---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-21-023229"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BYRN"
cik: "0001354866"
company_name: "Byrna Technologies Inc."
filed_at: "2021-10-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T23:20:16.760108+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Byrna Technologies appoints Emily Rooney to board of directors

## Summary
- Emily Rooney appointed as independent director to fill newly created vacancy, effective October 1, 2021.
- Rooney will serve on the Audit Committee; Board deemed her independent under SEC and Nasdaq rules.
- Rooney has extensive media background: former host/executive editor of WGBH's Beat The Press (24 years) and Greater Boston (18 years).
- She previously worked at Fox News as senior producer and at ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings.
- Compensation as outside director per company's director compensation policies; standard indemnification agreement executed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-21-023229
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BYRN
- cik: 0001354866
- company_name: Byrna Technologies Inc.
- filed_at: 2021-10-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1354866/000143774921023229/0001437749-21-023229-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1354866/000143774921023229/byrn20211004_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-21-023229
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-21-023229.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-21-023229.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Emily Rooney was appointed as director at Byrna Technologies Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: director
  source text: On October 1, 2021, the board of directors (the “Board”) of Byrna Technologies Inc. (the “Company”) filled a newly created vacancy by appointing Emily Rooney (“Rooney”) as a director.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1354866/000143774921023229/0001437749-21-023229-index.htm

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