---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001052918-21-000278"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WWR"
cik: "0000839470"
company_name: "WESTWATER RESOURCES, INC."
filed_at: "2021-08-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-29T23:39:01.655497+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Westwater Resources appoints Chad M. Potter as COO; base salary $250,000

## Summary
- Chad Potter named COO, effective August 2, 2021. He previously led operations at American Consolidated Industries and Nucor Steel.
- Potter receives annual base salary of $250,000, short- and long-term incentive plan eligibility at 40% of base.
- Restricted stock units awarded with grant-date fair value of $55,000, vesting on second anniversary.
- Dain McCoig appointed to board of Alabama Mining Association.
- Potter will lead construction of Westwater's first graphite processing plant in Alabama.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001052918-21-000278
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WWR
- cik: 0000839470
- company_name: WESTWATER RESOURCES, INC.
- filed_at: 2021-08-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/839470/000105291821000278/0001052918-21-000278-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/839470/000105291821000278/wwr8kaug2-21.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001052918-21-000278.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Chad M. Potter was appointed as Chief Operating Officer at WESTWATER RESOURCES, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Operating Officer
  source text: On August 2, 2021, Westwater Resources, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Chad M. Potter as the Company’s Chief Operating Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/839470/000105291821000278/0001052918-21-000278-index.htm

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