Victor Leotta launched Leotta-Evers Consulting (dba LEO, LLC) in April 2008 for the purposes of providing high-value geospatial technology services for site selection and economic development. Leotta developed a technical economic development program that includes the use of GIS-based site suitability models to identify optimal locations for commercial and industrial projects. Leotta also designed web-based GIS mapping applications to manage and distribute site information such as the Entergy Site Selection Center for site location research and sites and buildings database and LEO's ReTelligence tool for matching prospects to process inputs and co-location opportunities. Leotta works routinely with site selection consultants, state and local economic developers, and commercial real estate professionals on business retention and attraction projects applying innovative analysis and mapping practices to maximize location competitiveness.

LEO's GIS-based suitability models form the basis for its Strategic Sites Inventory (SSI) Program which Leotta refined to provide communities with an effective approach developing a proactive inventory of quality sites for economic development. Leotta designed LEO's SSI Program to identify optimal locations that represent a balance between meeting a project's operational needs and protecting vulnerable cultural, environmental, and ecological resources. Leotta's goal is to maximize communities' economic competiveness through adherence to a rigorous site quality standard and utilization of technological "tools of the trade" to effectively market their location advantages - all with a conscious intent to maintain environmental and cultural stewardship.

Prior to beginning LEO, LLC, Leotta spent six years managing the Geospatial Technology Services for C-K Associates, LLC in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His principal objective was to develop an expert Geospatial Technologies team focused on C-K's core business fields of environmental and ecological sciences. In doing so, Leotta gained invaluable experience on which he applies to geospatial suitability analysis.

A 1994 business school graduate of Louisiana State University, Leotta is currently pursuing a master's degree from LSU in geography (Master of Natural Science) with an emphasis on GIS and remote sensing. He serves on the steering committee for Louisiana's annual state GIS conference, sponsored by, and geared toward state government. Leotta routinely speaks at trade organization conferences, industry workshops, and local government and civic functions on the application and value of GIS technology for planning and economic development.