I worked with a start-up biopolymer firm evaluating commercialization strategy, alternative funding sources, and small scale production options. I saved them $70,000 annually by negotiating a better lease, put estimates together to build manufacturing capacity, revamped their commercialization strategy, created financial models suitable for investors, wrote and presented a pitch deck to investors, and connected the firm to an angel investor that extended an offer of funding and assistance.I was the turnaround CEO for a client’s subsidiary – a supply chain consultancy. The firm had been struggling for a year and my client had no confidence in the sitting president. Initially I talked with the staff then held a strategic planning session to get their input on changes, services, direction, etc. in order to get buy-in. My challenge was to take a team of mostly introverted industrial engineers and rebuild a company that had been operating for fifteen years. On the claims m