Leo Pieri is Vice President National Sales for Host Communications, Inc. and Triple Crown Media.

Pieri is responsible for National Sales for HOST Collegiate Properties, as well as major and national sales for the Newspaper Division.

Previously Pieri was a Publisher of the Gwinnett Daily Post Newspaper in suburban Atlanta.

He has held VP Sales positions with Gannett, Cowles Media, Multimedia, and Gray Publishing in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Arizona, Alabama and Georgia.

While with the Gannett Company, Pieri was awarded the President's Ring for Top Marketing Acheivement in the newspaper division.

Pieri graduated from Wisconsin-Stevens Point, and did graduate work at the Newspaper Management Center at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.

Pieri is married to Susan Watts, who owns an Architecural firm. They reside in Atlanta, Georgia. They have a son, Marco, age 18 and a daughter, Marie who is 21. Both are attending college at Auburn and UAB.