---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-047690"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PEPG"
cik: "0001835597"
company_name: "PepGen Inc."
filed_at: "2025-03-31T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T02:20:14.392236+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# PepGen expands board to eight with appointments of Finer and Wyman

## Summary
- Mitchell Finer (PhD), former CSO at bluebird bio, and Lisa Wyman, CTO at Scholar Rock, join board.
- Board expands from six to eight; Finer Class III director, Wyman Class I director.
- Each receives initial option award of 26,000 shares, vesting over three years.
- Standard non-employee director compensation and indemnification agreements apply.
- CEO cites their expertise in scaling manufacturing and gene therapy development.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-047690
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PEPG
- cik: 0001835597
- company_name: PepGen Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-03-31T23:59:59+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/1835597/000095017025047690/0000950170-25-047690-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1835597/000095017025047690/pepg-20250327.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-047690
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-047690.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-047690.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Lisa Wyman was appointed as Director at PepGen Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On March 27, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of PepGen Inc. (“PepGen” or the “Company”), on the recommendation of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of the Board, unanimously appointed Mitchell Finer, Ph.D. and Lisa Wyman to fill newly created vacancies on the Board resulting from the expansion of the number of members of the Board from six to eight.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1835597/000095017025047690/0000950170-25-047690-index.htm
- Executive change
  Mitchell Finer was appointed as Director at PepGen Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On March 27, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of PepGen Inc. (“PepGen” or the “Company”), on the recommendation of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of the Board, unanimously appointed Mitchell Finer, Ph.D. and Lisa Wyman to fill newly created vacancies on the Board resulting from the expansion of the number of members of the Board from six to eight.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1835597/000095017025047690/0000950170-25-047690-index.htm

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