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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-143369"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ANRO"
cik: "0001999480"
company_name: "Alto Neuroscience, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-05-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T11:33:14.414233+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Alto Neuroscience appoints Michael Hanley as Chief Operating Officer effective May 20, 2024

## Summary
- Hanley receives $470,000 base salary, 40% annual performance bonus target, and option for 188,000 shares.
- Option vests 25% on 1-year anniversary, then monthly over 4 years, subject to continuous service.
- Severance: 9 months salary plus COBRA on non-cause termination; 12 months salary, bonus, and full equity acceleration upon change in control termination.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-143369
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ANRO
- cik: 0001999480
- company_name: Alto Neuroscience, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-05-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1999480/000119312524143369/0001193125-24-143369-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1999480/000119312524143369/d773656d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-143369
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-143369.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-143369.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Michael Hanley was appointed as Chief Operating Officer at Alto Neuroscience, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Operating Officer
  source text: On May 21, 2024, Alto Neuroscience, Inc. (the “Company”) announced that the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”) appointed Michael Hanley as the Chief Operating Officer of the Company, effective as of May 20, 2024
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1999480/000119312524143369/0001193125-24-143369-index.htm

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