Meet the Team
Leaficient was founded with a passion for the intersection of technology and agriculture and a dream of expanding the borders of food production.
Brian Stancil
CEO - Cofounder
Brian is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Leaficient.
He has spent the last two decades commercializing technologies for a wide range of industries including autonomous vehicles, military robotics, and wearable healthcare systems.
In 2017 he co-founded Lifeware Labs LLC, a wearable healthcare company which has since secured over $10M of funding from the US government and sells telehealth products to professional sports leagues, the US military, hospitals and academic institutions.
Brian holds a M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.S. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech.
Andy Rape, PhD
COO - Cofounder
Andy is the Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of Leaficient.
He has extensive experience in optics and image processing and has published articles in Nature Communications, Biomaterials, ACS Nano, The Journal of Functional Biomaterials, The Journal of Cell Biology, and The Journal of Cell Science. He also has experience in small business corporate strategy and fundraising through his role at Innovation Works.
Andy is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and served as an NIH NRSA Postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. Andy has a B.S., with highest honors, in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Rochester, a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and an MBA with University Honors from Carnegie Mellon University.