Illumina Board Member Dumps $148M
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A board member at ILMN filed 14 sell transactions this week totalling $148M. Keith Meister, who represents an asset management firm on the board, sold shares across August 4 and 5. The filings appeared on August 6. That is a large and concentrated exit in a very short window.
CAKE founder and Chairman-CEO David Overton also filed a $10M sale this week. The trade took place on August 5. It is unusual for a founder-CEO to sell at this scale in a single day.
Over in the UK, NXT CEO Simon Wolfson filed $36M in sales on August 7. A second executive, Jeremy Stakol, added another $6M in sells on the same day. Together, the NEXT plc team filed over $42M in disposals covering trades on August 5 and 6.
At MSFT, a division CEO filed a $4.9M sale on August 5.
TNL saw two C-suite exits filed together. Its CTO sold $4.1M and the Chief Marketing Officer sold $2.6M, both on August 4. Cluster selling at the same company is often worth watching.
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