Lynsi Lavelle Snyder-Ellingson[1][2] (previously Seawell, Martinez, and Torres; born May 5, 1982) is an American billionaire businesswoman, the owner and heiress of the In-N-Out Burger company.

[13] Snyder graduated from Shingletown Christian Academy, a private high school that her parents helped found, before relocating to Southern California with her first husband.

[15] At age 17, she was hired at a new In-N-Out store in Redding, California, where she leafed lettuce, peeled potatoes, and sliced onions.

[19] On January 1, 2010, Snyder became the sixth president of In-N-Out, succeeding her brother-in-law, Mark Taylor, who was promoted to become the company's chief operating officer.

[20] She occupies the same leadership position that her grandfather Harry (1948–1976), uncle Rich (1976–1993), father Guy (1994–1999), and grandmother Esther (2000–2006) previously held.

Snyder is a proponent of the servant leadership style, and has repeatedly pledged to maintain her family's legacy by refusing to ever sell or franchise In-N-Out.

[25] In 2023, Snyder released her first book,The Ins-N-Outs of In-N-Out Burger: The Inside Story of California's First Drive-Through and How it Became a Beloved Cultural Icon., which became a USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller.

[32] In recent years, under Snyder's leadership, In-N-Out has gradually begun to expand at a more aggressive pace than before; in 2022, the company's estimated annual revenue topped $1.8 billion.

[34][35] The company has also donated $180,000 to Californians for Jobs and a Strong Economy, a Super PAC dedicated to electing moderate and pro-business Democrats to the U.S.

[37] Snyder co-founded Slave 2 Nothing, a non-profit corporation that exists to create, educate and assist in solutions to eliminate human trafficking and help individuals and their families to experience complete freedom and healing from substance addiction,[38] with her husband Sean Ellingson in 2016.

[43] In 2014, Snyder and her husband Sean Ellingson founded Army of Love, a ministry with the goal to “enlist, train and equip an Army of Love to help people from all walks of life that are in need of support, prayer, encouragement, healing, direction, and freedom.” Volunteers “enlist” on the ministry’s website and take a discipleship training course before “deploying” to serve others in a variety of ways.

[51] According to an interview in Decision magazine, Snyder became a born-again Christian as a child but drifted away from her faith following the end of her first marriage, when she slipped into a two-year-long stretch of drug and alcohol abuse.

[8] In 2015, she was featured on an episode of Jay Leno's Garage, where she showed off a modified '41 Willys that was previously owned by her late father.

[16] She enjoys playing multiple sports, including soccer and football, and is a lifelong fan of the Las Vegas Raiders NFL team.

[57] In August 2012, Snyder reportedly purchased a 7-bedroom, 16-bathroom mansion with 16,600 square feet (1,540 m2) of interior space in Bradbury, California, from Texas Rangers third baseman Adrián Beltré for a sum in excess of US$17 million.

[20] In 2007, Snyder purchased her grandmother Esther's longtime Glendora home, which author Stacy Perman described as "a ranch house shaded by oak trees and fronted by a white fence.

[20][51][16][12][44][13] She regularly attends In-N-Out functions, including store openings, company picnics and leadership training events.

The first kidnapping attempt occurred when she was still a high school student in Shingletown; the second took place when she was 21 years old in Baldwin Park, near the local In-N-Out distribution center.