Senior finance leadership in a deeply technical, engineering-driven business in photonics, semiconductors, advanced manufacturing, aerospace systems, or comparable hard-tech industries, with fluency in manufacturing economics, yield, capacity investment, and long product development cycles. Lead equity and debt financing across the capital structure, including institutional and strategic equity, commercial and structured credit, project finance, and government funding vehicles (e.g., DoD industrial-base programs, Title III, grants, and cooperative agreements).