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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001013762-23-002982"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "IPM"
cik: "0001355839"
company_name: "INTELLIGENT PROTECTION MANAGEMENT CORP."
filed_at: "2023-10-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-10T01:33:32.441592+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Paltalk appoints Geoff Cook to board; grants option for 100k shares

## Summary
- Geoffrey Cook appointed to board effective Oct 10, 2023; board expanded from 5 to 6 directors.
- Cook received a non-qualified stock option to purchase 100,000 shares at $1.86, vesting over four years.
- He also joins the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and Strategic Transactions Committee.
- Cook previously sold The Meet Group for $500M in 2020; CEO cites M&A expertise as valuable.
- No compensatory arrangement beyond option; no related-party transactions with Cook disclosed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001013762-23-002982
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: IPM
- cik: 0001355839
- company_name: INTELLIGENT PROTECTION MANAGEMENT CORP.
- filed_at: 2023-10-11T23:59:59+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/1355839/000101376223002982/0001013762-23-002982-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1355839/000101376223002982/ea186505-8k_paltalk.htm

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