John C. Hodge serves as Independent Director of the Company. Mr. Hodge has been a member of the Board of Directors since October 2018. He is a founding partner of private-equity firm Rubicon Technology Partners, which he joined in 2012. Prior to that, Mr. Hodge was a Senior Advisor and Senior Managing Director with Blackstone Group, a private equity firm, from 2006 to 2011. From 1998 to February 2006, Mr. Hodge was Senior Advisor, Managing Director and Global Head of Corporate Finance of the Technology Group of Credit Suisse First Boston. He also previously held positions at Morgan Stanley and Robertson Stephens. Mr. Hodge has spent more than 25 years as an investor in and advisor to the global semiconductor and technology industry. Mr. Hodge’s qualifications to serve as a director include his years of experience in private equity, corporate finance, and merger and acquisition transactions and his extensive experience as a director of semiconductor companies, including Silicon Image, Inc. from 2007 to 2014 and Freescale Semiconductor, Ltd. from 2008 to 2011. He brings to the Company’s Board of Directors his financial expertise and his work as a private equity investor analyzing and focusing on creating long-term value through operational improvements utilizing a repeatable process driven approach.
As the Independent Director of Cree, the total compensation of John Hodge at Cree is $225,606. There are 5 executives at Cree getting paid more, with Gregg Lowe having the highest compensation of $6,778,360.
John Hodge is 53, he's been the Independent Director of Cree since 2018. There are 7 older and 1 younger executives at Cree. The oldest executive at Cree, Inc. is Glenda Dorchak, 66, who is the Independent Director.
John's mailing address filed with the SEC is 4600 Silicon Dr, Durham, NC 27703, USA.
Over the last 22 years, insiders at Cree have traded over $98,830,164 worth of Cree stock and bought 151,678 units worth $3,696,534 . The most active insiders traders include Thomas H Werner, Charles M Swoboda, eJohn W Palmour. On average, Cree executives and independent directors trade stock every 37 days with the average trade being worth of $2,314,671. The most recent stock trade was executed by Duy Loan T Le on 23 August 2021, trading 1,000 units of CREE stock currently worth $84,610.
Cree is an innovator of Wolfspeed® power and radio frequency (RF) semiconductors and lighting class LEDs. Cree's Wolfspeed product families include silicon carbide materials, power-switching devices and RF devices targeted for applications such as electric vehicles, fast charging inverters, power supplies, telecom and military and aerospace. Cree's LED product families include blue and green LED chips, high-brightness LEDs and lighting-class power LEDs targeted for indoor and outdoor lighting, video displays, transportation and specialty lighting applications.
Cree executives and other stock owners filed with the SEC include: