Executive Vice President &
Chief Technology Officer

Angel Technologies Corp.

Dr. Nicholas J. Colella is the Chief Technology Officer and an Executive Vice President of Angel Technologies Corporation. In prior years, he held senior technical and leadership positions at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He invented the RAPTOR/TALON theater ballistic missile defense concept and served as DOD’s executing agent for pioneering low-cost, high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft, high mass fraction kinetic kill interceptors, electro-optics and RF/laser communications systems. He co-created Brilliant Pebbles, led LLNL’s spacecraft design and survivability projects, and developed ultra-wide-field-of-view (one-steradian) cameras employing spherically concentric refractive optics for tracking satellites and space objects. He is a founding partner of an electronics multi-chip module company and the National Robotics Engineering Consortium at Carnegie Mellon. Dr. Colella received his Ph.D. in Physics at Carnegie Mellon in 1986.