---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-080473"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MNKD"
cik: "0000899460"
company_name: "MANNKIND CORP"
filed_at: "2023-03-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-17T16:04:40.540871+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# MannKind appoints Lauren Sabella as EVP, Chief Operating Officer

## Summary
- Appointment effective March 27, 2023; reports to CEO Michael Castagna.
- Annual base salary $440,000; target bonus 50% of base salary.
- Equity award of 210,000 RSUs vesting 25% annually over four years.
- Sabella previously COO at Acorda Therapeutics; 18-year career at Boehringer Ingelheim.
- Change of control agreement provides severance and accelerated vesting under certain conditions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-080473
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MNKD
- cik: 0000899460
- company_name: MANNKIND CORP
- filed_at: 2023-03-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/899460/000119312523080473/0001193125-23-080473-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/899460/000119312523080473/d490495d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-080473
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-080473.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-080473.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Lauren M. Sabella was appointed as Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer at MANNKIND CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer
  source text: On March 21, 2023, Lauren M. Sabella was appointed by the board of directors of MannKind Corporation (the “Company”) as Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer of the Company, with such appointment to be effective on March 27, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/899460/000119312523080473/0001193125-23-080473-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.