Our Team

your goals are our goals

Our focus is on successful, busy corporate executives like you. Led by Michael Leonakis, we have years of experience with executive compensation packages based primarily on publicly traded company stock - the kind of package you have. As a result, we understand your plan inside and out. But ultimately it's personal with us. So, we want to get to know you, your family and your short-term and long-term goals. Only then can we develop the creative, common-sense strategies we believe best geared to helping you achieve those goals, whatever they may be.

Michael Leonakis - MANAGING PARTNER

Michael grew up in Cleveland, knowing that serving others would be his destiny. Early on, he watched his father provide financial advice that changed people’s lives for the better. In high school, he learned the concept of magis, the philosophy of serving others by always giving more than expected. He spent the first half of his career in sales at Sherwin-Williams, where he learned that busy corporate executives had few options for knowledgeable financial management advice for their complex corporate benefits plans. They needed help – more help than they were then getting.

In 2012, with the strong desire to give back, he founded a wealth management firm specializing in the complex corporate plans he saw at Sherwin-Williams. For ten years, clients hired him to deliver creative personalized solutions in the areas of income, personal risk management, tax reduction strategies, investment and retirement planning and wealth creation, many of which they had not been previously exposed to. By coordinating and collaborating with their other advisors, including their accountants and attorneys, and acting as the catalyst to get things done, he helped them gain a sense of security and confidence that knowledgeable, common-sense financial planning can provide.

His single focus worked. In 2022, because more than 90 percent of his clients were active or retired corporate executives with these types of plans, he renamed his business MAGIS Wealth Advisors to reflect the kind of service and experience he was providing.

MBA, Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University; BS, Finance and Political Science, Miami University

Dean Leonakis - WEALTH ADVISOR

Dean has over 43 years of experience as a financial professional in the high net-worth marketplace. Dean focuses on investment, retirement, comprehensive business succession planning and estate planning strategies for high-net-worth individuals. He uses his knowledge, experience and sophisticated support systems to determine the appropriate financial strategy for successful business owners, key executives and affluent retirees.

Dean is supported by a team of professionals dedicated to providing his clients with superior services, resources, products and technologies. Dean, along with his financial planning team, work together to build customized, comprehensive financial plans that are designed to help meet the unique objectives of each of his clients.

Since joining the firm in 1981, Dean has been consistently recognized by former broker/dealer Osaic Wealth for advanced levels of personal production and service. He was nationally ranked within Osaic Wealth as one of its top financial planners.

Dean is active in the community. He has served as co-chair of Walsh Jesuit High School’s Pow Wow, the Board of Directors of the Akron Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors and Commissioner of the Silver Lake Youth Baseball League. Additionally, he has served as a Big Brother volunteer with BB/BS of Summit and Medina Counties, has served as a basketball coach for CYO and Cuyahoga Falls Parks and Recreation department, and as a member of the Silver Lake Park Board.

Equitable Advisors and its affiliates are not affiliated with Osaic Wealth or its affiliates.