdf Commerce Director of Product Delivery
Periscope Holdings Director of Product
Dominion-Harbor Group Chief Technology Officer
Fluid Innovation Co-Founder & VP Products
GeoAnalytics BI Management Consultant
City of Kansas City GIS & Data Coordinator
What I Do

Engagements
built for impact.

Three core ways I work with organizations — from strategic advisory to embedded leadership.

01
Fractional CPO

Embedded product leadership on a part-time or interim basis. Strategy, team structure, roadmap governance, and board-level reporting — without the full-time cost.

02
Product & Operations Advisory

Structured engagements for PE-backed portfolios, post-acquisition integrations, and growth-stage SaaS companies. From competitive positioning and platform consolidation to building the product operations function that makes your teams faster, more aligned, and consistently on-time.

03
Data Intelligence Strategy

Your data is an untapped competitive asset. I help organizations establish data practices from zero, architect modern analytics platforms, and convert siloed data into monetizable products — so your decisions are driven by intelligence, not instinct.

Selected Work

Projects that
moved the needle.

Career-defining initiatives across government SaaS, PE-backed portfolios, and venture-stage product builds.

Platform Consolidation · Sovra / KKR
Unified eProcurement Platform

Led product strategy and a $10M capital improvement program consolidating multiple acquired procurement platforms into a single enterprise SaaS offering serving 500K users across North America.

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Post-Acquisition Integration · mdf Commerce
Multi-Platform Product Integration

Retained post-acquisition to integrate multi-platform roadmaps across a 90-person technology organization. Led 50K customer migration preserving $5M ARR while opening a new mid-market segment.

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Growth & Exit · Periscope Holdings
$200M Acquisition Readiness

Turned around product release velocity for a 20+ year-old platform. Launched 3 new products including the government-industry-first Marketplace. Supported the company's $200M acquisition.

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Patent Innovation · Fluid Innovation
4 U.S. Patents · 3 Venture Exits

Co-invented procurement intelligence and semantic search technologies across 9 patent filings. Delivered 3 successful SaaS exits: IP Zone (AMEX), idealAsset (Dominion Harbor), Enlyton (IBM Watson).

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