---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001019056-22-000236"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MODD"
cik: "0001074871"
company_name: "Modular Medical, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-02-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T04:00:47.575129+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Modular Medical CEO resigns; largest shareholder's Jeb Besser appointed CEO; reaffirms FDA timeline

## Summary
- CEO Ellen O'Connor Vos resigned effective Feb 23, 2022; she remains on the board.
- James 'Jeb' Besser appointed CEO; compensation is $1 per year; Besser is managing member of largest shareholder Manchester Management.
- Severance agreement provides Vos $375,000 gross payment; unvested option on 362,452 shares forfeited after May 24, 2022.
- Company reaffirms Q2 2022 timing for MODD1 insulin pump 510(k) submission to FDA.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001019056-22-000236
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MODD
- cik: 0001074871
- company_name: Modular Medical, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-02-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1074871/000101905622000236/0001019056-22-000236-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1074871/000101905622000236/modular_8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001019056-22-000236
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001019056-22-000236.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001019056-22-000236.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  James Besser was appointed as Chief Executive Officer at Modular Medical, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: the Board appointed Mr. James Besser, 46, as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1074871/000101905622000236/0001019056-22-000236-index.htm
- Executive change
  Ellen O'Connor Vos resigned as Chief Executive Officer at Modular Medical, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: On February 23, 2022, Ellen O’Connor Vos informed the board of directors (the “Board”) of Modular Medical, Inc. (the “Company”) that she was resigning from her position as Chief Executive Officer of the Company, effective immediately
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1074871/000101905622000236/0001019056-22-000236-index.htm

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