The Team of Lionscove
The Team
The LIONSCOVE team is a collection of individuals with diverse backgrounds and expertise who have come together to enrich lives. We ensure each team member is dedicated to living out our company values.
Education and Professional Affiliations
About
Our Team
The LIONSCOVE team was handpicked and designed to have the largest impact on our investors, borrowers, our company, and the communities we serve both professionally and philanthropically. From an education perspective, the team holds various advanced degrees from prominent institutions around the world. This education, coupled with deep professional expertise, has resulted in hundreds of millions in originations across private lending, non-QM, conventional, government, and commercial loans since inception.
Additionally, the leadership team are active real estate investors, which adds an additional layer of knowledge and understanding when running the business. At LIONSCOVE we seek to leave the world a better place for future generations. We acknowledge that we have been lucky to be blessed with much, we volunteer and donate financially to charitable causes that support our vision to enrich our communities as we strive to make a positive impact one project and one home at a time.
Our Team
Liam Leonard
Ceo/Founder
Liam is the leader and visionary for LIONSCOVE. Liam established LIONSCOVE because he wanted to have a greater impact in his community and free himself from the mental model that organizations make choices for you. He wanted to create something that didn’t necessitate being on the road all the time or tied to his phone. Family needed to come first, and that’s precisely the culture Liam has established at LIONSCOVE.
Liam has been involved in real estate lending for 5+ years and is responsible for originating hundreds of loans personally during that time. He is also an active real estate investor with a portfolio of projects spanning ground-up development projects, turnkey rentals, adult family homes, short-term rentals, and even international rentals. Prior to LIONSCOVE, Liam held executive positions at T-Mobile across a variety of functions which prepared him to have firsthand knowledge of key corporate functions to be able to effectively lead LIONSCOVE. He holds a BA in economics from Yale and an MBA from UCLA Anderson where he took as many real estate finance courses as offered.
Giving back is part of what defines Liam and his family; they are dedicated to providing housing and services for women and children in transition. He loves spending time at church and socializing with his church community. When he’s not working, he can often be found enjoying one of many outdoor activities with his family and friends, such as kayaking, hiking, rafting, adventuring, or on the soccer field as a professional referee. When the weather isn’t cooperating, Liam loves board games, puzzles, escape rooms, and anything that will stretch and challenge his mind.
5 years of experience.
I set the vision and establish the culture for the company, holding people and teams accountable to the values and goals we have set together.
When I established LIONSCOVE it was because I wanted to have a bigger impact in the community that I worked and free myself from the mental model that the organization that you work for makes the choices for you. I didn’t want to be on the road all the time and tied to my phone, family needed to come first and that’s exactly what we established at LIONSCOVE. I also wanted to use my skills to work on a local level where I knew I would be successful.
Crysti Howser
HEAD OF SALES/Leadership team
With over 15 years of experience in product, merchandising, sales, and marketing, Crysti has a customer-focused approach to growing LIONSCOVE. Crysti joined LIONSCOVE full time in 2024, after spending near 8 years within the Amazon family, as an intrapreneur of sorts, at Zappos.com. While at Zappos, she grew a B2B2C organization from $0 in revenue to billions in revenue throughout her tenure, and from 0 employees to managing a team of over 50. During that time, she personally closed the majority of sales. This included hundreds of millions in sales as the first employee and only sales employee at the outset. She is focused on growing the long-term partnerships at LIONSCOVE vs. short term profits.
Along with athletics, similar to Liam, giving back is part of what defines Crysti. She was a two sport Division I athlete while being one of ten finalists for the prestigious NCAA Hockey Humanitarian Award for her efforts with local homeless shelters. She is dedicated to providing housing and services for women and children in transition, through her more recent support of Acres of Diamonds in Washington. She loves spending time outdoors with her family. On weekends she can be found playing ice hockey, soccer, tutoring high schoolers in Algebra and sharing her love of flying.
6+ years of experience of personal real estate investing experience.
I joined LIONSCOVE in 2024 as part of the Leadership Team, and Head of Sales. I lead sales efforts to grow our originations business team and drive our overall long-term partnerships.
I wanted to work with close friends and family who are not only aligned professionally on long term goals but also have a similar set of principles and desire to improve communities. At LIONSCOVE, Liam and the team consistently make moral choices when no one is looking and strive for decision making that is beyond reproach. He and the team are transparent with our partners to authentically improve communities with long term relationships instead of short-term transactions. I have been close to Liam and his family since we were all teenagers as we met as Yale soccer players, so I know the character of the company is beyond comparison under his leadership. It was impossible to not want to join the company to contribute to growing LIONSCOVE’s positive impact!
Lisa Adlhoch
Executive Assistant, Investor Relations
Haley Beuthel
Processor
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Wyatt DeGagne
Accountant
Asia Cook
Clerical Assistant
Sara Johnson
SR. Loan Officer
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