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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-21-005217"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ALEC"
cik: "0001653087"
company_name: "Alector, Inc."
filed_at: "2021-12-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T00:54:40.909774+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Alector appoints Sara Kenkare-Mitra as President and Head of R&D

## Summary
- Dr. Kenkare-Mitra joins from Genentech, most recently SVP of Development Sciences.
- Annual base salary of $570,000; eligible for 100% bonus and $500,000 sign-on bonus.
- Equity grants: 300,000 stock options (4-yr vest), 59,000 RSUs (3-yr vest), 59,000 PSUs (1-yr performance-based vest).
- She will report to CEO Arnon Rosenthal and lead all immuno-neurology and oncology R&D efforts.
- Effective December 15, 2021; includes standard change-in-control and severance agreement (Tier 2).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-21-005217
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ALEC
- cik: 0001653087
- company_name: Alector, Inc.
- filed_at: 2021-12-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1653087/000095017021005217/0000950170-21-005217-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1653087/000095017021005217/alec-20211215.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-21-005217.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Saraswati (Sara) Kenkare-Mitra was appointed as President and Head of Research and Development at Alector, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: President and Head of Research and Development
  source text: On December 15, 2021, Alector, Inc. (“Alector”) announced the appointment of Saraswati (Sara) Kenkare-Mitra, Ph.D. as Alector’s President and Head of Research and Development.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1653087/000095017021005217/0000950170-21-005217-index.htm

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