secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     AWARE INC /MA/ (AWRE)
CIK:        0001015739
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2023-11-15T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000950170-23-064012
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.50
Item codes: 5.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

CFO David Barcelo departs Aware; severance includes $265k salary continuation and accelerated vesting
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- CFO David Barcelo left the company effective Oct 31, 2023; separation agreement signed Nov 13, 2023.
- Severance includes $265,224.98 salary continuation for 12 months, plus accelerated vesting of time-based equity through Oct 31, 2024.
- Agreement includes noncompetition through Oct 31, 2024 and release of claims by Barcelo.
- No replacement CFO named; David K. Traverse remains Principal Financial Officer.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1015739/000095017023064012/0000950170-23-064012-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1015739/000095017023064012/awre-20231113.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-23-064012

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