secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Personalis, Inc. (PSNL)
CIK:        0001527753
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-03-17T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001193125-26-110852
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.50
Item codes: 5.02
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Personalis appoints Richard Chen as President; CEO Hall steps down from President role
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- Richard Chen appointed President effective March 13, 2026; he retains EVP R&D and CMO roles.
- Annual base salary raised to $570,000 effective April 1, 2026; performance bonus target increased to 70% of base.
- Granted option to purchase 37,500 shares (closing price on March 13, 2026) vesting over 36 months.
- Granted RSU award of 6,250 shares vesting one-sixth at six-month anniversary, then bi-annually thereafter.
- Christopher Hall, CEO, previously held President role; no other changes to Board or executive team.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1527753/000119312526110852/0001193125-26-110852-index.htm
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  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-26-110852

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