Position
Vice President, Controller
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Pete Ricci leads accounting at Lila Sciences, overseeing financial operations, reporting, and systems that support the company’s growth and strategic mission.
Pete is a Certified Public Accountant with more than 15 years of global finance and accounting experience, specializing in technical accounting, internal controls and SOX implementations, complex transactions, IPO readiness, and systems implementations.
Prior to joining Lila, Pete served as Global Controller at Indigo Ag and previously worked in public accounting advising clients across multiple industries.
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4/26/2026
Blog
Scientific Superintelligence: The Deep Blue Moment
In 1997, Deep Blue defeated the world chess champion. In 2016, AlphaGo’s Move 37 showed AI could generate creative strategies no human had ever conceived. Now, in 2026, we are witnessing the equivalent moment for all of science. Companies like Lila Sciences are building AI systems that autonomously perform the scientific method (generating hypotheses, designing experiments, running physical labs, and iterating) at superhuman speed and scale.
3/20/2026
Blog
AI is not going to solve all the problems in the energy sector. But it might fix this one.
Shell's Pearl GTL plant took 40 years and $19 billion to deliver ROI — a timeline oil and gas can no longer afford. This piece explores how Lila Sciences' technology is compressing R&D cycles from decades to months through autonomous, lab-based experimentation.