The Team
Lance Collins / The Visionary
Lance Collins, beverage industry innovator and brand architect known for making the right product for the moment – and making it accessible to the masses. Lance has created a series of disruptive beverage companies – three have reached a billion dollars in retail sales and the others are well on their way.
In early 2021, Lance set out to create a more sustainable, plant-based plastic option for the plastics industry to aid consumers purchasing needs, while also contributing to a better and cleaner environment. He did so after developing a unique supply chain in Asia to make ZENWTR® bottles from 100% OCEAN-BOUND PLASTIC in 2019 & launching it in the USA with the company’s mission of rescuing bottles from entering the oceans & helping to preserve the oceans, reefs & marine life.
He’s assembled a dynamic team working with industry experts to achieve his mission of green, bio-based plastic packaging.
James B. Fields II, PhD / The Scientist
James is a materials science expert, who has over a decade of experience in polymers. During this time, he has worked on thin-film coatings, extrusion blow-molding, and optically-active additives for packaging materials and spectrometer systems.
James completed his PhD in Chemical and Materials Physics at the University of California, Irvine in 2017, while working on supercomputer simulations of biopolymers. He was a Senior Scientist at TruClear Global where he developed digital display technologies using conductive polymer coatings and nanoscale composites. He started Nano X Labs in late 2019 with the mission to bring optically-active nanoparticle composites to the food and beverage packaging industry.
He joined Beyond Plastic in 2023 as the R&D and Production Manager, where he brings his expertise in product development to find new applications of biopolymers and to ensure that all of Beyond Plastic products are manufactured to the highest quality standards.