Yaakov Zar

Yaakov Zar is the founder and CEO of Lev, one of the nation’s fastest growing commercial mortgage brokerages. Lev helps commercial real estate owners and investors get the best financing for their properties by supercharging the industry’s leading capital markets advisors with machine learning and artificial intelligence tools.

Prior to starting Lev, Yaakov was a co-founder and Chief of Strategy at Dispatch, a workforce management platform for enterprise home service businesses, where he led product and sales to large accounts nationwide. In 2018, Vista Equity Partners acquired Dispatch.

Yaakov graduated from Boston University in 2012, with a focus in Entrepreneurship and lives with his wife and daughter in New York’s Lower East Side. Yaakov & Dassi Zar serve as Shluchim at Chabad House Bowery.