
Founding Partner
Lorrie Lynn
Founding Partner. Operations, Manufacturing & International Contracts
Fifteen years in international and government contracts. Director of Operations & Manufacturing for a U.S. ammunition manufacturer scaled to acquisition-ready.
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Lorrie Lynn is a Founding Partner at Brass & Bench with fifteen years in international and government contracts and direct experience scaling a U.S. ammunition manufacturer to acquisition-ready as its Director of Operations & Manufacturing. She speaks ITAR, EAR, ATF, FMS, DCS, and foreign police procurement fluently. On every engagement, Lorrie is the partner who reads every record and walks every documented procedure against the floor reality, finding the gaps before a registrar, an ATF inspector, or a buyer's due-diligence team finds them.
Lorrie ran ops and manufacturing at HMT through the buildout that made the company an acquisition target. She knows what it takes. Operationally, administratively, and on paper. To get a manufacturer from a chaotic working business to a buyer-ready company.
She speaks ITAR, EAR, ATF, FMS, DCS, and foreign police procurement fluently. She has held responsibility for the production floor and the documentation that has to defend it. She has seen the gap between what a QMS document says and what the floor actually does. From both sides of it, as the operator who wrote the procedures and as the leader who had to reconcile them with the way the line actually ran on a Tuesday afternoon.
On your engagement, Lorrie is the partner reading every record, walking every documented procedure with the floor reality alongside it, and identifying the gaps before a registrar, an ATF inspector, or a buyer's due-diligence team finds them. She is also the partner who knows how to win the international or government contract most mid-market manufacturers leave on the table because nobody on staff knows the doors to knock on.
If your business is going to be sold in the next twenty-four months, Lorrie is the partner who will tell you what a buyer is going to find before the buyer finds it. If your business needs to qualify for DoD subtier work or open a foreign military sales channel, Lorrie is the partner who knows the path.
Specializes In
- Ammunition and firearms manufacturing operations
- ISO 9001, AS9100, IATF 16949, ISO 13485, and CMMC documentation-to-floor reality checks
- International and government contracting
- Foreign Military Sales and Direct Commercial Sales
- ITAR, EAR, and ATF compliance
- Administrative systems
- Acquisition readiness
Signature Move
Finds the documentation-to-floor gap that would have cost ownership their certification. Or their sale. Within forty-eight hours of being onsite.