GLW Chief ExecutiveWhat Wendell P. Weeks says in public, and what their own SEC filings show they own.
Chairman, CEO & President · Corning Incorporated
Joined Corning in 1983 in the finance group, ran the Optical Fiber business from 1996 and Optical Communications from 2001, became president and COO in 2002, CEO in 2005 and chairman in 2007. Author of the Springboard plan introduced in Q3 2023 and upgraded at the May 2026 investor day to a $40 billion annualised run rate by the end of 2030. Also sits on Amazon's board - the same Amazon that signed a multibillion-dollar data-centre fibre agreement with Corning in Q2 2026.
Weeks owns about 0% of Corning Incorporated, worth $245.3M at the last close.
Nobody has researched this person's career yet, so founder and track record are left out of the score and of the total above.
Score = stake band (35) + founder (15) + tenure (10) + track record (15) + 12-month direction (−10…15) + filing discipline (10). An axis we have not researched is left out of the score and of the total it is shown over. Every input links to a filing or to our own research; the bands are ours.
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| Security | Held via | Shares |
|---|---|---|
| Common Stock | Direct | 908,353 |
| Common Stock | Trust | 627,802 |
| Common Stock | Trustee U/employee Benefit Plan | 11,762 |
| Common Stock | Held by Wife | 9,200 |
| Common Stock | Held By Wife - In Trust | 9,200 |
| Common Stock | Held by Spouse | 9,200 |
| Common Stock | Held By Spouse - Emp. Ben. Plan | 7,135 |
| Common Stock | Held By Wife - Emp. Ben. Plan | 6,580 |
| Common Stock | Held by Wife - Employee Benefit Plan | 6,377 |
| Reported as of 2026-06-09 | 1,595,611 | |
| Date | Type | What happened | Shares | Price | Value | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 2026 filing: Exercise, Option or RSU conversion | Exercise | Option or RSU conversion | +100,000 | $27.03 | $2.7M | |
| Jun 9, 2026 filing: Sale, Open-market sale | Sale | Open-market sale | −100,000 | $186.46 | $18.6M | no 10b5-1 plan |
| Apr 15, 2026 filing: Exercise, Option or RSU conversion across 2 lots | Exercise | Option or RSU conversion across 2 lots | +340,084 | — | — | |
| Apr 15, 2026 filing: Tax, Shares withheld for tax | Tax | Shares withheld for tax | −165,622 | $168.27 | $27.9M | |
| Feb 26, 2026 filing: Exercise, Option or RSU conversion | Exercise | Option or RSU conversion | +137,514 | $27.00 | $3.7M | |
| Feb 26, 2026 filing: Sale, Open-market sale | Sale | Open-market sale | −137,514 | $155.37 | $21.4M | no 10b5-1 plan |
| Feb 26, 2026 filing: Gift, Gift | Gift | Gift | −16,694 | — | — | |
| Feb 9, 2026 filing: Exercise, Option or RSU conversion | Exercise | Option or RSU conversion | +5,733 | — | — | |
| Feb 9, 2026 filing: Tax, Shares withheld for tax | Tax | Shares withheld for tax | −2,927 | $131.39 | $385K | |
| Feb 4, 2026 filing: Exercise, Option or RSU conversion across 3 lots | Exercise | Option or RSU conversion across 3 lots | +10,473 | — | — |
| Company | Role | Reported | Beneficial | % of class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GLW CORNING INC /NY This page | Chairman, CEO and President | 1,595,611 2026-06-09 |
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| AMZN AMAZON COM INC | Director | 46,216 2026-02-15 |
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| MRK Merck & Co., Inc. | Director | 200 2020-05-07 |
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| MRK MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP. | Director | 100 2009-11-03 |
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Reported is every lot on the person's own Forms 3, 4 and 5 — direct and through trusts. Beneficial is the figure stated on the latest Schedule 13D/G cover page, which can exclude shares the person disclaims and include options exercisable within 60 days, so the two are never added together.
318 filings under CIK 0001206158 · captured 2026-09-05 · All filings on EDGAR ↗
4 recorded appearances
Weeks on how a glass company ended up selling into AI data centres, and why Corning kept spending on research through the parts of the cycle when it did not pay.
Watch or read: The Top CEOs of 2026. Plus, Corning's Wendell Weeks Talks A.I. and Glass., Jun 29, 2026 →The day after the investor event that upgraded Springboard, Weeks told Jim Cramer that NVIDIA is helping fund the US plants Corning is building, not just taking equity - the clearest statement of who pays for the 10x optical capacity expansion.
Watch or read: Corning CEO Weeks: Jensen Huang is helping us with the capital for these plants in addition to equity, May 7, 2026 →Twelve minutes on the Q4 2025 print and the up-to-$6-billion Meta agreement announced alongside it, plus what fibre demand from AI data centres does to Corning's growth outlook.
Watch or read: Watch CNBC's full interview with Corning President and CEO Wendell Weeks, Jan 28, 2026 →A long conversation on running a 175-year-old company through repeated reinventions - Gorilla Glass for the first iPhone, fibre for GenAI, and the solar business - and how Weeks decides which bets to fund.
Watch or read: Wendell Weeks on Risk, Resilience & Reinvention at Corning, Oct 21, 2025 →
