Lee Trett

Lee is one of our senior managers and the co-founder of Money Helpdesk and its parent company LeadCrowd, having started up both services with business partner and fellow mortgage advisor John Tarazi in 2021.

Our co-founder is a mortgage, protection and equity release advisor, holding CeMAP and CeRER qualifications. He has been providing mortgage advice since 2007 and specialises in the residential market, helping everyone from first-time buyers to homemovers.

Lee started Money Helpdesk with the aim of taking the stress out of the mortgage process and provide mortgage applicants with all the tools they need along the way. The vision was to create a platform where finance and technology meets, a service with all the digital tools a consumer could possibly need, for digital calculators to live rates tables.

Sharing a vision, John and Lee saw an opportunity to streamline their customers’ journey and remove all unnecessary steps from the process to make it quicker and easier, and Money Helpdesk was born.

When he isn’t overseeing the day-to-day running of Money Helpdesk, Lee helps our head of content, Mark Langshaw, produce informative articles for the site, thoroughly reviewing our guides to ensure they are up-to-date and all of our mortgage criteria is correct.

Outside of Helpdesk and LeadCrowd, Lee has a passion for all things cryptocurrency, born out of his interest in finance, tech and where the two meet. He has long been a crypto invester and has plans to launch an exciting new venture in this space in the near future.

Money Helpdesk is the sister service to Echo Finance, the whole-of-market mortgage brokerage founded by Lee and John in 2012.