---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000944075-24-000057"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SCKT"
cik: "0000944075"
company_name: "SOCKET MOBILE, INC."
filed_at: "2024-08-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T09:13:03.764289+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Socket Mobile extends exec agreements, appoints new CTO

## Summary
- Extended employment agreements for Dave Holmes (to Mar 2028), Leonard Ott (to Mar 2026), and Lynn Zhao (to Mar 2028).
- Appointed Eric Glaenzer as VP & Chief Technology Officer; agreement expires June 30, 2028.
- Severance: six months base salary for officers on involuntary not-for-cause termination; Glaenzer gets up to five months based on service.
- Change-of-control provisions: officers receive 1% of consideration if stock price ≥ $5; Glaenzer may get bonus pool up to 10% of acquisition price.
- No financial impact disclosed; agreements are standard compensatory arrangements.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000944075-24-000057
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SCKT
- cik: 0000944075
- company_name: SOCKET MOBILE, INC.
- filed_at: 2024-08-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/944075/000094407524000057/0000944075-24-000057-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/944075/000094407524000057/form-8k0815.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000944075-24-000057.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Eric Glaenzer was appointed as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at SOCKET MOBILE, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
  source text: On August 9, 2024, the Company entered into an Executive Employment Agreement (the “Agreement”), with Mr. Eric Glaenzer appointing him as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/944075/000094407524000057/0000944075-24-000057-index.htm

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