Our Team

Chris Long - CEO - Founder

As the chief executive officer, Chris's responsibilities are to oversee the business development, team building, strategic growth, capital raising and ensuring long term growth objections are achieved.

Chris founded Longyards with a need for his Construction business, being in the trades since the young age of 14, and also being in sales since a young age. Chris capitalized on the opportunity and need for this business niche, by bootstrapping the first location having thevision to build Longyards out internationally.

Chris is also a dad of three daughters residing in Tampa Florida with his wife Elodie.

Meet our team

Elodie Long
Chief operations officer

As chief operations officer, Elodie focuses on the systems,management, marketing, and all systems required for growth.

Elodie Long's Franchise experience leads Longyards growth in the Franchise path, she has been involved since the beginning of one of Canada largest Karate franchise schools. After her business education at College she quickly ventured into Franchise business operations. She is now full time vested in the International buildout of Longyards.

Seth Henry
DIRECTOR OF CORPORATE ACQUISITIONS

Seth Henry's main focus is with Longyards acquisitions of off and on market Industrial Real Estate. Seth oversees the hiring of VA's, Interns tohelp with daily operations.

Seth facilitates the LOI's, zoning, due diligence, and feasibility for Longyards locations in targeted markets.

Seth's other passion beyond real estate is his non-profit work. Since 2017,Seth has been a co-founder at Rural Opportunity Institute, a small community non-profit focused on supporting people's healing fromtrauma. Seth manages fundraising, team building and budgets. He has built a $20 million endowment for rural community development.

David Leoncavallo
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT OFFICER

David builds franchise systems both nationally and internationally. He started his career selling travel agency franchises at the age of 19. He then started thelargest Franchise Executive Search firm, FranSearch, in 1999, which became HireArk placing thousands of executives in the franchise industry.

In 2006, David founded Sopra Capital/Sopra Brands, a multi-brand franchisor company and investment firm with 10 brands such as HouseMaster and Teriyaki Stix. He contracted with over a thousand franchisors over the last 30 years and completed due diligence on over 900, which makes him well aware of thestrange and unique ways that franchise systems succeed and fail.

Along with consulting, David is once again, building a multi-franchise brand family to utilize his best of the best executives and best practices to help franchise founders avoid making the mistakes he has made and seen others make.

He is married to his beautiful wife, Myleen, and they have 7 rambunctious children, who are all arguably, grown-up, and of course, his pride and joy, beautiful granddaughter.

Scott Myers
LONGYARDS ADVISOR

Scott brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to the table; Scott is one of the leaders in the Self Storage Industry.

He has built several multi-million businesses in real estate and his self- storage business, with ‘no toilets, tenants, or trash', is amongst his most successful ventures! Scott is an expert at teaching others how to grow and scale their self-storage business, while creating their dream lifestyle for their families.

Scott is also the founder of the successful The Self Storage Mastermind.

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