---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-22-305901"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SVRA"
cik: "0001160308"
company_name: "Savara Inc"
filed_at: "2022-12-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-21T03:55:49.336625+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Savara appoints Dave Lowrance as CFO & CAO; enters amended CEO/CFO employment agreements

## Summary
- CEO Matt Pauls amended agreement: $595k base salary, 50% target bonus, enhanced severance.
- CFO Dave Lowrance promoted to CFO & CAO; new agreement: $437,561 base, 40% target bonus.
- 2023 bonus targets: CEO $297,500, CMO $188,000, CFO & CAO $175,024.
- Severance includes COBRA reimbursements up to 18 months (24 months within Change of Control).
- Effective date December 13, 2022; agreements supersede prior versions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-22-305901
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SVRA
- cik: 0001160308
- company_name: Savara Inc
- filed_at: 2022-12-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1160308/000119312522305901/0001193125-22-305901-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1160308/000119312522305901/d396925d8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-305901
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-305901.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-305901.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Dave Lowrance was appointed as Chief Financial and Administrative Officer at Savara Inc.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Financial and Administrative Officer
  source text: On the Effective Date, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Savara appointed Dave Lowrance, who has served as Savara’s Chief Financial Officer since November 2016, as Chief Financial and Administrative Officer of Savara.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1160308/000119312522305901/0001193125-22-305901-index.htm

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