Leonard Ellerbe
Entrepreneur
Businessman who rose to fame as boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s financial manager and CEO of Mayweather Productions. He and Mayweather pioneer fighter promotion by making the boxer largely independent and able to keep a far more significant percentage of his fight proceeds than any boxer before him.
He met the Mayweather family when he traveled to Vegas for tournaments as an amateur boxer.
He played a key role in raising Mayweather's profile by arranging appearances on Dancing with the Stars and WWE broadcasts.
He grew up in a low-income household in Washington D.C.. His mother was cleaned homes and his father washed cars.
Two of the fighters involved in Mayweather Productions are Gervonta Davis and Jessie Vargas