Stew Leonard, Jr., born in 1954, is the President and CEO of Stew Leonard's, a grocery store chain operating in Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey. He comes from a family with a long history in the dairy business; his grandfather, Charles Leo Leonard, founded Clover Farms Dairy in the 1920s, which later evolved into Stew Leonard's dairy store under his father, Stew Leonard Sr.
, in 1969. Stew Leonard, Jr. worked in the original dairy store as a child, performing various tasks.