Board & Staff
Mr. Craig M. Mullaney
Craig Mullaney is Chief of Staff and Strategic Advisor at Coherent (NYSE: COHR), a global leader in materials, networking, and lasers for the industrial, communications, electronics, and instrumentation markets. An entrepreneurial leader and multi-disciplinary executive, Craig has successfully led organizations of all sizes in the defense, corporate, and public sectors. Before joining Coherent in 2024, Craig previously held executive roles at the Brunswick Group, Meta and Ustream (acquired by IBM). Earlier in his career, he served as an Airborne Ranger-qualified infantry officer in the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division. His book about his experience leading troops in Afghanistan, The Unforgiving Minute, was a New York Times bestseller, a Washington Post “Best Book of the Year,” and one of the Military Times’s “Best Military Books of the Decade.” Craig later served on President Obama’s 2008 campaign staff and as a senior official at the Pentagon and USAID. Craig is a distinguished graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and holds two master’s degrees from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar.