---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-044063"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "OMEX"
cik: "0000798528"
company_name: "ODYSSEY MARINE EXPLORATION INC"
filed_at: "2025-03-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-25T22:24:21.291928+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Odyssey Marine appoints Larissa Pommeraud to Board of Directors effective March 1, 2025

## Summary
- Appointed Larissa Pommeraud as independent director effective March 1, 2025; Board expanded from 4 to 5 members.
- Pommeraud brings 20+ years of strategy, governance, and environmental sustainability experience; currently COO of Agno Health.
- Will serve on Governance & Nominating and Compensation Committees; stands for election at 2025 annual meeting.
- Previous roles include Bain & Company, StubHub, Art.com; Board Chair of Marine Applied Research and Exploration (MARE).
- CEO Mark Gordon: her expertise will support Odyssey's sustainable mineral sourcing, clean energy transition, and food security.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-044063
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: OMEX
- cik: 0000798528
- company_name: ODYSSEY MARINE EXPLORATION INC
- filed_at: 2025-03-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/798528/000119312525044063/0001193125-25-044063-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/798528/000119312525044063/d878320d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-044063.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Larissa Pommeraud was appointed as Director at ODYSSEY MARINE EXPLORATION INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: appointed Larissa Pommeraud to fill the resulting vacancy, effective as of March 1, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/798528/000119312525044063/0001193125-25-044063-index.htm

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