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Dr. Joseph Forkey brings over thirty years of experience in inter-disciplinary optical technology in the medical device and defense / aerospace markets in both academic and industrial settings. Joe is responsible for setting the overall strategic direction of the company and ensuring that appropriate resources are available and properly deployed to achieve corporate goals.
Joining POC in 2003, Joe took over as CEO in 2011 and has built and led a highly competent team of technology, business, and manufacturing experts to achieve significant company growth through increased customer engagement and targeted acquisitions. He continues to be engaged in understanding advances in optical and imaging technologies and commercial market dynamics to pursue strategic partnerships and to translate new technical opportunities into next-generation products that enable advanced customer requirements and business growth.
Wayne Coll is Precision Optics Corporation’s Chief Financial Officer, with a career spanning more than 30 years. Wayne is an experienced public company CFO, with extensive experience driving business models of medical device manufacturing companies, executing strategic M&A activities, and managing access to capital markets.
Prior to Precision Optics Corporation, Wayne served as CFO at Flowonix Medical Incorporated. Prior to Flowonix, he was CFO at Micron Solutions, a publicly traded medical devices and contract manufacturer from; Keystone Dental, a manufacturer of dental implants; Modern Dental Laboratory USA, a division of Modern Dental Group Ltd; Pluromed, a medical device company acquired by Genzyme/Sanofi; and National Dentex Corporation, a publicly traded dental laboratory where he spent over 20 years in a variety of senior finance roles including the last 5 years as CFO.
Mahesh Lawande is Precision Optics Corporation’s Chief Operating Officer, responsible for product development, manufacturing, supply chain, sales and marketing and quality assurance & regulatory affairs. He joined the company in April 2023 with over 25 years of international leadership experience in our key end markets of medical devices and aerospace/defense. His expertise includes scaling operations and delivering efficient growth through product development & commercialization, manufacturing & supply chain, new product introduction, Lean and operations excellence.
Prior to Precision Optics Corporation, Mahesh was the VP of Manufacturing & Operations at Third Pole Therapeutics, a developer of cardio-pulmonary therapies, and before that, the Director of Operations at the Peabody, MA headquarters site of Analogic Corporation, a global manufacturer of life-saving medical and aviation security imaging systems. From 1995 through 2019, Mahesh held various operations and engineering roles in USA/India with Draeger and Siemens, most recently as Senior Director of Supply Chain Operations for North America at Draeger Medical Systems, Inc., a global manufacturer of medical devices and industrial safety products.
As President of Ross Optical Industries, a division of Precision Optics Corporation, Divi Mangadu brings his 25+ years of experience in Optics sourcing and manufacturing to oversee all aspects of sales & marketing, supply chain, manufacturing, and quality assurance.
Divi is both a skilled mechanical engineer and an entrepreneurial leader in precision manufacturing. For more than 20 years, Divi has worked with primes and OEMs to reduce supply chain risk and cost while ensuring optimal product performance. He is committed to continually improving product design and quality assurance for customers.
Clay Schwabe serves as Vice President of Sales and Marketing and ensures customer needs are met at every stage of their engagement with the company.
Clay has over fifteen years of experience in medical device market access, sales, sales management, global product marketing, and commercialization. He is an emerging technologies specialist with experience in early-stage commercialization of minimally invasive surgical products and procedures. Most recently, he served as VP Business Development, Commercial Strategy, CRO, and Market Access of Veranex. From 2021 to 2023, he was VP Sales / Business Development – Early Commercial and Market access for PRIA Healthcare where he built up the business development team to include sales operations, marketing, and field operations. From 2016 to 2021 he was an Area Manager with Vertiflex, which was acquired by Boston Scientific in 2019, and from 2007 to 2016 he was the marketing manager and interventional sales consultant at Medtronic.
Clay is a graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point having served as a United States Army Captain, Platoon Leader, Battalion Staff Officer, Army World Class Athlete Program.
As the Vice President of Engineering at Precision Optics, Jon Everett leads the team responsible for Product Development from concept through production, delivering innovative, practical optical and electronic imaging system designs that take manufacturability, timeline, and budget into account.
Jon has spent his entire 30+ year career in the optics industry, holding positions in technical leadership, program management, and product development for suppliers and manufacturers of electro-optical products for military, medical, industrial, and commercial applications.
Richard Cyr’s 40 years of optics experience contributes to his outstanding ability to manage the optics laboratory at Precision Optics Corporation. He oversees all Optics Lab inquiries and provides superior technical assistance to customers.
Before joining the Precision Optics’ team in 1995, Richard’s optics expertise led him to work on history-making projects. His experiences include the Hubble Space Telescope repair mission and contributions to the Star Wars program and the National Ignition Facility – to name just a few.
Colin Sheridan is Precision Optics Corporation’s Senior Director of Operations, overseeing our manufacturing facilities in ME & MA to ensure that products are manufactured with optimal quality, cost, and delivery. He is responsible for supply chain management, material planning & procurement, inventory management, manufacturing, and new product introduction, and drives the implementation of Lean manufacturing and continuous improvement tools and methods.
Colin has spent his entire 20+ year career in operations, supply chain and operational excellence. He joined us in 2021, as the Director of Operations at our ME site. Prior to that, he held multiple technical program/project management & operations management roles from 2008 to 2021 at Millipore Sigma in the USA and Netherlands. Earlier experiences span operations strategy consulting, six sigma implementation, and quality engineering roles at IBM Netherland BV, Rockwell Automation BV, Seagate Technology International & CTS Corporation in various EU locations starting from 1991.
As the Director of Human Resources, Stephanie Hansen develops strategies and systems to maintain and improve employee engagement through performance management, succession planning, learning and development as well as change management and employee development.
Stephanie has over 25 years of experience in human resource management through leadership roles at multiple companies such as ADP TotalSource, 1A Auto and Seldin Company.
As the Director of the Program Management Office at Precision Optics, William Dionne is responsible for managing the execution of product development programs from concept through production, and working with the engineering team to deliver innovative, practical vision systems while working to minimize timeline, and budget to our clients.
Will has spent his entire 15+ year career in the defense, medical and consumer product industries. During that time, Will held positions in design, technical leadership, program management, and manufacturing support for suppliers and manufacturers of electro-mechanical, electro-optical, noise suppression, and automation products for military, aerospace, medical, industrial, and commercial applications.
Precision Optics Corporation
22 East Broadway
Gardner, MA 01440 USA
Tel: 978-630-1800
sales@poci.com
POC divisions:
Lighthouse Optics
Ross Optical