Chuck Lannon

Chuck Lannon is an entrepreneur, active angel investor, seasoned Board member, and early investor in PostProcess. He was a co-founder of Buffalo-based Sovran Self Storage (now Life Storage, NYSE, with a market cap of $8B) and served on the Life Storage Board from 1995 until his retirement from the Board in 2021.

In 1995, he co-founded Northtowns Imaging, Inc. (now Great Lakes Medical Imaging), a medical diagnostic imaging company that was sold in 1999. From 2009 to 2015, Lannon was Vice Chairman of the Board for Kinex Pharmaceuticals LLC (now known as Athenex, Inc. NASDAQ) which began publicly trading in 2017. Since 2013 he has served on the board of Royal Oak Realty Trust Inc., a private REIT, where he is the Lead Independent Director. Lannon also currently serves as the President of consulting firm Strategic Advisory, which advises companies on capital and financial guidance and transactions.

His collective experience allows him to provide the Board of Directors with significant assistance related to investor relations, marketing, corporate governance trends, auditing functions, corporate compensation, as well as strategic and transactional matters.