---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-063618"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EQ"
cik: "0001746466"
company_name: "Equillium, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-03-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-05T00:39:25.598932+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Equillium appoints Penny Tom as principal accounting officer; adopts 2024 Inducement Plan

## Summary
- Penny Tom, SVP Finance, appointed principal accounting officer effective March 6, 2024; Jason Keyes remains CFO.
- Board adopted 2024 Inducement Plan reserving 1,500,000 shares for equity grants to new hires as material inducements.
- Plan terms similar to 2018 Equity Incentive Plan; approved without stockholder vote per Nasdaq Rule 5635(c)(4).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-063618
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EQ
- cik: 0001746466
- company_name: Equillium, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-03-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1746466/000119312524063618/0001193125-24-063618-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1746466/000119312524063618/d797682d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-063618.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Penny Tom was appointed as principal accounting officer at Equillium, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: principal accounting officer
  source text: On March 6, 2024, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Equillium, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Penny Tom, the Company’s Senior Vice President, Finance, as the Company’s principal accounting officer (to replace Jason Keyes, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, in such role).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1746466/000119312524063618/0001193125-24-063618-index.htm

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