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Issuer:     MEDICINOVA INC (MNOV)
CIK:        0001226616
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2021-08-02T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001193125-21-233293
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.65
Item codes: 5.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

CFO Edward Stepanow resigns; Douglas Paulin appointed CFO effective August 1, 2021 via outsourced services agreement
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- Edward Stepanow resigned as CFO effective July 31, 2021; no reason given.
- Douglas Paulin (CPA) appointed CFO effective August 1, 2021, through a services agreement with Signature Analytics.
- Services agreement: hourly rate range for CFO services $270-$350/hr; initial term one year with automatic renewal.
- Paulin joined Signature Analytics in July 2020; previously Head of Finance at AerNos and Director of EMEA Finance at Sonos.
- No family relationships or material interests between Paulin and other officers/directors.

Source:
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  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-21-233293

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