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accession: "0001140361-25-024517"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NUWE"
cik: "0001506492"
company_name: "Nuwellis, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-07-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T09:38:08.889011+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Nuwellis appoints John L. Erb as CEO and President, approves 1-for-42 reverse stock split

## Summary
- John L. Erb appointed President and CEO effective June 27, 2025, with annual base salary of $431,097 and stock option grant of 115,329 shares vesting monthly.
- Board approved a 1-for-42 reverse stock split; effective 5:00 p.m. ET on July 3, 2025, with trading on split-adjusted basis from July 7, 2025.
- Reverse split proportionally adjusts outstanding stock options, warrants, and preferred shares; new CUSIP 67113Y702.
- Mr. Erb continues as Chairman of the Board; employment agreement includes annual bonus target of 65% of base salary.
- Reverse split reduces outstanding common shares by a factor of 42, with fractional shares paid in cash based on Nasdaq closing price.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-25-024517
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NUWE
- cik: 0001506492
- company_name: Nuwellis, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-07-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.03, 5.03, 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1506492/000114036125024517/0001140361-25-024517-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1506492/000114036125024517/ef20051405_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Nuwellis, Inc.: Amended certificate of incorporation to effect a 1-for-42 reverse stock split (effective 2025-07-02).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-07-02
  source text: On July 2, 2025, the Company filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware a Certificate of Amendment to its Certificate of Incorporation (the “Certificate of Amendment”) to effect the Reverse Stock Split.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1506492/000114036125024517/0001140361-25-024517-index.htm

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