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Our Team

Chris Long - CEO - Founder

Chris Long is the founder and operator of Longyards Storage. After
nearly a decade as a carpenter and business owner of Conrad Construction, Chris ventured full-time in the realm of self-storage. Having created the very first Longyards Storage in his hometown of Ottawa, ON, Canada, he emigrated to the United States to pursue the international buildout of the company. He is responsible for the construction, stabilization, and management of the assets.

Meet our team

Seth Saeugling
Corporate Development Partner

Seth has a small residential portfolio of long-term rentals. He became hooked on real estate through seeing how you could help people solve their problems and make a great return. He is excited and focused on the next adventure in real estate: scaling the Longyards Storage concept through the Southeast USA. He is responsible for systems building, operations, marketing, and asset management. 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 from trauma. 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.

Elodie Long
Chief operating officer

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.