Lee Lottes is the Chairman and CEO of Lakenan. He joined the insurance agency in 1976 as a salesman and subsequently purchased the agency in 1982. Since 2014 he has been a member of the Sunstar Insurance Group Executive Committee when it acquired Lakenan.

Lee is a graduate of Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. After college, he worked as an underwriter and marketing representative for Travelers Insurance Company. Since 1976 Lakenan has grown to be the largest insurance broker in the southern sphere of the metropolitan St. Louis area.