---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-21-050688"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HWNI"
cik: "0001413891"
company_name: "HIGH WIRE NETWORKS, INC."
filed_at: "2021-09-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-29T00:20:34.392211+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CEO Roger Ponder resigns; Peter Kruse appointed to HWN board

## Summary
- Roger Ponder resigned as CEO and director, effective September 27, 2021.
- Peter H. Kruse, 58, appointed to board; previously at Honeywell, Newell Rubbermaid, Nissan.
- Kruse has 4 years' experience coaching 30+ companies on business operating systems.
- No familial relationship between Kruse and any director or executive officer.
- Filing signed by Mark Porter as CEO, suggesting he assumed the vacant CEO role.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-21-050688
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HWNI
- cik: 0001413891
- company_name: HIGH WIRE NETWORKS, INC.
- filed_at: 2021-09-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1413891/000121390021050688/0001213900-21-050688-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1413891/000121390021050688/ea148136-8k_hwninc.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001213900-21-050688.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Roger Ponder resigned as Chief Executive Officer at HIGH WIRE NETWORKS, INC..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: Effective September 27, 2021, Roger Ponder resigned as a director of HWN, Inc.., a Delaware corporation, including his position as Chief Executive Officer of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1413891/000121390021050688/0001213900-21-050688-index.htm
- Executive change
  Peter H. Kruse was appointed as Director at HIGH WIRE NETWORKS, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On September 27, 2021, HWN, Inc., a Nevada corporation (the “Company”), appointed Peter H. Kruse, age 58, to replace Roger Ponder as a member of the board of directors.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1413891/000121390021050688/0001213900-21-050688-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.