---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-21-251478"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "APLS"
cik: "0001492422"
company_name: "Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc."
filed_at: "2021-08-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-29T08:54:08.906371+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Apellis principal accounting officer Nicole Perry to depart Aug 30, 2021

## Summary
- Nicole Perry will transition from principal accounting officer role effective August 30, 2021.
- No successor or interim replacement has been announced.
- Filing does not specify whether Perry will remain with the company in another capacity.
- Reason for the departure is not disclosed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-21-251478
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: APLS
- cik: 0001492422
- company_name: Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
- filed_at: 2021-08-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1492422/000119312521251478/0001193125-21-251478-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1492422/000119312521251478/d198481d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-21-251478.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Nicole Perry changed role as Vice President of Accounting and principal accounting officer at Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc..
  - Action: transitioned from role
  - Role: Vice President of Accounting and principal accounting officer
  source text: On August 13, 2021, Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) and Nicole Perry, Vice President of Accounting and principal accounting officer of the Company, agreed that she would transition from the role of principal accounting officer, effective as of August 30, 2021.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1492422/000119312521251478/0001193125-21-251478-index.htm

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