---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-23-094567"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001854583"
company_name: "Collective Audience, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-12-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T15:06:36.771286+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Collective Audience appoints Peter Bordes as CEO, replacing Brent Suen

## Summary
- Brent Suen resigned as CEO effective Dec 5, 2023; Peter Bordes appointed CEO same day.
- Bordes receives $250k annual base salary, initially reduced to $10k/month until $1.5M capital raise.
- Bordes granted 71,459 shares of restricted stock as inducement, vesting over six months, under Nasdaq Rule 5635(c)(4).
- Bordes brings over 30 years experience in AdTech, AI, fintech; holds board seats at Beasley Broadcast, Fraud.net, Logiq, others.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-23-094567
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001854583
- company_name: Collective Audience, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-12-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1854583/000121390023094567/0001213900-23-094567-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1854583/000121390023094567/ea189655-8k_collective.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Peter Bordes was appointed as Chief Executive Officer at Collective Audience, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: Concurrently therewith, effective December 5, 2023, the Board approved the appointment of Peter Bordes to succeed Mr. Suen as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1854583/000121390023094567/0001213900-23-094567-index.htm
- Executive change
  Brent Suen resigned as Chief Executive Officer at Collective Audience, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: Effective as of December 5, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Collective Audience, Inc. (the “Company”) accepted the resignation of Brent Suen, the Company’s current Chief Executive Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1854583/000121390023094567/0001213900-23-094567-index.htm

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