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Jeff Leston

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Special Advisor at Yugen Partners
📍 Edwardsville, Illinois, United States

Jeff Leston is the President and Founder of Castlestone Advisors, where he pioneers the use of financial services technology to combat healthcare fraud. An MBA graduate from the University of Pittsburgh, he developed the first AI-based fraud detection system for health insurance in the 1990s and has advised the U. S. Congress on anti-fraud technologies.

Outside of his professional life, Jeffs passions include music and ice hockey. He enjoys following technology investments and has a personal goal to one day teach 8th-grade algebra to show students its real-world applications. He is also an avid Pittsburgh Penguins fan and hopes to attend a Stanley Cup Finals game.

He was inspired to start Castlestone after uncovering significant fraud within a co-op where he lived in New York.

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Experience
40 Years
Current Role
Special Advisor
Location
Edwardsville, Illinois, United States
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Healthcare Fraud Prevention
He has dedicated his career to fighting healthcare fraud, developing pattern-recognition technology and advising Congress on the matter, including contributing to the HR 6690 bill.
Financial Technology
He specializes in adapting financial technologies, like those used for credit card fraud, to solve complex problems within the healthcare payment and claims processing systems.
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Career

Work history

1-2019
Special Advisor
Yugen Partners
2004
President
Castlestone Advisors LLC
2000 - 2002
Vp Business Development
InfoMedics
1991 - 1992
Vice President
Punk, Ziegel & Company
1988 - 1989
Senior Manager
Ernst & Young
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Bower Hill School
MBA
University of Pittsburgh Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business
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