---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-24-074353"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AMWL"
cik: "0001393584"
company_name: "American Well Corp"
filed_at: "2024-06-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T04:04:31.098958+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Amwell appoints former Morgan Stanley MD Ricky Goldwasser to board, replacing Deval Patrick

## Summary
- Goldwasser appointed as Class II director effective June 13, 2024; term ends at 2025 annual meeting.
- She qualifies as independent under NYSE rules and will serve on the Audit Committee.
- Goldwasser spent 15 years at Morgan Stanley as MD, head of US Healthcare Services & Technology Research and Investment Banking.
- She replaces Deval Patrick, who served on the board since 2015 and helped guide the company through its 2020 IPO.
- Eligible for standard non-employee director compensation as previously disclosed in the company's Q1 2024 Form 10-Q.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-24-074353
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AMWL
- cik: 0001393584
- company_name: American Well Corp
- filed_at: 2024-06-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1393584/000095017024074353/0000950170-24-074353-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1393584/000095017024074353/amwl-20240613.htm

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- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-24-074353.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-24-074353.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Rivka "Ricky" Goldwasser was appointed as Class II Director at American Well Corp.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Class II Director
  source text: On June 13, 2024, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of American Well Corporation (the "Company") appointed Rivka "Ricky" Goldwasser as a Class II director of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1393584/000095017024074353/0000950170-24-074353-index.htm

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