---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-23-067023"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "OSS"
cik: "0001394056"
company_name: "ONE STOP SYSTEMS, INC."
filed_at: "2023-11-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T19:49:38.989192+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# One Stop Systems appoints Mitchell Herbets to board; board size to 9 then to 7 at 2024 meeting

## Summary
- Board size temporarily increased from 8 to 9; to be reduced to 7 at the 2024 annual meeting.
- Mitchell Herbets appointed as director, effective Nov 27, 2023, filling the newly created seat.
- Herbets is non-executive chairman of Thales Defense and Security and other defense tech firms.
- Previously served as president/CEO of Thales Communications; former U.S. Army captain.
- No compensatory plans or related-party transactions disclosed in connection with appointment.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-23-067023
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: OSS
- cik: 0001394056
- company_name: ONE STOP SYSTEMS, INC.
- filed_at: 2023-11-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1394056/000095017023067023/0000950170-23-067023-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1394056/000095017023067023/oss-20231127.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-23-067023
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-23-067023.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-23-067023.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Mitchell Herbets was appointed as Director at ONE STOP SYSTEMS, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: Additionally, on November 27, 2023, the Board appointed Mitchell Herbets as a director of the Company, to fill the newly created directorship.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1394056/000095017023067023/0000950170-23-067023-index.htm

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