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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001069530-22-000051"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FLNA"
cik: "0001069530"
company_name: "FILANA THERAPEUTICS, INC."
filed_at: "2022-10-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-22T23:25:43.843346+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cassava Sciences appoints R. Christopher Cook as SVP and General Counsel, effective Dec 1, 2022

## Summary
- Cook will receive annual base salary of $425,000 and option to purchase 100,000 shares vesting over 48 months.
- He joins from Alcon Inc., where he was Global Head of Litigation and Government Investigations since 2017.
- Previously a litigation partner at Jones Day and an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Chicago.
- This is a newly created position reporting to President & CEO Remi Barbier.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001069530-22-000051
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FLNA
- cik: 0001069530
- company_name: FILANA THERAPEUTICS, INC.
- filed_at: 2022-10-27T23:59:59+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/1069530/000106953022000051/0001069530-22-000051-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1069530/000106953022000051/sava-20221013x8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001069530-22-000051.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  R. Christopher Cook was appointed as Senior Vice President and General Counsel at FILANA THERAPEUTICS, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Senior Vice President and General Counsel
  source text: On October 27, 2022, Cassava Sciences, Inc. (the “Company”) announced the appointment of R. Christopher Cook, age 58, as Senior Vice President and General Counsel, effective on or before December 1, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1069530/000106953022000051/0001069530-22-000051-index.htm

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