---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-25-005273"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001892025"
company_name: "Optimus Healthcare Services, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-01-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T21:02:07.359661+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Optimus Healthcare appoints Scala as lead independent director, Michalos as Interim Executive Chairman

## Summary
- Philip Scala appointed lead independent director, effective January 15, 2025.
- Scala previously served as interim CEO (May-Oct 2020) and director (May 2020-Jan 2024).
- Dr. Peter Michalos appointed Interim Executive Chairman, effective same date; has been a director since August 2023.
- Scala is CEO/founder of Pathfinder Consultants International; no family relationships or related transactions disclosed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-25-005273
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001892025
- company_name: Optimus Healthcare Services, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-01-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1892025/000121390025005273/0001213900-25-005273-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1892025/000121390025005273/ea0228344-8k_optimus.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Peter Michalos was appointed as Interim Executive Chairman at Optimus Healthcare Services, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Interim Executive Chairman
  source text: On January 15, 2025, the Company appointed Dr. Peter Michalos as Interim Executive Chairman of the Board of the Company, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1892025/000121390025005273/0001213900-25-005273-index.htm
- Executive change
  Philip Scala was appointed as lead independent director at Optimus Healthcare Services, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: lead independent director
  source text: On January 15, 2025, Optimus Healthcare Services, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Philip Scala as lead independent director on the board of directors (the ‘Board”) of the Company, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1892025/000121390025005273/0001213900-25-005273-index.htm

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