Chris Hale is the Founder and CEO of Klear, the Capital Intelligence platform giving U.S. manufacturers, defense suppliers, and GovCon companies real-time visibility and control over the working capital already trapped in their supply chains. A serial entrepreneur, Hale has built his career around a simple instinct: find the friction point in a complex system and design a smarter way through it. Before founding Klear, Hale co-founded Perigon Wealth Management, an RIA that grew to serve hundreds of families across the country, where he served as COO. That decade in financial services gave him a front-row view of how capital actually moves, and how often good businesses stall not from lack of demand, but from lack of access to the cash they've already earned. Klear was built to close that gap. Hale holds a Bachelor's degree in Biology and English from Williams College, a combination that shows up in how he works: rigorous with data, but never losing the narrative, the "why" behind the numbers. He's driven by the belief that technology, applied well, can meaningfully change outcomes for the builders rebuilding America's industrial base.