Leonard Eckhaus

Author bio

AWARD WINNING AUTHOR, GRAMMY NOMINATED MUSIC PRODUCER, SONGWRITER, PUBLISHER, ENTREPRENEUR, PHILANTHROPIST Leonard I. Eckhaus Leonard Eckhaus is the founder of AFCOM (1980), the leading association in the world for Data Center Managers; he established and presided over The Data Center Institute, a think tank of leading computer industry corporate and data center visionaries; and he created, produced and published DCM, an award-winning magazine. His comments and information about the growth and impact of Data Centers have appeared in such major publications as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, Bloomberg News and others. In 2017 Leonard co-founded LL Music, a music production company and record label. He received two Grammy nominations in 2018 for his first album, Rendezvous, featuring the singer, Clint Holmes. A song he wrote for his wife Linda, titled In Your Arms Forever, charted on UK Radio in its first week on the air and has received over 50,000 views on YouTube. A children’s song he wrote called Let’s Be Silly, is currently a semi-finalist in the 2021 International Songwriting Competition (ISC). There were over 21,000 entrants in this competition. Now waiting to find out if it makes it to the finals. His poem, Why I Love Baseball, along with his thoughts on the sport, was recently published by the online magazine, Baseball Roundtable. His book, My Journey: (Lessons I’ve Learned Along the Way), the Memoirs of Leonard I. Eckhaus, has been selected by UK Talk Radio as one of the top 10 must-read books in 2021. His most recent book, If I Were a Pony, a poem about the relationship between a young lad and his pony, aimed at the grade school audience, has won eleven international awards including Creative Child Magazine’s 2021 Book of the Year. A YouTube video promoting His Young Adult book, Grinza’s Orchard: An Enchanted Tale, has received over 30,000 views. Leonard has served on the Boards of the Nevada Ballet Theater and the Las Vegas Philharmonic. He and his wife Linda are Capstone contributors at Las Vegas’ Smith Center for the Performing Arts. They also support the Las Vegas Opera and the local Chamber Music Society. Leonard is married to his childhood sweetheart, Linda, for 59 years. They have two children, Lee and Jill, and three grandchildren, Stephen, Mikki and Hannah. He and his wife have been living in Las Vegas for the past twenty years and have traveled the world extensively, visiting over 90 countries and all seven continents.