---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-25-030340"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BGDE"
cik: "0001218683"
company_name: "Big Digital Energy, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-04-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T17:59:51.783570+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Mawson appoints Steven Soles to board after Michael Hughes resigns

## Summary
- Michael Hughes resigned as director effective April 3, 2025; not related to any dispute or disagreement.
- Board appointed Steven Soles as director effective April 4, 2025 to fill vacancy; he will serve on audit, compensation, and nominating committees.
- Soles has experience in legal, energy, and financial services; COO and General Counsel of Elmagin Capital LLC.
- Soles receives annual compensation of $225,000, half in cash ($112,500) and half in restricted stock units.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-25-030340
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BGDE
- cik: 0001218683
- company_name: Big Digital Energy, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-04-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1218683/000121390025030340/0001213900-25-030340-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1218683/000121390025030340/ea0237727-8k_mawson.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001213900-25-030340
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001213900-25-030340.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Michael Hughes resigned as Director at Big Digital Energy, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Director
  source text: On April 3, 2025, Mr. Michael Hughes resigned as a member of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Mawson Infrastructure Group Inc. (the “Company”) effective as of April 3, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1218683/000121390025030340/0001213900-25-030340-index.htm
- Executive change
  Steven Soles was appointed as Director at Big Digital Energy, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On April 3, 2025, the Board appointed Mr. Steven Soles to serve as a member of the Board, effective as of April 4, 2025, to fill the vacancy on the Board resulting from the resignation of Mr. Hughes.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1218683/000121390025030340/0001213900-25-030340-index.htm

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