secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
======================================

Issuer:     BIOLIFE SOLUTIONS INC (BLFS)
CIK:        0000834365
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2021-10-07T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001437749-21-023402
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.25
Item codes: 5.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

BioLife Solutions appoints Joydeep Goswami to board; Andrew Hinson retires after 14 years
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

- Andrew Hinson retired from the BioLife board effective Oct 1, 2021; retirement not due to any disagreement with the company.
- Joydeep Goswami, Ph.D., appointed to fill the vacancy; qualifies as independent under Nasdaq rules.
- Goswami is chief strategy & corporate development officer at Illumina (ILMN) and previously president at Thermo Fisher (TMO).
- Goswami will chair the Nominating and Governance Committee; compensation same as other non-employee directors.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/834365/000143774921023402/0001437749-21-023402-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/834365/000143774921023402/bioli20211006_8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-21-023402

License: Source filings: public domain (SEC EDGAR). Summaries (headline + bullets): CC-BY-4.0; attribute https://secwatch.observer