About: Our Founders
Lee Domingue is an entrepreneur, international speaker, and author whose life’s mission through his ministry, Cyrus International, is to help marketplace leaders and local church pastors understand their significance today and fulfill their destinies of impacting their communities and the world. In 1997, he founded AppOne, a financial technology company which was later acquired in 2007 by Wolters Kluwer, a multi-billion dollar global information and compliance services company. After the acquisition, Lee served as CEO – Indirect Lending from 2007 to 2011.
Several years ago, Lee and his wife, Laura, traveled with friends to Greece on a human trafficking reconnaissance trip. The team was looking to start a safe house to help this country's sex trade victims. The Domingue’s were greatly moved by the atrocities they witnessed and became passionate to help these European girls. However, months later after returning to the US, they discovered that the human trafficking problem was also in their own backyard. This realization spurred them to promptly launch the Trafficking Hope Campaign. When asked, “Why are you and Laura giving so much of your time and resources to this?” Lee’s response: “Once you see what's happening, it becomes impossible to stand idly and do nothing. Our heart is to provide HOPE to one life at a time.”
Lee is a member of Healing Place Church in Baton Rouge, LA and serves on various non-profit boards. Lee also served as the Governor-appointed Commissioner on the Louisiana Motor Vehicle Commission from 2000 to 2004. At age 43, Lee was the youngest person to be named Business Report / Junior Achievement 2008 "Businessperson of the Year."