Aaron Lloyd

Director of Application Support & Engineering
Shaddock National Holdings

A former Army Combat Medic who traded bandages for the closing room, Aaron Lloyd, brings more than two decades of experience solving complex problems where precision, accountability, and trust really matter. Over 20 years as a Senior Escrow Officer, Aaron worked directly with sophisticated investors, lenders, and legal teams on more than 40,000 commercial and residential closings—many high-value, multi-state, and time-sensitive. Consistently ranked in the top 1% of Senior Escrow Officers, Aaron learned early that the key to success isn’t shortcuts or flashy tools—it’s understanding the problem before trying to fix it. As he likes to say, “you can’t innovate what you don’t understand.”

Today, as the founding Director of Application Support, Engineering, and Development at Shaddock Corporate Services, Aaron leads a team providing thoughtful, intelligent solutions for more than 2,500 employees across 10 affiliate companies. His leadership philosophy is simple: bring skilled people together, make sure the best idea—not the loudest voice—wins, and create an environment where teams can enjoy doing their best work. Having founded and scaled an escrow firm before moving into enterprise support and product leadership, Aaron knows what it’s like to sit in the trenches—so he’s equally comfortable talking workflow with executives, debugging a Power BI dashboard, or explaining to a server room why “just clicking a button” rarely solves anything. Outside of day-to-day operations, he gives back to the industry through teaching, training, and writing guidance that often defines how certain transaction types are taught and executed.