Lizzy Lee
Elee Advisory
Principal & Founder
Lizzy Lee is the Founder and Principal of Elee Advisory, a financial consulting firm specializing in complex real estate, infrastructure, and public finance transactions. Lizzy advises developers, municipalities, and mission-driven organizations on capital structuring, project feasibility, and investment strategy for projects that rely on creative public finance tools, multi-source funding, and unconventional deal structures.
Lizzy began her career at J.P. Morgan Chase in New York, joining the Investment Bank during the 2008 financial crisis. Over eight years at the firm, she held roles across Interest Rate Derivatives and Equity Capital Markets before serving as a Vice President in the Chief Investment Office. She served as Secretary to J.P. Morgan's Chief Investment Office, Treasury and Corporate Risk Committee, an executive decision-making forum, where she supported senior leadership on risk management and asset-liability strategy for the firm's $3trn balance sheet, including during the London Whale crisis and throughout the implementation of Dodd-Frank regulations. Her J.P. Morgan tenure built a foundation in institutional capital markets, regulatory complexity, and the kind of rigorous, high-stakes analysis that translates directly to complex development finance.
Lizzy brought that institutional discipline to Colorado's real estate and public finance landscape starting in 2017, initially through her own advisory practice and later as co-owner of Strae Advisory Services, before founding Elee Advisory. Her project experience includes financial modeling and strategic advisory for some of the region's most complex development initiatives, including the Broadway Station transit-oriented redevelopment and the future home of the Denver Summit FC stadium, the Fox Park redevelopment, the Fitzsimons Redevelopment Authority, the Pearl Arts District in Boulder, and other public and private development advisory engagements across the Denver metro region. Her work spans both traditional real estate pro forma analysis and more complex structures including tax increment financing, metropolitan district formation, tax-exempt special district financing, and capital planning for projects where public and private capital must be layered creatively to move forward.
Lizzy graduated magna cum laude from The Catholic University of America with a degree in International Economics and Finance. She was named to the Denver Business Journal's 40 Under 40 class of 2026. Lizzy cares deeply about community and brings that commitment to her civic life: she serves on the board of Better Together Denver, is a Board Member and Treasurer of the Broadway Station Metropolitan District, serves on the Finance Committee of the Urban Land Conservancy, and has been a volunteer advocate with Denver CASA since 2019. Originally from the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, she is based in Denver.