---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001262463-24-000107"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HNOI"
cik: "0001342916"
company_name: "HNO International, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-11-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-29T21:39:38.594291+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CEO Paul Mueller resigns; Chairman Donald Owens appointed CEO, President, and Secretary

## Summary
- Paul Mueller resigned as CEO, President, and Secretary on November 20, 2024.
- Donald Owens, Chairman of the Board, appointed to fill all three vacancies effective same date.
- Owens founded HNO Green Fuels, Inc. in 2011 and holds 19 US and 3 international patents.
- Owens previously served as Chairman and CEO of Business Internet Systems in the late 1990s.
- Owens began his career as a patent attorney at Western Electric and Bell Labs after law and engineering degrees.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001262463-24-000107
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HNOI
- cik: 0001342916
- company_name: HNO International, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-11-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1342916/000126246324000107/0001262463-24-000107-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1342916/000126246324000107/hnoi8k1124.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001262463-24-000107
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001262463-24-000107.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001262463-24-000107.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Donald Owens was appointed as Chief Executive Officer, President and Secretary at HNO International, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer, President and Secretary
  source text: the Company appointed Donald Owens, Chairman of the Board of Directors, as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, President and Secretary.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1342916/000126246324000107/0001262463-24-000107-index.htm
- Executive change
  Paul Mueller resigned as Chief Executive Officer, President and Secretary at HNO International, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer, President and Secretary
  source text: the Company accepted the resignation from Paul Mueller as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, President and Secretary.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1342916/000126246324000107/0001262463-24-000107-index.htm

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