secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Energous Corp (WATT)
CIK:        0001575793
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2021-07-29T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001193125-21-229392
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.70
Item codes: 5.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Energous appoints acting CEO Cesar Johnston; CFO Brian Sereda to resign, acting CFO William Mannina
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- Cesar Johnston (COO/EVP Engineering) appointed Acting CEO effective July 23, 2021, following CEO Stephen Rizzone's retirement.
- CFO Brian Sereda to resign effective August 11, 2021; will continue as advisor.
- William Mannina (Controller/VP Finance) to serve as acting CFO upon Sereda's departure.
- Kathleen Bayless joins Board and audit committee; receives initial 37,091 RSUs vesting over three years.
- Office of the CEO disbanded; Neeraj Sahejpal remains SVP of Marketing and Business Development.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1575793/000119312521229392/0001193125-21-229392-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1575793/000119312521229392/d174843d8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-21-229392

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