Built on Integration, Not Aggregation
Frontier BioStrategy was founded on a simple thesis: the most consequential strategic failures in biological technology commercialization happen at the seams between regulatory, commercial, and product development decision-making. We built a firm to eliminate those seams.
Our Approach
Most advisory firms assemble expertise by discipline. Regulatory consultants handle regulatory questions. Commercial advisors handle go-to-market. Product development leadership is hired full-time or goes without.
The problem isn’t the quality of any one advisor. It’s the gaps between them. The assumptions that don’t get challenged, the dependencies that don’t get surfaced, and the strategic misalignments that only become visible when it’s expensive to fix them.
Frontier BioStrategy operates differently. Our founding principals work as an integrated team across every engagement. Regulatory architecture is built with commercial endpoints in mind. Commercial strategy accounts for regulatory constraints from day one. Product development governance connects both to the realities of timeline, data, and capital.
The result is advisory that functions the way your company needs to operate: as a coherent system, not a collection of parts.
The Team
Ben Cicora
Ag tech executive with 20+ years of commercial scale-up experience across crop protection and biologicals, including leadership roles at Agrium, Bayer, and Dow, and most recently as SVP of Commercial at Vestaron. Brings an entrepreneurial mindset to every stage of growth: building teams, shaping market strategy, and turning innovation into durable, globally competitive businesses.
Matt Orr, Ph.D.
Biotech executive with 20+ years spanning R&D and global regulatory leadership across multinational and venture-backed companies, including BASF and most recently as VP of Regulatory at Vestaron. Operates at the strategic architecture layer, aligning regulatory trajectory with commercialization planning and long-term enterprise value.
Marco Toapanta, Ph.D.
Product development and marketing leader with 26+ years of accomplishments spanning crop protection and crop productivity. Built and led teams at Bayer, Syngenta, and DuPont Pioneer, launching both conventional and biological products from development through global commercialization.
What We Are (and What We Are Not)
We operate exclusively at the strategic and architectural level. We are not a contract research organization, a regulatory submissions shop, a staffing firm, or a general management consultancy.
This boundary is deliberate. It preserves the quality of our advisory, ensures every engagement is led by founding principals, and means we can focus entirely on the decisions that determine whether your technology reaches market efficiently, or doesn’t.
60+ years of executive experience. Three principals. One integrated practice.