---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001171520-25-000197"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SOTK"
cik: "0000806172"
company_name: "SONO TEK CORP"
filed_at: "2025-05-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T09:29:24.860631+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sono-Tek elects Kirk Warshaw to board; director Strasburg to resign at August 2025 meeting

## Summary
- Kirk Warshaw elected to Board on May 22, 2025; term expires at August 2025 annual meeting.
- Warshaw has 40+ years experience; currently Exec Chairman of Bogue Machine and CEO/CFO of UAV Turbines.
- Philip Strasburg, director on Audit and Compensation Committees, will not stand for re-election and resigns after August 2025 meeting.
- Warshaw not party to any arrangement; to receive standard director compensation.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001171520-25-000197
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SOTK
- cik: 0000806172
- company_name: SONO TEK CORP
- filed_at: 2025-05-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/806172/000117152025000197/0001171520-25-000197-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/806172/000117152025000197/eps11940.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001171520-25-000197
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001171520-25-000197.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001171520-25-000197.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Kirk Warshaw was elected as Director at SONO TEK CORP.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: elected Kirk Warshaw to serve as a member of the Board
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/806172/000117152025000197/0001171520-25-000197-index.htm
- Executive change
  Philip Strasburg departed as Director at SONO TEK CORP.
  - Action: will resign
  - Role: Director
  source text: Philip Strasburg, a current member of the Board who serves on the Board’s Audit and Compensation Committees, has indicated that he does not intend to stand for reelection to the Board and will resign effective upon the completion of the Company’s next annual meeting of shareholders to be held in August 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/806172/000117152025000197/0001171520-25-000197-index.htm

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