Catharine Merigold serves as Independent Director of the Company. Ms. Merigold has been investing in and advising high-growth technology businesses for over 20 years as a venture capitalist. She was a Vice President at Centennial Ventures from 1992 to 1994, and then founded and has been the managing partner of Vista Ventures, a venture firm specializing in investing in software, digital media and network sectors, since January 2000. Prior to founding Vista Ventures, Ms. Merigold served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of University Technology Corporation, a company that managed all technology transfer and associated equity holdings for the University of Colorado system, from 1999 to 2000, and as Vice President of Marketing and Sales for US West Wireless. She began her career at Hewlett-Packard Company, serving in a variety of technical, marketing and sales management roles, including several years spent in Europe. Ms. Merigold has served on a number of corporate boards, including as a board observer for Market Force Information, Inc., a provider of customer intelligence solutions to large consumer companies, a board member of P2Binvestor, Inc., a crowd lending platform providing asset based lines of credit to businesses, and a board member of the Colorado Technology Association, and currently serves as a board member of University License Equity Holdings Inc. (ULEHI), which manages all the equity holdings associated with technology transfer of the University of Colorado. Ms. Merigold holds a B.S. in electrical engineering, with honors, from Washington University in St. Louis and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
As the Independent Director of AeroVironment, the total compensation of Catharine Merigold at AeroVironment is $180,955. There are 16 executives at AeroVironment getting paid more, with Wahid Nawabi having the highest compensation of $3,056,940.
Catharine Merigold is 64, she's been the Independent Director of AeroVironment since 2018. There are 6 older and 12 younger executives at AeroVironment. The oldest executive at AeroVironment Inc. is Stephen Page, 80, who is the Independent Director.
Catharine's mailing address filed with the SEC is 241 18TH STREET SOUTH, SUITE #415, ARLINGTON, VA, 22202.
Over the last 18 years, insiders at AeroVironment have traded over $140,758,939 worth of AeroVironment stock and bought 55,000 units worth $1,015,621 . The most active insiders traders include Timothy E Conver, Edward R Muller a Stephen F Page. On average, AeroVironment executives and independent directors trade stock every 16 days with the average trade being worth of $1,987,644. The most recent stock trade was executed by Kevin Patrick Mc Donnell on 3 September 2024, trading 396 units of AVAV stock currently worth $77,703.
since aerovironment's beginnings more than 45 years ago, our scientists and engineers have sought innovative solutions to many of our most difficult security, energy and infrastructure management challenges. but as remarkable as our products are, it's the actionable intelligence they provide our customers that most clearly defines our company. from the moment we developed our breakthrough unmanned aircraft systems, we understood their primary benefit—giving people the ability to see the situation ahead. with aerovironment's sophisticated eyes in the sky, we could provide life-saving intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance for our troops on the battlefield. today, aerovironment has become the acknowledged expert and largest supplier of small, unmanned aircraft systems (uas) to the pentagon and to dozens of allied nations. as effective as our small uas have become on the battlefront, they promise to be equally life-saving on the home front. aerovironment's family of integrated and
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