---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-21-065083"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RYM"
cik: "0001800637"
company_name: "RYTHM, Inc."
filed_at: "2021-12-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T01:22:13.018490+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Agrify appoints former Goldman Sachs MD Barry Turkanis to board

## Summary
- Turkanis replaces Timothy Oakes, who resigned to become CFO in November 2021.
- He will serve on the Audit Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.
- Turkanis has 22+ years at Salomon Brothers and Goldman Sachs, and co-founded Ocean Gate Capital and NXT Ventures.
- The Board determined Turkanis is independent under Nasdaq rules; term until 2022 annual meeting.
- Appointment effective December 12, 2021; press release issued December 14, 2021.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-21-065083
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RYM
- cik: 0001800637
- company_name: RYTHM, Inc.
- filed_at: 2021-12-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1800637/000121390021065083/0001213900-21-065083-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1800637/000121390021065083/ea152256-8k_agrifycorp.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001213900-21-065083
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001213900-21-065083.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001213900-21-065083.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Barry Turkanis was appointed as Director at RYTHM, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On December 12, 2021, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Agrify Corporation (the “Company”) appointed Barry Turkanis as a member of the Board to fill the vacancy created by the previously disclosed resignation of Timothy Oakes from the Board in connection with Mr. Oakes’ appointment as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer in November 2021.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1800637/000121390021065083/0001213900-21-065083-index.htm

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