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accession: "0001029142-25-000081"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001029142"
company_name: "DYNAVAX TECHNOLOGIES CORP"
filed_at: "2025-05-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T12:25:40.685294+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Dynavax appoints Joseph Metzinger as VP and Chief Accounting Officer

## Summary
- Appointment effective May 12, 2025; Metzinger becomes principal accounting officer.
- Annual base salary of $315,000 with bonus eligibility up to 40% of base salary.
- Granted 38,182 RSUs and 31,500 stock options, each vesting over three years.
- Metzinger had served as a consultant to Dynavax since 2024; prior roles include CAO at a public biotech.
- Kelly MacDonald remains Senior VP, CFO and principal financial officer.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001029142-25-000081
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001029142
- company_name: DYNAVAX TECHNOLOGIES CORP
- filed_at: 2025-05-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1029142/000102914225000081/0001029142-25-000081-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1029142/000102914225000081/dvax-20250508.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001029142-25-000081
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001029142-25-000081.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Joseph Metzinger was appointed as Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer at DYNAVAX TECHNOLOGIES CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: On May 8, 2025, the Board of Directors of Dynavax Technologies Corporation (the “Company”) appointed Joseph Metzinger as the Company’s Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer, effective as of May 12, 2025 (the “Effective Date”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1029142/000102914225000081/0001029142-25-000081-index.htm

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