Family Office Podcast - Private Investor & Investment Insights

Mr. Lyons is a 37-year veteran of the mortgage banking and real estate industries and has founded, built, and sold several mortgage banking platforms. In his 37-year career, Mr. Lyons has been an initial investor and owner of a commercial bank, a title company, a consumer finance company, a mortgage bank, and has sponsored numerous residential and commercial real estate ventures. Most recently, Mr. Lyons co-founded LYNK Capital, a Private Equity Fund that provides capital to real estate investors, builders and developers. Mr. Lyons is a resident of Florida and Maryland.  He is also the author of Be The Bank, a book about increasing wealth through investing.

LYNK Capital is a Private Equity Fund that provides First Mortgages to real estate investors and builders primarily for the renovation or new construction of residential housing.

Software inventor and entrepreneur, with innovations cited in nearly 4,000 patents.
Founder of 6 startups, with 4 acquired by public companies or investment funds.

A quant finance pioneer who invented heatmaps, designed over 100 institutional trading systems, and perfected sentiment analysis, using it to manage over $500 million for Tudor and Millennium. Now, as founder of Diamond Standard, Cormac has solved the challenge of creating a standardized diamond commodity. Transacted on the blockchain, it is the first physical and digital asset, forming a decentralized reserve to asset back any digital contract.

Previously founded Flont, and before that led a team of 70 funded by Rupert Murdoch, building a next generation social network integrated into premium news publications, beginning with The Wall Street Journal. Developed company and the technology, which later merged into News Corp.

Inventor of real time and big data technologies in many diverse computer science areas, including social networks, Heatmaps, real time factory optimization, trade cost analysis, real time news sentiment analysis for securities trading, and wireless encrypted authentication for physical goods and blockchain applications.

Quantitative and statistical arbitrage portfolio manager, and a pioneer of computational linguistics and sentiment analysis for securities trading. Successfully launched several software companies and quantitative hedge fund teams. Raised and managed over $500 million from hedge funds including Tudor Investment Corp, and Millennium Partners.

Long track record as a software entrepreneur and CEO. Raised venture capital from Intel, Mayfield, Deutsche Bank, Bear Stearns, and other VC funds.