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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-23-073695"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001431959"
company_name: "META MATERIALS INC."
filed_at: "2023-12-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T05:47:20.168870+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Meta Materials CAO and Interim CFO Ahmed Shebl resigns; effective Jan 19, 2024

## Summary
- Ahmed Shebl, Chief Accounting Officer and Interim CFO, resigned to pursue other opportunity; last day Jan 19, 2024.
- Resignation not due to disagreement with company's operations, policies, or practices.
- Company has initiated search for qualified replacement CFO.
- Mr. Shebl had been with META for over three years; contributions acknowledged.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-23-073695
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001431959
- company_name: META MATERIALS INC.
- filed_at: 2023-12-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1431959/000095017023073695/0000950170-23-073695-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1431959/000095017023073695/mmat-20231223.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-23-073695.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Ahmed Shebl resigned as Chief Accounting Officer and Interim Chief Financial Officer at META MATERIALS INC..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer and Interim Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On December 23, 2023, Ahmed Shebl, the Chief Accounting Officer and Interim Chief Financial Officer of Meta Materials Inc. (also referred to herein as the “Company”, “META”, “we”, “us”, or “our”), tendered his resignation to the Company to pursue another professional opportunity.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1431959/000095017023073695/0000950170-23-073695-index.htm

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