---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-22-035951"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "QSI"
cik: "0001816431"
company_name: "Quantum-Si Inc"
filed_at: "2022-10-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-23T05:39:27.501972+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Quantum-Si appoints Jeff Hawkins as CEO, effective Oct 10, 2022

## Summary
- Jeff Hawkins succeeds Jonathan Rothberg (Interim CEO); Rothberg remains Executive Chairman.
- Hawkins' base salary is $575,000; eligible for annual bonus target of 100% of base.
- Sign-on bonus of $150,000 (recoverable if voluntarily leaves within 12 months).
- Awarded 4,170,000 time-vesting stock options; vests 20% at one-year anniversary, then 1.66% monthly.
- Also awarded 2,780,000 performance-based options: 1.39M vest at $10 stock price (1.5 yr), 1.39M at $20 (3.5 yr).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-22-035951
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: QSI
- cik: 0001816431
- company_name: Quantum-Si Inc
- filed_at: 2022-10-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1816431/000114036122035951/0001140361-22-035951-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1816431/000114036122035951/brhc10042621_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-22-035951.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jeffrey Hawkins was appointed as director at Quantum-Si Inc.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: director
  source text: the Board also approved an increase in the size of the Board from seven to eight members and appointed Mr. Hawkins to fill the newly created vacancy, effective as of the Appointment Date
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1816431/000114036122035951/0001140361-22-035951-index.htm
- Executive change
  Jonathan Rothberg changed role as Interim Chief Executive Officer at Quantum-Si Inc.
  - Action: stepped down
  - Role: Interim Chief Executive Officer
  source text: Jonathan Rothberg, Ph.D., who has been serving as Interim Chief Executive Officer of the Company, will step down from that role effective as of the Appointment Date
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1816431/000114036122035951/0001140361-22-035951-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.