---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-24-086624"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ACOG"
cik: "0001655923"
company_name: "Alpha Cognition Inc."
filed_at: "2024-10-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-30T17:21:44.993214+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Alpha Cognition appoints Jay Yoo as interim principal accounting and financial officer

## Summary
- Jay Yoo appointed interim Principal Accounting and Financial Officer effective October 2, 2024.
- Yoo is a CPA with over 20 years of experience; currently a consultant at CFO Vertical, LLC.
- Former CFO Don Kalkofen resigned effective October 1, 2024; mutual agreement not to provide part-time transition services.
- Yoo has no familial relationships or reportable transactions with the company.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-24-086624
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ACOG
- cik: 0001655923
- company_name: Alpha Cognition Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-10-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1655923/000121390024086624/0001213900-24-086624-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1655923/000121390024086624/ea0217222-8k_alphacog.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001213900-24-086624.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Don Kalkofen resigned as Chief Financial Officer at Alpha Cognition Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: The Company previously announced the resignation of Mr. Don Kalkofen as Chief Financial Officer on August 27, 2024, effective October 1, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1655923/000121390024086624/0001213900-24-086624-index.htm
- Executive change
  Jay Yoo was appointed as interim Principal Accounting and Financial Officer at Alpha Cognition Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: interim Principal Accounting and Financial Officer
  source text: On October 8, 2024, Alpha Cognition Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Mr. Jay Yoo to act as the Company’s interim Principal Accounting and Financial Officer effective October 2, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1655923/000121390024086624/0001213900-24-086624-index.htm

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