About Us

Karen Cupp

Karen has a bachelor’s degree in Accounting and is a John Maxwell Certified Leadership Coach. She coaches business owners to expand their potential through strategic focus and visioning. Her business strategy defines clear, relevant, and understandable initiatives to empower them to grow themselves into lucrative business owners. Karen is passionate about empowering small to medium sized organizations to reach their fullest potential and collaborates through facilitated peer advisory groups.

Karen is a real estate broker for the past 26 years and an investor who has been holding properties for the past 8 years through Cupp Real Estate Investments LLC. with extensive knowledge systems development and project management.

Jay Cupp

Jay Cupp serves as the Director of Capital Markets at Home Partners of America (“HPA,” the “Organization”), a leading Single-Family Rental (“SFR”) platform with a portfolio of over 17,000 high-quality homes across the United States. HPA’s unique, resident-led business model expands housing access and choice, while providing a clear path to to individuals and families across the United States. In this capacity, he is responsible for managing investor relationships and raising equity and debt capital to support the Organization’s goals and operations.

Additionally, he has and continues to serve in roles managing financial modelling and forecasting, administration of new market openings, portfolio optimization, external reporting, and treasury management. Prior to joining HPA, Jay began his career in 2014 at Ernst & Young (EY), a Big 4 accounting firm, in their Financial Services Office. Jay holds a master’s in accountancy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and holds an active CPA license. Karen is a real estate broker for the past 26 years and an investor who has been holding properties for the past 8 years through Cupp Real Estate Investments LLC. with extensive knowledge systems development and project management.

Virginia Cupp

Virginia Cupp is currently a financial analyst for Leidos which is an American defence, aviation, information technology and biomedical research company. In this capacity, she prepares annual cost estimates for more than 40 contract units of a multi-billion-dollar federal contract. Further to this she creates monthly variance analysis reports and collaborate with more than 80 employees on their contract units. She is currently enrolled in the evening MBA class of 2024 at the University of Washington, where she wants to further her career in sustainable living through energy infrastructure, carbon credits and circular strategies. She has a passion for developing environmentally and economical sustainable organizations through responsible financial stewardship. Virginia holds a Bachelor of Arts in Finance from Murray State University.

John Nimmo

John Nimmo was a below average high school student who succeeded in failing. In 1985 he was hired by IBM in St. Louis where he was an account representative to the medical and government markets. He attended IBM sales school in Atlanta and was later downsized. In 1988: Still in St. Louis. Missouri, John found himself jobless, and homeless in living in a $300 car. John speaks openly about the pivot from homelessness to thriving and his incredible journey. He teaches the mindset he himself utilized to go from homelessness to success. John is an International Best-Selling author of “Why Wait”. A Leader’s Perspective on Procrastination. Why We Do It. What To Do About It and as the founder of the Leadershiplived.com platform he has helped thousands, through workshops, teaching and speaking, go from a life of averageness and failure to success and thriving. He is focused on helping organizations, companies and individuals with simple mindset shifts that lead to extraordinary results. He teaches organizational development, sales training, communication skills and organizational leadership, and re-engineering for employee engagement. Be the leader you were created to be.

Melanie Sevenster

Melanie Sevenster is a virtual manager to Karen Cupp. She completed her high school with a distinction in accounting. She pursued studies in choreography whilst working full time to pay for the studies. This is where she was introduced to the mining sector. She gained literacy in project management and safety when introduced to the construction industry and found her passion in project management within the construction industry.

She has an excellent sense for organization and system development and business management. She holds a diploma in advance project management, safety auditing and a cosmetician.