---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-22-018018"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AQMS"
cik: "0001621832"
company_name: "Aqua Metals, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-07-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-24T07:33:32.490265+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Aqua Metals appoints Dave McMurtry as Chief Business Officer with $320k salary

## Summary
- Dave McMurtry appointed Chief Business Officer effective July 22, 2022; previously Chief Strategist.
- Annual base salary of $320,000; eligible for short-term bonus up to 50% and long-term bonus up to 100% of base.
- Severance of 150% of salary and target bonus upon termination without cause or good reason following change-in-control.
- McMurtry brings experience from Habitat for Humanity, Intuit, and Al Dabbagh Group.
- Press release issued July 27, 2022.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-22-018018
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AQMS
- cik: 0001621832
- company_name: Aqua Metals, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-07-28T23:59:59+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/1621832/000143774922018018/0001437749-22-018018-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1621832/000143774922018018/aqms20220728_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-22-018018
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-22-018018.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-22-018018.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Dave McMurtry was appointed as Chief Business Officer at Aqua Metals, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Business Officer
  source text: On July 22, 2022, we appointed Dave McMurtry to serve as Chief Business Officer of Aqua Metals, Inc.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1621832/000143774922018018/0001437749-22-018018-index.htm

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