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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001079973-25-001460"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DUOT"
cik: "0001396536"
company_name: "DUOS TECHNOLOGIES GROUP, INC."
filed_at: "2025-09-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T06:29:01.752178+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Duos Technologies appoints Doug Recker as President; COO resigns

## Summary
- Doug Recker appointed President effective Sept 15, 2025; previously President of Duos Edge AI subsidiary.
- New employment agreement: $325K base salary, annual bonus up to 80% of base.
- Recker receives 175,000 restricted shares vesting Sept 30, 2028 (3-year cliff); prior 225,000 RSU grant (vesting Dec 31, 2027) unchanged.
- Christopher King resigns as COO effective same date; will focus on New APR.
- King forfeits 112,500 of his 225,000 RSUs; remaining 112,500 shares vest if he remains at New APR through Dec 31, 2027.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001079973-25-001460
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DUOT
- cik: 0001396536
- company_name: DUOS TECHNOLOGIES GROUP, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-09-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1396536/000107997325001460/0001079973-25-001460-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1396536/000107997325001460/duot_8k.htm

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