---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-23-044029"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BURU"
cik: "0001814215"
company_name: "Nuburu, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-08-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-11T04:55:48.239611+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Nuburu appoints former National Security Advisor John Bolton to its board of directors

## Summary
- Appointment effective August 22, 2023; board size increased from six to seven.
- Bolton will serve as Class I director and on Audit and Nominating Committees.
- Bolton was National Security Advisor to President Trump and UN Ambassador (2005-2006).
- He brings defense, energy, and aerospace expertise to support strategic growth.
- Standard non-employee director compensation and indemnification agreement apply.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-23-044029
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BURU
- cik: 0001814215
- company_name: Nuburu, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-08-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1814215/000095017023044029/0000950170-23-044029-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1814215/000095017023044029/buru-20230822.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-23-044029
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-23-044029.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-23-044029.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  John Bolton was appointed as Director at Nuburu, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On August 22, 2023, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of Nuburu, Inc. (the "Company") approved an increase in the size of the Board from six to seven directors and appointed John Bolton to the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1814215/000095017023044029/0000950170-23-044029-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.