The Excelitas Senior Executive team provides strong, effective leadership, combining industry expertise with strategic business acumen to drive performance and innovation excellence. With an unwavering commitment to our global base of customers, employees, and investors, they continue to build on the company's long-standing tradition of delivering market-leading photonic solutions.
Get to know our Executive Leadership Team.
David Nislick is the Chief Executive Officer for Excelitas Technologies Corp.
Prior to being named CEO of Excelitas Technologies, Mr. Nislick served as the president of the Illumination and Detection Solutions (IDS) business unit of PerkinElmer. As part of Veritas Capital’s acquisition of PerkinElmer’s IDS business unit in November 2010, Mr. Nislick was appointed CEO of the newly re-launched company.
As president of IDS, Mr. Nislick had management responsibility for the $300 million business unit, which included specialty lighting, sensors and other high-performance products for a variety of medical, analytical, energy-conserving, industrial, safety and security, and aerospace and defense applications. Prior to the creation of IDS in late 2008, Mr. Nislick held various leadership positions within PerkinElmer, including President of the Lighting business and Vice President of Business Development for PerkinElmer Optoelectronics.
Prior to joining PerkinElmer, Mr. Nislick held senior marketing and corporate development roles with Corning Incorporated, Oak Industries and Axsun Technologies.
He holds a B.A. in Economics from Middlebury College and Master’s and Doctorate Degrees in Business Economics from Harvard Business School.
Jim Rao is the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Excelitas Technologies Corp.
Prior to joining Excelitas, Mr. Rao served as the CFO of the Illumination and Detection Solutions (IDS) business unit of PerkinElmer. As part of Veritas Capital’s acquisition of PerkinElmer’s IDS business unit in November 2010, he retained his position in the newly re-launched company.
Mr. Rao served from 2005 to 2009 as the CFO for TransMedics, Inc., a venture-backed medical technology company. Prior to joining TransMedics, he held senior finance and business development roles with Hewlett Packard, Philips and Medtronic. He also worked in the corporate finance group at Deloitte & Touche.
Mr. Rao holds a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from Babson College.
Paul Igoe is Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Secretary for Excelitas Technologies Corp.
Prior to joining Excelitas in August 2018, for five and a half years Mr. Igoe served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of SS&C Technologies, Inc., a Windsor, Connecticut headquartered provider of financial software and services. From 2009 to 2012, Mr. Igoe was Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Lydall, Inc., a Manchester, Connecticut-based manufacturer of filtration media and thermal/acoustical products. From 2001 to 2009, Mr. Igoe served as Associate General Counsel and Assistant Secretary to Teradyne, Inc., a manufacturer of automatic test equipment for the semi-conductor industry headquartered in North Reading, Massachusetts.
Previous to his employment at Teradyne, Mr. Igoe was a Junior Partner in the Boston office of WilmerHale.
Mr. Igoe received his Juris Doctor from the Georgetown University Law Center and his A.B. from The College of the Holy Cross.
Joel Falcone is Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer of Excelitas Technologies.
As COO, Mr. Falcone is responsible for overseeing all facets of Global Operations including Production, Supply Chain, and Operational Excellence throughout the over 20 manufacturing facilities in North America, Europe, and Asia. Additionally, Mr. Falcone provides leadership for the Customer Service and Order Management organizations worldwide.
Prior to Mr. Falcone’s role as COO, he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager for Excelitas’ Lighting business.
Mr. Falcone’s diverse leadership experience also includes executive positions at PerkinElmer as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for the Optoelectronics Business Group along with Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for the PerkinElmer Medical Imaging business. Mr. Falcone has also held numerous leadership positions with Philips, Hitachi, and RF Micro Devices.
Mr. Falcone earned a B.S. in Finance from the University of Arizona and holds an M.B.A. from San Jose State University. He is also a Certified Six Sigma Green Belt and Certified Management Accountant.
Michael Ersoni is Executive Vice President of the Global Commercial Business of Excelitas Technologies.
Most recently, he was Senior Vice President and General Manager for Excelitas’ Detection division. Prior to his appointment with Excelitas, Mr. Ersoni held numerous leadership roles at PerkinElmer, starting in 1995. During his tenure at PerkinElmer, he served as Vice President and General Manager for PerkinElmer’s Commercial Sensors business, General Manager of the Industrial Sensors business, and has held a variety of engineering leadership and product marketing positions spanning applications engineering and new product development.
Mr. Ersoni holds an M.Eng from McMaster University and an M.B.A. from Queens University. Mr. Ersoni is a Certified Management Accountant.
Doug Benner is Executive Vice President of the Defense and Aerospace business of Excelitas Technologies.
Most recently, he was Senior Vice President and General Manager for Excelitas’ Advanced Electronic Systems division. Prior to his appointment with Excelitas, Mr. Benner spent the previous four years as the Vice President and General Manager of PerkinElmer’s military/aerospace business. Earlier, he held a variety of positions with PerkinElmer Optoelectronics including Product Platform Manager, Site Operations Leader, Multi-site Operations Leader, and Military/Aerospace Product Line Leader.
Before joining PerkinElmer in 1996, Mr. Benner was co-owner of The Laser and Photonics Center, a company specializing in laser materials processing for the industrial market. He also spent several years in manufacturing and management roles with Monsanto and EG&G. He has one patent and has authored several technical publications.
Mr. Benner holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Ohio University and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Dayton.
John Cronley is the Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at Excelitas Technologies Corp.
John Cronley is responsible for leading the company’s strategic growth initiatives with a selective focus on business development and the global acquisition program.
Prior to joining Excelitas, Mr. Cronley served as Vice President of Business Development at AMETEK, Inc. Mr. Cronley’s diverse strategic experience includes mergers and acquisitions and extensive relationship development with executive business leaders, private equity firms and investment bankers. Mr. Cronley also served as Vice President of Marketing and Program Management at Artesyn Embedded Technologies, now part of Advanced Energy and previous to that held various operating roles of expanding responsibilities at Emerson Electric.
Mr. Cronley holds an MBA from the University of Notre Dame, Mendoza College of Business and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering from Kettering University.