nLIGHT, Inc. (LASR)

Scott Keeney, one of the company's co-founders, has been president, chief executive officer and a director since July 2000, and chairman of the board since February 2018. Before nLIGHT he ran Aculight Corporation, a laser company that Lockheed Martin Corporation bought in 2008, and before that he was a consultant at McKinsey & Company from 1993 to 1998. Joseph Corso has been chief financial officer since March 2022; he joined the company in August 2020 as vice president of corporate development and investor relations, from the investment bank Stifel Financial Corp., where he worked from July 2010 to August 2020 and finished as global co-head of electronics and industrial technology. The proxy statement names those two as the company's executive officers; the record of insider filings adds James Nias as chief accounting officer. 1234

The board has been turning over. Gerald Haines, known as Gerry, joined in January 2026 and sits on the audit committee. Mark Hartman joined the board and the audit committee in June 2025, after sixteen years at Woodward Inc., where he was promoted to chief financial officer in 2021 and retired in 2023. Bandel Carano and Raymond Link are not standing for reelection and, the proxy says, cease to be directors when their terms expire at the annual meeting. The longer-serving members include Geoffrey Moore, a director since September 2012; Bill Gossman, a director since May 2016 and lead independent director since April 2022; Gary Locke, who was United States Ambassador to China, Secretary of Commerce and Governor of the State of Washington; and Camille Nichols, who retired as a Major General in the U.S. Army and was interim president of the subsidiary nLIGHT DEFENSE Systems, Inc. from April 2024 to December 2024. Fifteen people sit on this site's record of insider filings, eleven of them filing in the last fifteen months. 567891011124

At the end of 2025 the company counted over 800 full-time employees worldwide, about 700 of them based in the United States. Employees in Austria have the legal capacity to make collective agreements and certain employees in Finland belong to unions for their specialty; the filing says there are no unions anywhere else and that it has had no employee-led work stoppages at any of its facilities. It says it recruits and reviews people on three tests it calls Skill, Will, and Fit. 131415