Pragmatic biotech, people & product development for your startup

With 25 years in hard tech and a proven Swiss-army-knife skillset, I help early-stage teams turn ideas into execution, build high-performing teams, and align technology milestones with business goals.

Available for select advisory and short projects • SF Bay Area / remote

Some of the areas I can help with
  • Scale-up strategy (benchtop → pilot → commercial)
  • Data analysis pipelines → actionable results
  • Technical due diligence & roadmap triage
  • Management and leadership coaching

Lightweight services to get traction fast

Advisory sprints

2–4 weeks, clear deliverables: pitch review, technical diligence, quickly assess a new approach or side bet to your tech development roadmap.

Longer term projects

Project manage a development workstream, build light-weight data workflow into dashboards, support interview process for a key technical hire or develop technical roadmaps .

People Coaching

Coach technical leaders on people strategy and getting engagment from thier teams.

About Lance

I’m a chemical engineer and biotech leader with over two decades of experience turning breakthrough science into scalable products. After receiving my Ph.D in Chemical Engineering (UC Berkeley) I have focused my efforts on a wide range of industries, from pioneering renewable ingredients at Amyris and developing plant-based foods at Ripple, to founding Cana’s molecular beverage platform and leading VitroLabs’ tissue-grown leather, I’ve built teams that translate innovation into reality. Now as CTO at Huue.bio, I’m guiding scale-up of E. coli fermentation to produce sustainable indigo by combining biology, engineering, and strategy to accelerate a cleaner manufacturing future.

Focus areas
  • Process development at bench, pilot or commercial scale
  • R&D strategy, leadership and org structure (esp early stage)
  • Experimental design and data analysis
  • Hard tech development in foodtech, synthetic biology and much more

What clients say

“Lance provide clear feedback and quick turnaround on a key technical due diligance we needed for an investment decision.”
— Client, Seed‑stage VC
“Great 1x1 coaching to remove friction from our team, changed my mindset completely.”
— Engineering Leader

Let’s talk

Short intro calls are free. Tell me about your bottleneck and timeline.

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