---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-22-027033"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PI"
cik: "0001114995"
company_name: "IMPINJ INC"
filed_at: "2022-02-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T11:27:37.895718+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Impinj appoints Meera Rao to board, promotes Hussein Mecklai as COO, chair transition

## Summary
- Board size set to nine; Meera Rao appointed director effective Feb 1, 2022.
- Chair Peter van Oppen and director Theresa Wise will not stand for re-election at 2022 Annual Meeting; Steve Sanghi to become board chair.
- Hussein Mecklai promoted to COO effective Feb 6, 2022; base salary $390,000 per annum.
- Outside director compensation increased to $175,000 per annum under amended policy effective Feb 1, 2022.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-22-027033
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PI
- cik: 0001114995
- company_name: IMPINJ INC
- filed_at: 2022-02-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1114995/000119312522027033/0001193125-22-027033-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1114995/000119312522027033/d264392d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-027033
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-027033.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-027033.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Meera Rao was appointed as director at IMPINJ INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: director
  source text: appointed Meera Rao to serve as a director
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1114995/000119312522027033/0001193125-22-027033-index.htm
- Executive change
  Hussein Mecklai was appointed as Chief Operating Officer at IMPINJ INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Operating Officer
  source text: the Board appointed Hussein Mecklai as the Company’s Chief Operating Officer, effective February 6, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1114995/000119312522027033/0001193125-22-027033-index.htm
- Executive change
  Steve Sanghi changed role as Board Chair at IMPINJ INC.
  - Action: will assume
  - Role: Board Chair
  source text: director Steve Sanghi will assume the role of Board Chair following the end of Mr. van Oppen’s term.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1114995/000119312522027033/0001193125-22-027033-index.htm
- Executive change
  Peter van Oppen departed as Board Chair at IMPINJ INC.
  - Action: declined to stand for re-election
  - Role: Board Chair
  source text: each of Theresa Wise and Peter van Oppen, the Company’s Board Chair, notified the Board that they each decided to decline to stand for re-election at the Company’s 2022 Annual Meeting
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1114995/000119312522027033/0001193125-22-027033-index.htm
- Executive change
  Theresa Wise departed as director at IMPINJ INC.
  - Action: declined to stand for re-election
  - Role: director
  source text: each of Theresa Wise and Peter van Oppen, the Company’s Board Chair, notified the Board that they each decided to decline to stand for re-election at the Company’s 2022 Annual Meeting
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1114995/000119312522027033/0001193125-22-027033-index.htm

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