Chase Packaging Corp 8-K, filed May 23, 2025
Chase Packaging Corp (WHLT)
About this 8-K
Chase Packaging Corp filed this 8-K on May 23, 2025.
Items reported
- Item 5.02: Director or officer change, or executive pay
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Item 5.02 Departure of Directors of Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
(d) Effective May 23, 2025, the Board of Director of Chase Packaging Corporation appointed a new member of the Board, Arthur J. Gajarsa. There was no arrangement or understanding between the new director and any other person pursuant to which such director was selected as a director. The new director has not been named to any committees of the Board of Directors as of the date of this Report. The was no material plan, contract or arrangement to which the new director is a party or in which he participates that was triggered or resulted in any grant or award to the new director as a result of his appointment to the Board of Directors.
Arthur J. Gajarsa, aged 84, has been a Jurist in Residence at New Hampshire School of Law since 2012. He was a Director of Supreme Industries, Inc. (“Supreme”), a manufacturer of specialized truck bodies, from 2012 through 2017; Senior Counsel at the law firm of Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr from January of 2013 through 2024; Trustee of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute since 1994, Chairman of the Board of Trustees from 2011 through 2017, Vice Chairman from 1998 to 2010 and presently Chair Emeritus; Director of Georgetown University Board of Directors from 1996 to 2008, and Chairman of the Audit Committee, the Law Committee, and a member of the Executive Committee from 2002 to 2008; and U.S. Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit from 1997 to 2012. Prior to his judicial appointment, Judge Gajarsa served as Senior Partner of Joseph, Gajarsa, McDermott & Reiner, P.C., and previously served as Special Counsel to the Secretary of the Interior and Commissioner of Indian Affairs. He also worked at the Department of Commerce at the USPTO and worked as a systems analyst at the Department of Defense. Judge Gajarsa provides the Board insight and experience in the areas of legal compliance, corporate mergers and acquisitions, commercial litigation, international trade and intellectual property.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
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| Date: May 23, 2025 | By: | /s/ Ann C.W. Green | |
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