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Leadership & Team

The people who actually pick up the phone.

LL2 is run by operators and underwriters who've spent their careers close to real businesses. No ivory tower — just a team that understands that behind every application is someone with a payroll to make.

Leadership

Executive team.

JL

James Laurent

Chief Executive Officer

Two decades in commercial lending and structured finance. Founded LL2 on the belief that speed and discipline aren't opposites.

SO

Sofia Okafor

Chief Financial Officer

Capital markets and treasury specialist who keeps LL2's funding lines diversified and its balance sheet honest.

DR

Daniel Roth

Chief Risk Officer

Built underwriting frameworks at institutional scale. Believes a good "no" protects everyone — client included.

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Amara Mensah

Chief Operating Officer

Runs the machinery that turns a 24-hour promise into a 24-hour reality, across three time zones.

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Thomas Nakamura

Chief Technology Officer

Leads the underwriting engine and payments platform — automation that speeds up humans instead of replacing them.

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Elena Costa

General Counsel & Head of Compliance

Keeps LL2 to institutional standards of governance without slowing the business to a crawl.

Heads of function

The people who run the day-to-day.

RK

Rachel Kim

Head of Underwriting
MB

Marcus Bell

Head of Client Relationships
PN

Priya Nadar

Head of Tariff Programs
LO

Liam O'Brien

Head of Payments
HZ

Hana Zhou

Head of Capital Markets
GF

Gabriel Ferreira

Head of Product
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Nadia Ahmadi

Head of People
CW

Chloe Winters

Head of Marketing

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