David Lance

Owned technical strategy, architecture, and enablement for enterprise AI transformation across 1,800 employees, lifting adoption from 15% to 95% in 12 months and generating $47M in documented productivity value. Led technology integration through two mergers and built three enterprise-grade agentic applications.

Co-founded a bootstrapped SaaS platform for roofing professionals, owning technology end to end from concept to live production. Built go-to-market and customer engagement strategy with product instrumentation for measuring activation and retention.

Founded and led the firm's AI platforms practice, serving as executive technical counterpart to C-level clients across airline, retail, banking, and staffing. Originated an internal venture on enterprise data utilization and turned thought leadership into a private LLM knowledge product.

Founded and ran an educational video game studio end to end, including entity formation, private financing, product, marketing, and go-to-market. Released two titles publicly on itch.io to build an audience and gather player feedback.

Led design and delivery of a multi-million-dollar custom software program for an enterprise retail client, from requirements through production deployment. Directed a cross-functional team of up to 20 engineers, owning scope, schedule, and delivery commitments.

Built the search platform for the industry's largest repository of title closing documents.

Delivered the messaging platform that moved title closing document distribution from mail to instant digital delivery.

Implemented digital billing and ETL modernization for a major telecommunications carrier.

Earned a BBA in Information and Operations Management from Texas A&M University in 2000.