STRATEGIC PLATFORM PARTNERS
These are the people you call when you want to build, acquire, scale, transform, or fix an industrial business.
We believe the world's strongest companies are built at the intersection of exceptional people, disciplined execution, innovative technology, and trusted partnerships. Strategic Platform Partners exists to bring those elements together.
Strategic Platform Partners connects the people and organizations who build, run, and grow industrial businesses — engineering, manufacturing, capital, and technology, working as one integrated ecosystem.
Creating new capacity, new capital projects, and new combinations of businesses — from data centers to joint ventures to acquisitions.
Improving how the business runs today — leadership, execution, manufacturing throughput, and engineering discipline across the organization.
Changing how the business competes — using AI and executive intelligence as operating tools, not just software.
These capabilities evolve into proprietary Strategic Platform Partners software.
Answering the hard questions ownership faces before committing capital, entering a new market, or scaling leadership.
Lanston Fults is an executive operations leader, electrical engineer, entrepreneur, and business builder with more than 20 years of experience leading engineering, manufacturing, automation, capital projects, and organizational growth.
Throughout his career, he has helped build and scale organizations across refining, petrochemical, manufacturing, utilities, infrastructure, healthcare, and industrial technology markets — spanning engineering leadership, business ownership, executive operations, M&A integration, manufacturing optimization, strategic partnerships, and large-scale capital projects.
Having founded and successfully exited multiple businesses while leading the growth of multidisciplinary organizations, Lanston brings a practical operator's perspective focused on building high-performing teams, improving operational execution, and creating long-term enterprise value.
"His passion is helping exceptional companies become even stronger through disciplined leadership, strategic thinking, and meaningful partnerships."