I have known Lance Houghton since 2000, and worked intensively with him in Tanzania from 2000 to 2007. 
The relationship was that I was the Project Manager for Siemens Telecommunications rolling out a full network deployment for Vodafone, while maintaining the installed network as it grew. Lance's company provided logistical, deployment and maintenance support to this Program at a level which resulted in them being awarded all of the work over their competition within two years. 

My most enduring memories of Lance was his uncanny ability to progress an argument between a group of extremely strong willed and vociferous individuals to a reasoned debate, and a list of agreed outcomes, which was to everyone's benefit. This was achieved while being the least vociferous, and, most often, guiding the feuds to solutions based on what Lance sensibly had decided was in the common good, taking a number of practicalities, many of which were not in his field of expertise, into careful consideration. Lance was able to apply this ability from manual labourers to board level.

Due to the close proximity, and the trying circumstances of working under the conditions that presented themselves, I often turned to Lance for support outside the scope of the projects, where his acumen, empathy and well honed common sense proved to be invaluable.

While it was a working relationship, Lance, and his colleagues at the time, made it feel more like a friendship with a mutually beneficial goal.

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Billy Adams

IT Communications Manager