---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001079973-23-000991"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LWLG"
cik: "0001325964"
company_name: "Lightwave Logic, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-07-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-13T06:17:42.803105+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Lightwave Logic appoints Laila Partridge to Board of Directors effective August 1, 2023

## Summary
- Laila Partridge elected as Class III director; term until 2026 annual meeting.
- Over 30 years experience in technology, corporate innovation and finance.
- Currently Founder/CEO of The HardTech Project; previously Managing Director at STANLEY+Techstars Accelerator.
- Former Director of Strategic Investments at Intel Capital and VP Corporate Banking at Wells Fargo.
- Also independent director at Cambridge Trust (NASDAQ: CATC); holds BA with honors from Wellesley College.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001079973-23-000991
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LWLG
- cik: 0001325964
- company_name: Lightwave Logic, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-07-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1325964/000107997323000991/0001079973-23-000991-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1325964/000107997323000991/lwlg_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Laila Partridge was elected as Class III member of the Board at Lightwave Logic, Inc..
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Class III member of the Board
  source text: On July 17, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Lightwave Logic, Inc. (the “Company”) elected Laila Partridge to serve as a Class III member of the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1325964/000107997323000991/0001079973-23-000991-index.htm

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