---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-021967"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SMTK"
cik: "0001817760"
company_name: "SmartKem, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-03-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-25T01:56:35.795936+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# SmartKem appoints Jonathan Watkins as COO effective March 10, 2025

## Summary
- Appointed Jonathan Watkins as COO; base salary of $257,000 plus discretionary bonus.
- Previously served as consultant from July 2024; paid $65,501 in FY2024 and $67,364 in early 2025 via his company DITEVEN.
- Over 30 years in materials tech; former CEO of Impression Technologies (entered liquidation June 2024) and COO of Ceres Power.
- Watkins holds a Masters from Cambridge, BEng from Birmingham, and is a Chartered Engineer.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-021967
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SMTK
- cik: 0001817760
- company_name: SmartKem, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-03-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1817760/000110465925021967/0001104659-25-021967-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1817760/000110465925021967/tm258541d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-021967.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jonathan Watkins was appointed as Chief Operating Officer at SmartKem, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Operating Officer
  source text: Effective March 10, 2025, SmartKem, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Jonathan Watkins as its Chief Operating Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1817760/000110465925021967/0001104659-25-021967-index.htm

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