Blake A. Welcher J.D. serves as Independent Director of the Company. Mr. Welcher currently serves as Vice President, Legal (previously General Counsel) for PSI Services LLC, an assessment and testing development and administration company. Mr. Welcher served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of DTS, Inc. (“DTS”), a consumer electronics company, until December 2016, when DTS was sold to Tessera Technologies. Mr. Welcher had been a member of the DTS executive team since March 2000. As General Counsel at DTS, he managed the licensing operations and was instrumental in building key assets that have led to DTS’ success. Mr. Welcher led DTS’ legal licensing functions, collaborated with key partners and worked to establish DTS as a global name in consumer electronics. Mr. Welcher holds a bachelor’s degree in Aeronautical Engineering from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, a Juris Doctorate and Masters of Intellectual Property degree from Franklin Pierce Law Center (University of New Hampshire School of Law) and is a U.S. licensed Patent Attorney. Mr. Welcher brings more than 20 years of industry experience to Netlist’s Board of Directors with his extensive background in worldwide licensing operations, corporate governance, risk management, intellectual property and legal affairs.
As the Independent Director of Netlist, the total compensation of Blake Welcher at Netlist is $70,800. There are 4 executives at Netlist getting paid more, with Chun Hong having the highest compensation of $782,490.
Blake Welcher is 58, he's been the Independent Director of Netlist since 2013. There are 6 older and no younger executives at Netlist. The oldest executive at Netlist, Inc. is Kiho Choi, 64, who is the Independent Director.
Blake's mailing address filed with the SEC is C/O NETLIST, INC., 51 DISCOVERY, SUITE 150, IRVINE, CA, 92618.
Over the last 18 years, insiders at Netlist have traded over $20,396,855 worth of Netlist stock and bought 100,000 units worth $79,000 . The most active insiders traders include Chun K Hong, Gail M Sasaki und David Rickey. On average, Netlist executives and independent directors trade stock every 78 days with the average trade being worth of $197,417. The most recent stock trade was executed by Gail M Sasaki on 12 August 2024, trading 8,183 units of NLST stock currently worth $10,229.
Netlist, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells modular memory subsystems for the server, high-performance computing, and communications markets worldwide. It offers HybriDIMM, a storage class memory product, which unifies dynamic random access memory (DRAM) and NAND flash in a plug-and-play module delivering terabyte storage capacities operating at nanosecond memory speeds. The company also provides nonvolatile (NV) memory products, such as NVvault DDR4 NVDIMM that provides data acceleration and protection in a joint electron device engineering council standard DDR4 interface; and specialty DIMMs and embedded flash products for use in data center and industrial applications. It resells solid state drive (SSD), NAND flash, DRAM products, and other component products to storage customers, appliance customers, system builders, and cloud and datacenter customers; and sells component inventory to distributors and other users of memory integrated circuits. The company markets and sells its products primarily to original equipment manufacturers through a direct sales force and a network of independent sales representatives. Netlist, Inc. was incorporated in 2000 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.
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