secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     GERON CORP (GERN)
CIK:        0000886744
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2023-02-23T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000950170-23-004177
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.50
Item codes: 5.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Director Karin Eastham to retire from Geron board; CEO and COO bonus targets raised
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- Karin Eastham, Class III director, will retire effective May 31, 2023, after 13 years; not standing for re-election.
- CEO John Scarlett's annual bonus target increased from 60% to 65% of base salary, effective Jan 1, 2023.
- COO Andrew Grethlein's bonus target increased from 45% to 50% of base salary, effective Jan 1, 2023.
- Eastham's departure is not due to any disagreement; she cited imetelstat's positive Phase 3 IMerge results.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/886744/000095017023004177/0000950170-23-004177-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/886744/000095017023004177/gern-20230221.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-23-004177

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