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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-094524"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RMTI"
cik: "0001041024"
company_name: "ROCKWELL MEDICAL, INC."
filed_at: "2025-09-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T05:21:21.529745+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Rockwell Medical appoints Heather Hunter as SVP & COO effective Sept 23, 2025

## Summary
- Heather Hunter appointed SVP & COO effective Sept 23, 2025; previously SVP & Chief Corporate Affairs Officer since Aug 2022.
- Annual base salary $323,574; target bonus 45% of base salary; eligible for long-term incentive grants.
- Initial time-based option grant of 60,000 shares, vesting over 4 years from Aug 29, 2022.
- Severance upon termination without cause/good reason: 12 months base salary plus COBRA reimbursement.
- Change of control severance: lump sum 1x base salary plus prorated target bonus; full acceleration of time-based awards.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-094524
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RMTI
- cik: 0001041024
- company_name: ROCKWELL MEDICAL, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-09-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1041024/000110465925094524/0001104659-25-094524-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1041024/000110465925094524/tm2527106d1_8k.htm

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