Company: VLDXW
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-060611
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Company: Velo3D, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form: DEF 14A
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un Jeldi - Chief Executive Officer and Director For information on Mr. Jeldi’s biography, please see “Proposal No. 1 Election of Directors-Continuing Directors.” Hull Xu - Chief Financial Officer Mr. Xu was appointed as our Chief Financial Officer and principal financial officer on April 24, 2024. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Xu served as Chief Financial Officer at Cepton, Inc., a provider of lidar-based solutions for automotive and other applications, or Cepton, from April 2022 to January 2024, and VP of Finance and Strategy at Cepton Technologies, Inc., Cepton’s predecessor, from January 2021 to April 2022. Prior to Cepton, Mr. Xu served as a director at RBC Capital Markets, LLC from November 2015 to January 2021. Mr. Xu holds an M.B.A. from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Davis. Bradley Kreger- Chief Operating Officer Mr. Kreger was appointed as our Chief Operating Officer on December 24, 2024 and served as a member of our Board from January 2024 to April 2025. He was our Interim Chief Executive Officer from December 2023 to June 2024 and our Chief Executive Officer from June 2024 to December 2024. He also served as Executive Vice President of Operations from December 2022 to December 2023. Prior to joining us, he served as Senior Vice President, Global Operations at Fluidigm Corporation (now known as Standard BioTools Inc.), a manufacturing company for biological research equipment, from April 2018 to October 2022, and as Senior Director, Operations, Clinical Sequencing Division at Thermo Fisher Scientific, a supplier of laboratory and scientific products and services, from December 2016 to March 2018, and from October 2013 to December 2016, Vice President, Reagent Manufacturing at Affymetrix Incorporated, a manufacturing company for biological research equipment. Mr. Kreger holds a B.S. in Biotechnology and Business from Charter Oak State College and an M.S. in Management and Leadership and an M.B.A. from Western Governors University. We believe Mr. Kreger is qualified to serve on the Board because of his broad operational and managerial experience at public manufacturing companies.

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