---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-22-036781"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "OCGN"
cik: "0001372299"
company_name: "Ocugen, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-03-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-26T19:31:50.696944+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ocugen director Manish Potti not standing for re-election; board adds Marna Whittington, new CAO employment deal

## Summary
- Manish Potti, Class II director, will not stand for re-election at 2022 annual meeting; no disagreement cited.
- Board expanded from 7 to 8; Marna Whittington appointed Class II director effective March 21, 2022; board to shrink to 7 after annual meeting.
- Dr. Whittington receives initial option grant with grant date fair value $285,000, vesting over three years.
- CAO Jessica Crespo enters amended employment agreement with base salary $375,000 and target bonus 40% of base salary.
- Crespo awarded stock option ($225,000 fair value) and RSUs ($75,000 fair value), both vesting over three years.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-22-036781
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: OCGN
- cik: 0001372299
- company_name: Ocugen, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-03-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1372299/000110465922036781/0001104659-22-036781-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1372299/000110465922036781/tm2210190d1_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Manish Potti departed as Class II Director at Ocugen, Inc..
  - Action: not stand for re-election
  - Role: Class II Director
  source text: On March 17, 2022, Manish Potti, a member of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Ocugen, Inc. (the “Company”), notified the Board that he will not stand for re-election as a Class II director at the Company’s 2022 annual meeting of stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”), and therefore, will no longer serve as a director of the Company or on any committee of the Board, effective as of the Annual Meeting.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1372299/000110465922036781/0001104659-22-036781-index.htm
- Executive change
  Marna Whittington was appointed as Class II Director at Ocugen, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Class II Director
  source text: On March 17, 2022, the Board increased the size of the Board from seven to eight members, and appointed Marna Whittington, Ph.D. as a Class II director, effective March 21, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1372299/000110465922036781/0001104659-22-036781-index.htm

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