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accession: "0001104659-25-099347"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ELUT"
cik: "0001708527"
company_name: "ELUTIA INC."
filed_at: "2025-10-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T03:55:00.911973+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
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source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Elutia appoints medtech veteran Guido Neels to board; Jordan and Zuga resign

## Summary
- Guido J. Neels elected to board effective Oct 9, 2025; appointed to Audit Committee.
- Neels granted option for 171,916 shares at $0.88, vesting over 3 years.
- Maybelle Jordan and W. Matthew Zuga resigned Oct 8, 2025; no disagreement cited.
- Neels is Operating Partner at EW Healthcare Partners and former COO of Guidant.
- Company notes recent EluPro divestiture as context for strategic transformation.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-099347
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ELUT
- cik: 0001708527
- company_name: ELUTIA INC.
- filed_at: 2025-10-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1708527/000110465925099347/0001104659-25-099347-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1708527/000110465925099347/tm2528729d1_8k.htm

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