MEET BARRY

Meet LK Secured Lending's founding principal & CEO, Barry Levenson
BARRY LEVENSON

CEO & Founding Principal

Mr. Levenson is a visionary leader and strategist with deep expertise in financial services and a demonstrated ability to achieve high-growth objectives. He is a proven builder of successful companies with over twenty-five years of hands-on experience in fast-growth organizations.

Most recently, he was the CEO and a founding officer of Strategic Holdings, where Mr. Levenson started and grew a very successful fund worth over $150 million, which raised over $60 million in Investor equity, and purchased over 20 multi-family properties. To date, this fund continues to perform well, and has consistently made payments to its investors. Prior to Strategic Holdings, Mr. Levenson was a Managing Director at PennyMac, which originally purchased large pools of mortgage notes from financial institutions and is now the largest correspondent lender in the country.

Prior to PennyMac, Mr. Levenson co-founded Countrywide Bank (a division of publicly traded Countrywide Financial, later acquired by Bank of America), where Mr. Levenson helped establish the start-up bank as the fastest organically growing depository in the history of U.S. banking, achieving a rank of the eleventh largest national bank in the United States and responsible for a third of Countrywide Financials’ pretax income. Among other things, he was responsible for scaling deposit production from zero to over $10 billion annually with an overall annualized efficiency of 4 basis points; while amassing a 750,000 customer deposit and loan portfolio.

Prior to Countrywide Bank, Mr. Levenson has been a Chief Officer of several companies including Move/Realtor/Apartments.com and Stern Marketing Group (acquired by NewGround), where he launched Ameritrade and Telebanc and was a Senior Consultant in the Real Estate Consulting Group at Deloitte Consulting.

Mr. Levenson is a board member of the Ziman Center for Real Estate at UCLA, has been a board member of BAI (Bank Administration Institute), the Haas Business School at UC Berkeley, and the National Literacy Network; has been a featured speaker at BAI, ABA, and UW Graduate School of Banking; and interviewed by CNN, Bloomberg, USA Today, Fund Marketing Alert, Advertising News, US Banker and others.

He earned an MBA from the Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA in Finance, Marketing, and Entrepreneurship and a BS from the Haas Business School at UC Berkeley, in Finance and Real Estate. While at UC Berkeley, he co-founded the Cal Berkeley Federal Credit Union.

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