---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-22-000429"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KNSA"
cik: "0001730430"
company_name: "Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, plc"
filed_at: "2022-01-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T21:26:49.070743+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Kiniksa appoints Eben Tessari as SVP, Chief Operating Officer

## Summary
- Eben Tessari promoted to COO effective Jan 3, 2022; previously SVP Chief Business Officer.
- New employment agreement provides $444,960 base salary and 40% target annual bonus.
- Severance includes 9 months base salary plus $16,500 lump sum and 12-month equity acceleration.
- Tessari also subject to existing invention, non-disclosure, non-competition agreements.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-22-000429
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KNSA
- cik: 0001730430
- company_name: Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, plc
- filed_at: 2022-01-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1730430/000110465922000429/0001104659-22-000429-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1730430/000110465922000429/tm2136470d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-000429
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-000429.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-000429.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Eben Tessari was appointed as SVP, Chief Operating Officer at Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, plc.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: SVP, Chief Operating Officer
  source text: Effective January 3, 2022, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. (the “Company”) appointed Eben Tessari as the Company’s SVP, Chief Operating Officer and principal operating officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1730430/000110465922000429/0001104659-22-000429-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.