Corporate titles have proliferated. Delaware’s officer-consent statute has not. In Altigen Communications, Inc. v. Day, C.A. No. 2025-1298-JTL (Del. Ch. Aug. 21, 2026), Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster held that the Delaware Court of Chancery lacked personal jurisdiction over a Utah-based chief strategy officer accused of breaching his fiduciary duties. While Delaware’s Officer Consent Statute, 10 Del. C. § 3114(b), can reach an executive whose title differs from the senior-officer roles listed in the statute—“president, chief executive officer, chief operating officer, chief financial officer, chief legal officer, controller, treasure or chief accounting officer”—that extended reach will occur only where the executive’s responsibilities functionally equate to or significantly overlap with one of those roles. Altigen’s allegations established that the defendant, Ryan Day, was a senior executive with operational responsibilities, but they did not establish that he functioned as the company’s president, chief executive officer, chief operating officer, or another officer covered by the statute.
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