Founder

During his distinguished and multi-faceted business career, he founded the Flightways Corporation which was a well known regional air carrier. He later became President of the Diversified Environmental Corporation, a 150 million dollar division of the LVI Group, a billion dollar NYSE Company. Further, he served as a Senior Global Consultant with GAP International. Larry has interacted (trained and coached) with well over 16,000 business leaders.

Larry completed his distinguished military service and retired as a Captain. He flew a total of 650 combat missions. Some of his awards are: 25 Air Medals, one for Valor, the Bronze Star, 3 Purple Hearts, the Valorous Unit Award for extraordinary heroism, which was awarded to his entire unit, the Distinguished Flying Cross for heroism, and the Silver Star for gallantry in action, awarded in January 2024.

In 2010 the BBC produced an award-winning series entitled “Helicopter Missions”. One of the episodes features one of Larry’s missions and is titled “Vietnam Firefight”, which has recently surpassed 1.4 million views on YouTube. He also led a Pathfinder detachment in a key Vietnam combat ground operation in Junction City which lasted 70 days.

Larry holds a BA English Literature from Pennsylvania Military College, now Widener University.

Managing Partner

Lucas began his career as a Naval Flight Officer, gaining experience leading highly skilled teams working with advanced technology in a dynamic environment.

Immediately following his first tour he received orders to Washington D.C. to serve as a flag lieutenant to a three-star admiral where he worked closely with, senior officers, appointed officials, and their staffs. He then moved on to work in a rapid acquisition office in the Pentagon, matching emerging technologies with markets, and accelerating development, commercialization, and deployment.

Upon leaving the Navy, Lucas joined GlaxoSmithKline where he spent three years as an internal consultant, working with diverse, global teams, implementing billion dollar, global, C-level mandated projects.

He was then recruited to a small high-tech engineering firm involved in a wide range of R&D projects in the aerospace, medical device and oil & gas industry. As Chief Operating Officer, he leveraged his diverse experience to lead his team through significant technical and operational challenges, filling the business development pipeline substantially, while managing an organizational restructure and arranging strategic financing.

Lucas, as the Managing Partner at Birchrun Advisers, engages directly with companies working through organizational and operational challenges. Lucas also leads Birchrun Labs, the technical affiliate of Birchrun Advisers. He also serves as an advisor to several other companies.

Lucas has a B.S. in Economics from the United States Naval Academy and an MBA from the University of Maryland.

Senior Member

Andy began his career as a Marine Corps Artillery Officer, where he learned to lead mission-focused teams to perform in complex, uncertain environments, including two deployments to Asia and the Western Pacific. 

After completing his time in the Marine Corps, Andy spent over 20 years as a foundational contributor to growing and expanding a global management consulting firm. As a senior global consultant, Andy impacted global and local teams at Alcon/Novartis, Baker Hughes, Cisco, Deltacom, EMD Serono, Healthcare Services Group, Johnson & Johnson, PNC Bank, Walgreens Boots Alliance, and American Heart Association. 

As an executive team member for the firm, Andy was accountable for driving enterprise client acquisition and expansion, innovating strategic marketing, and delivering large-scale client initiatives with CEOs and C-Level executives seeking to develop a winning mindset in their people and deliver results beyond expectations.

During the recent pandemic, Andy served as an operating executive for a manufacturer of medically-essential healthcare products, guiding the organization through a significant change agenda and delivering exceptional revenue growth and greater customer connectivity in a disrupted, supply-constrained market. 

In addition to operating his boutique executive performance consulting firm, Andy now serves as a senior member of the Birchrun Advisers team, partnering with leaders and organizations to solve operational and culture issues, and bringing diverse groups together in a way that maximizes success.

Andy has a B.A.S. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.