Lucas is the Founder of Amber Agriculture, an agtech company based in Chicago focused on helping farmers and commercial elevators manage grain assets leveraging automation. The firms' flagship product, "ACE AIR: the 'no-cables' way to manage grain like a pro," is a self-install kit to automate any grain bin.

Growing up on a sixth-generation grain farm in Central Illinois, he majored in Ag Economics and continued into MBA studies at the University of Illinois. While on campus, Lucas was elected by the student body to represent the campus of 50,000 as the Student Trustee on the University of Illinois Board of Trustees. Experiences in banking and management consulting led Lucas into early stage enterprise development in agriculture.

Lucas has been named to Forbes 30 Under 30 list and Amber Agriculture won Best Startup by Engadget at the world’s largest tech event, the Consumer Electronics Show, in Las Vegas.