---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-24-091820"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PLUG"
cik: "0001093691"
company_name: "PLUG POWER INC"
filed_at: "2024-08-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T07:58:53.627056+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Plug Power appoints Colin Angle, former iRobot CEO, to board of directors

## Summary
- Colin Angle appointed as Class III director effective August 16, 2024, to serve until 2026 annual meeting.
- Board determined Angle is an independent director under Nasdaq listing standards.
- Angle co-founded iRobot and served as CEO from 1997 to 2024, leading Roomba's commercialization.
- He will be compensated under Plug Power's Non-Employee Director Compensation Plan and has standard indemnification agreement.
- No arrangements with any other person existed for Angle's appointment; no related-party transactions disclosed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-24-091820
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PLUG
- cik: 0001093691
- company_name: PLUG POWER INC
- filed_at: 2024-08-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1093691/000110465924091820/0001104659-24-091820-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1093691/000110465924091820/tm2422408d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-24-091820
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-24-091820.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-24-091820.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Colin Angle was appointed as director at PLUG POWER INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: director
  source text: On August 16, 2024, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Plug Power Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Colin Angle as a director of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1093691/000110465924091820/0001104659-24-091820-index.htm

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