---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-161243"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DMRC"
cik: "0001438231"
company_name: "Digimarc CORP"
filed_at: "2023-06-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T06:30:33.878843+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Digimarc elects Salesforce EVP LaShonda Anderson-Williams to board of directors

## Summary
- Board expanded from six to seven members; Anderson-Williams elected effective June 12, 2023.
- She serves on Governance, Nominating, and Sustainability and Compensation and Talent Management Committees.
- Initial restricted stock award of ~$200,000 vesting over three years; prorated annual award of ~$90,959.
- Anderson-Williams is Global EVP and Chief Revenue Officer of Healthcare and Life Sciences at Salesforce.
- She brings over 25 years of enterprise sales experience from Salesforce, Microsoft, and IBM.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-161243
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DMRC
- cik: 0001438231
- company_name: Digimarc CORP
- filed_at: 2023-06-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1438231/000119312523161243/0001193125-23-161243-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1438231/000119312523161243/d516354d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-161243
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-161243.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-161243.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  LaShonda Anderson-Williams was elected as Director at Digimarc CORP.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: On June 5, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Digimarc Corporation (the “Company”) approved an increase in the size of the Board from six to seven members and elected LaShonda Anderson-Williams to fill the resulting vacancy on the Board, effective June 12, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1438231/000119312523161243/0001193125-23-161243-index.htm

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