Lance Ignon
Lance serves as head of the firm’s San Francisco/Bay Area office, where he has worked on a wide variety of cases involving crisis communications, litigation support, campaign support, restructurings, mergers and acquisitions and general reputation management. As a journalist, he served as a finance editor and reporter for Investor’s Business Daily, a business reporter for the Los Angeles Times, a foreign correspondent for Bloomberg Business News and The Economist Group and as the founding editor of an award-winning business newspaper, The Business Press. Prior to rejoining Sitrick in 2007, he served as Vice President, Corporate Affairs, for VaxGen, Inc., where as an executive officer he was responsible for corporate, government and financial communications as well as capital formation for this high-profile biotechnology company. During his tenure, VaxGen announced the results of the first Phase III trial of an HIV/AIDS vaccine, an event that ranks among the most widely covered medical stories of the decade. He also managed a team of political consultants and lobbied for the company on Capitol Hill on issues related to the nation’s biodefense program. Prior to joining VaxGen, he served as Director, Corporate Communications, for Tenet Healthcare Corp. He holds a Master’s from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.