Fractional leadership, project management and executive advisory for life-science founders and leadership teams. Choose the responsibility your next priority needs, with clear deliverables, decision rights and ownership.
Ongoing responsibility
Fractional leadership
We take ongoing responsibility for agreed operating areas, with clear priorities, action tracking and a regular leadership cadence.
We work within your existing leadership team, connecting functional leaders and specialist partners around the work that needs attention. The role, delegated decision authority, escalation paths and measures of progress are agreed at the start. You gain an accountable operating leader who stays engaged as priorities and conditions change.
We assess team needs, recommend roles and suitable team members, support recruitment and selection, and manage and coach the team within the agreed leadership scope.
Fractional roles can be scoped as COO, CIO, CTO, CISO or SVP-level IT, Facilities and EH&S leadership.
Operations
COO
Translate business and scientific priorities into operating plans, coordinate teams and vendors, resolve dependencies, and keep resource decisions and delivery risks visible to leadership. Bring IT, Facilities and EH&S together under one accountable operating leader and a shared operating plan, aligning priorities, budgets, vendors and execution with the company’s strategy and stage.
Typical outputs
Operating priorities and a sequenced roadmap
Decision ownership, action tracking and escalation paths
Performance reporting and a leadership review cadence
IT & technology
CIO · CTO · CISO · SVP
Lead technology strategy, digital architecture, enterprise systems, data and cybersecurity priorities. Coordinate the IT team and providers around service performance, investment choices and risk. CTO support focuses on business technology and digital architecture; scientific leadership retains R&D strategy.
Typical outputs
Technology roadmap and investment priorities
System, data and integration requirements
Security priorities, governance and continuity responsibilities
Facilities & EH&S
SVP
Connect laboratory capacity, equipment, maintenance and workplace needs with EH&S priorities. Coordinate Facilities, safety specialists and scientific teams, with ongoing accountability for agreed operating areas and readiness.
Typical outputs
Capacity, equipment and facilities priorities
Maintenance ownership and operating-readiness plans
EH&S responsibilities, risk priorities and follow-through
We lead a defined initiative, coordinating your teams, vendors and milestones through completion, with a delivery plan, progress updates and handover.
Each project connects the operating need to an agreed scope, named owners and acceptance criteria. We manage dependencies, decisions and changes while your team and specialist partners carry out their assigned work.
We recommend suitable internal and external project team members and help recruit additional capability where needed. We manage team responsibilities, coordination and delivery within the agreed project scope.
Real estate analysis
When capacity, location or lease timing creates a decision, start with the operating requirements. We develop site briefs, compare practical alternatives and coordinate analysis with your finance, legal and property advisers.
Typical outputs
Capacity and site-requirements brief
Options comparison covering investment, timing and operating fit
Decision materials and a phased site plan
Facilities construction & move management
Bring design, construction, equipment, IT and EH&S requirements into one delivery plan. We coordinate contractors, move teams and vendors around buildout, transfer, startup and operating handover.
Typical outputs
Laboratory and equipment requirements matrix
Construction, move and startup schedules with tracked dependencies
Readiness criteria, issue tracking and operating handover
Address infrastructure constraints, service gaps and security priorities through scoped implementation work. We coordinate the IT team and specialists on requirements, architecture, remediation, testing and transition to ongoing support.
Typical outputs
Infrastructure requirements and a prioritized security action plan
Implementation milestones, responsibilities and acceptance tests
Recovery, service ownership and support handover
AI adoption & integration
Turn a defined operating problem into a bounded AI use case. We coordinate workflow design, data readiness, pilots, system integration and adoption, with named reviewers and clear boundaries for authorized use.
Typical outputs
Prioritized use cases and measurable pilot criteria
Data, workflow, integration and human-review requirements
Connect business processes, trusted data and the systems that support them. We lead requirements and process-owner alignment, coordinate implementation partners, and organize migration, integrations, testing, training and cutover.
Typical outputs
Business requirements, process maps and data ownership
Delivery, migration and cutover plans with go/no-go criteria
Acceptance evidence, adoption support and handover
Prepare people to use a new system, facility or operating model. We coordinate stakeholder engagement, communications, training, readiness reviews and feedback with the leaders who own the change.
Typical outputs
Stakeholder and change-impact assessment
Communications, training and adoption plan
Readiness measures, accountable owners and follow-up actions
Counsel & recommendations
Advisory
We assess needs and recommend priorities, options and a practical roadmap. Your team owns execution; we provide agreed decision support.
Advisory work gives executives and boards a structured way to examine operating choices, challenge assumptions and decide what to do next. Recommendations identify the implications, dependencies and owners needed for your team to act.
CxO-level counsel
Work through growth, operating priorities, leadership gaps and investment choices. Receive decision briefs, alternatives, tradeoffs and recommended priorities that connect executive intent to practical action.
Board advisory
Support board and committee deliberations on operating risk, technology and facilities investment, and organizational readiness. Receive scenario analysis, decision materials and clear operating-risk and delivery updates.
Strategy development
Translate company direction into the operating capabilities and sequence of work it requires. Receive an operating strategy, options, a prioritized roadmap, resource implications and measures of progress.
Change management
Assess the impact of a proposed change and advise leaders on implementation choices, stakeholder needs and readiness. Receive an impact assessment, change roadmap and recommendations for communications, ownership and adoption.
Deliverables & ownership
Agree on the work and the responsibility.
Your leadership team retains business decisions, with delegated authority and escalation paths explicitly agreed. We define what Strategic Entrance owns, what your team and specialist partners deliver, and how progress and acceptance will be reviewed.
Advisory provides recommendations for your team to implement. Project Management carries defined delivery responsibility through handover. Fractional leadership carries ongoing accountability for agreed operating areas.
We agree on scope, deliverables, decision authority and ownership with your leadership team before work begins. Explore what we can deliver →
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Let’s discuss your priorities, timing, and the support you need. Before work begins, we agree on deliverables, responsibilities, timing, and fees in a written scope.
