Steve Toon is an executive leader with comprehensive experience in industrial bioprocess management, business development and process technology integrating commercial operations expertise with a disciplined scientific foundation and demonstrated product commercialization successes led from conception through full scale production using multi-disciplinary teams in complex technology scale-ups within large corporations and start-up companies. This success includes five green field plant start-ups, multiple plant retrofits and new process integration into existing operations resulting in 31 products to market. Steve's career is differentiated by documented profitable success in building research and commercial operations by leading science, engineering and business teams in the food, feed, personal care, fuels, chemicals, agrichemicals and contract services industries. He has provided executive guidance on research and development, process design, operations, acquisitions, start-ups, debottlenecking, contract manufacturing selection and coordination. In addition, he was contracted to advise investment and venture capital partners on operations and technical evaluations. His consulting focus identifies key drivers to improve technical and business results to achieve an organization's goals followed by working in collaboration to implement the results into operations for profitable product delivery.