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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-284662"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SMRT"
cik: "0001837014"
company_name: "SmartRent, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-11-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T19:22:28.317877+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# SmartRent CTO stepping down, appoints Sangeeth Ponathil as CIO

## Summary
- CTO Isaiah DeRose-Wilson will step down effective Dec 31, 2025; transition agreement and general release expected.
- Sangeeth Ponathil appointed CIO effective Nov 17, 2025, will work with DeRose-Wilson before departure.
- Board approved amended bylaws updating advance notice provisions for director nominations and stockholder proposals.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-284662
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SMRT
- cik: 0001837014
- company_name: SmartRent, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-11-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1837014/000119312525284662/0001193125-25-284662-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1837014/000119312525284662/smrt-20251112.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  SmartRent, Inc.: Amended and restated bylaws to update advance notice provisions, reflect Delaware law changes, and make clarifying/ministerial changes (effective 2025-11-13).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-11-13
  source text: On November 13, 2025, the Board of Directors of the Company approved and adopted amended and restated bylaws of the Company (as amended and restated, the “A&R Bylaws”) which became effective upon such approval and adoption. The A&R Bylaws were amended to make certain changes, including to (i) update and revise the advance notice provisions for the nomination of directors or the proposal of other business by stockholders, (ii) make updates to reflect recent amendments to Delaware law, and (iii) make certain clarifying and ministerial changes.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1837014/000119312525284662/0001193125-25-284662-index.htm

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