---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-016378"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TNYA"
cik: "0001858848"
company_name: "Tenaya Therapeutics, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-02-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T01:02:22.220426+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Tenaya appoints interim PAO and reprices CEO underwater options to $1.21

## Summary
- Tomohiro Higa appointed Interim Principal Accounting Officer effective Feb 6, 2025; he remains SVP Finance.
- Board repriced CEO Faraz Ali's underwater options: new exercise price $1.21 per share on 915,875 shares.
- Prior exercise prices ranged from $5.64 to $15.19; repricing contingent on retention through July 24, 2025.
- If CEO exercises before retention date, he must pay the original higher exercise price.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-016378
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TNYA
- cik: 0001858848
- company_name: Tenaya Therapeutics, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-02-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1858848/000095017025016378/0000950170-25-016378-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1858848/000095017025016378/tnya-20250206.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-016378
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-016378.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-016378.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Tomohiro Higa was appointed as Interim Principal Accounting Officer at Tenaya Therapeutics, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Interim Principal Accounting Officer
  source text: Effective February 6, 2025, Mr. Tomohiro Higa, Senior Vice President, Finance, of Tenaya Therapeutics, Inc. (the “Company”), will assume the role of Interim Principal Accounting Officer (“Interim PAO”) for the Company in addition to his role as Senior Vice President, Finance.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1858848/000095017025016378/0000950170-25-016378-index.htm

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