Lee Macleod

Lee James MacLeod is a career finance and securities-operations executive who currently serves as Chief Financial Officer and Financial & Operations Principal (FINOP) of Spartan Capital Securities, LLC, a New York-based broker-dealer headquartered at 45 Broadway. Multiple professional records place his start in the CFO/FINOP role at roughly March 2017. He is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP®) and holds an active FINRA registration under CRD #2389604. In parallel with his Spartan role, he operates as a consultant/principal at L. J. MacLeod & Associates.

His earlier career was built in retail brokerage and banking. He worked as a Financial Advisor at Merrill Lynch & Co., and subsequently spent years at M&T Bank, where he served as a Vice President and as an Employee Benefits Sales Specialist / Relationship Manager. This trajectory — from advisor to bank relationship management to broker-dealer financial-operations principal — is consistent with a compliance- and operations-focused finance leader rather than a startup investor.

Educationally, available profiles indicate he attended Hamilton College (1984–1988) and the University of Rochester (1991–1994). He is based in the Buffalo–Niagara Falls area while overseeing the finance and regulatory operations function of a Manhattan-headquartered securities firm.

As FINOP of a broker-dealer, his professional remit centers on the firm's net-capital compliance, financial reporting (e.g., FOCUS/X-17A-5 filings), and regulatory operations — not on deploying an investment fund or writing angel checks into startups.

• No documented personal investment thesis was found. Lee MacLeod does not appear on angel/VC databases (Crunchbase, Tracxn, etc.) as an active investor, and no stated thesis, check size, sector focus, or geographic focus could be verified.
• His firm, Spartan Capital Securities, is a full-service broker-dealer/investment bank offering capital markets, investment banking, and wealth-management services — but that is the firm's business, not a personal angel/seed mandate.
• Any check-size, target-company, or sector-focus fields should be treated as unverified until confirmed by a primary source directly attributable to him.