Clear Align Management

Angelique has 23 years of professional experience focused on technology driven businesses. Her experience includes successful corporate and entrepreneurial business launches at companies including Clear Align, Coviant, NEC, AT&T Microelectronics, and AT&T Bell Laboratories.

Angelique leads Clear Align, a company that designs, prototypes, and manufactures custom imaging, sensing, and fiber-optic systems for defense and aerospace customers. Clear Align’s imaging expertise spans the UV, visible, NIR, SWIR, MWIR, and LWIR portions of the spectrum, delivering both narrow- and wide wide-field-of-view systems. The company’s fiber-optic and sensing expertise includes optical integration for communications, remote sensing and targeting, as well as for medical applications. Under Irvin’s leadership, Clear Align has earned a multitude of growth and technology awards including the Inc. 500™, the Deloitte Technology Fast 500™, and the SBA Minority Entrepreneur of the Year award.

Prior to Clear Align, Angelique founded and built Coviant, a world-class electro-optics manufacturing company serving tier-one customers such as Intel, Unilever, Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin. She developed the intellectual property strategies that aligned the company with fortune 500 technology partners such as Agilent and Rohm and Haas. Angelique was responsible for a new product launch at AT&T Bell Laboratories where she led a team that built out optical assembly facilities and developed new markets for a $500 million product line.

Angelique graduated with honors from Alfred University, with a Bachelor's degree in Ceramic Engineering and earned an MBA from the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania. Angelique is currently a regular speaker and an Entrepreneur in Residence at The Wharton School and teaches others how to build technology companies.

J. Michael Finlan, Ph. D.
Vice President Imaging

Dr. Finlan has over 30 years experience in optics and laser engineering. At Clear Align, Mike is the program manager for the development of a proprietary, high-power, pulsed, fiber-optic laser designed for implementation in laser rangefinding, ladar imaging, robotics, and altimetry applications. He develops new system designs for imaging applications that include wide-angle, infrared, and polarization-dependent missions. He fills the lead role on all Government opportunities and has been instrumental in establishing Clear Align’s first medical sensing program.

Dr. Finlan was Business Development Manager at Special Optics, Inc., a Senior Laser Engineer at GE, and a cofounder and Director of the Photonics Division of LSA, Inc., where he was Program Manager on 24 SBIR contracts. At Special Optics, Mike led the company into its first SBIR contracts, one of which resulted in the development of the world’s largest refractive zoom lens for use in missile tracking at distances up to 100 km. At Lucent, Mike was a project leader in product development of high-power fiber-optic lasers that used pump powers as high as 35 W and produced about 20 W at 1100 nm. As co-founder and Director of Photonics at LSA, he was responsible for the development and application of innovative optical technologies with emphasis on optical remote sensing, optical beam steering, liquid-crystal devices, free-space laser communications, laser radar, binary optics, optical phased arrays, wavefront characterization, and miniature optical design. Mike was the Technical Director of Communications Engineering for the SDI/BMD Systems Engineering & Integration Program for GE and the Principal Investigator and Program Manager on the Phase Sensing & Control subcontract on the Air Force Phillips Lab PILOT External Cavity Program. Mike established and directed the Diode Array Technology laboratory at GE Astro Space, where he led projects in binary optics, optical phase sensing, optical phased arrays, holography, liquid crystals, laser communications, and high-power lasers. At SAIC, Mike designed, built, and tested Nd:glass slab lasers as an on-site consultant at the Army Night Vision & Electro-Optics Laboratory at Ft. Belvoir, VA.

Mike earned a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from The Johns Hopkins University, an M. S. in Optics from the University of Rochester, and a B.S. in Chemistry from Clarkson University. He has authored or co-authored over 40 papers and is a member of the Optical Society of America and SPIE.

Robert W. Irvin
Vice President of Manufacturing

Mr. Irvin has over 20 years experience focused on optical and optoelectronic device technology, high-tech manufacturing, and technology management. Prior to Clear Align, Bob was the Vice President of Engineering for Coviant, an optical manufacturing company, where he built and led all aspects of the engineering and manufacturing operations.  At Lucent Technologies, Mr. Irvin served as the program manager for several cutting-edge photonics businesses including lithium niobate 2.5 Gbps and 10 Gbps modulators, lithium niobate optical switch arrays, and silicon switch and DWDM devices that generated over $500 million dollars in annual revenue.  Bob is a certified Project Manager with hands-on experience in new product development, high-volume manufacturing, facility expansions, relocation of production lines, and outsource manufacturing.  Bob was a key player responsible for both the automation and outsourcing strategies at Lucent Technologies, where he won the prestigious AT&T Bell Laboratories Presidents Gold Award for his contributions to lithium niobate optical switching technology and also the AT&T Bell Laboratories Quality Award.  Mr. Irvin received a B. S. degree in Physics from Ursinus College and has authored or co-authored 8 papers and 8 patents and pending patents relating to optoelectronic components.

Brigadier General Ralph Pasini,
Vice President of Military Applications

Brigadier General Ralph Pasini has over 30 years of experience developing and coordinating military technologies for the US Department of Defense.   General Pasini brings key experience in navigating the Department of Defense as well as a range of executive level contacts in both the Department of Defense and within prime contractors.  He is responsible for increasing sales channels, providing key introductions, and facilitating discussions with key customers.

Brigadier General Ralph Pasini is an active advisor and consultant to the U. S. government and NATO.  He retired in 1999 from his position as the Vice Director, Operational Plans and Interoperability Directorate (J-7), and Deputy Director for Military Education, the Joint Staff, Washington, D.C. General Pasini was responsible for a staff that coordinates conventional war plans; develops joint doctrine and implements Joint Vision 2010; monitors joint training and exercises; coordinates joint professional military education; and evaluates and analyzes joint exercises. General Pasini entered the Air Force in 1970 and served as Operations Officer and Squadron Commander of the 668th Bomb Squadron, Griffiss Air Force Base; Assistant Deputy Commander for Maintenance, Deputy Commander for Operations, and Vice Commander of the 96th Bomb Wing, Dyess Air Force Base; Commander of the 5th Bomb Wing, Minot Air Force Base; and Deputy Director of the Allied Command Europe Reaction Force Air Staff, NATO, Kalkar.

Laura E. Hasen
Controller

Ms. Hasen has over 20 years of experience as a controller and accounting executive. Prior to Clear Align Ms. Hasen was the controller for Le-Jo Enterprises, Inc, The Altek Group, and was an accounting executive for WC Foreign Car and Crystal Construction. Le-Jo Enterprises, Inc is a large diversified manufacture, designer and developer of high volume products for the foodservice, consumer, industrial and church markets. While at Le-Jo, Ms. Hasen secured significant financing. The Altek Group, an INC 500 company, which was comprised of multiple companies, all of which required ongoing accounting assistance, supervisions and analysis. As a result of such, subsidiary companies are dissolved and others developed in accordance with corporate profitability objectives. She developed systems for and supervised the daily operations of the accounting department. Ms. Hasen managed all the daily operations for WC Foreign Car and Crystal Construction. She has extensive experience in overseeing construction projects.