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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-23-004185"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "JSDA"
cik: "0001083522"
company_name: "JONES SODA CO."
filed_at: "2023-02-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-19T04:07:39.122017+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Jones Soda grants 1.8M RSUs to CEO, increases salaries for CFO and COO, awards bonuses and options

## Summary
- CEO Mark Murray granted 1,800,000 RSUs vesting in three tranches: 600k on Feb 15, 2023, 600k on May 15, 2023, 600k on Aug 15, 2024.
- Interim CFO Joe Culp salary raised to $130,200/yr; COO Eric Chastain salary raised to $208,000/yr, retroactive to Jan 1, 2023.
- One-time cash bonuses: Murray $90,000, Chastain $36,000, Culp $16,200, payable by Feb 28, 2023.
- Chastain awarded 120,000 stock options; Culp awarded 72,000 stock options; exercise price $0.24 per share.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-23-004185
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: JSDA
- cik: 0001083522
- company_name: JONES SODA CO.
- filed_at: 2023-02-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1083522/000143774923004185/0001437749-23-004185-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1083522/000143774923004185/jsda20230222_8k.htm

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