---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-056724"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SGHT"
cik: "0001531177"
company_name: "Sight Sciences, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-04-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T09:14:46.993973+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sight Sciences appoints medtech veteran Gary Burbach to board of directors

## Summary
- Appointed as Class II director effective April 21, 2025; term expires at 2026 annual meeting.
- Former CEO of Thoratec (acquired by St. Jude/Abbott); also serves on BWX Technologies and Procyrion boards.
- CEO Paul Badawi highlighted Burbach's commercial and operational expertise in medtech.
- Eligible for non-employee director compensation; no committee assignments yet determined.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-056724
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SGHT
- cik: 0001531177
- company_name: Sight Sciences, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-04-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1531177/000095017025056724/0000950170-25-056724-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1531177/000095017025056724/sght-20250421.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-056724
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-056724.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-056724.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Gerhard F. Burbach was appointed as Director at Sight Sciences, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On April 21, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Sight Sciences, Inc. (the “Company”), upon the recommendation of its Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, appointed Gerhard F. Burbach to the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1531177/000095017025056724/0000950170-25-056724-index.htm

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