Jim Leisy, Jr., was an artist, photographer, book editor and publisher. He was born in Dallas, Texas in 1950. He attended both Bethel College and Stanford University, and earned a BA (history major/art minor) from Bethel College. He was editor of the Bethel Collegian. In 1985, he left The Thomson Corporation to found to publish college-level textbooks in the fields of computer science and information technology.