---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-23-093514"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NLST"
cik: "0001282631"
company_name: "NETLIST INC"
filed_at: "2023-08-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-11T06:49:33.887061+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.0
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.0
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Netlist stockholders elect Chun K. Hong as director and ratify auditor at 2023 annual meeting

## Summary
- Chun K. Hong elected as director with 49,950,409 votes for, 3,030,859 withheld; 82,009,031 broker non-votes.
- Ratification of KMJ Corbin & Company LLP as independent auditor for FY 2023 approved: 131,284,379 for, 1,569,139 against, 2,136,781 abstain.
- Meeting held August 16, 2023; two proposals voted on.
- Broker non-votes present only for director election, not for auditor ratification.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-23-093514
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NLST
- cik: 0001282631
- company_name: NETLIST INC
- filed_at: 2023-08-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.0
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.0
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1282631/000110465923093514/0001104659-23-093514-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1282631/000110465923093514/tm2323998d1_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  NETLIST INC shareholders approved Ratification of Appointment of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm at the 2023-08-16 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-08-16
  source text: For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes 131,284,379 1,569,139 2,136,781 —
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1282631/000110465923093514/0001104659-23-093514-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  NETLIST INC shareholders approved Election of one Director at the 2023-08-16 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-08-16
  source text: Chun K. Hong 49,950,409 3,030,859 82,009,031
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1282631/000110465923093514/0001104659-23-093514-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.