ClearSign appoints former ExxonMobil heat-transfer leader Larry Saddler to board

ClearSign Technologies Corp

Larry M. Saddler, 76, appointed to fill vacant directorship effective Aug 6, 2026.
Saddler spent 40+ years at ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM), retiring in 2021 as Global Technology Sponsor for Heat Transfer.
Compensation: $60,000 annual cash (or RSUs) plus $40,000 annual non-statutory stock option grants, quarterly.
Company will make Make-Whole Payments for forfeited/cancelled Covered RSUs from prior employer, tied to continued service.
Offer letter effective Aug 6, 2026; standard indemnification agreement entered.

item 5.02 item 7.01 item 9.01

Executive movements

Machine-extracted from this filing. Every card cites the SEC source. See all recent executive movements.

Appointed

Larry M. Saddler

director

CLIR · ClearSign Technologies Corp

Effective: 2026-08-06
Filed: August 11, 2026, 7:45 AM ET

Subsequent to the Annual Meeting, upon recommendation of the nominating and corporate governance committee of the Board (the “Governance Committee”), the Board appointed Larry M. Saddler to serve as a director, effective as of August 6, 2026 (the “Effective Date”), to fill such vacancy on the Board.

Key facts

Extracted from this filing and checked against the source text.

Executive change SEC 8-K Item 5.02 confidence 0.95

Larry M. Saddler was appointed as director at ClearSign Technologies Corp.

Action: appointed
Role: director

Exact text from the filing

Subsequent to the Annual Meeting, upon recommendation of the nominating and corporate governance committee of the Board (the “Governance Committee”), the Board appointed Larry M. Saddler to serve as a director, effective as of August 6, 2026 (the “Effective Date”), to fill such vacancy on the Board.

View on SEC.gov

ClearSign Technologies Corp filing history →

Source: SEC EDGAR

accession 0001104659-26-093758

view filing index on sec.gov

view primary document

Machine-readable: JSON · Markdown · Plain text

This headline and bullets were generated automatically by deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2 from the public filing. Read the source on SEC.gov before relying on any specific claim. Not investment advice. See methodology for how this pipeline works.