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Initial board director appointments

Company: Applied Digital

Subject kind
personnel
Statement date
2026-02-16
Current status
stated

The claim, verbatim

The initial APLD Designees to the combined company's Board are Wes Cummins (Chairman), Jason Zhang, Ella Benson, and Richard Nottenburg

Source (primary)

Applied Digital DEFA14A filed 2026-02-17 (SEC EDGAR, sec_filing)
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Quote: “The initial APLD Designees, as of the Closing, are expected to be Wes Cummins (Chairman), Jason Zhang, Ella Benson and Richard Nottenburg”

How we checked this

Attempted on September 16, 2026. We could not read enough of the cited source to check this claim.

The verification run did not return a result for this claim (claude -p exit 1: b'').

What we did: Read our cached copy of SEC EDGAR (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1144879/000149315226006901/formdefa14a.htm) in full (22,278 characters, retrieved August 31, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.

Additional evidence

confirms Applied Digital DEFA14A filed 2026-02-17

Quote: “The initial APLD Designees, as of the Closing, are expected to be Wes Cummins (Chairman), Jason Zhang, Ella Benson and Richard Nottenburg”

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