---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001419806-22-000037"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "REEMF"
cik: "0001419806"
company_name: "RARE ELEMENT RESOURCES LTD"
filed_at: "2022-10-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-23T02:37:32.978513+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Rare Element Resources names Brent Berg CEO effective Nov 1, 2022; Randall Scott retires after 10 years

## Summary
- Brent Berg appointed President and CEO effective November 1, 2022, succeeding Randall Scott.
- Berg has 25+ years mining experience, previously GM of Florence Copper and over 21 years at Cameco.
- Compensation: $250K base salary, $60K signing bonus, options for 250,000 shares vesting over three years.
- Company advancing rare earth demonstration plant in Upton, WY; engineering by end 2022, construction summer 2023.
- Severance includes one year base salary if terminated without cause after two years; one-year non-compete.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001419806-22-000037
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: REEMF
- cik: 0001419806
- company_name: RARE ELEMENT RESOURCES LTD
- filed_at: 2022-10-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1419806/000141980622000037/0001419806-22-000037-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1419806/000141980622000037/reemf-20221017x8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001419806-22-000037
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001419806-22-000037.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001419806-22-000037.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Brent Berg was appointed as President and Chief Executive Officer at RARE ELEMENT RESOURCES LTD.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: President and Chief Executive Officer
  source text: On October 17, 2022, Brent Berg was appointed by the board of directors (the “ Board ”) of Rare Element Resources Ltd. (the “ Registrant ”) as its President and Chief Executive Officer, effective as of November 1, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1419806/000141980622000037/0001419806-22-000037-index.htm

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