Kevin Kinzie

Kevin Kinzie is the CEO and founder of Octavus Group. Octavus, the parent company of LoCorr Fund Management and LoCorr Distributors, was founded in 2003 to help fill a growing market opportunity in alternative investments and has since raised over $6 billion in this space. In 2011, Kinzie recognized the need to offer a family of alternative investment products designed to produce returns that have low correlation to traditional investments. As a result, he founded and serves as Chairman of the LoCorr Funds. LoCorr Funds has grown to offer a suite of five funds with a national distribution network, offering products through regional and national broker-dealers across the country.

In addition to LoCorr, Kevin’s more than 35 years of experience in financial services include founding a real estate finance company, LendSource. He served as President and CEO of Richard Leahy Corporation, a subsidiary of Lincoln Financial Corporation. During his time there he helped guide the company into the bank marketplace, offering investment products to bank customers. He also previously was a leading money raiser for a Minneapolis based mutual fund/hedge fund company.

Kevin holds a B.S. in business and marketing from the University of Colorado. He holds the FINRA series 6, 7, 24, 31 and 63 licenses and the CLU designation.