---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-000098"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AWRE"
cik: "0001015739"
company_name: "AWARE INC /MA/"
filed_at: "2025-01-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T17:24:32.694571+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Aware names CFO David Traverse interim CEO after Bob Eckel resigns

## Summary
- Bob Eckel resigned as CEO and President effective December 31, 2024, after five years.
- David Traverse, currently CFO, appointed interim CEO and President effective January 1, 2025.
- Traverse joined Aware in 2020 as Corporate Controller; previously CFO of Artel Video Systems.
- Board conducting CEO search; expects to announce results in the near future.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-000098
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AWRE
- cik: 0001015739
- company_name: AWARE INC /MA/
- filed_at: 2025-01-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1015739/000095017025000098/0000950170-25-000098-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1015739/000095017025000098/awre-20241231.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-000098
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-000098.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  David K. Traverse was appointed as interim Chief Executive Officer and President at AWARE INC /MA/.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: interim Chief Executive Officer and President
  source text: On January 1, 2025, the Company’s Board of Directors appointed David K. Traverse, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, to serve as the Company’s interim Chief Executive Officer and President.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1015739/000095017025000098/0000950170-25-000098-index.htm
- Executive change
  Robert A. Eckel resigned as Chief Executive Officer and President at AWARE INC /MA/.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer and President
  source text: On December 31, 2024, Mr. Eckel’s resignation from those positions became effective.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1015739/000095017025000098/0000950170-25-000098-index.htm

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