Aeluma, Inc. (ALMU)

Jonathan Klamkin, age 46, has been president, chief executive and chairman of the board since the merger was completed in 2021. He has led the operating business, Biond Photonics, now Aeluma Operating Co., since it was founded in 2019, and since 2015 he has also been a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where his group works on integrated photonics and optoelectronics for communications and sensing. Earlier, from 2001 to 2002, he worked at BinOptics Corp., a laser diode maker later bought by MACOM. On the insider record this site holds he has filed as an officer and a director since 2021. 1234

Christopher Stewart, age 58, has been chief financial officer since August 2025. He was finance chief of LeddarTech Holdings Inc. from September 2023 to June 2025 and of Bionano Genomics, Inc. from 2020 to September 2023, and before that held roles at Maxwell Technologies, Entropic Communications and Intel Corporation. The seat has changed hands: on the insider record Lee McCarthy filed as chief financial officer and chief operating officer, and as an officer and a director, from 2021, and Stewart first filed in 2025. 564

The proxy statement says the board has five members. Steven P. DenBaars, a distinguished professor of materials and of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara, has sat on the operating company's board since June 5, 2021; he co-founded Nitres Inc. in 1996, bought by Cree Inc. in May 2000, and SLD Laser in 2013, bought by Kyocera Corporation in 2021. John Paglia has chaired the audit committee since November 30, 2021. Craig Ensley chairs the compensation committee and has built and led semiconductor businesses in analog and digital signal processing, sensors, communications and consumer products. Michael Byron, a director since February 24, 2025, retired as vice president of finance operations and systems at NVIDIA Corporation in December 2024, having joined it in 2002 and served 22 years, including as vice president and chief accounting officer from 2011 to 2019. 789101112

At June 30, 2026 Aeluma had 27 employees, of whom 24 were full time, and all of them lived in the United States. None of the employees or contractors is covered by a collective bargaining agreement. The insider record reaches back to 2020; the person on it with the most filings, 16, is Mark N. Tompkins, who first filed in that year. 13144