Chris Skinner

Chris Skinner is a Certified Public Accountant with 16 years of finance and accounting experience. As LF’s Controller, Chris ensures timely and accurate financial reporting and forecasting, and manages internal processes that foster LF’s success.

Chris began his career as a member of EY’s audit practice, where he focused on real estate and transportation services. Following EY, he served in multiple roles including financial reporting, technical accounting and joint venture reporting with MPLX, a Marathon Petroleum subsidiary, gaining experience in technical accounting issues including derivatives, fair value accounting, revenue recognition and consolidation. Chris then moved to Athens, Georgia, to become the Controller at Creature Comforts Brewing Company, the largest craft brewery in Georgia.

Chris currently lives in Erie, CO, with his wife, two young sons and dog Franklin. In Athens, he donated his time and expertise as Treasurer of Love Craft, a non-profit serving adults with developmental disabilities. Chris’s hobbies include outdoor adventuring with his family and visiting new breweries to sample the wares.

Lee Laviolette

One of LF Bioenergy’s co-founders, Lee has a long track record of driving growth and leading global teams on behalf of energy and process industry companies. Breakthrough approaches to deliver operational excellence have created enormous value for both the firm and investors.

Early in his career, Lee held engineering, commercial and operations management roles at Exxon and Total (Fina). As a consultant with Arthur D. Little, Navigant and Accenture, he helped National Oil Companies (NOCs) and Majors like Saudi Aramco, Pemex, Marathon, Rio Tinto and US Steel implement new operating models and achieve step changes in operating performance.

He has been a frequent speaker, panelist and 3-time conference Chair at operational excellence and compliance management events in multiple countries.

Lee earned a BS with highest distinction in Chemical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He lives in the Houston area with his wife of 41 years, their four adult children and 14 grandchildren. When not dashing across Houston to attend some grandchild’s event, he spends his free time camping in National Parks, saltwater fishing in Galveston Bay, or tinkering with one of many unfinished projects in his woodworking shop.

Dennis Dynesson

Dennis Dynneson’s passion for agriculture has roots in his upbringing on a wheat, barley and corn farm and cattle ranch in eastern Montana. Throughout his three-decade career, he has focused on helping dairy farmers grow their businesses and enhance their management practices through innovative equipment and technology.

At LF Bioenergy, Dennis is building on past experiences as a herdsman, milk safety specialist, equipment salesperson and business development strategist by matching dairy farms with LF’s capabilities and making sure Farmers First is embedded into each project from start to finish.

Dennis has held leadership roles at Westfalia-Surge, BouMatic and Alta Genetics. At Alta, Dennis developed the Milk Works program which focused on getting the most out of milking parlors. He also helped commercialize SCR/Allflex into a premier global health and reproduction monitoring company and has advised two startups, Total Dairy Solutions and Hydrogreen, on their sales strategies in the U.S. and globally.

Dennis resides in Norman, OK with his wife Suzanne, daughter Sarah and son Matthew. When he’s not visiting prospective dairy farmer partners, you will find manicuring his lawn and sprucing up the landscaping.

Cyn French

Cyn brings experience to LF Bioenergy through professional endeavors such as: C-suite leadership as a former U.S. Regional Dairy Checkoff President and CEO, first female Elected official in Washington County as a County Commissioner, a Colorado Governor appointed and Senate confirmed Water Quality Control Commissioner, Executive Director for U.S. Dairy political trust, creator with U.S. Dairy leaders for: the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy, U.S. animal welfare policies, team leader resulting in Emmy and Telly awards for Dairy Farm Families and a former beef feedlot/ranch owner.

A company co-founder, Cyn currently oversees LF’s Feedstock strategy, development and execution in the U.S. and other marketspaces, while overseeing targeted government affairs. Cyn additionally develops the company’s external communications, branding, media relationships and biosecurity policies.

Keeping the priorities of LF’s dairy farm partners at the forefront, Cyn ensures each project aligns with U.S. dairy trends, sustainability goals and growth opportunities.

Cyn is active in the U.S. dairy community, her local community in Northern CO and working toward the
alleviation of hunger in Africa.

Cyn raised two successful daughters and is the proud grandmother of four. In addition to mentoring women and men, she advises celebrities branding on a volunteer basis. Somehow she also manages to achieve her own fitness goals, achieved #75Hard and a round of golf!

Brent Lilienthal

Brent brings decades of energy development, operations and engineering experience and innovation to help dairy farms realize their climate and financial goals. Prior to joining LF, he served as SVP at Worley, managing $1billion refinery and gas plant process operations safety improvement projects across multiple customers and President of EMEA for Total Safety, the world’s leading process operational safety and equipment company, overseeing all growth and operations in the Eastern hemisphere.

Brent also has experience in the process optimization industry and is a minority owner in Sky 1, a 50MW power plant in Texas. Brent earned a BS in Chemical Engineering from University of Texas, Austin.

He lives in Houston with his wife and has two grown children and a grandson. Brent is an avid traveler, having done business in or visited over 90 countries. He has a passion for the environment and for scuba diving with his family on the rare occasions he can get everyone together.